Interiors

Starring:Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Sam Waterston, Missy Hope, Kerry Duffy, Nancy Collins, Penny Gaston, Roger Morden, Henderson Forsythe
Director: Woody Allen
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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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

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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)

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All these women cry and whisper on Long Island.......2007-05-19

"Interiors" (1978) - is the first Woody Allen's attempt to create a straight drama film after the series of hilarious comedies ("Bananas", "Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask", "Sleeper") and one if his most famous dramedies, "Annie Hall". "Interiors" is Allen's dissection of an upper middle class family in crisis. The story is not original. Arthur (E.G. Marshall), the husband of a Long Island interior designer Eve (Geraldine Page), demanding and imperious, and father of their three grown daughters (Diane Keaton, Marybeth Hurt and Kristin Griffith), informs his wife that he wanted a trial separation. She hopes that it is temporary but soon learns that there is another woman involved, (Maureen Stapleton), twice a widow, "a vulgarian" who does not belong to the upper class but is full of life, humor, and warmth and whom Arthur wants to marry. More than anything, this movie reminds the most famous shot in Bergman's "Persona" - two faces combined in one. You are not sure which features are Liv's and which - Bibi's. With "Interiors", it is difficult to say where Bergman ends and Allen begins. I would also compare Allen's first exercise in creating a serious drama to Bergman's attempt in comedy, "All these women". Both masters tried to do something different from what they were expected by the critics and their audience and both did not achieve a success. I respect Allen's homage to Bergman's work but I think he is much more interesting when he combines drama and comedy in his films. I admire his ability to create the movies that are subtle and cruel, darker than dark and self-ironic, profound and touchingly poignant, deadly serious and incredibly funny - at the same time. Not this time.

A Dysfunctional Woody Allen Prior to Therapy.......2006-10-31

I think Woody Allen is the best director currently in the business and I believe his serious-themed movies are the reason. He excells at making us look at ourselves. If I'm not mistaken, "Interiors" was his first venture into dramatic movies. For having led the way, this movie is noteworthy. However, it is also exemplary in helping define the genre of the Woody Allen movie. It defines the Woody Allen film by showing us what it is not.

Woody Allen's greatness is in being able to let us take a critical look at ourselves. His characters have faults that we share. Whatever passions that we have fallen prey to, we see them in a new light through Allen's masterful script and direction. The problem with "Interiors" is that most of us could not relate to the problems that the characters in "Interiors" have. Many of them belong under the category of mental illness while others are taken too far to the extreme to be relevant to us. Woody was on the right track but he was overly influenced by Ingar Bergman. Allen's own style quickly emerged after this movie and we have been the better for it.

Taken in its' own right, "Interiors" is an above-average movie. The acting is excellent and the mood of the movie is very tense in a somber manner. The movie is simply overwhelming and we are left wondering who would ever have been so deranged as to have married into this mess. These people deserve themselves and that is an observation that applies to no other Woody Allen cast (with the bumbling exception of the cast of "What's New Pussycat?").

Woody Allen took a turn towards drama and hit a speed bump on the way. Fortunately, he learned from his experience.

A Dysfunctional Family Wrapped in Frigid Austerity Makes for Allen's So-Serious Drama.......2006-10-26

It's pretty obvious that Woody Allen was so resistant in being confined as a comedy filmmaker that in the throes of his success with the wondrous "Annie Hall", he felt a need to make an über-serious drama in the Ingmar Bergman mode. This 1978 Chekhovian family drama is the result, and it is alternately affecting and exasperating. The key problem is that Allen presents such a hermetically sealed world of intellectuals and artistic souls that the interactions among the characters feel pointed and self-conscious. He has obviously since learned that his best films ("Manhattan", "Hannah and Her Sisters") are served most by his particular balance between comedy and drama.

The story concerns an upscale New York family reacting to the news that patriarch Arthur wants to leave his psychologically unstable wife Eve just released from a sanitarium. They have three daughters, all of whom are grappling with their own problems. Eldest sister Renata is a successful poet stuck in a volatile marriage to Frederick, a fellow writer whose lack of commercial success has merely heightened his jealousy and paranoia. Middle daughter Joey is Arthur's favorite, but she is unable to figure out what to do with her life, and her constant flailing frustrates everyone around her in spite of the patience of her boyfriend Michael. Youngest daughter Flyn is the beautiful, emotionally isolated one who moved to Hollywood to become a semi-successful actress.

They all respond to their mother Eve's neediness in different ways, and the inevitable turning point comes when Arthur finalizes the divorce and remarries, this time to a passionate, fun-loving widow named Pearl. Even though Gordon Willis' beige-dominated cinematography and the frigid, almost-too-perfect art direction by Mel Bourne and Daniel Robert lend the extreme austerity for which Allen seems to be striving, the acting is what makes this film dramatically effective. Mary Beth Hurt gives a brave performance as Joey, capturing all the inadequacy and wounded rejection her character feels. Maureen Stapleton is a breath of fresh air as Pearl, lending an amusing earthiness and colorful indifference when she arrives late in the story.

With her severe look, Geraldine Page effectively lends unrelenting, humorless intensity to her heavily mannered portrayal of Eve and turns her character into a hopelessly desperate victim as the story moves toward its conclusion. As Renata, Diane Keaton removes all traces of the lovable Annie Hall but unfortunately comes across as the most contrived, especially when her character cannot help but be patronizing to Frederick and Joey. Richard Jordan plays Frederick in broad strokes that make it difficult to empathize with his plight. Making lesser impressions are Sam Waterson as Michael, Kristin Griffith as Flyn and a surprisingly understated E.G. Marshall as Arthur. Just the original trailer is included as an extra on the 2000 DVD.

