He's so honest about everything. He doesn't sugar coat BS stories. If he hates something he says so. Which also lets you know that when he likes something he really likes it.
Greatest filmmaker of all time; I will always love, admire, and respect Mr. Allen. This video is charming and wonderful! I will have to check the documentary out; I have not seen it yet.
@@justsomedudewithnoneck8329 Even more sadly, all your taste is in your neck. Actually I respect your opinion. But seeing that was like seeing $10 on the sidewalk. Cheers
I honestly don’t get why people find him funny. He just seems as a mildly depressed person to me who hates everything. Maybe he is outlet for some people who are encouraged to be artificially positive so they get to be negative temporarily.
You’re probably both right. People are always more complex than their actions, whether it was in the past, the present, or the future. You can always regress as much as you can progress. Hell, the end of your life when your mind starts to fade and your memories crowd into a single pinprick of light, it’s basically second childhood. You’re lost, is all. We never fully unbecome who we were because most of us are coming to the same teetering ending.
Maureen O Sullivan-Mia Farrow's mother-said that one afternoon she and Woody went to the beach with Dylan Farrow-who was just a little girl at the time-said that Woody took Dyan down to the edge of the beach, pulled off the little girl's clothes and tried to rub suntan lotion all over Dylan's body! Maureen O Sullivan ran down to Woody and Dylan and pulled him off of her. Now THAT'S creepy! Disgusting! And then there was other stuff-Dylan Farrow said Woody took her in the attic alone with him. The only reason Woody Allen escaped facing serious charges is because of his being a comedy star. Dylan Farrow still insists Woody did all those things. In a few of Allen's films there's a subplot of an older man obsessed with a much younger lady (Manhatten, Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy, Deconstructing Harry, Husband's And Wives,).
@@gheller8674 Sorry I got confused. I thought he was talking to his grandmother, but that's obviously his mother. Mother-son relationships are much more complicated. I can attest to that.
Why consider his memory extraordinary? I remember my Brooklyn neighborhood (Bushwick) and haven't seen it since 1951 when I left to go to war (Korea - 1951). Lucky for me I came back to the USA to a military hospital in California. My best wishes to Brookllnites but all my relatives moved somewhere else, and I still say thanks for making California my home. Bob Smith, Long Beach, CA (formerly from Putnam Avenue)
@@hankrogers8431 He is innocent, he even did the truth machine test twice and proved innocent. In addition his son Moses said his mother (Mia Farrow) manipulated her daughter Dilan to put her against her father.
@Pesky Echo No it is not. There is evidence (such as the testimony of Moses Farrow) that the allegations made by Farrow are unfounded and false. I suggest you read this, it's an article that was written as an answer to another article: medium.com/@levine2001/the-woody-allen-controversy-reader-why-maureen-orths-10-undeniable-facts-about-the-woody-allen-5f26791c15a0 Unfortunately in Hollywood (as indeed all over the world) there are really bad people from the human point of view, but to accuse an innocent person makes no sense (and it is not the internet that decides whether a person is innocent or guilty, but the evidence presented in a court). Furthermore, Allen is even innocent even in the test of the truth machine. (as I wrote in the previous comment)
What a beautiful, gentle person Mr Allen is! 100% genuine and sincere. I could watch and listen to him all day long, talking about anything. Soon Yi is such a lucky girl!
I enjoyed Mr. Allen's trip back to Brooklyn greatly. Like him, it was my old neighborhood too. I lived one block away on Avenue K at 1302. All the stories he told, I relate as well since I lived them as he did.
In the 3rd grade, I stopped doing homework until college anxiety got me to start doing homework, barely, in the 11th grade. My grades were Cs and Ds. Wasn't til my 40's that a friend figured out I had ADD. Miserable in school. College was different. I had coffee and became a caffeine achiever. After 2 years of top grades, I transferred to a top University and went on to get a Master's. But, those days in elementary seemed interminable!
@@skineyemin4276 You mean "I was schtüping Ole Blue Eyes and deflecting guilt by making false accusations to gain advantage in a child custody case" Mia?
@@zyrrhos I'm sorry. No..., I actually meant, the guy who was proabably eyeing Mia's adopted daughter {and his stepdaughter now wife} since she was possibly 10, 12 years old during the filming of "Hannah and Her Sisters" while probably having daily fantasy woodies for her before and after that filming, Woody. That's what I meant. I should have been more clear. FOH.
I’ve loved Woody’s movies ever since I saw my first one which was “Play It Again, Sam” back in the early 70’s. My two favorite movies of his were “Annie Hall” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors”. Annie Hall had so many classically funny scenes, for example the one where Alvy and Annie run into each other at the tennis club after their doubles game (“La de dah, La de dah, la la”) and the scene where Annie’s brother Duane, played by Christopher Walken, confesses to Alvy his desire to crash his car into into an oncoming car. I nearly died laughing at that one. Classic staff that has held up well over the years.
my family arrived from cuba in 1961 and we planted ourselves in brooklyn.we lived on butler st. by atlantic ave. then we moved to ft.hamilton pkwy. from there we settled on parkside ave. next to caledonian hospital(now gone).my mom and dad both worked at the hospital.i went to the caton school(p.s. 249) and the holy innocents grammer school.we left in 71 and moved to jersey,i now live in florida but whenever i talk to someone they can definetly hear my "brooklyn" accent! this bourogh has never left me....
I am almost a contemporary of Allen Konigsberg (Woody Allen), being 7 years younger, and can add quite a bit to this. I grew up in the same neighborhood (Ave K and E 11th-12th St), was bar mitzvahed in the same synagogue (Talmud Torah of Flatbush), went to the same K-12 (P.S. 99), and hung out on Ave J and Coney Island Ave. So we both enjoyed the pizza, charlotte russes, Brooklyn Dodgers, appetizers, chinese food (especially Joy Fong) and everything else that great neighborhood had to offer. The neighborhood bully at my time was Junior (Genaro) Sirico, who later achieved fame as Paulie Wallnuts on The Sopranos.
