I’ve been on the outside looking into this film, so to speak. I grew up aspiring to associate with people like the daughters and their family: intellectual, aesthetic, valuing art, music, literature, and culture. But growing up working class, when I finally met people like the daughters and their family, *I occupied* the position of the Stapleton character. This sort of class conflict is something rare in film. Allen - with his lower class Brooklyn origins but upper class Manhattan aspirations - is one of the few filmmakers who can address it.
Woody Allen's best. It would truly take a genius to make a move both so melancholy and elegant at the same time. This truly is my favorite film - ever. I strongly feel that this was Geraldine Page's best performance, most deeply emotional, and even out shined her acting in the movie "The Trip to Bountiful", which was also excellent. I don't care how many people said that this movie was "depressing". It's just the best, anyway. I don't get tired of this one.
"Interiors", as "The Other" and "September", is Woody Allen paying homage to the great Bergman. And these 3 movies are really really good! I like the majority of Allen's movies and "Interiors" for me is the best of all!
I don't agree it's Allen's "best", but it's pretty damn near close. What I can't get past is how dissatisfied HE is with it! He has really only expressed negative comments about it, but I find it unique, brilliantly realized, and astonishingly acted. Tremendous details to these characters. And there's no "fat" per se; it's a lean script, and one can glean something new every viewing. And there's hope in the ending.
I haven't seen this film in at least twenty years, but it had a strong impact on me. Eve was so cold. Maureen stapleton in that red dress, coming into that frozen family, like blood returning to a dead body.
It's so powerful to see Pearl coming out to witness and rescue on the beach, that red robe blowing in the wind. I can imagine the girls either floundering themselves, or starting anew. The father would make it because he was accepting what Pearl offered with open arms. Coarse as she was, hers was a hand from across the divide. Great film.
A lot of people struggle with the quiet in this film. Gene Sickle himself complained about the one note time of the first two acts of Interiors. I grew up in a quiet home, where everything was controlled. I understand it. I know it.
I love the thematic angle in that it doesn’t deal with depression head-on, but rather with its affects on the family. A familiarity and clarity that perhaps an audience can relate to.
great to hear woody's thoughts on his own movies. Far superior to what some critic has to say... He really operates on a level that some critics either don't get or don't want to discuss. I'll need to watch this one again some day. I'd really love to be a fly on the wall during Woody's childhood... How could he be so perceptive about things unless he lived through them? He would have made a great shrink - if he wasn't so preoccupied with himself.
This to me is Woody Allen's magnum opus but it goes unrecognized because it's so understated and came right after Annie Hall. It's a fantastic take on familial dysfunctionality.
This film speaks to me, it's familiar, and I can relate to these characters' emotions. Thanks for posting this. I wish someone would post the entire movie.
Straight out of school when I first saw this film and was mesmerised. What came across most powerfully to me was the utter emptiness of their beautiful lives, reflected in those barren interiors and empty vases -- the mother and all her daughters. Sign of a true master that the Mr Allen allows the effect of the full-blooded woman on the daughters to remain unknown, instead of giving us the answer.
This film was brilliant and one of my favorite Woody Allen's films. I love his comedies but when he does dramas, he does in such a cerebral way it's wonderful. It really wasn't stealing from Bergman so much as he was slightly burrowing his esthetic but this film is totally Allen's. Completely his.
Love this film. I was an acting student at the time and it informed me of the beauty of writing. It was about the in-between moments, glances and pauses. A breath, it also opened my eyes to the blocking of actors in a scene and photography. Now as an adult, with my mother having passed. I see another thread. Menopause and how a woman deals with it, they response of the spouse and children, especially female children. My mother had severe depression from menopause so I wonder if this was built into the movie but not spoken on because it's a man dramatizing a woman’s health and being trivialised.
The family's profound sense of suffocation. From once being in awe of a discerning, talented mother to her becoming the warden in a prison of sensory/intellectual depravation.
Okay, now I am officially in love with you!!! You totally HAD me - and that is RARE, RARE, RARE! I hope somebody is lucky enough for you to making their life a total joy! Why in hell don't they make more of you?
Many ppl hated this movie...either they didnt get it or they criticized Allen's character development and thought he was stealing from Bergman. I loved it. It made me so sad; and I thought it was a pretty decent study in mental illness and how it affects the family dynamic. For the time period in which it was made, movies heavy in psychological themes were really in their infancy.
I wished Allen made more movies like this (or like crimes and dismeanors). I guess he got rejected by the critics and the general audience and went back to his "funny" movies.
