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Toni said:
I partly agree with you though I think when he used to cast the same actors, you could always enjoy them even if the film was not too good. Either that or listening to the jazz classics he put in his movie scores.

Now he seems to hire people he is obliged to by contract (Miley Cyrus for his TV series, come on!). MMM is great because it´s simple fun in his favorite and delightful setting, N.Y.C. Keaton was playing herself again, which after all is her best role ever and the one that gave her the Oscar!
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You're right. Woody Allen films are always best when he plays himself and he surrounds himself with actors and actresses that he is familiar with so he can bounce off them. In Manhattan Murder Mysteries so many of the dialogues between him and Diane Keaton were hilarious because they seemed so real, almost as if they were spontaneously making up the lines. Today, I watched Crimes and Misdemeanours and I had the same kind of feeling about some of the dialogue between him and Mia Farrow.
 
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Angela Channing said:
You're right. Woody Allen films are always best when he plays himself and he surrounds himself with actors and actresses that he is familiar with so he can bounce off them. In Manhattan Murder Mysteries so many of the dialogues between him and Diane Keaton were hilarious because they seemed so real, almost as if they were spontaneously making up the lines. Today, I watched Crimes and Misdemeanours and I had the same kind of feeling about some of the dialogue between him and Mia Farrow.
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Totally agree Angela. They were (probably) in the beginning of the end of their relationship and that may be "felt" throughout the movie. Not to mention that the Juliette Lewis character already wore thin here (it´s similar to Mariel Hemingway´s in "Manhattan") and he has recycled it in a lot of his subsequent work. Anyway, CAM might have failed in so many levels and though, it´s an amazing piece of drama. Being fan of the Landaus and "Space: 1999", I loved his performance here, as well as Anjelica Huston´s, who nailed her very difficult character.
 
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