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Joan Didion on Woody Allen

By posted at 9:45 am on November 23, 2010 2

The New York Review of Books posts a vintage essay by Joan Didion on the films of Woody Allen: “This notion of oneself as a kind of continuing career—something to work at, work on, ‘make an effort’ for and subject to an hour a day of emotional Nautilus training, all in the interests not of attaining grace but of improving one’s ‘relationships’—is fairly recent in the world, at least in the world not inhabited entirely by adolescents. In fact the paradigm for the action in these recent Woody Allen movies is high school.”

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2 Responses to “Joan Didion on Woody Allen”

  1. oiram
    at 5:04 pm on November 24, 2010

    great essay!

    i love woody allen movies, yet seriously agree with what didion is putting forward here.

    even today, most new yorkers, are mostly caught up with analysts, relationships, and where they can get the best bottle service.
    scary??

  2. paula
    at 9:43 pm on November 29, 2010

    Joan Didion and I don’t see eye to eye on many things, but on Woody Allen-we agree.

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