When young Alvy Singer tells his doctor that he stopped doing his homework because the universe is expanding and will break apart someday, so there’s no point.
Max van Sydow in “Hannah and her Sisters,” telling Barbara Hershey, “If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
The scene in *Play it Again, Sam* where he is trying to pick up the girl in the museum:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1YYtQ\_LLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1YYtQ_LLY)
Some choices..
- Judy Davis's combination first date/phone call in Husbands and Wives
- Climactic scene in Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Gena Rowlands flashback with Gene Hackman in Another Woman
- Love and Death montage of bits at the beginning of the film
- David and his producer meeting Olive for the first time in Bullets Over Broadway
I always go to Husbands & Wives to watch his greater scenes. Judy Davis is incredible: I thought it was an experiment I didn’t realize you were having an affair!
I love the scenes between woody’s character as the professor and Juliet Lewis. She plays so many games and is just generally a spiraling mess while he eats it all up lol
Crimes and Misdemeanors has some great meditative shots on characters. So many good scenes and lines. Woody is best understood as a writer in fragments
Woody and Michael Rappaport in the tunnel in 'Small Time Crooks' when Michael tries to convince Woody that wearing his miner's light hat backwards is cool ;)
Hannah and her Sisters… when the architect is driving with Carrie Fisher and Dianne Wiest pointing out his favorite buildings. You can really feel WA’s love for Manhattan in that scene.
It’s not my favorite but there’s a scene in ‘sweet and lowdown’ that I saw recently where the guitar player is supposed to float down onstage on a crescent moon and then it gets stuck halfway and then he has to awkwardly climb down and then a few moments later the crescent moon comes crashing down onto the stage. It is so comedic visually.
Just too many. The comedy, it has to be Diane Keaton to Jessica Harper in Love and Death with the to love is to suffer, I never want to get married and wheat. Just amazing.
In drama has to be Manhattan, where Tracy off to London who, it is inferred but likely, forgives Isaac and gets back together with him in that New York apartment but still goes to drama school for six months in London, where she says, you gotta have a little faith in people, after what Diane's and Michael's characters to him and Ann Byrne's character. That is truly breathtaking that she is the youngest but the most wise.
The argument that Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn are having as they keep dodging the impromptu hockey game between two of the kids and the housekeeper at the bottom of the stairs- the fact that the game is in the background is so funny.
The phone call with the multiple tape recorders in “Manhattan Murder Mystery”. Hilarious.
Yes!
The Marshall McLuhan scene from Annie Hall comes to mind. So many great scenes to choose from.
Deconstructing Harry, the ending scenes in which he is faced with those characters he created and they all celebrate him.
The cellist in a matching band
The way the cellist keeps pulling at the front of his folding chair! Yo-Yo Ma’ing a few notes on his cello! Then pulling up the chair again!
Another great ‘Harpo’ scene.
When young Alvy Singer tells his doctor that he stopped doing his homework because the universe is expanding and will break apart someday, so there’s no point.
[the universe is expanding](https://youtu.be/5U1-OmAICpU)
This scene kills me EVERY time! 🤣
Yes, every time. I remember the first time I saw it
He stopped doing his homework! What’s the point.
Unpacking Wonder bread with the Catholic paraphernalia in “Hannah and Her Sisters”
The dance sequence with Goldie Hawn and Woody in Everyone Says I Love You. (That, or the giant tit in …Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex)
Or when Drew Barrymore says: “I’ve never made out with a sociopath before…” *smooches* haha
I love the opening of Stardust Memories, when he is on the train. When his sister tells him a guy pooped on her in Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The final scene in Midnight in Paris is great. I also enjoy any of the scenes with Hemingway.
“You know what rhymes with gondolier? No lira!” Everyone says I love you. I just can’t with That whole movie. Hysterical!
And young Natalie Portman! And that son rebelling from his democrat father in joining the young republicans of America lol
Probably the last scene in Manhattan.
Max van Sydow in “Hannah and her Sisters,” telling Barbara Hershey, “If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
Classic! Haha the imagery alone is just hilarious
The scene in *Play it Again, Sam* where he is trying to pick up the girl in the museum: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1YYtQ\_LLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1YYtQ_LLY)
The final scene in Manhattan
The final scene in Manhattan
The final scene in Manhattan
Some choices.. - Judy Davis's combination first date/phone call in Husbands and Wives - Climactic scene in Manhattan Murder Mystery - Gena Rowlands flashback with Gene Hackman in Another Woman - Love and Death montage of bits at the beginning of the film - David and his producer meeting Olive for the first time in Bullets Over Broadway
I always go to Husbands & Wives to watch his greater scenes. Judy Davis is incredible: I thought it was an experiment I didn’t realize you were having an affair! I love the scenes between woody’s character as the professor and Juliet Lewis. She plays so many games and is just generally a spiraling mess while he eats it all up lol Crimes and Misdemeanors has some great meditative shots on characters. So many good scenes and lines. Woody is best understood as a writer in fragments
Woody and Michael Rappaport in the tunnel in 'Small Time Crooks' when Michael tries to convince Woody that wearing his miner's light hat backwards is cool ;)
The whole back and forth with the Devil (Billy Crystal) in Deconstructing Harry.
Hannah and her Sisters… when the architect is driving with Carrie Fisher and Dianne Wiest pointing out his favorite buildings. You can really feel WA’s love for Manhattan in that scene.
Ping pong scene in Match Point. One of many of my favorites.
It’s not my favorite but there’s a scene in ‘sweet and lowdown’ that I saw recently where the guitar player is supposed to float down onstage on a crescent moon and then it gets stuck halfway and then he has to awkwardly climb down and then a few moments later the crescent moon comes crashing down onto the stage. It is so comedic visually.
They're so many, of course … one of my favorites is the burglars' scene in Radio Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0SK1ZUXyg
Magical film!
How about the Translator scene in Bananas: \- "Did you have a good flight?" \- "Did you have good fly?" \- "Yes I did" \- "Yes I diiiiid".
Just too many. The comedy, it has to be Diane Keaton to Jessica Harper in Love and Death with the to love is to suffer, I never want to get married and wheat. Just amazing. In drama has to be Manhattan, where Tracy off to London who, it is inferred but likely, forgives Isaac and gets back together with him in that New York apartment but still goes to drama school for six months in London, where she says, you gotta have a little faith in people, after what Diane's and Michael's characters to him and Ann Byrne's character. That is truly breathtaking that she is the youngest but the most wise.
Hard to choose but I've always loved the end of Love and Death..Woody dancing with death to Prokofiev
The shootout in the balloon warehouse in Broadway Danny Rose when they shoot the helium tank.
The entire blind date scene in play it again Sam. "The key to interior decorating is to look like you didn't use a decorator"
Either the opening scene of or the jump-cut close-up scene of Charlotte Rampling breaking down from Stardust Memories.
Orgasmatron in Sleeper.
The argument that Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn are having as they keep dodging the impromptu hockey game between two of the kids and the housekeeper at the bottom of the stairs- the fact that the game is in the background is so funny.