Once Cecelia clocks out from her dreary job she heads over to the “Jewel” movie palace, which is bathed in nostalgic gold when the curtain goes up on the silver screen and the elegant locales, people and situations of the film, she’s transported as a character says, “ to Cairo and Morocco and Tangiers, to all the exotic and romantic places in the world.” James Film Directors Encyclopedia, Mark Estrin notes the significance of film-going in the movie, ‘Like Manhattan (1979) before it, and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Radio Days (1987) after it, The Purple Rose of Cairo examines the healing power of popular art.’” Allen’s favorite movie theater palace as a boy was the last-run Kent, home of 12-cent films, which he called ‘one of the great, meaningful places of my boyhood.’ Before the Kent was torn down, Allen created his own homage to this beloved picture palace by filming part of The Purple Rose of Cairo there. “Like Cecilia, Woody Allen grew up an obsessive moviegoer who soaked in the pictures that played in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood. It’s set during the Great Depression, in 1935, when the movies provided a cheap way to forget one’s troubles, and Cecelia (Mia Farrow) takes every opportunity to do so, sitting through the movie in the movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo, several times. Woody wrote and directed The Purple Rose of Cairo as a hardcore film fan in it a New Jersey waitress escapes her bleak life and abusive husband at the movies. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO / Amazon / Prime Video / Streaming / Trailer /1985 /PG
Like Match Point, Midnight in Paris has been called a “return to form” for Woody it’s certified 93% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, and even the French like it, as attested to in this review in Le Figaro. But as Gil exits the building to fetch his manuscript from his hotel, he finds he’s returned to 2010: the cafe where he encountered Hemingway is now a laundromat. After Zelda and Scott leave, Gil and Hemingway discuss writing, and Hemingway offers to show Gil’s novel to Gertrude Stein. They first head to Bricktops, where they see Josephine Baker dancing, and then to a cafe where they run into Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll). Zelda gets bored and encourages Scott and Gil to leave with her. As midnight sounds, a 1920’s car pulls alongside, into which he’s beckoned: Come to the party! He finds himself at a party for Jean Cocteau attended by notable people of the 1920s Paris art scene: Cole Porter (Yves Heck), Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston) and his wife Zelda (Alison Pill). Gil is writing a novel about a man who operates a “nostalgia shop,” and is thrilled to be in Paris, which in the ’twenties was the home of some of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and artists, also mostly expats.Įxcusing himself from the group, Gil spends a night walking around the historic streets.
It begins with a stupendously colorful tour of Paris, in stark contrast to the black-and-white Manhattan, and stars Owen Wilson (channeling a typical Woody Allen character) as Gil Pender, a successful but ambitious screenwriter vacationing in Paris with his fiancée Inez, her rich Republican parents, who are openly contemptuous of Gil, and her equally annoying friends, a cultured know-it-all who knows nothing, and his wife.
Midnight in Paris, his most successful film to date, is set not only in the City of Lights, but also, simultaneously, the twenty-first century, the 1920’s, and La Belle Époque of the 1870’s.
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