I like this film very much, even today, allowing for the eerily prescient plot elements that mirror all that I like least about Woody now. Gershwin's music is used to perfection, with much evident love. Gordon Willis is a gifted, gifted
cinematographer whose eye for line and composition reveals itself in black and white like it never could in color. Woody, as we all know, is the consummate film student as well as filmmaker, and here he absorbs and reflects the finest of
1930s and 1940s New York location movies. Screwball comedy meets Ingmar
Bergman in slap-happy film noir psychoanalytical angst. The script never falters. Wonderful work!
cinematographer whose eye for line and composition reveals itself in black and white like it never could in color. Woody, as we all know, is the consummate film student as well as filmmaker, and here he absorbs and reflects the finest of
1930s and 1940s New York location movies. Screwball comedy meets Ingmar
Bergman in slap-happy film noir psychoanalytical angst. The script never falters. Wonderful work!