All things Woody Allen – a fansite, news and reviews
“Who needs a festival of my old films? It’s ridiculous.” So said Sandy Bates, Woody Allen’s character from Stardust Memories. We don’t usually write up cinema showings of old Allen films – so many are happening at any given week, somewhere in the world. But we came across what Cinema Du Parc in Montreal are […]
The British Fantasy Award has been running since 1971. This week they announced their latest winners, including one award to Woody Allen. Midnight In Paris won the award for Best Screenplay. This follows on from a story we missed earlier in the year, that ‘Midnight In Paris‘ was nominated, but ultimately lost out, in the […]
We talked about Michael Peña in our last news bits. The ‘Tower Heist‘ actor has been talking about how he’d like to work with Woody Allen, and it looks like he’s not just saying it because his publicist told him to. NPR’s All Things Considered has been running a great series called ‘Movies I’ve Seen […]
Production has, we assume, finished on Woody Allen’s 2013 film. It’s been very exciting to follow the production in the era of social media and camera phones. With filming finished, here’s our wrap up of everything we know about the film. Plot & Title: The 2013 film remains untitled. History tells us that when Allen […]
This week’s video was uploaded last week by the people at the American Film Institute (or AFI). It’s very simple – Woody Allen talking about Martin Scorsese‘s ‘Goodfellas‘, and why he loves it. We have no idea when it’s from (it doesn’t look recent), or the context of their interview with Woody. The AFI has been […]
Woody Allen is one of a number of stars set to appear in a new documentary ‘Casting By‘. ‘Casting By‘ investigates the work and artistry of Casting Directors, focusing on casting legend Marion Dougherty. The film has been acquired by HBO to broadcast within the year. It premièred earlier this month at TIFF, and will […]
It’s been almost 5 months since To Rome With Love was released for the first time, in Italy on April 20, 2012. Since then we have seen the film released in all the major world markets, with only a handful of small markets left to go. Last week, ‘To Rome With Love‘ passed another box […]
Another week, and another series of updates on the production of Woody Allen’s 2013 film. This week saw more shooting of the still-untitled film, including our first look at Andrew Dice Clay, and perhaps word that shooting has wrapped. Last week, Allen and his team shot in East Quogue in the Hamptons. It was our […]
The wonderful film magazine/blog TotalFilm make great lists. Their latest list is very dear to our hearts. They’ve picked and listed the 50 Greatest Woody Allen Characters. It’s the first such poll we’ve seen. There’s plenty of lists of greatest Woody Allen films, but to focus on characters is very clever and refreshing. The full […]
A short, sweet and special video of the week this week. To celebrate the release of To Rome With Love in the UK, we bring you the video of BBC film critic Mark Kermode (and Simon Mayo) giving his warmly positive review. We are big fans of BBC5’s Kermode And Mayo’s Film Review radio show, […]
Manhattan is Woody Allen’s most beautiful film. Beautiful in many ways. The stunning black and white photography. The lush and gorgeous score. And, of course, the set. The island of Manhattan, from bookshops to skylines. In the middle of all this, Allen plops some of his greatest characters, one of his greatest moral questions and […]
News Bits from around the web. Usually monthly but with so much going on, we had to do two this month! Great film magazine Empire compiled a location map of Woody Allen films. That idea sounds familiar. And they’ve forgotten poor Sleeper. Click on the image above to embiggen! The Denver Eye wrote a great […]
Woody Allen has been filming for the last week in and around Manhattan for his new, still untitled 2013 film. This continues on from last month’s filming in San Francisco. We previously reported filming on the Upper East Side of New York. Filming took place in Upper Nyack, where we finally got to see Alec […]
To Rome With Love, the new film starring, written and directed by Woody Allen, was released in the UK this week. Woody Allen did a fresh round of interviews for the UK press, who have also jumped in with their reviews. The Guardian has the best piece, written by Oliver Burkeman. The long piece covers […]
A bit of fun this week. Lyricist Hal David passed away on 1st September 2012. Along with his partner Burt Bacharach, he penned many memorable songs including ‘(They Long To Be) Close To You‘, ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head‘, ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again‘, ‘Alfie‘ and dozens more. Possibly the last great sole […]
Woody Allen has wrapped the San Francisco filming of his next film last month. This week he moved production to New York City, in particular his old haunt of the Upper East Side, as reported by Gothamist. Pics have started to appear on Twitter for the NYC shoot. Many of the announced cast did not […]
The Toronto International Film Festival (commonly called TIFF), is happening right now, and runs for another week. It’s one of the world’s biggest a best film festivals, where many films are bought and sold. One of those is writer, actor and director John Turturro, whose next film features Woody Allen. John Turturro has been doing […]
Woody Allen’s latest film, To Rome With Love, continues to roll out acrsso the globe. September sees it’s release in several big markets. It also passed another box office landmark this past week. The worldwide box office earnings for ‘To Rome With Love‘ currently sits at $51,491,755. As is standard for recent Woody Allen films, […]
This week’s video has been doing the rounds on Twitter recently thanks to a recent write up on the website Dangerous Minds. It’s a one hour documentary about Woody Allen made for French TV in 1979. The wonderful video features some commentary in French, but there’s a lot of Woody being interviewed in English, in […]
News Bits from around the web. Usually monthly but with so much going on, we had to do two this month! Artist Nina Boesch has paid tribute to some of the New York City’s icon with a part of New York itself. She has taken thousands of New York subway tickets and created new portraits […]