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	Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
		SAL functions as a "biography" of fictional jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn).
		SAL takes place in the 1930s, and the acting seems designed to match the style of movies in that era.
		Sweet and Lowdown appears in both its original theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen edition on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the letterboxed image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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	Sweet and Lowdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 film which tells the story of an arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitar ist named Emmett Ray who may just be the best guitarist in the world.
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	Salon Movie Review \| "Sweet and Lowdown"
		"Sweet and Lowdown" is undeniably pleasant, but British actress Samantha Morton quietly explodes it: Her performance is like nothing I've seen in recent years.
		If you were to break Allen's career down into individual five-year rotations, "Sweet and Lowdown" would represent a sunny spot in the latest cycle, especially after the facile and bitterly misogynist "Celebrity" (1998) and the depressingly retrograde sexual politics of "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995).
		"Sweet and Lowdown" follows the career of fictional '30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), a professional who's cocksure of his own brilliance except when the subject of Django Reinhardt comes up: Then he turns to jelly, knowing that he's simply no match.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/12/03/lowdown/print.html (1422 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Sweet and Lowdown is a hilarious and original comedy.
		Sweet and Lowdown is a funny movie with outstanding performances by Sean Penn and Samantha Morton.
		Sweet and Lowdown accomplishes its task, which is to entertain you with laughter.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/s/sweetandlowdown.htm (517 words)

	SWEET AND LOWDOWN movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		But Sweet and Lowdown has a double meaning, because Emmet Ray is not the easiest guy to understand.
		Sweet and Lowdown raises thought-provoking questions about how much ill-mannered behavior should be accepted from a person who can create memorable art.
		Sweet and Lowdown is among the more bittersweet of Allen's works.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/s/sweeta.html (635 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Lowdown profiles Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), a vulgarian egomaniac who plays guitar with unbelievable technical skill, but lacks the ability to hit the emotional chords of his hero, Django Reinhardt.
		Allen's love of jazz, so self-indulgently explored in the documentary Wild Man Blues, fuses perfectly in Sweet and Lowdown with his nostalgia for the New York of gangsters and night clubs, of two-bit hustlers and wise-cracking dames.
		Sweet and Lowdown's payoffs are small but satisfying, which is a praise and a criticism that could be leveled at much of Allen's mature work.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=128230 (926 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown, woody allen,sean penn, film, recensie, filmrecensie, recensies, kritiek, review
		Gelukkig wordt Sweet and Lowdown hier wel gewoon uitgebracht, hoewel de volgende Allen in deVerenigde Staten alweer is gearriveerd.
		Sweet and Lowdown is een twijfelgeval, want Allen is slechts sporadisch in beeld in een schijnbaar passieve rol.
		Sweet and Lowdown wordt verteld als een aantal aanelkaar geknoopte anekdotes.
	www.vwlepaulski.com /29sweet.html (1305 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Sweet And Lowdown
		In Sweet and Lowdown, Allen had the good sense to cast Sean Penn as his flawed but brilliant lead character.
		With Sweet And Lowdown, Woody Allen is in one of his sentimental moods.
		First off, Sweet And Lowdown is a Woody Allen film and that is going to turn some people away right there.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/sweetlowdown.php (1461 words)

	`Sweet and Lowdown': Faithful to the Love of His Life -- Hot 30's Jazz
		N "Sweet and Lowdown," the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, Sean Penn plays Emmet Ray, a fictional jazz guitarist of the early 1930's whose neurosis is unlike that of any previous Woody Allen hero.
		In a way, Alden is the real star of "Sweet and Lowdown," along with the pianist Dick Hyman, a longtime Allen associate who wrote the bracing and idiomatically accurate arrangements of the standards we hear Emmet Ray playing with his small group.
		If "Sweet and Lowdown" is more light-hearted than Allen's other recent films, this is because he finds much less to dislike about the 1930's than about his own day.
	www.westga.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind9912&L=woody-l&P=8165&E=0&B=--------------950228664865B8ED24E870A3&N=120599sweet-film.html&T=text%2Fhtml (1291 words)

