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Woody Allen has arrived in Nice in southern France. Along with a small crew, he is preparing for production of his 2014 film, which starts production next month. Just last week Allen played his last jazz performance for this season in New York. We assumed he was taking a break to prepare for the release […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sony Pictures Classics has released a new Blue Jasmine Press Kit, featuring quotes from any of the cast, plenty of details about the film. The 30 page document has been sent out to press who are reviewing the film, and features plenty of spoilers – so here are the key bits with no spoilers. We […]
Trailer For ‘Blue Jasmine’, The New Woody Allen Film At long last, Sony Pictures Classics have released the trailer for Blue Jasmine, the 2013 drama from writer/director Woody Allen . Enjoy. http://youtu.be/FER3C394aI8 The film stars Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis CK, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. Shot in […]
Finally we have word on the highly anticipated (by us) trailer for the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine. Sony tweeted that the trailer will premiere on Yahoo! Movies tomorrow. We also have more ‘Blue Jasmine‘ bits and pieces to round out the week. Here’s the tweet: ATTENTION fans of Woody Allen, Cate Blanchett, @ABFalecbaldwin, […]
Over a year since its premiere in Italy last April, To Rome With Love, Woody Allen’s 42nd film as writer/director, opens in Japan this week. It’s not atypical for Japan to get such a late release – Midnight In Paris premiered in June 2011, but opened in Japan in May 2012. It is likely Japan […]
Sony Pictures Classics have released another new stil image from ‘Blue Jasmine’, the 2013 film from Woody Allen. The new image shows two characters that play a married couple in the film – Sally Hawkins as Ginger (the sister to Cate Blanchett‘s Jasmine) and Andrew Dice Clay as Augie. As usual, the still doesn’t give […]
Allen’s latest, Blue Jasmine, didn’t make it to Cannes this year. But the actor will return to the city in a couple of months to make his 2014 film. With the wrap up of Cannes 2012, we thought we’d revisit some old interviews with Allen at Cannes. We settled on a series of interviews from […]
It’s been an unusually quiet week in Blue Jasmine news, Woody Allen’s 2013 film that is released in just 8 weeks. We do have some plot revelations, a teaser poster, the names of more characters and the running time. Wall Street Journal has noted the parallel between ‘Blue Jasmine‘ and the Bernie Madoff scandal. Speakeasy […]
Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the poster for Blue Jasmine, the latest film from Woody Allen, due to hit the US on 26th July. The poster is striking for its simplicity. It features just Cate Blanchett, who plays Jasmine, looking rather serious. Other elements seem to be standard Woody Allen – the alphabetical cast list, […]
We are one years old today! We started this wee website a year ago because it was something we wanted to see ourselves. We love similar pages for other directors, but there was no site for Woody Allen. It was also time to go back through Allen’s films. So for a full year, we’ve posted […]
We are still living off fumes when it comes to news about Blue Jasmine, the 2013 film from writer/director Woody Allen. We are less than ten weeks from its official release (26th July in the US), and we know some people have been lucky enough to preview the film. We now have new comments from […]
The official release date for Blue Jasmine in the US is 26 July, but there will be a very special screening in New Jersey next month. It is the first publicly available tickets to see Woody Allen’s 2013 film. There are two special screenings on the 27th June. Here are the details from the Monmouth […]
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were once again out and about in NYC. On May 15th 2013, the couple attended the launch for Versus Versace. The event was hosted by Donatella Versace at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. The event saw the takeover of the line by JW Anderson from Christopher Kane. […]
Sony Pictures Classics has released another new image from Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine. The new image features the films two most famous stars – Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin. Blanchett and Baldwin are a married couple in ‘Blue Jasmine‘, until their marriage ends and it sends Blanchett to San Francisco. The new image […]
We’ll be honest. We were hoping that the trailer for Blue Jasmine would be our video of the week. But the trailer didn’t arrive so we are taking solace in one of our favourite Woody Allen clips. This one is from 1967 and its Allen as the guest on the TV game show ‘What’s My […]
Woody Allen made a recent appearance in front of just 200 students of Weill Cornell Medical College. The private affair was part of the college’s Readers And Writers series, designed to expose their students to the humanities. Allen spoke for an hour, reading the unpublished piece ‘A Prestige Address‘, and then took questions from the […]
Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen, begins it’s prolonged release schedule in July. As is standard now from Allen, a small limited premiere leads to a longer roll out across the world that can sometimes last a year. We have been seeing bits and pieces that are telling us about both the international […]