A very clever contemplation on morality and faith, as Martin Landau decides to do away with his now inconvenient lover Angelica Huston - so A Place in the Sun again (and the post-murder guilt of course crops up in Cassandra's Dream). Confides to rabbi Sam Waterson, who's going blind under the eye of the "All Seeing God".
Woody handles murders so well. In this one it's just a knock on the door - "I got a delivery of flowers". That's it. His use of flashbacks is also quite distinctive.
Also, Woody and Mia on the trail of this great philosopher who despite years of positivism commits suicide! Whilst making a film about Alan Alda.
Lots of film references under the excuse of Woody taking his niece to the cinema - didn't get the Laid Cregar clip (it was This Gun For Hire) nor The Last Gangster (1937 Edward G. - I'd confidently predicted it was a Warner Bros film, but it was MGM!) nor Happy Go Lucky (Betty Hutton, not Grable).
Not the only time he got to work with Bergman's cinematographer Sven Nyvist. He'd also shot Another Woman and the Oedipus Wrecks section of New York Stories.
And yes - there is a scene in the rain!
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