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Sony Pictures Classics just held a press screening for Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen. As a result, reactions and reviews are coming in through twitter – and they are overwhelmingly positive. Most of the postivity is around Cate Blanchett‘s performance. But the overall film seems to be a winner, with Sally Hawkins […]
Some news bits coming in from the countries that are releasing Blue Jasmine, the Woody Allen film, shortly after the US. More pictures, reviews and trailers coming through. Romanian site CinemaRX has heaps of new photos. We assume they are from the Romanian distributor who are releasing the film there on 30th August. The new […]
We haven’t been able to get our hands on it, but Nice-Matin have an exclusive new interview with Woody Allen. Their website has been promoting it, but if anyone can send us the full interview, we would much appreciated. The French newspaper covers the territory that Woody Allen, Emma Stone and Colin Firth are calling […]
Big news for us this week was the confirmed offer of money from Sweden for Woody Allen to make a film there. Allen has deep affection for Sweden and it’s film history, in particular the works of Ingmar Bergman. We have previously posted one interview with Allen about Bergman for UK TV. This one, from […]
We are now three weeks out from the premiere of Blue Jasmine, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. This week we have a couple more images, outtakes from the recent Wall Street Journal article and a chance to see the film early in Toronto. The film, starring Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, is […]
Hollywood Ending, and this period of Woody Allen’s career, is widely regarded as a low point. Another light comedy, Allen returns to Hollywood’s abuse of art as a victim of his barbed wit. Unfortunately it’s a joke that drags on for too long, although it’s peppered with many good moments. Woody Allen stars as Val […]
The last decade of Woody Allen’s career has been marked by location. His embracing of Europe and her cities have breathed new life into his films. This leads to many cities wanting to draw Allen to them. In a new report from Sweden, they are the closest having made an offer to the director. News […]
Production starts next week on Woody Allen’s 2014 film – a 1920s comedy set in the south of France. As expected, we got a big cast update today, with five more names added to the cast. Announced today are: Eileen Atkins is a mainstay of British TV and Cinema. Her recent credits include Ridley Scott‘s […]
Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen, opens in just over three weeks in the US. We now have more official images, including a poster from Sweden. Plus more positive chatter coming in from social media and a Hong Kong release date. Firstly, the official site has updated it’s gallery, adding five new photos we have […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits around the web. We were sad to hear of the passing of James Gandolfini this month. We loved him in ‘The Sopranos‘ and dozens of film roles. Amongst our faves – his starring role in John Turturro‘s ‘Romance And Cigarettes‘, his vulnerable voice performance in Spike […]
We recently added a new section of the site – Albums. Over the course of however long we run this site, we will continue to add to it. We’ve started with Allen’s three classic stand up albums from the 60s – Woody Allen, Woody Allen Volume 2 and The Third Woody Allen Album. We will […]
Briefly – Sony Pictures Classics has released another new image from Blue Jasmine, the 2013 film from Woody Allen. Although we’ve seen plenty of official photos, this is only the second one to show Woody Allen himself on set, this time with the two biggest stars of the film – Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin. […]
As teased earlier, Woody Allen graces the cover of the Wall Street Journal Magazine, out today. The extensive cover feature written by Charles McGrath features new quotes from friend and writing partner Marshall Brickman, star of Blue Jasmine Cate Blanchett, casting director Juliet Taylor and Allen himself. You can find the full, wonderful article at […]
‘Scrubs‘ star Zach Braff has been announced as the star of the Bullets Over Broadway Musical, the Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1994 film. The musical is set to open in 2014 at the St James Theatre. Braff will play playwright David Shayne, a role originated by John Cusack. Vincent Pastore (‘The Sopranos‘) will play […]
Having teased us with just a few images for months, the official Blue Jasmine website has been updated today with a completly new look and feel. The graphically rich site, run by Sony Pictures Classics, features lots of stuff we’ve not seen before. You can find the site at BlueJasmineFilm.com. First, there’s a new synopsis. […]
Hot on the heels of the three new images released on Entertainment Weekly, IMDB has the exclusive on five new images from Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s 2014 film. The new images gives us new glimpses of stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Max Casella, Andrew Dice Clay and Sally Hawkins. The first shot features […]
Woody Allen and crew have arrived in the south of France, wrapping up pre-production on his 2014 film. Yesterday, he took some time to visit le musée d’art classique de Mougins – also known as MACM. We don’t know if he was scouting or just visiting, but with Soon-Yi by his side, we assume this […]
Entertainment Weekly has scored an exclusive, with three new images from Woody Allen’s new film Blue Jasmine. The new images (and accompanying article) reveals little new. The first image is our first official look at Woody Allen on set. The image features Bobby Cannavale and Max Casella. The second is a glamorous party scene. Featuring […]
So lightweight at times it threatens to blow away, The Curse Of the Jade Scorpion continues the run of disposable comedies Allen pumped out in the 00s. A bright, edgeless cartoon, it has many fun moments but the style and grace of the man who brought us Manhattan is nowhere to be found. Woody Allen […]
More images have appeared of Woody Allen and his crew scouting for locations in France this week for his 2014 film. We assume this is in Nice (French readers can you confirm?). With Allen at all times is cinematographer Darius Khondji, who worked with Woody Allen on Anything Else, Midnight In Paris and To Rome […]