Interiors

Director: Woody Allen Woody Allen

Overview

Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt play Renata, Flyn, and Joey, the grown daughters of wealthy Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and his emotionally disturbed wife, Eve (Geraldine Page). When Arthur leaves Eve, her three daughters rally around her. As it turns out, none of the daughters are ideally suited to provide an "anchor" for their distracted mother, but all four women are strengthened by their renewed relationship. Interiors received five Oscar nominations, including Best Director for Woody Allen, Best Original Screenplay for Allen, Best Actress for Geraldine Page, Best Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton (who plays Arthur's new love), and Best Art Direction for Mel Bourne and Daniel Robert.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/27/2022
UPC:	0850035985588
Original Release:	1978
Rating:	PG
Source:	Sandpiper Pictures

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kristin Griffith	Flynn
Mary Beth Hurt	Joey
Richard Jordan	Frederick
Diane Keaton	Renata
E.G. Marshall	Arthur
Geraldine Page	Eve
Maureen Stapleton	Pearl
Sam Waterston	Mike
Missy Hope	Young Joey
Kerry Duffy	Young Renata
Nancy Collins	Young Flynn
Penny Gaston	Young Eve
Roger Morden	Young Arthur
Henderson Forsythe	Judge Bartel

Technical Credits

Woody Allen

Woody Allen	Director,Screenwriter
Martin Berman	Asst. Director
Mel Bourne	Production Designer
Fern Buchner	Makeup
Robert Greenhut	Executive Producer
Jack Rollins	Producer
Charles H. Joffe	Producer
Daniel Robert	Set Decoration/Design
Ralph Rosenblum	Editor
Joel Schumacher	Costumes/Costume Designer
Gordon Willis	Cinematographer

Editorial Reviews

In the wake of his Oscar-winning breakthrough with Annie Hall (1977), and ahead of his melancholy Manhattan (1979), Woody Allen worked off his debt to Ingmar Bergman with this overtly "serious" film, a grim, beautifully shot exploration of family dysfunction. Allen's least funny movie, Interiors is also his most polarizing, dividing viewers who found it suffocatingly slow and pretentious from those who hailed Allen's leap forward as a serious art director. Influenced most immediately by the family chamber drama of Bergman's Cries and Whispers (1972), the film derives much of its power from the stunning cinematography of Gordon Willis, who had also shot the Godfather movies, and the art direction of Daniel Robert. For some observers, Allen learned the wrong lesson from the mainstream embrace of Annie Hall, and his lunge toward claustrophobic, self-satisfied, middlebrow art violated everything that he had ever mocked, right down to the straight-faced used of talking heads addressing the camera that he had lampooned in Take the Money and Run (1969). For others, Interiors only highlighted the underlying seriousness of Allen's movies, especially as he headed toward such classic comedy dramas as Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). In light of those later movies, Interiors looks better than it did at the time, holding up surprisingly well on its own terms as an incisive Chekhovian drama of a ruined family, featuring a gallery of unforgettable performances from such stalwarts as E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, and Maureen Stapleton.

All Movie Guide - Leo Charney