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Frames of Mind Summer Classics Series: Vintage Woody Allen: Two Stand-Outs from the 1980s

In a prolific 40-year-plus career as a filmmaker, writer-director-actor Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg) has created a body of work unparalleled in American film history. With an astounding 39 movies to his credit (and more on the way), Allen has created (and is celebrated for) individualistic, darkly comic and deeply humane character studies that have stood the test of time and guaranteed his place in film history.

Allen’s filmic obsessions – morality, mortality, sexuality, love and relationships, gender relations, faith and the constant struggle between the self and society – are the same ones that we all wrestle with on a subconscious level. An avid fan of psychoanalysis (he was in therapy himself for 30 years), Allen married his philosophy and his psychological tendencies in his films, and in doing so, has become a symbol for all those with aspirations towards self-understanding.

“Frames of Mind” is pleased to present two of Woody Allen’s must-see films from the 1980s: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), a philosophical query on the nature of morality in the absence of God; and Zelig (1983), an hilarious mockumentary about a human chameleon and the seductive dangers of conformity. Allen’s obsessions with the psychological make him an ideal choice for our Summer Classics series, and we look forward to discussing these films with you in July and August.

“Frames of Mind” is pleased to present two of Woody Allen’s must-see films from the 1980s: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), a philosophical query on the nature of morality in the absence of God; and Zelig (1983), an hilarious mockumentary about a human chameleon and the seductive dangers of conformity. Allen’s obsessions with the psychological make him an ideal choice for our Summer Classics series, and we look forward to discussing these films with you in July and August.