@Dave Wray When I was 12 or 13 I was hanging out in the North courtyard of PS 99 when a group of kids led by Junior Sirico came into the courtyard and approached me. Junior wanted me to fight his younger brother Carmine, as he had heard that I had said that Carmine was only pretending to be tough because he had his older brother to support him. I talked my way out of a fight somehow and remember not being upset by this confontation. I guess that was the first incident where I displaced some negotiating skills. Carmine eventually became a Catholic priest.
Rich B - judging by Sirico’s Wikipedia bio, your memory is good. He’s been arrested 28 times, and ultimately spent 20 months (not his full sentence) in Sing Sing for extorsion, coercion, and felony weapons possession. He was trouble all right!
I also grew up in Brooklyn in the early 50's, but moved to NJ where I was bar mitzvaed. It was Coney Island for me, practically living on the boardwalk. Now the block where I lived is Woody Guthrie Ave?
Did you know Roy Karchmer? (Later, went by the name Karch) I think he had an older brother, Les. Pretty sure he lived around there. He was my friend and he died and I miss him.
god i love this man. Hes made me and my dad laugh so hard growing up watching his movies. Especially tale the money and run. Even his little “i hated bicycles” statement in the beginning of this made me die laughing.
I’ve walked around some of those streets in Brooklyn around Avenue J where he grew up. It’s a nice area. Maybe not the most exciting part of the city but it’s relatively quiet
There is an authenticity to Woody that I really like, he seems totally detached from the arrogant, self-important Hollyweird types. Never caught up in fame and vanity, he sounds just like an average guy to me.
I grew up very close to Midwood , and would travel to Kings Highway to go to the music stores in the very late 60s . Mr. Woody Allen is a very complex man . One with human contradictions , however this documentary fills me with such nostalgia . It leaves me with one out come . Beautiful . Simply beautiful .
Love these little "insider" memories, like how the neighborhood used to be so quiet, Woody could heart the *click* noise in his bedroom, from when the traffic light changed from red to green down the street.
I find this absolutely charming. I was born just before they tore Ebbitts Field down. And I lived on Lefferts and Washington. I live outside of London in the UK now. But Woody sounds like home. My mum was his contemporary. For me, this was very warming. Thank you for making the effort. PrincessBitcoin
When he talks about religion and the school he went to, I can intimately relate to his feelings because I felt the exact same way. The difference being I was raised Catholic. Woody and I could sit down and probably talk for hours about the mental punishment we had to endure.
Woody our families knew each other very well back when you were born on for many years. My dads aunts the Olshefskis at 1469 east 15th and my moms family Gertude and Abe Barach and my mom Sara Barach in Midwood whom you both went to school together at Midwood high. I have pictures of Woodys dad with my aunts hanging out in Smiths bar in the Bowery. My Dads parents were Annie and Stanly Baginski. I know from my parents your mom and dad and our family were very close friends. I am Saras son and still live here in Brooklyn in the Bensonhurst Midwood section
RLeezyDeezy Do you think movie makers do not read commets? Any celebrity reads internet comments 80% of their day time. They pretend not to do that just for you to have them up there. They look aaaalll the time how they reflect on society.
Wow. Woody lived only a few blocks from me and my family on e 21st My Dad knew all the comedians like Mel Brooks in his early days who came to our place for dinner all the time..... I wonder if he knew Woody too although Woody would have been 14 years younger than my Dad and just starting out in comedy My Dad went to see his frienfs in conedy clubs all the time. I shall have to ask my Mom. She did say yes and woidy had a different name then. Woody probably went to all the same places we did. like Keys chinese or the corner pizza place. Prospect park. He probably went or knew of my family owned Klink dry cleaners and liquorr stores we had .too. Funny.I always loved Woodys Movies kinda felt familar somehow. I just looked it up and found my old apartment wasnt really that super close to his home but close enough
Brooklyn has changed dramatically since his day, many neighborhoods are extremely expensive and gentrification is forcing middle class out. Downtown BROOKLYN is growing too. Lots of skyscrapers popping up.
I love the revisit of his stomping grounds. Growing up in a major city like NY, Chicago or L.A, is a remarkable experience in the time when kids played outside and had that independence. Amazing, Enjoyed. Ty.
I feel the sense of community has all but gone. You never see kids playing in the streets or neighbors knowing each other and playing cards on the corner.
Try visiting the local synagogues sometime. They are full on Shabbat with folks joyfully celebrating in their community. Oh yeah, I forgot, to Woody types religion is primitive and naive. Except in truth Judaism is the bedrock of civilization. You would not want to be alive today if G-d had not given the Torah to Moses on Sinai. You would likely be a Roman, slaughtering innocents. But isn't that exactly what happened in the 20th Century when Europeans went in for Godless communism and fascism? Perhaps this is your thing? Or maybe that of your child or grandchildren? But why should you care about the future? We all will just die anyway. Why not live for our own happiness and pleasure and let future generations slide into whatever barbarism they choose?
Allen Moses: You have your fables; other groups have theirs. Some of us don't believe in the literal truth of any of those fables. That does not make us less moral than you, or less concerned about the future. Your self-serving, condescending sanctimony is a quality all too common in religious zealots, and a major reason why religion overall is declining in Western society. As for Judaism, its current public face is that of Benjamin Netanyahu, a right-wing political hack whose best buddy among heads of state is none other than Donald Trump, that paragon of selflessness and concern for future generations.
Seeing NYC, Brooklyn, the Bronx through Woody Allen's eyes has always been a deeply-felt pleasure. The opening shots of 'Manhattan' , alone.💗 So, watched his films all my life.I was in my 20's then, for most of them. Stuck in NoWhere, Texas. Dreaming of visiting NYC, someday. All those scenes he showed me, all those songs he connected to NYC ... I finally made the trip to NYC when I turned 65. Walking those same streets he walked, so fulfilling! And I just want to say: Thank You, Mr. Woody Allen, for making me love NYC before I ever got there.
@@hankrogers8431 He is innocent, he even did the truth machine test twice and proved innocent. In addition his son Moses said his mother (Mia Farrow) manipulated her daughter Dilan to put her against her father.
