The Washington Post has a great interview with Woody Allen, though it seems to have dropped off their home page mere seconds after I spotted it. You can read it here. Yes, registration is required, sorry.

Match Point is one of the best films I’ve seen in the last year, but ironically, the loathesome Melinda and Melinda is playing on HBO as I type. With a film a year, Allen is pretty hit or miss. Sometimes he hits big, sometimes he fails big. Remember the one with Jason Biggs and Chrstina Ricci? Yeah, I don’t, either. But he made some of my favorite films of all time — namely Annie Hall, Manhattan, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Husbands and Wives. Of all of them, though, I think Manhattan is still the best. He’s probably one of America’s greatest living filmmakers, although most people remember him now for the bad movies, rather than the good ones. There’s still a contingent that adores his silly comedies, but I prefer it when he’s aping Ingmar Bergman.

But hey, Billy Wilder made bad movies, too. And people still rave about Some Like it Hot and the Apartment. But if quantity was king, objectively speaking, no one could rival Woody Allen for the top director spot.