Yeah, think it's his best as well, I'd put Crimes and Misdemeanors up there as well, particularly for its writing. But this film is perfection. Generational affliction has never been captured so brilliantly, or painfully.
@pandorabangles -- Interiors came out August of 1978 little more than a year since the release of Annie Hall, a HUGE hit for Allen. So I suppose it was a bit of a culture shock for audiences who were used to Allen's humor in Sleeper, Take the Money and Run or Bananas. As for Steve Martin, his career is faultering severly in my view by not giving orginial material over empty remakes of films that were better off left alone.
I happen to agree with your personal response to the film; I in no way would try to convince you to feel otherwise. I am merely trying to point out that it is possible to elevate this film to a greater stature (because, let's face it, it is not as highly regarded as some people would like to believe) by saying that if it is approached as "camp" - and I'm talking Sontag camp, not "Desperate Housewives" camp - it becomes an astonishingly rich work. I seem to be in the minority in this, er, camp.
+Aubrey Simpson This is from Woody Allen A life in Film (2002). Theres also another great doc he discussed his films in called American Masters A Documentary (2011)
Oh, puh-leez...and you can hate me for this: this movie is über-camp! It's such fun you can't get through it without laughing. When Renata has her neurotic moment where she feels her mortality closing in...Joey and her "I feel such rage 'tord you!!! The affected way everyone has of talking ("I'm not far from the age when mother first showed signs of strain." ) And the lack of ambiguity...Eve really does off herself: I initially though it was Joey's fantasy. P.S. I love this movie; really!
Odd, I seem to be a vulgarian with a degree in film and art history,which, agree or not with my opinions (because they are opinions, not laws) qualifies me to appraise this film as I have. I NEVER said it wasn't a fine work - indeed I feel it to be one of Allen's best. I also never said it was a comedy - far from it, but what makes it camp is the exorbitant stretch of its aesthetic and thematic reach beyond its textual and plastic execution.
It irks me how he can be so dismissive of some of his obviously amazing films, like Manhattan, and then turn around and be so salient on another great film like Interiors. I suppose that just comes with being a great artist.
I loved this film when I first saw it way back. I recently watched it again and have changed my mind. Comes over heavy-handed, even ham-fisted. A lot of the dialogue is embarrassing. Still looks great though.
Love most of Allen’s films, but I cringe when he refers to a woman as a girl. Few people refer to men as boys. Some do, but mostly it is women referred to as girls. How is the second wife a vulgarian? Woody is right when he says he should have brought in Maureen Stapleton earlier in the film. New mom, but sadly stuck with same old dad. Interesting and intriguing. New mom is their only ray of hope. I wonder if the afterlife believes in Allen.
![Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978) - Final - Ending [sub. español]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CYW5qynAgv8/mqdefault.jpg)
I’ve been on the outside looking into this film, so to speak. I grew up aspiring to associate with people like the daughters and their family: intellectual, aesthetic, valuing art, music, literature, and culture. But growing up working class, when I finally met people like the daughters and their family, *I occupied* the position of the Stapleton character.
This sort of class conflict is something rare in film. Allen - with his lower class Brooklyn origins but upper class Manhattan aspirations - is one of the few filmmakers who can address it.
Criterion Collection should produce a box set of Woody's three dramas:
Interiors, September, and Another Woman.
Woody Allen's best. It would truly take a genius to make a move both so melancholy and elegant at the same time. This truly is my favorite film - ever. I strongly feel that this was Geraldine Page's best performance, most deeply emotional, and even out shined her acting in the movie "The Trip to Bountiful", which was also excellent. I don't care how many people said that this movie was "depressing". It's just the best, anyway. I don't get tired of this one.
+joey hernandez Pardon me, "movie".
+joey hernandez E.G. Marshall is outstanding, too. But I agree with you.
+Madam Zajj Yes, he certainly is! They all were so excellent. Movie magic i just don't see anymore.
"Interiors", as "The Other" and "September", is Woody Allen paying homage to the great Bergman. And these 3 movies are really really good!
I like the majority of Allen's movies and "Interiors" for me is the best of all!
I don't agree it's Allen's "best", but it's pretty damn near close. What I can't get past is how dissatisfied HE is with it! He has really only expressed negative comments about it, but I find it unique, brilliantly realized, and astonishingly acted. Tremendous details to these characters. And there's no "fat" per se; it's a lean script, and one can glean something new every viewing. And there's hope in the ending.