I get the impression he had a happy childhood with loving supporting relatives who were well off. It's not as if he struggled to survive in a ghetto living in poverty or had anyone physically abuse him. He just hated school because the teachers were mean to him.
well thats an oversimplification. for creative minds school can feel like a prison. dont make assumptions about other people's experiences if you havent lived in their shoes
He's also joking a bit. It's his cynical wry humor. Obviously not all of it was bad. Intelligent creative people are against the norms and the shams but they find their own positive outlook on life to thrive on.
Loved it. He really painted pictures of his childhood and Brooklyn. No wonder he had so many stories to tell in his movies. ~ I also really like the last scene with the bearded guy and the scarf standing in front of Woody Allen's childhood home.
Kids don't grow up like this now. The 80s and the 90s were the last time kids hung out and did stuff similar to this, which was my time. This was when there weren't too many ways you could be entertained, so had to go out. Today kids are glued to their TV and Video games. Kids are mostly indoors on their phones or Ipads... lol In the future no one will ever leave home due to virtual reality.
Woody, we thank you and appreciate you and we adore you more and more always. You are the wild, wise, insight that is found nowhere else, and we toast to your greatness, always. Such a magical tour.
A wonderful tour and a lovely documentation of growing up in that particular neighborhood. The wisecrack at the end is something you would have expected in one of his movies.
I was born in 73 and raised in sheepshead bay and although it was a different part of Brooklyn, the landscape of Woody’s neighborhood in the 40’s seems very similar to what remember.
I think Woody looks great. This is ten years later If we have all given up the things we love I can see Woody getting to way over ninety ,it’s the new interest that happens to be there But what do I know from England This has perked me up Manhattan really helped me after I did the same with my first sweet heart It’s tough in life Best wishes Loved this footage Thank you
Very nice video. I like the pacing. It's got a quiet, gentle and serene quality to it. Sometimes I come across mostly young people speaking so fast, cramming meaningless fact after fact in a 5 minute video, and even editing out pauzes between sentences. You get so nervous and angry. Time is money, I guess. Anyway, a welcome surprise. Thank you.
HILARIOUS interaction between Woody and Mom at 5:15, I mean really really funny. In this 3-5 second exchange you know EVERYTHING you need to know between The Woodman and Mom. ...
Thanks for taking us back. I also remember the click of the relays in the traffic light boxes on a quiet night, especially on a snowy night. We had our Jr. High graduation at the Kingsway theater.
Wow -- never knew he was from right around there. I've been to the stop many times -- always to go to DiFara, the pizza place seen at 2:38. It's the best pizza I've ever had. I'd come down from Manhattan just for the pie. To clarify, I've never lived in NYC but I've been there about 16 times. It's my favorite city in the world.
Fascinating look at Woody’s childhood neighborhood. Like the town I grew up in, lots of things have changed for better or worse. Thanks for posting this.
Very nice nostalgic tour of the old neighborhood. I spent most of my NYC years in Astoria, Queens. I didn't like the high school I went to. Lots of good memories in the neighborhood though. The old brownstones with the stoops and sitting outside sometimes. I miss old New York as I'm sure Woody does. His time goes back a little more than mine. My dad used to tell me stories of carrying a pitcher of beer from the neighborhood bar and returning the empty pitcher on trust. They didn't have much but they kept everything spotless. I've kept up with changes now in Astoria and it cost an arm and a leg for a small space to rent. Some changes for the better maybe. Time marches on.
@@Daberney Soon Yi was 22, according to Wikipedia (just looked it up), but no way I know how to prove the age of the pictures. I take no stand either way regarding if Allen was having sex with her before or after she was of age, or if he did anything untoward with any other of the kids, either as adults or children. The only evidence I’ve seen is the accusation by Mia, and a son who believes her, though at the time of alleged molestation, he wasn’t clear himself. Unfortunately, there’s nothing to definitely say one way or the other. It’s uncomforting when there’s no closure, but it is what it is. Personally, I think it’s foolish and repugnant to take any side either way if one doesn’t have a verdict (we don’t) or personal knowledge.
My father and I drove a guy Max Essex back to New York City to pick up his sister she lived in Flabush Avvna some old apartment building some neighborhood in Brooklyn. Max was an old guy it was the 1960's he had not been there many years was excited talking about places he knew growing up, these old bridges, these toll bridges he said there is the nickel bridge toll was a nickel when I was a kid, etc. like in the 20's or something we were driving around at night he could not see well but his stories from memory were fascinating. He was very excited, almost passing out from talking! He had a lot of trouble finding her apartment building, oh it's down that street, no , that way, that way, this has changed, I don't know , go down that street, oh there's the park, all this maze of searching. He said oh look, there it is , I know this place ! I remember now ! We picked his sister up, she didn't talk much, she was upset we were there so late and was little afraid , she had never been out of the city. I could not get that. She never had a car had her places to shop. Her friends, her neighborhood. That's it.
The effervescent background music lets me know this was pieced together in the same vein as his recent biography which I found to be fascinating. A two part program that moves along at a pleasant pace and gives some insight into woody's life. The scene About his antique typewriter was priceless.
When he said he hated going to Gran & Grandpa's house, his sister's reaction was like a character from one of his films. Also I could see how she didn't get him, and saw in him things she didn't approve of. Made me feel alone in this world. We are all misunderstood.
@Glinkling Smearnops The duplex house he was pointing out is now about $1 million for half of the building. The single family houses earlier in the video are well over $1 million.
"Everyone's a Comedian, Take 127". Older dude at 21:09 when told Woody Allen once lived in this gent's present neighborhood. "Now the house is worth a little LESS," he jokes - proud of himself for his own ability to go into "Woody-mode." ...
Last nite, I and another Bronxite, described the wonderful world of stick ball to a non New Yorker. I preferred the schoolyard version where the two wings of the school, J.H.S. 82 created a "u"...one wall had the battery's box and base hits were based on which floor the ball hit with a grands lam resulting from the ball hitting the opposite wall and ricocheting back and hitting the other wall. As many as 5 games were played simultaneously. In the street version we would take the stick ball bat, a broomstick handle out of view when a police car drove by. Woody did not mention that football was also played in the street or "gutter" as we called it with 3 man teams facing each and routs were described as "go to the Chevy and go long"or "cut to the Buick." This was popular because we had no grass in the West Bronx.
