SCREENING QUESTIONS
PRE-SCREENING BACKGROUND QUESTIONS (CONTEXT EXPLORATION)
Briefly describe what your expectations for the film were?
After seeing the trailer for Woody Allen’s 1978 feature film Interiors I expected a more mature, serious, and somber look at life’s loneliness – in short, a film that would be a departure from his earlier comedic work including 1969’s Take The Money and Run (a slapstick movie about a bumbling bank robber shot in a mockumentary style); 1971’s Bananas (another slapstick movie about a revolutionary uprising in a Latin American country); as well as 1975’s Love and Death (a parody of Russian novels by authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, with homages to the comic stylings of Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hope, and the Marx Bros).
What did you already know about the film and from what source?
I didn’t know a lot about Interiors going into it, aside from the fact that Diane Keaton and Sam Waterston were among the film’s stars. Keaton starred in over half a dozen Allen films dating back to her first appearance in Allen’s 1972 film, Play it Again, Sam, as well as appearances in 1975’s Love and Death, 1979’s Manhattan, 1987’s Radio Days, and her Academy Award winning performance in 1977’s Annie Hall. Before securing his role as ADA Jack McCoy in television’s Law & Order, Waterston had also been a frequent collaborator with Allen, appearing in 1987’s Hannah and Her Sisters, and 1987’s September.