Superb rendition to IngmarBergman!.......2006-09-30

The previous Bergmanesque references given over and over by Woody Allen, culminated wit this superb Opus, where Woody seemed to have inspired in that sultry Bergman ` The Silence, to carve in relief the weight of the loneliness and the impossibility of to get an absolute and gratifying communication process.

The horror, the anguish and desperation of the human soul is far to be a geography issue; it has to do with the lack of center and progressive disintegration of the human mind in the overwhelming web of relations, obligations and fears hidden beneath the well called social conventions that mask and pretend to reorganize the primordial silence.

Hard to watch, this first attempt of Allen was a true twist of fate for all those who really expected Allen was simply a smart and irreverent guy who liked to challenge the whole system of the social, religious and ethic conventions.

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Allen's 1st Drama is a Winner.......2006-07-04

Allen dives headfirst into the deep end of the drama pool with this challenging story about difficult neurotic people dealing with each other. Three "artistic" daughters deal w/ their mother's incessant mental and emotional illnesses. Their mentally and emotionally exhausted father has finally decided to check out of the marriage and remarry a pleasant, if slightly, ditzy other woman. It's hard to blame him. If anything, he deserves credit for sticking it out so long. The interplay between the daughters and their spouse/boyfriends as they cope with their mom, each other, their partners and their new stepmom is riveting and revealing. Allen deftly shows how he fully understands the grain of truth and seriousness inside every joke by removing the protective layer of comedy and laying his character's souls bare. A surprising dramatic tour-de-force from a career comedian.

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Do you want to make your home look like a million bucks without going over budget? Are you tired of leafing through endless magazines in a desperate search for inspiration? Or maybe you want to give your living room that "wow" appeal but just don't know where to start? If so, then this is the DVD you've been waiting for!

Join noted interior decorator Michele Caprio - the Queen of Decorating on a Budget - as she visits eight beautiful suburban homes and shows you how her beautiful custom window treatments can help you solve your decorating dilemmas.

Whether you live in a newly-constructed home or a hundred-year old mansion, her custom window treatments can transform your home into a palace! Michele can show you how her treatments can pull a room together, add privacy and insulation from the heat and cold, and of course add value to your home.

Chock full of design hints, tips, and ideas, this unique and practical guide shows you how you can transform your "ho-hum" home into an "oh wow" palace - all on a budget!

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A must-see for anyone thinking about re-decorating!.......2005-07-04

Whether your budget befits a royal, or is on the peasant level, the new DVD just released by Michele Caprio, "Queen of Decorating on a Budget," offers a treasure trove of ideas for transforming the blandest, plain vanilla space into a stunning palace through the creative use of color, paint, pattern, and superlative window treatments.

Interiors by Michele: A Before-and-After Guide to Transforming Your Home Into a Palace With Custom Window Treatments offers an inspiring tour of eight homes, each with its own distinctive style and the most fabulous window treatments ever devised. There is a myriad of ideas and inspirations to suit every taste. Queen Michele, complete with sparkling crown and sceptre, guides the viewer throughout the 37-minute DVD, first showing the drab "before" and then the dramatic "after." The rich color schemes and amazing window treatments are nothing short of dazzling.

But this DVD is far more than just eye candy - it is extremely practical as well. Designer Michele explains exactly how the window treatment was done, and breaks down the expenses clearly and candidly. Closeups of the elaborate valances, jabots, bishop's sleeves, and swags, along with the imaginative trims that set these window treatments apart from the ordinary, allow the viewer to see exactly he or she might be able to do it him or herself, and save even more money.

The details are fascinating - beaded trims sparkle in the light; tufts and tassels accent the outline; fringes, rosettes, and loosely tied knots punctuate the lavish flow of some drapes. It is impossible to watch this DVD and not feel a rising sense of excitement about the possibilities. Who wouldn't be tempted to reproduce the deftly looped, draped, fringed shower curtain shown in one home, with its elaborate form and trim which turn the modestly-sized room into a fantasy retreat?

Ms. Caprio also clearly demonstrates the enormous impact a daring palette can have on interiors. Most of the "befores" are vanilla white. It is amazing to see how the sustained use of a more assertive palette can tie together the desparate elements of a room - the warm toasts and caramels, rich burgundies, and saturated jewel tones with which several of the homes are decorated play a major role in unifying the rooms' disparate elements, and creating an enticing atmosphere which draws people in.

Interspersed with the thorough coverage of the interiors of eight homes, whose styles run the gamut from traditional, modern country, eclectic, and transitional, are decorating tips to guide both the notive and experienced through the design process. With refreshing common sense, Ms. Caprio counsels re-decorating just one room a year, so that one can truly concentrate both one's creative powers and financial resources on the project. For those who want to be ahead of the curve when choosing the next hot interior paint colors, Queen Michele points out that today's fashion hits are tomorrow's interior design must-haves.

Another extra in this informative DVD is a segment on interior murals, with one of Ms. Caprio's best artists demonstrating his craft and showing off several stunning murals, including a sun-kissed, Tuscan landscape complete with villa, lombardy poplars, and undulating hills. Again, the DVD pulls no punches and gives complete pricing details.

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All these women cry and whisper on Long Island.......2007-05-19

A Dysfunctional Woody Allen Prior to Therapy.......2006-10-31

A Dysfunctional Family Wrapped in Frigid Austerity Makes for Allen's So-Serious Drama.......2006-10-26

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Allen's 1st Drama is a Winner.......2006-07-04

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Architectural interiors pose special challenges for the illustrator or concept artist. This lesson takes the viewer on a two hour demo showing techniques used to address such complex issues as perspective sketch painting, shot composition, lighting and cinematography, and architectural design. One of the industry's top designers will take you step-by-step through the creation of a digital illustration of an interior architectural scene, from initial rough sketch through to final rendering. The software used in this DVD is Corel Painter.

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