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Subject: Re: Zelig (Best Movie?)
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Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 12:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 13 12:50:00 1983
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"Zelig" is certainly a technological marvel and another credit to Woody
Allen's amazing ability to simultaneously write, direct and star-in a
quality movie, but Best Movie honors? I don't think so. Too soon into
the movie "Zelig" starts to become a one joke act. Zelig with Blacks
jazz musicians becomes a Black jazz musician. Zelig with Chinese looks
Chinese, and so on. The humor is usually dry and witty, when Zelig's
personality is a psychiatrist who specializes in teaching a class in
masturbation (what else?), he quips to his shrink "If I don't show up on
time they start without me!" Mia Farrow has little dialogue so she is
better than usual. Allen takes a genre of movie, the documentary, and
gives us a great satire and good insight into it. I don't think anyone
but the most rabid Woody Allen fan would give this more than an 8/10.