Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/18/06 01:29

Howard Brazee wrote:

> On 17 Jul 2006 06:30:08 -0700, "Aldo Pignotti"
> <aldopignotti@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"Love and Death" has
>>a limited audience to be very popular. To get "Love and
>>Death" you have to have seen "Doctor Zhivago" and known
>>a neurotic New Yorker. It may even be a requirement of this movie
>>that you have sat through a philosophy class with at least
>>one person from New York in the class.
>
> That's why I only half-got it when it came out. The Dr. Zhivago part
> was fine, and I didn't yet know what to expect from Woody Allen - I
> don't "get" the neurotic New Yorker bit.

Of course, it also helps to have a very specifically backgrounded
education on Ingmar Bergman, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sergei
Eisenstein, and, Allen's openly confessed influence on the
picture...40's/50's-solo Bob Hope. :)

Derek Janssen (any *one* of these references helpfully explained in
detail on request)
ejanss@comcast.net

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