News bits – our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Richard Brick has passed away, aged 68. He was an official of the Director’s Guild of America and a former New York film Comissioner. In his time, he also served as producer on three Woody Allen films – Deconstructing […]
“A Meandering Fable”: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger – The Woody Allen Pages
Woody Allen returns to London for a sprawling morality tale in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. With a big star cast, he explores one of his oldest themes, that whatever delusion you can use to get through life makes you happy – or that ignorance is bliss. Playing out over the lives of […]
Woody Allen To Receive Cecil B DeMille Award At Golden Globes
Allen doesn’t love award ceremonies, but they continue to love him. It was announced earlier today that Allen is adding another award to his long list of achievements. He will be the next recipient of the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. Allen will be the 61st recipient of the award […]
VOTW: Insults Supercuts
We came across another interesting supercut – fan made videos featuring many films – this week. It’s a supercut of varous insults and cursing from great films – 400 films in 5 minutes! Woody Allen features in a prominent place. We’ve featured Jonathan Keogh’s work before. And once again he saw it fit to end […]
Mar News Bits 2: Wallace Shawn, Freida Pinto, Sam Mendes, Anthony Perkins, Adam Leon, Picking Up the Pieces, The Matrix and more
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen news bits from around the web. Wallace Shawn has appeared in over 150 films, and his latest is ‘Admission‘ with Tina Fey. He has also appeared in many of Allen’s films, but none more famous than in Manhattan, where he made a cameo as Diane Keaton‘s ex […]
VOTW: 25 Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Films
Woody Allen loves improvisation. He usually let’s his actors brings his own words to the table, and he is known to do multiple takes of jokes with different punchlines. His love of the Marx Brothers is also on show in the way he improvises his physical humour. It’s one of those physical scenes that is […]
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Released In Australia + Interview, Reviews and more
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, […]
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Released Two Years Late In Japan, Australia, New Zealand
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger was first released in 2010. It just hit cinemas in Japan this month and even more surprisingly, will be released in cinemas for the first time in Australia and New Zealand in 2013. 1st December was when ‘…Stranger‘ hit Japanese theatres. 17th January 2013 is the date set […]