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Article: Movies; The Apple of Their Eyes; Polished Woody Allen in `New York' Trilogy
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- The Washington Post
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- March 3, 1989
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"Oedipus Wrecks," the Woody Allen segment in the three-part
compilation film "New York Stories," is an exploration of every man's
horror of horrors. Delivered as a kind of psychoanalytic confession,
the film is a surrealistic comedy about emasculation-a modern fable
about a man's struggle to wiggle out of his diapers-and it's the
filmmaker's most substantial, most satisfying work since "Hannah and
Her Sisters."
"New York Stories" features episodes from Allen, Martin Scorsese
and Francis Coppola, but Allen's contribution is the only one that
can be counted as a genuine success. The story focuses on the life
problems of Sheldon Mills (Allen), a New York attorney who's a
functioning, ...