	Review: Sweet and Lowdown
		Sweet and Lowdown is the second consecutive movie in which the director has not played the protagonist.
		Sweet and Lowdown is more dramatic than Allen's most recent few films, but the comedic element is still very much in evidence.
		Sweet and Lowdown is arguably the least ambitious and most atypical entry into Allen's '90s canon.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/s/sweet_lowdown.html (730 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [SWEET AND LOWDOWN Film Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		A departure for Woody Allen, "Sweet and Lowdown" is actually based on a true story, that of Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), widely considered the second-best guitarist in the world in the '30s, after the legendary Django Reinhardt.
		"Sweet and Lowdown" is a staid, chaste film, which even sanitizes the druggy aspect of the jazz milieu.
		Granted, "Sweet and Lowdown" isn't as unfocused or bilious as recent Allen movies, but it's still pretty mundane.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/fiw.dll?GetReview?&where=ID&terms=4580 (270 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown Reviews
		'Sweet and Lowdown' is one of those films from a cinematic genius where you don't need the credits to tell you who's directing it.
		SWEET AND LOWDOWN (director/writer:Woody Allen; cinematographer: Zhao Fei; cast: Sean Penn (Emmet Ray), Samantha Morton (Hattie), Uma Thurman (Blanche), Anthony LaPaglia (Al Torrio), Brian Markinson (Bill Shields), Gretchen Mol (Ellie), Vincent...
		SWEET AND LOWDOWN, written and directed by Woody Allen, tells the story of Emmett Ray, the world's second greatest jazz guitarist.
	www.killermovies.com /s/sweetandlowdown/reviews (486 words)

	Dual Lens - Sweet And Lowdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		The concept of a fake documentary is not unique, but unlike other comedies that use documentary devices, Sweet and Lowdown plays the documentary parts of the film straight.
		Sweet and Lowdown is similarly loose, jumping through Emmet’s life.
		Sweet and Lowdown stands out from the others because it has a clever narrative structure and rich set of characters his more conventional films have been missing.
	www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewId=111903 (977 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown
		When Emmet is not with her—and given the outrageous coarseness with which he speaks to and interprets her, it is inexplicable why she allows the relationship to develop—the activity in which we most often perceive Hattie is the ceaseless, day-long consumption of desserts.
		The night before I saw Sweet and Lowdown, I watched Allen's stellar 1989 morality parable Crimes and Misdemeanors, which spoke with frankness, imagination, and wholeness of vision about similar themes to those which are treated with so little sincerity or force in the newer film.
		Allen ends Sweet and Lowdown with the same gesture that concluded his last two pictures: a scene of the self-flagellating artist, himself unconvinced of his enduring abilities.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /sweetlow.html (1028 words)

	Review: Sweet and Lowdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		Sweet and Lowdown is the second consecutive movie in which the director has not played the protagonist.
		It was perhaps only a matter of time before the writer/director brought this element into a film, and Sweet and Lowdown gives him the opportunity to showcase his passion by honoring an obscure fictional '30s jazz guitarist by the name of Emmet Ray (Penn).
		As essayed by Penn, Ray is a brilliant but egotistical and erratic artist whose personality traits included an inferiority complex to a French gypsy guitarist named Django Reinhardt, a mild case of kleptomania, and a tendency to show up "late, drunk, or not at all" for shows.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/sweet_lowdown.html (730 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		Though many of Allen's trademarks appear (music, one-liners, sight gags), without the presence of the nebbish, Woody-like protagonist, Sweet and Lowdown is both an enjoyable film for Woody's fans, and a great film for those who claim not to like his pictures.
		Structured in an almost docu-drama manner (a la Zelig), Sweet and Lowdown tells us the fictional story of Emmett Ray, the second greatest guitar player in the world.
		Sweet and Lowdown never sets out to be a virtuoso work of film, it is content to merely be entertaining and engaging.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Club/9542/sweet.html (572 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sweet And Lowdown [2000]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-16)
		Woody Allen makes beautiful music but only fitful comedy in Sweet and Lowdown the story of "the second greatest guitar player in the world." Sean Penn plays Emmett Ray, an irresponsible, womanising swing guitar player in Depression-era America who is guided by an ego almost as large as his talent.
		Samantha Morton almost steals the film as his mute girlfriend Hattie, a sweet Chaplinesque waif who loves him unconditionally, and Uma Thurman brings haughty vigour to her role as a slumming socialite and aspiring writer who's forever analysing Emmett's peculiarities (like taking his dates to shoot rats at the city dump).
		Sweet and Lowdown is Woody Allen's biography of Emmett Ray, a brilliant yet thoroughly unpleasant jazz guitarist.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050GPQ (1139 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown Movie: Sweet and Lowdown DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Sweet and Lowdown Movie: Sweet and Lowdown DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly.
		Morton steals the show as Ray's silently suffering wife in a breakout role that should elevate her to the forefront of Hollywood actresses.
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	Metroactive Movies \| 'Sweet and Lowdown'
		Only a few sequences in Sweet and Lowdown show the cunning that would keep a musician like Ray alive, as in a scene in which the guitarist snakes the first prize at a rural talent show by disguising himself as a hayseed.
		The source for Sweet and Lowdown is the music of Django Reinhardt, the phenomenal Gypsy/French guitarist, who was--it's a shock to realize as you listen to his phenomenal playing--missing a couple of fingers because of a childhood accident.
		Sweet and Lowdown (R; 95 min.), directed by written by Woody Allen, photographed by Zhao Fei and starring Sean Penn, Uma Thurman and Samantha Morton, plays at the Los Gatos Cinema and Palo Alto Square.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.23.99/sweetandlowdown-9951.html (1367 words)

