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Woody Allen’s longest collaborator is set to be honoured with an Oscar called the Governor’s Award. Juliet Taylor worked on 43 of Allen’s films as casting director. She was responsible for finding the amazing array of stars who have been in Woody Allen’s films since the seventies. Deadline and many others have the story. Taylor […]
Woody Allen’s 50th film is set to film in Paris later this year. Much of the film has been kept under wraps, but a new rumour today suggests a lead actress has been cast – Cesar Award winner Valerie Lemercier. This was first reported by Showbiz411. Reports are that Allen is currently in Paris prepping […]
Six Woody Allen classic titles are being released as new Blu-Ray packages in the US. All the films are from Allen’s fruitful 70s and early 80s period and are released in September. The new editions come from Sandpiper Pictures, a relatively new blu-ray company. Looks like they have the rights to Allen’s Orion and United […]
It’s a huge deal and it reflects the changing media landscape. And once again, Amazon has come to play in Allen’s work. Amazon has now agreed to buy MGM, which means they are the new rights owner of many Woody Allen films. Amazon will pay a whopping $8.45 billion for MGM’s catalogue of film and […]
Rifkin’s Festival – the newest film written and directed by Woody Allen – is very slowly rolling out around the world (with the global cinema industry in all sorts of trouble). The latest release comes from Russia, and Allen did a lengthy interview with Russian TV recently. You can watch on YouTube with auto translating […]
After an unprecedented year of pandemics and disruption, it looks like things are moving towards some semblance of life. With that, there’s news that Woody Allen will make a new film in 2021. Likely to be a 2022 film, production will take place in Paris, restrictions pending. Before the pandemic hit, plans were made for […]
The legendary Max Von Sydow has died at the age of 90. He influence of cinema is incalculable. He starred in some of cinema’s greatest works. He inspired Woody Allen and the pair worked together once, memorably in 1986’s Hannah And Her Sisters. Von Sydow’s work with Ingmar Bergman are some of the finest films […]
The Woody Allen Film Guide is our comprehensive guide to the films of Woody Allen – well the first 16 anyway. Revised, reformatted and refreshed, the book is the first of three planned volumes that will cover all 48 films written and directed by Woody Allen. It is now available in paperback. For the next […]
It seems that Juliet Taylor, Woody Allen’s long serving casting director, has retired. She worked on 43 films of Allen’s, the longest collaboration for Allen, in a career full of long collaborations. News comes as she is not credited for Wonder Wheel, and her name is not in the newly released poster. She also didn’t […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 104th edition! Jerry Lewis has passed away. He was an American comic legend, and there’s been plenty of features in the recent days, gamely trying to honor his amazing legacy. The New York Times has one many great obits. […]
Allen had worked in Paris before (Whats New Pussycat, Love And Death, Everyone Says I Love You), but his love of the city is best shown in Midnight In Paris. And audiences and critics alike flocked to the film. Of all his European travels, he has never made a city look so impressive. It helps […]
Woody Allen Fan Rankings 2017 Results! This is part 2, and you can find part 1 here. 23. Take The Money And Run (1969, 256 points) Just sneaking into the top half is Allen’s debut. Fans overwhelmingly liked this one (38%), although a lot of you hadn’t seen it compared to the other early films […]
After a rush of books last year around Allen’s 80th birthday, there seems to be a slow down this year. Breaking the glut is a new ebook by Chris Wade, who has written books on subjects as diverse as The Kinks to Sharon Stone. Chris’s new book is called WOODY ALLEN ON SCREEN, and it […]
We always love when They Shoot Pictures Don’t They unveil their latest Top 1000 films list. Compiled every year from many reputed sources, they collect various greatest film lists into THE greatest films list. It’s a great resource, and there’s always more films to add to your watch list once you go through it. Here […]
The first Woody Allen Blu-Ray box set ever has been released in the UK. Called Six Films: 1971-1978, it covers six early Allen films, and the first of three box sets from Arrow Films. The set is available now on Amazon UK. It features: Bananas (1971) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But […]
Crisis In Six Scenes is the first ever series written and directed by Woody Allen. It will be available exclusively on Amazon on 30th September – this Friday! And we have the first reviews (with some more plot details) and lots of new images. For example, it turns out that Miley Cyrus‘s character is named […]
Regular visitors of the site will know that we have started our first web video series – “10 Things About…”. We’re going through all 46 (to date) Woody Allen films, from Take The Money And Run to Café Society, and we’ll probably have to tackle the 2017 film by the time we get there. We’ve […]
Arrow Academy recently acquired the Blu-Ray rights to Woody Allen’s catalogue from 1971 to 1991. They have been rolling out both standalone releases and box sets for 19 films. We now have details and artwork for the second box set. The second box set is called Six Films 1979-1985. It will include the films – […]
Café Society opens in the UK today. In the lead-up, there’s been some more interviews with the cast, including a couple of new video interviews, and features with Allen, and stars Jesse Eisenberg and Blake Lively. Allen first. Here’s Allen, talking about wealth and playing the lottery with the Guardian. In a new interview with […]
A large part of the crew that worked on Woody Allen’s latest film, Café Society, is returning for another round. Allen is making a 2017 Film this fall, and on the crew list is Vittorio Storaro (cinematography), Santo Loquasto (production design) and Suzy Benzinger (costume design). Storaro was perhaps Allen’s biggest partner on Café Society, […]