PS 41 in Staten Island for us -- hundreds of games thousands of hours playing stickball growing up. Used Spauldings. Three-tier fence 150 feet away made for perfect homerun territory; off the fence was a double. My friend Jeff used to hit them over the trees that were on the other side of the fence. Before that played a little bit at PS 105 in Borough Park when I lived there.
You’re right - that sounds pretty embittered, but he doesn’t include the context which - I think - led him to be so vehement. Woody Allen forcefully emphasized up his dismissal of Judaism at an early age, that he knew it was a “sham,” sound like someone bragging about how cool he is, that he knew the score even as a kid. The filmmaker’s shot of his mother at that point is terrific - when she dismisses him with that look, he deserves it. He aspired mightily to live in the Upper East Side, then a fortress of rich WASPS, the kind he saw in films, and that meant dismissing Judaism. So what does he do - make films in which his character is obsessed with anti-Semitism and his own Jewishness.
Even though it's obviously more interesting being Woody-specific, I feel like you could take this sort of trip with any old person to where they grew up and it would be a fascinating time..
A better more communal time, when people knew and spoke to their neighbours, where all the other Mothers on your street knew you and your family, would tell you off for being bad, but soothe you when you were upset, when you played with the kids in your street, IN the street, where it was OK for you to cycle, or in Woody's case, skate off with your friends, no phones, they didn't know exactly where you'd gone, but didn't panic cos they knew you'd be back. That's my childhood too. I feel such a sense of loss for modern kids, they have more stuff but they are isolated, the past is a different country, aint it?
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
He's so honest about everything. He doesn't sugar coat BS stories. If he hates something he says so. Which also lets you know that when he likes something he really likes it.
He likes little girls 😐
Greatest filmmaker of all time; I will always love, admire, and respect Mr. Allen. This video is charming and wonderful! I will have to check the documentary out; I have not seen it yet.
Sadly John huges is better😔
@@justsomedudewithnoneck8329 Even more sadly, all your taste is in your neck.
Actually I respect your opinion. But seeing that was like seeing $10 on the sidewalk. Cheers
Surely you meant _was,_ No Neck. Hughes has been dead for 13 years
His films are unique which is hard having to follow masters like Fellini or Bergman. Haneke is good too
He's a legend, so naturally funny, love him and his films!
He is 🧞♂️ ❤
I honestly don’t get why people find him funny. He just seems as a mildly depressed person to me who hates everything. Maybe he is outlet for some people who are encouraged to be artificially positive so they get to be negative temporarily.
Thanks for this. Watching Woody reminisce over his childhood days in Brooklyn was a nice way to pass a cold, rainy, January 2020, morning in Brussels.
People who say he is cold, arrogant, a creep and far worse should watch just a few minutes of this. It is clear he is a gentle person.
People get soft why when they get old. He WAS all those things at one point.
You’re probably both right. People are always more complex than their actions, whether it was in the past, the present, or the future. You can always regress as much as you can progress. Hell, the end of your life when your mind starts to fade and your memories crowd into a single pinprick of light, it’s basically second childhood. You’re lost, is all. We never fully unbecome who we were because most of us are coming to the same teetering ending.
Maureen O Sullivan-Mia Farrow's mother-said that one afternoon she and Woody went to the beach with Dylan Farrow-who was just a little girl at the time-said that Woody took Dyan down to the edge of the beach, pulled off the little girl's clothes and tried to rub suntan lotion all over Dylan's body! Maureen O Sullivan ran down to Woody and Dylan and pulled him off of her. Now THAT'S creepy! Disgusting! And then there was other stuff-Dylan Farrow said Woody took her in the attic alone with him. The only reason Woody Allen escaped facing serious charges is because of his being a comedy star. Dylan Farrow still insists Woody did all those things. In a few of Allen's films there's a subplot of an older man obsessed with a much younger lady (Manhatten, Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy, Deconstructing Harry, Husband's And Wives,).
It's clear that he's also a pedophile..
@@labrxxyes, so beautifully true.
This is such a gem. Woody is so effortlessly funny.
5:15 "Do you remember coming to grandma's house for dinner?"
"I hated it"
"You hated it...sigh..ok"
@future shock
That was cruel.
He really hurt her feelings.
He could have said something polite, or give those memories a humoristic spin.
He's an asshole...and has no respect for anyone. Completely selfish human
Nettie Konigsberg was notoriously easy to piss off...and nobody relished pissing her off more than her son. It was practically a sport for Woody. Lol.
@@1KSarah He did not have a good relationship with his mother. And apparently, nobody else did either.
@@gheller8674
Sorry I got confused.
I thought he was talking to his grandmother, but that's obviously his mother.
Mother-son relationships are much more complicated.
I can attest to that.
its extraordinary that he still can remember this much detail after this many years
Why consider his memory extraordinary? I remember my Brooklyn neighborhood (Bushwick) and haven't seen it since 1951 when I left to go to war (Korea - 1951). Lucky for me I came back to the USA to a military hospital in California. My best wishes to Brookllnites but all my relatives moved somewhere else, and I still say thanks for making California my home. Bob Smith, Long Beach, CA (formerly from Putnam Avenue)
For most of us, our best times were those of childhood, and we're just trying to catch a glimpse of them while we 're getting through our days.
Such an amazing story teller.
WW2 anti-aircraft guns at batting practice .... never heard that on ARLISS
The story about how you used to be able to hear the tick of the traffic light from the street is so beautifully bittersweet & nostalgic
Agreed. To remember that he really must have been dialed in on his reminiscences.
And the "click" of a Polaroid camera, when taking naughty photos.
@@jacksprat2178 You are an idiot.
I just loved that ...I could listen to Mr. Allen talk about anything for hours!
COULD YOU LISTEN TO HIM GO ON FOR HOURS ABOUT MOLESTING CHILDREN???