	Woody Allen - Sweet and Lowdown
		Sweet and Lowdown tells the story of Emmet Ray, "the world's second greatest guitar player who ever lived." Emmet Ray is introduced at the beginning of the film by Woody Allen, amongst others, who confesses he has always been a huge fan of Ray's work and persona.
		Samantha Morton almost steals the film as his mute girlfriend Hattie, a sweet Chaplinesque waif who loves him unconditionally, and Uma Thurman brings haughty moxie to her role as a slumming socialite and aspiring writer who's forever analyzing Emmet's peculiarities (like taking his dates to shoot rats at the city dump).
		The vignettelike tales are interspersed with comments by jazz aficionados and critics, but this is less a Zelig-like mockumentary than an extension of the self-absorbed portraits of Deconstructing Harry and Celebrity.
	www.woodyallenmovies.com /movies/sweetandlowdown.htm (445 words)

	SWEET AND LOWDOWN/ ***1/2
		Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" is such a good little movie because it knows that.
		Ray is an unlikely protagonist for a Woody Allen movie, and so although its humour is not broad or benign, "Sweet and Lowdown" has a more accessible appeal than most of the man's work.
		The emotional content of "Sweet and Lowdown" is only strong in parts, though; generally it doesn't have the force of Allen's masterpieces, like "Hannah and Her Sisters" or "Crimes and Misdemeanors".
	www.ukcritic.com /sweetandlowdown.html (459 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| News \| SWEET AND LOWDOWN
		Consider this: Sweet and Lowdown is his third film since his breakup with Mia Farrow to revolve around the theme of The Artist as Immoral Schmuck.
		Sweet and Lowdown falls somewhere in the upper-middle rank of Allen's films: No, it's not Manhattan or Purple Rose of Cairo or even Bullets Over Broadway, but it is engaging, touching, and frequently funny.
		Maybe because his hero is inarticulate and his heroine is mute, Allen relies far more than usual on physical comedy than on the verbal jokes that are his strongest comic suit.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2000-01-19/film2.html (716 words)

	Movie Review: 'Sweet and Lowdown'
		Woody's 'Sweet and Lowdown' is a modest little character study
		"Sweet and Lowdown," now at the Regent Square theater, is the first Woody Allen film in the past decade (since "Alice") in which neither the director nor his obvious surrogate appears as a central character.
		"Sweet and Lowdown" recalls several past Allen films, including "Zelig," another faux documentary; "Take the Money and Run," largely for a comic scene involving a botched robbery; and "Bullets Over Broadway" for the use of colorful gangsters -- in "Sweet and Lowdown," Anthony LaPaglia plays the key hood.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000303sweet4.asp (604 words)

	Woody Allen Back on Track With `Sweet and Lowdown'
		``Sweet and Lowdown,'' which opens today, is the best reason in years to reconsider him.
		I loved watching Penn in ``Sweet and Lowdown,'' particularly in his scenes with Samantha Morton, a British actress who plays one of Emmet's neglected girlfriends, the mute and waiflike Hattie.
		Morton gives ``Sweet and Lowdown'' its heart, and yet there's nothing simplistic or condescending in her performance.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/12/22/DD39357.DTL (659 words)

	Sweet and Lowdown
		Sweet and Lowdown takes place in the 1930's when its main character is at his peak as a musician.
		Lowdown brews sweetly as Emmet sees the error of his ways with Hattie.
		The well placed, sagacious picture shows the lowdown ways of Penn never far off key as his first collaboration with Allen rings true of a man who lives for his music.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/sweetandlowdown.htm (412 words)

	Film Review - Sweet and Lowdown
		In Sweet and Lowdown Woody's back to more classic form, thanks primarily to the phenomenal acting of Sean Penn, still a most underrated actor.
		Sweet and Lowdown is about the complete self-absorption and fear behind Emett's braggadocio.
		Sweet and Lowdown ends up an affectionate portrait of a neurotic artist who puts career and work first and fails at intimate relationships.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/sweetand.html (297 words)

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