Sleeper (1973)
Directed by Woody Allen
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Considering those were Mistress America , While We’re Young and Frances Ha , he’s been there for some of her more defining moments, and he showed up for her here.
Or better yet, “Sleeper,” in which Woody Allen summed up “Equals” in a single line when asked what he believes in: “Sex and death, two things that come once in a lifetime, but at least after death you’re not nauseous.”
Inspired by Woody Allen’s “Sleeper,” it stars Luke Wilson (a much more tolerable actor than his more famous brother Owen) as Private Joe Bauers, who is a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program.
In fairness, Her has humour – including a double date on Catalina Island with Theodore, Samantha and a fully human couple that could have come out of Woody Allen’s Sleeper.
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It's still a remarkable film, gloriously ropey in places (those taxi cabs are like something out of Woody Allen's Sleeper) yet brilliant in others, with its synth score and lines such as: "If I'm not me, then who am I?" It's a blockbuster from another era, when a big idea, rather than a pair of 3D goggles, gave the film its extra dimension.
The man has the ability to channel surrealism and fantasy with films like “Zelig” and “Sleeper,” and thankfully “Midnight in Paris” is a return to form.
Whether you prefer the “early, funny ones” like “Sleeper” or his romantic comedies like “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan,” or his later serious comedies like “Hannah And Her Sisters” and “Crimes And Misdemeanors,” the new Woody Allen film was something to be anticipated.
…as if one awoke (like a Sleeper) to older villains.
It’s like Woody Allen’s Sleeper without the high energy.
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Anyway, back on topic: I've never been a big fan of Woody Allen's work, although some of his earlier movies (Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex) had some really good bits.
But don’t expect the old serio-comic-romantic Woody of Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), or the primitively antic Woody of Bananas (1971) and Sleeper (1973).