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5 Films (And A TV Show)… A series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! Hannah And Her Sisters is one of Allen’s very best films, and one that really highlights why […]
Music Of Woody Allen Films – a new irregular feature about the musical compositions that have helped to make Allen’s films sing. The soundtrack to Woody Allen’s films are usually associated with classic jazz recordings. But it actually took him a number of films to find that style. In his first ever films, he employed […]
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A new series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! This is the fifth in our new series to expand recommendations for films like Woody Allen […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Michael Rapaport appears in the latest series of ‘Louie‘, the show created, written, directed and starring Louis CK (who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine). Rappaport worked with Allen on two films (Mighty Aphrodite and Small Time Crooks), and he […]
A wonderful interview with Woody Allen, conducted in 1979, has surfaced online. The interview is taken from a French documentary on Allen called ‘Question de Temps: Une Heure avec Woody Allen‘ – Question Of Time: An Hour with Woody Allen. It’s a far ranging interview, right in the era that most people know Allen for, […]
Music Of Woody Allen Films – a new irregular feature about the musical compositions that have helped to make Allen’s films sing. Stardust Composed by Hoagy Carmichael (music) in 1927. Mitchell Parish (lyrics) in 1929. Used in Stardust Memories ‘Stardust Memories‘ – Allen’s film about a film – takes its name from the song ‘Stardust’ […]
Magic In the Moonlight, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, is out tomorrow! The cast has done a bunch of interviews from press junkets last week. We’ve collected what we’ve found. (UPDATED with a few more articles now). The Chicago Sun Times‘ Michael Phillips (an excellent writer) profiled Allen in a lengthy […]
Men Of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story is a 27 minute television special written and directed by Woody Allen. The special was created for PBS in 1971 but never aired due to the apparent controversy of the subject matter. For years the only place to view the film was the Paley Center Of Media in […]
An unexpected delight for Woody Allen fans this week. Men Of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story – a short, unreleased film written and directed by Woody Allen in 1971 – has been put online. The extremely rare film has never aired, never been made available for purchase and for decades had to be watched in […]
The brainchild of Woody Allen, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? is a completely re-dubbed Japanese action film, making it a bizarre, and occasionally absurd, comedy. It is a one trick pony, and even with its short running time, starts to tire too quickly. Woody Allen and friends (including his wife Louise Lasser and Frank Buxton) dub […]
Here we are in 2014, celebrating the start of another year. Amazingly, we know where Woody Allen was when the new year started exactly 50 years ago. Already a working comedian, Allen was actually part of a live broadcast of ‘The Tonight Show‘, hosted by Johnny Carson. We don’t really have a video – this […]
News bits! Our twice monthly roundup of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Not much this time around, but hey, it’s the holidays! We hope you are having a good one and see you in 2014! Louise Lasser was Woody Allen’s second wife and starred with Allen in some of his earliest films such […]
We were very sad to hear that Mickey Rose, a lifelong friend and early collaborator of Woody Allen’s, has passed away. The cancer related death occurred on 7th April 2013, and an obiturary was just published in the LA Times. He was 77. Allen released the following statement through his biographer, Eric Lax. Mickey was one of […]
Happy new year everyone! It’s time to start up our video of the week series again. We’re starting with something fun – at least for us, if not for Woody. It’s a compilation of Woody Allen being dumped in his films, put together by Ivan Stepanovic. Sure he gets dumped, but that is definitely a […]
Woody Allen’s birthday was 1st December. There were plenty of tributes across the blog world. Here’s Art Magenta: Arun Ramkumar: From Twitter user @davidhclowes And Neil Davidson: The Huffington Post has ‘Woody Allen’s 50 Greatest Lines’. Not only from his films but from books like Getting Even and great off-the-cuff comments in interviews, such as […]
Now we’re getting somewhere. Everythng You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Was Afraid To Ask) is leaps and bounds from what came before. It begins a number of Woody Allen traits that he would always return to. The large ensemble cast. The clever use of film stocks and period footage. The stylish font […]
Bananas is the second film written, directed and starring Woody Allen. It is a straight farcical comedy, about a man who gets caught up in a revolution of a small fictional country of San Marcos. Allen stars as Fielding Mellish, although he plays pretty much the same character, or kind of character, that he does […]
Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin Released: 1969 Take the Money And Run is the first movie written, directed and starring Woody Allen (What’s Up, Tiger Lily? doesn’t really count in our books). It is the first time he took complete creative control – having been burnt on both …Tiger Lily and Casino Royale. It is […]