Saturday, May 25, 2002

I've Heard That Song Before: Hannah and Her Sisters has been playing on TCM as I've been writing this. One of my favs - I've seen it a few times. It's Funny Woody in New York. Kind of a grown up Annie Hall. Ebert gets is right. (Just so you know, Sex and the City's New York can't come close to Woody's.) The use of music in the soundtrack is absolutely perfect. It was scored by the great pianist Dick Hyman, as are many of his films. Each sequence, and occasionally each individual scene, is triggered by a song to set the mood - done absolutely perfectly. In its own way, the New York portrayed in this film is as elegant and erudite as the New York of the '30s.