I haven't seen this film in at least twenty years, but it had a strong impact on me. Eve was so cold. Maureen stapleton in that red dress, coming into that frozen family, like blood returning to a dead body.
My very favorite Woody Allen film. I have watched this several times and takeaway something different with each viewing.
I think it is his most powerful and moving film, and perhaps his most "European". Always looks and reads true. Too true for some?
It's so powerful to see Pearl coming out to witness and rescue on the beach, that red robe blowing in the wind. I can imagine the girls either floundering themselves, or starting anew. The father would make it because he was accepting what Pearl offered with open arms. Coarse as she was, hers was a hand from across the divide. Great film.
A lot of people struggle with the quiet in this film. Gene Sickle himself complained about the one note time of the first two acts of Interiors. I grew up in a quiet home, where everything was controlled. I understand it. I know it.
Who's Gene Sicle? Google couldn't find anyone by that name.
@@redgravemirren Siskel
I love the thematic angle in that it doesn’t deal with depression head-on, but rather with its affects on the family. A familiarity and clarity that perhaps an audience can relate to.
I love how Stapleton and Page, both power-house actresses, play totally opposite characters. They both worked well off of each other in many ways.
Such a brilliant Woody Allen movie
great to hear woody's thoughts on his own movies. Far superior to what some critic has to say... He really operates on a level that some critics either don't get or don't want to discuss. I'll need to watch this one again some day. I'd really love to be a fly on the wall during Woody's childhood... How could he be so perceptive about things unless he lived through them? He would have made a great shrink - if he wasn't so preoccupied with himself.
This to me is Woody Allen's magnum opus but it goes unrecognized because it's so understated and came right after Annie Hall. It's a fantastic take on familial dysfunctionality.
Interiors is my favorite film of woody allen's , then annie hall.
This film speaks to me, it's familiar, and I can relate to these characters' emotions.
Thanks for posting this.
I wish someone would post the entire movie.
It's on Amazon prime, 1.20.2020
the scene with pearl dancing is the best !!!! the edits are amazing !!!! too funny ...
One of my favorite movies of all times.
Straight out of school when I first saw this film and was mesmerised. What came across most powerfully to me was the utter emptiness of their beautiful lives, reflected in those barren interiors and empty vases -- the mother and all her daughters. Sign of a true master that the Mr Allen allows the effect of the full-blooded woman on the daughters to remain unknown, instead of giving us the answer.
This film was brilliant and one of my favorite Woody Allen's films. I love his comedies but when he does dramas, he does in such a cerebral way it's wonderful. It really wasn't stealing from Bergman so much as he was slightly burrowing his esthetic but this film is totally Allen's. Completely his.
Genius. Loved this movie. Mirrored my life.
Great movie and terrific performances from everyone!
one of allen's best films!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite Woody Allen film
God, I love this film.
I agree-this is one of my favorite Woody Allen films.
This film reminds me so much of Chekov's "Three Sisters".
Oh, and one more thing. Twice Mr. Allen goes to the setting of the ocean. Very powerful and very revealing.
Love this film. I was an acting student at the time and it informed me of the beauty of writing. It was about the in-between moments, glances and pauses. A breath, it also opened my eyes to the blocking of actors in a scene and photography. Now as an adult, with my mother having passed. I see another thread. Menopause and how a woman deals with it, they response of the spouse and children, especially female children. My mother had severe depression from menopause so I wonder if this was built into the movie but not spoken on because it's a man dramatizing a woman’s health and being trivialised.
an epic film.
During watching this movie I was thinking about Yasujiro Ozu all the time especially at the first and the last scenes
The family's profound sense of suffocation. From once being in awe of a discerning, talented mother to her becoming the warden in a prison of sensory/intellectual depravation.
Should have won an Academy Award for Outstanding Use of Duct Tape.
The true pronunciation of writer is "Writah."
A great movie, human dialouge at it's best.
impressive. Really a good one
Okay, now I am officially in love with you!!! You totally HAD me - and that is RARE, RARE, RARE!
I hope somebody is lucky enough for you to making their life a total joy!
Why in hell don't they make more of you?
Hierarquia.
Many ppl hated this movie...either they didnt get it or they criticized Allen's character development and thought he was stealing from Bergman. I loved it. It made me so sad; and I thought it was a pretty decent study in mental illness and how it affects the family dynamic. For the time period in which it was made, movies heavy in psychological themes were really in their infancy.
This movie is totally irrevocable.
+joey hernandez - will you PLEASE NOT.... BREATHE so hard?!!!
Wish the audio and video on this matched up better. The movie itself is fantastic.
