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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Screening on Film
Directed by Woody Allen.
With Martin Landau, Angelica Huston, Jerry Orbach.
US, 1989, 35mm, color, 107 min.

This comic drama tackles modern questions of morality as a brilliant ensemble cast portrays the familiar world of Allen’s rich and troubled upper-class New York intelligentsia. A prominent ophthalmologist (Landau) resorts to underworld solutions to deal with a troublesome mistress, while a committed documentary filmmaker (Allen) wrestles with the moral dimensions of the medium in a satirical subplot. Allen restages an almost scene-by-scene sequence from Wild Strawberries here—oddly, one of the few Bergman masterpieces that Sven Nykvist did not photograph.

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