@@hankrogers8431 He is innocent, he even did the truth machine test twice and proved innocent. In addition his son Moses said his mother (Mia Farrow) manipulated her daughter Dilan to put her against her father.
@@hankrogers8431 Debbie Downer shows up.
@Pesky Echo Nope
@Pesky Echo
No it is not. There is evidence (such as the testimony of Moses Farrow) that the allegations made by Farrow are unfounded and false. I suggest you read this, it's an article that was written as an answer to another article: medium.com/@levine2001/the-woody-allen-controversy-reader-why-maureen-orths-10-undeniable-facts-about-the-woody-allen-5f26791c15a0
Unfortunately in Hollywood (as indeed all over the world) there are really bad people from the human point of view, but to accuse an innocent person makes no sense (and it is not the internet that decides whether a person is innocent or guilty, but the evidence presented in a court). Furthermore, Allen is even innocent even in the test of the truth machine. (as I wrote in the previous comment)
What a beautiful, gentle person Mr Allen is! 100% genuine and sincere. I could watch and listen to him all day long, talking about anything. Soon Yi is such a lucky girl!
And Mia Farrow is a despicable one
I enjoyed Mr. Allen's trip back to Brooklyn greatly. Like him, it was my old neighborhood too. I lived one block away on Avenue K at 1302. All the stories he told, I relate as well since I lived them as he did.
“I still wake up thankful that I don’t have to return”
Every single time I walk by my old high school
Ha... mines 2 miles away left it 8-5-70 a day after turning 18 really disliked the imprisonment of school all the way thru.
In the 3rd grade, I stopped doing homework until college anxiety got me to start doing homework, barely, in the 11th grade. My grades were Cs and Ds. Wasn't til my 40's that a friend figured out I had ADD. Miserable in school. College was different. I had coffee and became a caffeine achiever. After 2 years of top grades, I transferred to a top University and went on to get a Master's. But, those days in elementary seemed interminable!
Well, I am more than sure that Mia is more than happy that he doesn't have to return to her home, also.
@@skineyemin4276 You mean "I was schtüping Ole Blue Eyes and deflecting guilt by making false accusations to gain advantage in a child custody case" Mia?
@@zyrrhos I'm sorry. No..., I actually meant, the guy who was proabably eyeing Mia's adopted daughter {and his stepdaughter now wife} since she was possibly 10, 12 years old during the filming of "Hannah and Her Sisters" while probably having daily fantasy woodies for her before and after that filming, Woody. That's what I meant. I should have been more clear. FOH.
now that Heywood Allen is 85 years old in 2021 this reflection of the past is our touch stone to people and places that don't exist anymore
Allan Konigsberg.
I’ve loved Woody’s movies ever since I saw my first one which was “Play It Again, Sam” back in the early 70’s.
My two favorite movies of his were “Annie Hall” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors”.
Annie Hall had so many classically funny scenes, for example the one where Alvy and Annie run into each other at the tennis club after their doubles game (“La de dah, La de dah, la la”) and the scene where Annie’s brother Duane, played by Christopher Walken, confesses to Alvy his desire to crash his car into into an oncoming car. I nearly died laughing at that one.
Classic staff that has held up well over the years.
Great tour of Brooklyn and of your memories Woody! You are the best!
long live BROOKLYN NY 1940's and 50's....thanks woody for the tour. many greats from that neighborhood including my mom!
my family arrived from cuba in 1961 and we planted ourselves in brooklyn.we lived on butler st. by atlantic ave. then we moved to ft.hamilton pkwy. from there we settled on parkside ave. next to caledonian hospital(now gone).my mom and dad both worked at the hospital.i went to the caton school(p.s. 249) and the holy innocents grammer school.we left in 71 and moved to jersey,i now live in florida but whenever i talk to someone they can definetly hear my "brooklyn" accent! this bourogh has never left me....
Watched a podcast interview of him from the last few months. He’s aged so much 10 years. We should all wish him a long life.
Both his parents lived very long lives; I wouldn’t be surprised if Woody reaches 100. He’s now… 87? And last I knew, still has a sharp mind.
So happy he did this and agreed to film it.
Never forgot his roots - I find this video relaxing and engaging
I am almost a contemporary of Allen Konigsberg (Woody Allen), being 7 years younger, and can add quite a bit to this. I grew up in the same neighborhood (Ave K and E 11th-12th St), was bar mitzvahed in the same synagogue (Talmud Torah of Flatbush), went to the same K-12 (P.S. 99), and hung out on Ave J and Coney Island Ave. So we both enjoyed the pizza, charlotte russes, Brooklyn Dodgers, appetizers, chinese food (especially Joy Fong) and everything else that great neighborhood had to offer. The neighborhood bully at my time was Junior (Genaro) Sirico, who later achieved fame as Paulie Wallnuts on The Sopranos.
He was a bit typecast then? 😄
Did you have run ins with him?
@Dave Wray When I was 12 or 13 I was hanging out in the North courtyard of PS 99 when a group of kids led by Junior Sirico came into the courtyard and approached me. Junior wanted me to fight his younger brother Carmine, as he had heard that I had said that Carmine was only pretending to be tough because he had his older brother to support him. I talked my way out of a fight somehow and remember not being upset by this confontation. I guess that was the first incident where I displaced some negotiating skills. Carmine eventually became a Catholic priest.
Rich B - judging by Sirico’s Wikipedia bio, your memory is good. He’s been arrested 28 times, and ultimately spent 20 months (not his full sentence) in Sing Sing for extorsion, coercion, and felony weapons possession. He was trouble all right!
I also grew up in Brooklyn in the early 50's, but moved to NJ where I was bar mitzvaed. It was Coney Island for me, practically living on the boardwalk. Now the block where I lived is Woody Guthrie Ave?
Did you know
Roy Karchmer? (Later, went by the name Karch)
I think he had an older brother, Les. Pretty sure he lived around there. He was my friend and he died and I miss him.
god i love this man. Hes made me and my dad laugh so hard growing up watching his movies. Especially tale the money and run. Even his little “i hated bicycles” statement in the beginning of this made me die laughing.
I am proud that I adore Woody Allen.