I would love to see this movie and just cant find it...Hoping someone will post it on YT.
I wished Allen made more movies like this (or like crimes and dismeanors). I guess he got rejected by the critics and the general audience and went back to his "funny" movies.
woody's ode to bergman
+mike k
Bergman's influence is clear here. This may be Allen's most serious movie.
Yeah, think it's his best as well, I'd put Crimes and Misdemeanors up there as well, particularly for its writing. But this film is perfection. Generational affliction has never been captured so brilliantly, or painfully.
@pandorabangles -- Interiors came out August of 1978 little more than a year
since the release of Annie Hall, a HUGE hit for Allen. So I suppose it was a bit
of a culture shock for audiences who were used to Allen's humor in Sleeper,
Take the Money and Run or Bananas. As for Steve Martin, his career is faultering
severly in my view by not giving orginial material over empty remakes of
films that were better off left alone.
@aishikura thank you :)
@Prokifiev thanks much
Nice job Wood man.
"rigidly tasteful", yet i loved it. i know, not the point but the atmospherics carried the movie for me.
@susuemikado "Interiors" is released by MGM Home Entertainment. I bought my copy from HMV online
What is this interview from?
You are a fucking genius!!!
i love broadway danny rose and interiors is the shit, too.
Love this comment.
Wait, BOB HOPE WAS IN INTERIORS?!? 5:09
I happen to agree with your personal response to the film; I in no way would try to convince you to feel otherwise. I am merely trying to point out that it is possible to elevate this film to a greater stature (because, let's face it, it is not as highly regarded as some people would like to believe) by saying that if it is approached as "camp" - and I'm talking Sontag camp, not "Desperate Housewives" camp - it becomes an astonishingly rich work. I seem to be in the minority in this, er, camp.
Woody a top grade dramatist. You think you can pin him down artistically and you just can't.
@Autostade67 - didn't you see what I was doing?! I TOTALLY agree with you! This film is a campfest!
Is anybody aware as to where this is originally sourced from?
+Aubrey Simpson This is from Woody Allen A life in Film (2002). Theres also another great doc he discussed his films in called American Masters A Documentary (2011)
Christopher Kolasa Thank you Sir!
Oh, puh-leez...and you can hate me for this: this movie is über-camp! It's such fun you can't get through it without laughing. When Renata has her neurotic moment where she feels her mortality closing in...Joey and her "I feel such rage 'tord you!!! The affected way everyone has of talking ("I'm not far from the age when mother first showed signs of strain." ) And the lack of ambiguity...Eve really does off herself: I initially though it was Joey's fantasy. P.S. I love this movie; really!
i'm 53 i was 18 when i saw annie hall it changed my life..interiors is sh*t midnight in paris was the bomb
I think the entire film is set up the way Allen says, "a perfect order" - perhaps that 'perfect order' applies to emotions, as well.
Interiors
Odd, I seem to be a vulgarian with a degree in film and art history,which, agree or not with my opinions (because they are opinions, not laws) qualifies me to appraise this film as I have. I NEVER said it wasn't a fine work - indeed I feel it to be one of Allen's best. I also never said it was a comedy - far from it, but what makes it camp is the exorbitant stretch of its aesthetic and thematic reach beyond its textual and plastic execution.
Is the line "I feel such rage toward you" suppose to sound so stiff and wooden?
It irks me how he can be so dismissive of some of his obviously amazing films, like Manhattan, and then turn around and be so salient on another great film like Interiors. I suppose that just comes with being a great artist.
A pivot point in the decline of America.
I loved this film when I first saw it way back. I recently watched it again and have changed my mind. Comes over heavy-handed, even ham-fisted. A lot of the dialogue is embarrassing. Still looks great though.
Did he just ruin the ending?
watch the "dramas" of nowadays and then talk about pretensious.
pretentious seems to be the code for I don't get it and that makes me mad these days
it must be so sad to be so limited and dull
yerejay who?
Love most of Allen’s films, but I cringe when he refers to a woman as a girl. Few people refer to men as boys. Some do, but mostly it is women referred to as girls. How is the second wife a vulgarian? Woody is right when he says he should have brought in Maureen Stapleton earlier in the film. New mom, but sadly stuck with same old dad. Interesting and intriguing. New mom is their only ray of hope. I wonder if the afterlife believes in Allen.
@jerryhello100 an awful movie.. but see midnight in paris..possibly the best movie i have ever seen... ah paris..
a complete pile of pretentious doggie doo
William Sands nope
again interiors was horid people threw things at the screen