|
|
List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 (13%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792846086
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846087
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 05, 2000
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 10495
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 1978
Editorial Review:
Description:
An 'intensely provocative [and] searing dissection of human behavior' (New York Daily News),Interiors marked a cinematic watershed for Woody Allen. In his first serious drama, Allen's interest in the human condition was not purely farcical and not limited to quick-wit and slapstick gags. Exploring the dynamics of a family in crisis, Interiors is 'destined to become a landmark of American filmmaking' (The Hollywood Reporter). Nominated* for 5 Academy AwardsÂ(r). When Eve (Geraldine Page), an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur (E.G. Marshall), the emotionally glacial relationships of their three grown daughters arelaid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata (Diane Keaton), a successful writer; Flyn (Kristin Griffith), a woman crippled by indecision; and Joey (Mary Beth Hurt) a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman (Maureen Stapleton), his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate with tragically unexpected consequences. Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning** cast. *1978: Actress (Page), Supporting Actress (Stapleton), Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction **Page: Actress, The Trip to Bountiful (1985); Keaton: Actress, Annie Hall (1977); Stapleton: Supporting Actress, Reds (1981)
Amazon.com essential video:
Although indisputably a film by Woody Allen, Interiors is about as far from 'a Woody Allen film' as you can get--and maybe more people could have seen what a fine film it is if they hadn't been expecting what Allen himself called 'one of his earlier, funnier movies.' An entirely serious, rather too self-consciously Bergmanesque drama about a divorcing elderly couple and their grown daughters, it is slow, meditative, and constructed with a brilliant, painterly eye. There is no music--a simple effect that Allen uses with extraordinary power. In fact, half the film is filled with silent faces staring out of windows, yet the mood is so engaging, hypnotic even, that you never feel the director is poking you in the ribs and saying, 'somber atmosphere.' Diane Keaton, released for once from the goofy ditz stereotype, shines as the 'successful' daughter. Some of the dialogue is stilted, and it's hard to tell whether this is a deliberate effect or simply the way repressed upscale New Yorkers talk after too many years having their self-absorption sharpened on the therapist's couch. Fanatical, almost childish self-regard is the chief subject of Allen's comedy--it's remarkable that in this film he was able to remove the comedy but leave room for us to pity and care about these rather irritating people. --Richard Farr
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Bleak House
When "Interiors" was first released it was generally deplored by moviegoers, largely because it did not live up to their expectations of what a Woody Allen film should be: a laugh-out-loud comedy like "Annie Hall," or "Sleeper." It was as if Allen should be allowed to make only one kind of film (One might as well complain about Mozart having had the nerve to write the "Requiem" after "The Magic Flute"; or, conversely, Verdi having the effrontery to write "Falstaff" after "Othello." One wonders whether ... Read More
Rating: - Interiors
Interiors is, I think, one of Allen's strongest films and I have watched it several times. It is less a comedy than the usual Allen, and more of a social/family drama and character study. We follow three grown up sisters (Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith and Marybeth Hurt) and their parent's (Geraldine Page and E G Marshall) late divorce and the following crisis. The characters are mostly upper middle class (wannabe)intellectuals (writers, actors, interior designers), all of them in some sort of existential ... Read More
Rating: - Woody Allen's Masterpiece
Woody Allen puts on a straight face and successfully channels Ingmar Bergman. This is by far my favorite Woody Allen film (right up there with 'Husbands and Wives'). 'Interiors' is a stunning character study of three sisters and their mother. What is revealed about these characters is so incredibly real and painful that there is beauty in its truth. The film runs at a mere 91 minutes but is adequate enough to uncover so much. The acting is top notch. The cinemaphotography is breaththaking. Allen's directing ... Read More
Rating: - A 180-degee turn away from Allen's comedies
This film is moody, brooding, stark, and even the gray and tan costumes complement the colors of the beach house's interiors. The interiors of the rooms, in fact, mirror the insides of each person in this family, from the man who wants out of his marriage to the woman who wants to remain in it to the three daughters whose own relationships are suffering.
A fine cast including some Allen regulars like Diane Keaton, as well as a young Sam Waterston, give powerful performances here.
Rating: - A cinematic Vermeer
Woody Allen's Interiors is a painting in motion. One can watch the film with the sound down and derive great meaning from it's imagery.
Especially fasciating is the intrusion of the great Maureen Stapleton in her earthy glory, resurrecting a family being buried under the pressures of art, beauty and intellectualism. I won't make the oft heard Bergman parallel as this movie excels on its own terms.
|
|