I’ve walked around some of those streets in Brooklyn around Avenue J where he grew up. It’s a nice area. Maybe not the most exciting part of the city but it’s relatively quiet
I just love Woody Allen xxx
I miss Brooklyn. It will always have my heart.
There is an authenticity to Woody that I really like, he seems totally detached from the arrogant, self-important Hollyweird types. Never caught up in fame and vanity, he sounds just like an average guy to me.
now go say that to dylan.....
@Nobby Barnes Relax buddy... he's just sharing an innocuous opinion and you've mad a mountain out of a molehill.
and yet, he's remarkable. Neil Diamond's like that too & so is Michael Caine.
@@chadbailey8152 Little girl? She was 22.
If anything, he seems rather under confident.
I grew up very close to Midwood , and would travel to Kings Highway to go to the music stores in the very late 60s . Mr. Woody Allen is a very complex man . One with human contradictions , however this documentary fills me with such nostalgia . It leaves me with one out come . Beautiful . Simply beautiful .
Love these little "insider" memories, like how the neighborhood used to be so quiet, Woody could heart the *click* noise in his bedroom, from when the traffic light changed from red to green down the street.
I find this absolutely charming. I was born just before they tore Ebbitts Field down. And I lived on Lefferts and Washington. I live outside of London in the UK now. But Woody sounds like home. My mum was his contemporary. For me, this was very warming. Thank you for making the effort. PrincessBitcoin
woody talks fondly about flatbush and yet he prefers no bush 😏 allegedly
Absolute creep
The man is a national fucking treasure!
Brooklyn is as it was, an absolute wonderful place to live and grow up. Its is as an Italian would say, a place that makes your bones.
Always love & admire Woody Allen's work not only as filmmaker also comedian, he's natural gifted man.
This is awesome! I love Woody Allen and his movies 💖💖💖
I wish his movies were on Criterion, imagine Annie Hall and Manhattan, his two masterpieces.
When he talks about religion and the school he went to, I can intimately relate to his feelings because I felt the exact same way. The difference being I was raised Catholic. Woody and I could sit down and probably talk for hours about the mental punishment we had to endure.
Difference between jews and Catholics? Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics learn it in Sunday school.
Fantastic...thank you so much for posting!
I can watch this forever .. love you. Woody .. the guy in the end has the same sarcastic humour as Woody 😂
Woody our families knew each other very well back when you were born on for many years. My dads aunts the Olshefskis at 1469 east 15th and my moms family Gertude and Abe Barach and my mom Sara Barach in Midwood whom you both went to school together at Midwood high. I have pictures of Woodys dad with my aunts hanging out in Smiths bar in the Bowery. My Dads parents were Annie and Stanly Baginski. I know from my parents your mom and dad and our family were very close friends. I am Saras son and still live here in Brooklyn in the Bensonhurst Midwood section
@Gender Fluid Person In Hotdog Suit Gender Fluid... AKA Idiot that pretends to be edgy on the internet for attention.
Does he honestly think woody allen is gonna see this?
RLeezyDeezy
Do you think movie makers do not read commets?
Any celebrity reads internet comments 80% of their day time.
They pretend not to do that just for you to have them up there.
They look aaaalll the time how they reflect on society.
Wow! That's so cool!
@Gender Fluid Person In Hotdog Suit Beauty! LOL… 👍
It will be a sad day when this guy passes from time to eternity.
Wow. Woody lived only a few blocks from me and my family on e 21st My Dad knew all the comedians like Mel Brooks in his early days who came to our place for dinner all the time..... I wonder if he knew Woody too although Woody would have been 14 years younger than my Dad and just starting out in comedy My Dad went to see his frienfs in conedy clubs all the time. I shall have to ask my Mom. She did say yes and woidy had a different name then.
Woody probably went to all the same places we did. like Keys chinese or the corner pizza place. Prospect park. He probably went or knew of my family owned Klink dry cleaners and liquorr stores we had .too. Funny.I always loved Woodys Movies kinda felt familar somehow.
I just looked it up and found my old apartment wasnt really that super close to his home but close enough
Soo lucky! Thanks for sharing 🙏 ♥️
Brooklyn has changed dramatically since his day, many neighborhoods are extremely expensive and gentrification is forcing middle class out. Downtown BROOKLYN is growing too. Lots of skyscrapers popping up.
Yes. I live in California and visited Brooklyn. It changed a lot and not in a good way.
Fantastic. I felt like he was taking me on a tour of my old neighborhood in Queens.
Way to go, Allen !! The best is yet to come.
I love the revisit of his stomping grounds. Growing up in a major city like NY, Chicago or L.A, is a remarkable experience in the time when kids played outside and had that independence. Amazing, Enjoyed. Ty.
I've heard so many troubling things about Woody, but I still acknowledge his talent and always interesting personality. Thanks for the video.
I feel the sense of community has all but gone. You never see kids playing in the streets or neighbors knowing each other and playing cards on the corner.
Multiculturalism.
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Try visiting the local synagogues sometime. They are full on Shabbat with folks joyfully celebrating in their community. Oh yeah, I forgot, to Woody types religion is primitive and naive. Except in truth Judaism is the bedrock of civilization. You would not want to be alive today if G-d had not given the Torah to Moses on Sinai. You would likely be a Roman, slaughtering innocents. But isn't that exactly what happened in the 20th Century when Europeans went in for Godless communism and fascism? Perhaps this is your thing? Or maybe that of your child or grandchildren? But why should you care about the future? We all will just die anyway. Why not live for our own happiness and pleasure and let future generations slide into whatever barbarism they choose?
Allen Moses
What a self serving rant!!!
Allen Moses: You have your fables; other groups have theirs. Some of us don't believe in the literal truth of any of those fables. That does not make us less moral than you, or less concerned about the future. Your self-serving, condescending sanctimony is a quality all too common in religious zealots, and a major reason why religion overall is declining in Western society. As for Judaism, its current public face is that of Benjamin Netanyahu, a right-wing political hack whose best buddy among heads of state is none other than Donald Trump, that paragon of selflessness and concern for future generations.
