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Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. We are talking Sophie Lellouche stalking Allen, his love of the Knicks, Tiffani Theissen, Star Wars and more. Sophie Lellouche has done an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, revealing how she managed to get Woody Allen to appear in her debut […]
Our video of the week is a vintage interview from 1965, when Allen was deep in the stand up circuit. He has just made his first venture into film – writing the screenplay for What’s New Pussycat? This is before Woody Allem started answering every question with a joke, and he is surprisingly frank and […]
An amazing exclusive, Woody Allen was interviewed by Steve Vizard on Australian radio. The occasion was the release of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger in Australia. Steve Vizard is well known to Australian audiences, having been a TV funny man for many decades, from sketch comedy to talk show host. The interview was broadcast […]
Shadows And Fog is one of the strangest films in Woody Allen’s canon. It’s a 90 minute, black and white allegorical play about death and religion. Lucky for Woody Allen that by this point, it had been decades since he had to pitch a film to anyone. Woody Allen stars as Kleinman, returning to being […]
Two more Woody Allen classics – Sleeper and Hannah And Her Sisters – hit high definition this month in the US. The release has generated several reviews, many specifically discussing the quality of upgraded audio and video. Here are some of what they’re saying about these latest editions. The consensus seems to be that […]
The very first release dates for Blue Jasmine have slowly started to filter out. We now have dates for Brazil, Quebec (and Canada?), Scandinavia and Argentina from various online sources. They are to-be-confirmed although we see no reason for them to lie. We can also speculate about additional markets. Our two main sources have been […]
With the release of To Rome With Love this week on DVD, we thought we’d share this clip of Woody Allen discussing Federico Fellini. Fellini was probably on the brain when Allen made ‘To Rome With Love‘. Woody Allen has made no secret for his love of Fellini. The Italian director is considered one of […]
Jesse Eisenberg has done a series of interviews to promote To Rome With Love. Eisenberg was absent when promoting the cinema release, although there was plenty from the large cast. In the interviews, he has been asked in depth about the film and working with Woody. Two most common threads have been him saying Woody […]
It’s has been almost four months since we did our previous round-up of the 2013 film. Since that time, we’ve learnt a few more things, mainly the title – Blue Jasmine. We thought it was a good time to revisit and update our comprehensive round up. Plot & Title: The 2013 film is called ‘Blue […]
Alice is a lovely film, and highly under-rated. It has all the hallmarks of a great Woody Allen film – heart, fun, movie-magic – and a great cast anchored by Mia Farrow‘s best performance. It really deserves to be more acclaimed. Mia Farrow stars as the titular Alice Tate. An upper class New York kept […]
Two of Woody Allen’s best films, Sleeper and Hannah And Her Sisters, made it to Blu-Ray this week in the US. The release follows the blu-ray upgrades of Annie Hall and Manhattan in January last year. Originally released in 1973, ‘Sleeper‘ stars Woody Allen as Miles Monroe, a man who is put into a cyrogenic […]
This fun clip is taken from the Merv Griffin Show from 1969. It’s Allen still very much in stand-up comic mode, and out promoting Take The Money And Run. It’s interesting to think how adverse to interviews he is these days, when he used to be so good at it. He’s natural wit is there, […]
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger is finally being released in Australia today (17th January 2013). Originally released in 2010, it’s taken three years to receive a cinematic release down under. There’s a new website, a new interview and article revealing the origins of the strange deal, and new reviews. Umbrella Entertainment, the distributor, […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. We are talking Diane Keaton’s birthday, Woody Allen’s hat, Dr Feigen’s passing, Fabio’s praise for Woody and much more. It was the beautiful Diane Keaton‘s birthday on 5th January. She turned 67. What About Bobbed had the best tribute we saw, […]
Woody Allen has written a piece for the New York Times on hypochondria. The opinion piece ran on the weekend with a lovely cartoon by François Maumont. The piece is as you’d expect – well written, insightful, sprinkled with great one liners and at times utterly bizarre. As usual, you have no idea what is […]
Paris Manhattan is a romantic comedy about a Woody Allen obsessed woman, and her adventures in finding love. It’s light hearted, and is never deeper than a fun distraction. But it’s nice fun, with lots of in jokes for Woody Allen fans. Alice Taglioni stars as Alice Ovitz. A 30s something pharmacist who’s still single, […]
Galleries 1988 in Venice, LA, is throwing a tribute to Woody Allen. Something they have done occasionally, they have asked a number of new artists around the world to create works inspired by Woody Allen. We’ve collected everyone we could find. Some are on wood, and one is a sculpture. No doubt there is more […]
This week’s video was a new discovery for us. It’s an hour long interview/documentary done by the BBC in 1999. Allen seems to be promoting Sweet And Lowdown. The cool thing about the show is that they play some scenes from Allen’s catalogue and gets him to comment on them. What is even more cool […]
Fading Gigolo is the new film from John Turturro. Turturro will be doing triple duties as writer, director and actor. One of the other stars is Woody Allen. The synopsis: Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his […]
Crimes And Misdemeanors is the best Woody Allen drama. It is one of his meat-iest works, and having played around with drama and morality before. But here Allen goes for it, and pulls off a masterful – and very disturbing – work. Woody Allen stars as Cliff Stern, and Martin Landau stars as Judah Rosenthal. […]