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Our incredibly random Video Of The Week series continues with an odd video from 1983, featuring ‘Woody Allen’ so to speak. For some reason in 1983, WNBC decided to take to the streets with a comedian dressed like Woody Allen to see if anyone would be fooled by the celebrity sighting. Many people did, and […]
Our latest video in our 10 Things series looks at one of Allen’s more acclaimed but lesser seen works – Sweet And Lowdown. We dig into just some of the trivia around the film. Including Woody’s last big TV appearance The script’s 30 year journey Again, the Frederico Fellini influence Of course, Django Reinhardt The […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYI44lsm0iA YouTube seems to unearth wonders on a regular basis. A new (irregular) video of the week is a recently uploaded interview with very little detail. It is a one hour long interview with Woody Allen in 1987. It’s a British interview of some sort (can anyone identify it?), and it’s rare because Allen did […]
Reverend Billy Graham has died, aged 99. The conservative figure is not one that your writer agrees with on almost any topic, but he crossed paths with Woody Allen, in an interesting way. It is worth noting that story here for prosperity. It ties with an interview Allen did with Graham in 1969. This clip […]
Our latest video looks at one of our favourites – Bullets Over Broadway. It was a huge critical success for Allen, and audiences loved it too. It uses so many elements that Allen loves – the Jazz era, two bit gangsters, strong female leads and an underlying philosophical theme. But how well do you know […]
Tributes are pouring in for Barry Norman, the much loved and respected British film critic and TV host, who passed away. Norman was a mainstay on British TV for many decades, and a big fan if Allen’s. Our video of the week is a full episode of Norman’s show – Film 95 – devoted to […]
We were sad to hear Richard Schickel passed away. The prominent American film critic spent almost 40 years at Time Magazine, as well as a library of books and created many documentaries about film. You can read an obituary at the New York Times. Schickel loved Woody Allen, and made a documentary on Allen. Called […]
It’s Award Season, the season that Woody Allen could famously could not care less about. Despite all the awards he has won, Allen has only ever appeared at one Award show – the Academy Awards in 2002. And he did it because of 9/11. It’s our highly irregular video of the week. It is one […]
Sadly following the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, reports now that Debbie Reynolds has passed away. She had a long career in many films and TV shows, but for film fans she will be forever remembered for Singin’ In The Rain. Reynolds never worked with Allen (unlike her daughter), but they do share one […]
Woody Allen wanted to be a dramatic filmmaker from day one. Word is, his 2017 film is another drama, making it his third in a row. Yet, this year, he mixed it up with a comedy for Amazon, where he appeared, possibly trying to please the public. Much like when Allen first tried to make […]
Regular visitors of the site will know that we have started our first web video series – “10 Things About…”. We’re going through all 46 (to date) Woody Allen films, from Take The Money And Run to Café Society, and we’ll probably have to tackle the 2017 film by the time we get there. We’ve […]
Before he became a film director, Allen was famously a stand-up comedian. What seems to be more forgotten was he was a big TV personality as well. In the 60s he appeared on game shows, panel shows and even guest hosted The Tonight Show. Allen even had a prime time special, and a newly uploaded […]
We’re continuing our series of video essays, with our sixth, the white whale. Annie Hall is Woody Allen’s most loved film. It is usually people’s first Allen film, and it is still breaking hearts to this day. This film has such a story – and really we could have done 20 things. The number of […]
It’s video time. Our fifth video essay is about Woody Allen’s fifth film – Love And Death. Made in 1975, it was Allen’s goodbye to his early slapstick comedies, and hints at the depth of the career to come. In our video, we look at: The book that Allen released in the same year The […]
We’re making our way through Allen’s filmography for our book – The Woody Allen Pages Watcher’s Guide. Volume 1 features Bananas, Allen’s 1971 film, and one his beloved early comedies. It celebrates 45 years this year, and we’ve pulled out the most interesting bits of trivia from the film for our second video essay. How […]
Kristen Stewart is loved in France, and she’s been happily promoting her new film with Woody Allen, Café Society. We got our first official video interview with her now. Stewart spoke to Canal+, about working with Woody and the new film. It’s dubbed in French, but hey, it is still our video of the week. A […]
Jesse Eisenberg made his presence known at this year’s CinemaCon. Not only did he pick up the conventions Male Star Of the Year Award, he had many films to talk about, from Now You See Me 2 to, of course, Woody Allen’s Café Society. At a press conference, Eisenberg was asked about working with Allen […]
Before he was a film maker, before he won all those awards, Woody Allen was a comedian who was very much part of the TV variety circuit. In 1967 – two years before his first film – Allen had his own special. It’s called Woody Allen Looks At 1967, and was sponsored by Kraft. It […]
It has been 30 years since the release of Hannah And Her Sisters, one of Woody Allen’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. Built around the lives of three sisters, it explores a year in their lives, and unfolds like a novel with dozens of characters. The film was nominated seven times at the […]
Woody Allen and France have a special relationship. Not only has Allen made some of of his best work there, his films are box office gold in that country. Those connections meant that Allen took time out of his busy schedule to wish the French American Center a happy 25th birthday. The centre located in […]