Its amazing How woody recalls all the incidents at every corner where he stepped.
That would be awesome running into Woody Allen in New York. You'd half expect to hear some lively jazz music in the background.
this is gold, would have liked if he went inside or interacted with locals thanks for this
Thanks for the memories!
The guy at the end. Haha. Everybody is a comedian.
A real Schmo
Seeing NYC, Brooklyn, the Bronx through Woody Allen's eyes has always been a deeply-felt pleasure. The opening shots of 'Manhattan' , alone.💗
So, watched his films all my life.I was in my 20's then, for most of them. Stuck in NoWhere, Texas. Dreaming of visiting NYC, someday. All those scenes he showed me, all those songs he connected to NYC ... I finally made the trip to NYC when I turned 65. Walking those same streets he walked, so fulfilling! And I just want to say: Thank You, Mr. Woody Allen, for making me love NYC before I ever got there.
I am addicted to woody Allen movies I realize this was from 2001 but he is sharp as a tack and so brilliant
@@hankrogers8431 He is innocent, he even did the truth machine test twice and proved innocent. In addition his son Moses said his mother (Mia Farrow) manipulated her daughter Dilan to put her against her father.
@@hankrogers8431 Go fuck yourself, you illinformed cretin!
ulfingvar1 you must like underaged girls too
@@buildingbuildercip8292 No, but I like to disintegrate prejudiced asshole like you
@@buildingbuildercip8292
Please get a life of your own.
That was awesome, i really enjoyed it , thank you
The image of Woody Allen on roller-skates!!! 😂😂😂
Right? 😂
Says he hated bikes, but he roller-skated.
I get the impression he had a happy childhood with loving supporting relatives who were well off. It's not as if he struggled to survive in a ghetto living in poverty or had anyone physically abuse him. He just hated school because the teachers were mean to him.
well thats an oversimplification. for creative minds school can feel like a prison. dont make assumptions about other people's experiences if you havent lived in their shoes
He's also joking a bit. It's his cynical wry humor. Obviously not all of it was bad. Intelligent creative people are against the norms and the shams but they find their own positive outlook on life to thrive on.
Very much so.
Although physical abuse for children and harsh teachers was everyday back then.
How about sexual and psychological abuse of stepdaughters?
@Barrier Boy , so you want them to be like blacc people who are 70% grow up in single-mother households????
god watching this just makes me envy his memories and stories i wish my life was as exciting and cool as his in that time
His work resonates with me and candled a fire that I didnt knew I had. One of a kind artist.
Loved it. He really painted pictures of his childhood and Brooklyn. No wonder he had so many stories to tell in his movies. ~ I also really like the last scene with the bearded guy and the scarf standing in front of Woody Allen's childhood home.
Kids don't grow up like this now. The 80s and the 90s were the last time kids hung out and did stuff similar to this, which was my time. This was when there weren't too many ways you could be entertained, so had to go out. Today kids are glued to their TV and Video games. Kids are mostly indoors on their phones or Ipads... lol In the future no one will ever leave home due to virtual reality.
Woody, we thank you and appreciate you and we adore you more and more always. You are the wild, wise, insight that is found nowhere else, and we toast to your greatness, always. Such a magical tour.
Bittersweet memories for Mr. Allen. I enjoyed it very much.
He looks and sounds great. Really good memory, too.
Fantastic to see this, such a legend! I'll be watching Sleeper later!
A wonderful tour and a lovely documentation of growing up in that particular neighborhood. The wisecrack at the end is something you would have expected in one of his movies.
😆 Yes!
I think it's great they left that in. Most celebrities would have wanted it cut out bc of their fragile egos.
so cool seeing all these great old buildings and nice neighborhoods. thanks Woody.😁
I was born in 73 and raised in sheepshead bay and although it was a different part of Brooklyn, the landscape of Woody’s neighborhood in the 40’s seems very similar to what remember.
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I think Woody looks great.
This is ten years later
If we have all given up the things we love
I can see Woody getting to way over ninety ,it’s the new interest that happens
to be there
But what do I know from England
This has perked me up
Manhattan really helped me after I did the same with my first sweet heart
It’s tough in life
Best wishes
Loved this footage
Thank you
Very nice video. I like the pacing. It's got a quiet, gentle and serene quality to it. Sometimes I come across mostly young people speaking so fast, cramming meaningless fact after fact in a 5 minute video, and even editing out pauzes between sentences. You get so nervous and angry. Time is money, I guess. Anyway, a welcome surprise. Thank you.
HILARIOUS interaction between Woody and Mom at 5:15, I mean really really funny. In this 3-5 second
exchange you know EVERYTHING you need to know between The Woodman and Mom.
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Thanks for taking us back. I also remember the click of the relays in the traffic light boxes on a quiet night, especially on a snowy night. We had our Jr. High graduation at the Kingsway theater.
I loved the ringing endorsement of the elementary school he attended.
I really loved this tour- I have never been thru but only passed by!🙂
Wow -- never knew he was from right around there. I've been to the stop many times -- always to go to DiFara, the pizza place seen at 2:38. It's the best pizza I've ever had. I'd come down from Manhattan just for the pie.
To clarify, I've never lived in NYC but I've been there about 16 times. It's my favorite city in the world.
Fascinating look at Woody’s childhood neighborhood. Like the town I grew up in, lots of things have changed for better or worse. Thanks for posting this.
Very nice nostalgic tour of the old neighborhood. I spent most of my NYC years in Astoria, Queens. I didn't like the high school I went to. Lots of good memories in the neighborhood though. The old brownstones with the stoops and sitting outside sometimes. I miss old New York as I'm sure Woody does. His time goes back a little more than mine. My dad used to tell me stories of carrying a pitcher of beer from the neighborhood bar and returning the empty pitcher on trust. They didn't have much but they kept everything spotless. I've kept up with changes now in Astoria and it cost an arm and a leg for a small space to rent. Some changes for the better maybe. Time marches on.
Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man......
Love ya Woody!!
Paul Catania HIS VOICE IS SO DIFFERENT TODAY WOW
I STILL PAY 40 DOLLARS A MONTH I NEVER MOVED
@@xmuta No, he isn't.
