All things Woody Allen – a fansite, news and reviews
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
We are now five weeks away from the US premiere of Blue Jasmine. We have quite a few updates this week, including new images, a preview of Allen on the cover of WSJ Magazine, a strange new poster and more. (UPDATE: we missed a picture, so there’s actually THREE new images in this post now) […]
We are working our way through every Woody Allen film, and we are up to 2001’s The Curse Of the Jade Scorpion. We wont give away the full review, but Helen Hunt is definitely the highlight of the film. Once again, Charlie Rose gets the exclusive. We find that Hunt is a life long Allen […]
We are six weeks out from the US limited release of Blue Jasmine, the 2013 film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Cate Blanchett. Last week, The Museum Of Modern Art held a special private screening of ‘Blue Jasmine‘. Zach Braff and Barbara Walters were amongst those spotted. Several people’s snap reviews were […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Diane Keaton has stayed in the press these last couple of weeks, whilst doing press for ‘The Big Wedding‘. An interview with Saga magazine caught her reflecting on her career with Woody Allen. Anything I’ve done is based on Annie […]
Helen Hanft passed away on 30th May 2013. The 79 year old actress was a particular favourite of Woody Allen’s. She appeared in Manhattan, Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose Of Cairo and ‘Oedipus Wrecks‘ (Allen’s segment in ‘New York Stories‘). She was a character actor, and her mannerism screamed New York. You’ve probably seen her […]
Next month will see production begin on Woody Allen’s 43rd film as writer and director. The currently untitled 2014 film will shoot in the south of France, and Broadway actor Jeremy Shamos has just been added to the cast, according to Broadway.com Shamos doesn’t have many on screen credits. A theater actor, he is currently […]
Woody Allen returns to contemporary New York for Small Time Crooks, one of those tales that could be by no one else. A pleasant light hearted comedy with broad cartoonish characters, it’s a bit of silliness that might not mean much, but Allen does so well. Woody Allen stars as Ray, a small time crook […]
Here’s our shot-for-shot breakdown of the scenes revealed from the new trailer for Blue Jasmine. It’s taken from all we know from the film. If you’ve not seen the trailer, it’s on our Blue Jasmine page. Minor spoilers abound. The trailer opens in New York, with Hal (Alec Baldwin) showing Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) their expensive […]