Look at this amazing poster for Woody Allen's Cafe Society (2016). The film will open the Cannes Film Festival and also, a little closer to home, the Seattle Film Festival this May. It will play near you this August as counterprogramming to Suicide Squad and Pete's Dragon.
After the jump, thoughts I had as they came to me unedited. Share yours, too, why don'cha...
• I wish Liza Minnelli was in this but will remember that it's at least sorta concurrent with the Weimar Era if I get bored?
• How amazing would an animated Woody Allen musical be? I'm not talking rotoscoped Waking Life but full Pocahontas - oh shit. Maybe that was Antz? Wasn't he involved in some way never mind
• Jeannie Berlin top billed (yes, we know it's alphabetical but let us pretend) - can you imagine?
• Did they have collagen injections in the 1930s?
• Remember when Karen Akers was in a Woody with a fierce black bob?
• "Anyone who is anyone..." is a fun tagline and extra boastful if you happen to be Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll or Ken Stott since you're name is right under that exclusionary phrase.
• Wealthy people and their problems. Cry me a (golden) river.
• Remember when I was so righteously super pissed about Corey Stoll's exclusion in the SAG nomination for Midnight in Paris and talked to him about it. Now he's big enough to get his name on the first title card (in Woody Allen movies you have to share them, so SAG counts that first card as "individual credits" for their awards) so if this is a surprise hit he can be nominated. The actors who are likely on the second title card (if this poster is indication) and thus will not be considered part of the "ensemble" in SAG's dumb rules are actors as fine as Anna Camp, Judy Davis, Paul Schneider, and Tony Sirico.
• Do we think this is poster is a drawing of a particular character from the movie? If so can it be Parker Posey instead of Kristen Stewart? The movie takes place in 1930s Hollywood and Parker can read that era way more easily than Stewart if you ask me.
• I prefer Woody Allen male leads when they're not easily understood as Woody surrogates but Jesse Eisenberg is definitely in the Woody mode: nerdy, intellectual, pain-in-ass, motor mouthed. So... potentially frustrating.
• [Clicks over to IMDb] !!! You guys. Oscar winning genius cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Dick Tracy, Reds, The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris) shot this. Somehow he is out of retirement and working again? His last major Hollywood picture was Bulworth (1998) so, yes, he did a handful of Beatty films. He is 75 years old.
• Keepin it 100 -- Curse of the Jade Scorpion and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger also had cool illustrated posters and they were terrible movies.