JayPee Vee: How old was Soon Yi when Woody was snapping those naked pics of her?
@@Daberney Soon Yi was 22, according to Wikipedia (just looked it up), but no way I know how to prove the age of the pictures. I take no stand either way regarding if Allen was having sex with her before or after she was of age, or if he did anything untoward with any other of the kids, either as adults or children. The only evidence I’ve seen is the accusation by Mia, and a son who believes her, though at the time of alleged molestation, he wasn’t clear himself. Unfortunately, there’s nothing to definitely say one way or the other. It’s uncomforting when there’s no closure, but it is what it is. Personally, I think it’s foolish and repugnant to take any side either way if one doesn’t have a verdict (we don’t) or personal knowledge.
My father and I drove a guy Max Essex back to New York City to pick up his
sister she lived in Flabush Avvna some old apartment building some neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Max was an old guy it was the 1960's he had not been there many years was excited talking about
places he knew growing up, these old bridges, these toll bridges he said there is the nickel bridge toll was a nickel when I was a kid, etc.
like in the 20's or something we were driving around at night he could not see well but his stories from memory were fascinating. He was very excited, almost passing out from talking!
He had a lot of trouble finding her apartment building, oh it's down that street, no , that way, that way, this has changed, I don't know , go down that street, oh there's the park, all this maze of searching. He said oh look, there it is , I know this place ! I remember now !
We picked his sister up, she didn't talk much, she was upset we were there so late and was little afraid , she had never been out of the city. I could not get that. She never had a car had her places to shop. Her friends, her neighborhood.
That's it.
Adorable to hear him say "candy store" as that's the mid-20th century NYCity word for a little mini-market.
The effervescent background music lets me know this was pieced together in the same vein as his recent biography which I found to be fascinating. A two part program that moves along at a pleasant pace and gives some insight into woody's life. The scene About his antique typewriter was priceless.
Oh that was sweet.
I grew up in the same neighborhood as Woody, I can relate to this video.
The talented Woody Allen is Avery good observer.Good childhood memories helped him make great movies.
When he said he hated going to Gran & Grandpa's house, his sister's reaction was like a character from one of his films.
Also I could see how she didn't get him, and saw in him things she didn't approve of. Made me feel alone in this world. We are all misunderstood.
That’s his mother not his sister
woody allen revisits 1970's brooklyn everytime he makes a film!
I am really amazed how nice Brooklyn looks again
Glinkling Smearnops haha what the hell does that mean... I highly doubt you could afford to live in the nicer 50% of Brooklyn. I probably can’t.
@Glinkling Smearnops The duplex house he was pointing out is now about $1 million for half of the building. The single family houses earlier in the video are well over $1 million.
OMG I feel the same way about school, didn`t expect that of Mr. Allen ha ha. An amazing man
"Everyone's a Comedian, Take 127". Older dude at 21:09 when told Woody Allen once lived in this gent's present neighborhood. "Now the house is worth a little LESS," he jokes - proud of himself for his own ability to go into "Woody-mode."
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At first i thought him to be Richard Dreyfus (or a relative....lol) but yeah, there's something to that NY- Jewish humor being in their genes.
Last nite, I and another Bronxite, described the wonderful world of stick ball to a non New Yorker. I preferred the schoolyard version where the two wings of the school, J.H.S. 82 created a "u"...one wall had the battery's box and base hits were based on which floor the ball hit with a grands lam resulting from the ball hitting the opposite wall and ricocheting back and hitting the other wall. As many as 5 games were played simultaneously. In the street version we would take the stick ball bat, a broomstick handle out of view when a police car drove by. Woody did not mention that football was also played in the street or "gutter" as we called it with 3 man teams facing each and routs were described as "go to the Chevy and go long"or "cut to the Buick." This was popular because we had no grass in the West Bronx.
PS 41 in Staten Island for us -- hundreds of games thousands of hours playing stickball growing up. Used Spauldings. Three-tier fence 150 feet away made for perfect homerun territory; off the fence was a double. My friend Jeff used to hit them over the trees that were on the other side of the fence. Before that played a little bit at PS 105 in Borough Park when I lived there.
Hey the things that he may or may not have done is private between the people and him: as far as public life goes he’s a freaking genius.
I remember the Kingsway theatre and I think I saw "Goldfinger" there in 1964.
Kenneth Wasser - Shut up you embittered fanatic.
You’re right - that sounds pretty embittered, but he doesn’t include the context which - I think - led him to be so vehement. Woody Allen forcefully emphasized up his dismissal of Judaism at an early age, that he knew it was a “sham,” sound like someone bragging about how cool he is, that he knew the score even as a kid. The filmmaker’s shot of his mother at that point is terrific - when she dismisses him with that look, he deserves it. He aspired mightily to live in the Upper East Side, then a fortress of rich WASPS, the kind he saw in films, and that meant dismissing Judaism. So what does he do - make films in which his character is obsessed with anti-Semitism and his own Jewishness.
Kings Highway /Coney Island Ave ..
SHUT DA DA FUCK UP
@@kennethwasser1362 🙄
Always loved Woody Allen.
Even though it's obviously more interesting being Woody-specific, I feel like you could take this sort of trip with any old person to where they grew up and it would be a fascinating time..
"The house is worth a little less"
LOL LOL!!
Idiotic comment. Agreed. Why would they leave that in? What a bunch of slimy, snakes.
It's Richard Dreyfuss, people. It's called schtick.
I didn't think I would live to see the day when he opened up so richly.
A better more communal time, when people knew and spoke to their neighbours, where all the other Mothers on your street knew you and your family, would tell you off for being bad, but soothe you when you were upset, when you played with the kids in your street, IN the street, where it was OK for you to cycle, or in Woody's case, skate off with your friends, no phones, they didn't know exactly where you'd gone, but didn't panic cos they knew you'd be back. That's my childhood too. I feel such a sense of loss for modern kids, they have more stuff but they are isolated, the past is a different country, aint it?
@Morags Dad Sorry, but that was not the case any more than today. No one talked about it or admitted it was happening.