Can't Miss

There are a couple of filmmakers out there that I'll go see whatever they do. One in that category is Woody Allen. I have always loved his comedies (Small Time Crooks, Everyone Says I Love You, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mighty Aphrodite, Celebrity. There's always a somewhat similar plot, well, not so much that as that there are recurring themes. Smart, attratictive neurotic people that have problems in their love lives. That's a bit of an oversimplicaton, but that descriptor does characterizes many of his films, like Annie Hall, which won the Best Picture Oscar the year I was born.

No one will likely ever call Larry David attractive(pictured left with director Allen), but he does anchor Allen's newest movie, Whatever Works. In it, David portrays a hateful, spiteful man who falls in love with a girl from Mississippi. I really don't know all the plot details because I want to be suprised when I see the film. The film has not garnered stellar reviews, but I'm expecting a lot. Maybe not laugh out loud funny but merely amusing will do. This is ever all Woody Allen teamed up with Larry David, one of the creators of Seinfeld and star of the current HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiam

Also on the horizon is Sascha Baron Cohen's Bruno.

I'm mos def looking forward to this film, though I wasn't so crazy about Borat, Cohen's 2006 smash comedy about a Kazhakstani journalist looking for love in America.

But Bruno, as he explains in the clip below from The Today Show, is about a gay, in-your-face, Austrian fashionista on a quest to become "uber-famous"

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(My only critique of this interview is that Matt Lauer, serious journalist, is conducting an interview with a character, Bruno, which is essentially promoting the film. I saw an earlier interview conducted with Bruno on The Tonight Show, which made a little more sense. That show's host is a comic, not a journalist.)