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Woody Allen Fan Rankings 2017 Results! This is part 3, and you can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Here’s the pointy end – the top 10! 10. Zelig (1983, 385 points) It may be Allen’s shortest film, but there’s plenty to love. In fact, it was overwhelming loves (28%), bests (23%) and likes […]
Released in 2011, Midnight In Paris was a huge success for Woody Allen. Part of it must be that location, and Allen managed to make Paris on screen as beautiful as any city had even been. Much like what he did for Manhattan in 1979, Allen opened Midnight In Paris with a montage of the […]
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 […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 98th edition! A brief edition this time. The New York Times has an interview with Jaume Roures, a man not very well known outside of his native Spain, that has played an important role in Allen’s career. As one […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 95th edition! Inbetween the premiere of his latest film, Café Society, in major European countries, the production of a new 2017 film and the launch of his first series Crisis In Six Scenes, this has been one of the […]
The trailer for Crisis In Six Scenes, the first series written and directed by Amazon, has landed. It debuts on Amazon at the end of the month. As usual, we’ve broken down the trailer shot for shot. Minor spoilers – although we really don’t know anything. Here’s the trailer again if you’ve not seen it. […]
Crisis In Six Scenes is the new series written and directed by Woody Allen. It was made for Amazon, and they recently held a premiere screening in New York. Stars Miley Cyrus and Rachel Brosnahan were amongst those in attendance. The event was held at the Crosby Street Hotel, in lower Manhattan. They really decked […]
Crisis In Six Scenes is the new series written and directed by Woody Allen. And news today shows we still know so little about the series that starts in just three weeks. Because French comic and actor Gad Elmaleh apparently filmed a secret role that no one knew about. Programme.tv has revealed that Elmaleh filmed […]
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 […]
2016 has taken another legend from us. Comedy great Gene Wilder has passed away at age 83. Tributes are everywhere, including The New York Times and Variety. Wilder appeared in one Woody Allen film, but let’s face it, will be remembered for towering comic roles such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and partnerships […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 94th edition! Hugh Grant is out promoting Florence Foster Jenkins, the new film starring Manhattan‘s Meryl Streep. The film is directed by Stephen Frears, and Grant compared it to his Small Time Crooks director. He spoke to Variety. […]
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! Café Society is out now in US cinemas. It’s Woody Allen’s take on themes that have […]
Café Society is out now in the US, and over the past weekend it played to more people than ever – expanding to a soft wide release of 565 cinemas. The film is now just shy of $4 million in the US, and flies straight past $10m globally. We also have a new US TV […]
News Bits! Our now monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 93rd edition! Here’s one for all of July. Actor Seamon Glass has died. He appeared in Sleeper as a guard. He told Classic TV History: I had an on-camera fight with Woody Allen. Sleeper is where he wakes […]
Café Society is out now and making its way through America (and overseas). There was a blitz of publicity with the stars a couple of weeks ago, but there were some voices we’ve never heard from. Corey Stoll has spoken about his role, and also colourist Anthony Raffaele, who worked on the film’s look and […]
News Bits! Our usually twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 92nd edition! Here’s one for all of June. Jeff Goldblum is aging well. He’s becoming more interesting and eccentric as the years go on. He’s out promoting Independence Day Resurgence, and he was interviewed by The […]
Woody Allen and his cast for Café Society has generated a lot of press in the last several days (to say the least) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Here’s a big wrap of various videos, links and photos – there’s so much of it, it is frankly hard to keep up. Blake Lively and […]
Hannah And Her Sisters, the 1986 film written and directed by Woody Allen, is getting the live read treatment. The reading will be directed by Olivia Wilde, who has been announcing the cast on her Twitter feed (@oliviawilde). There’s lots of familiar faces to Allen’s filmography. In the role of Holly, originated by Dianne Wiest, […]
Lots and lots of news coming out for Café Society in the days leading up to its world premiere on 11th May. All eyes are on the Cannes Film Festival, Allen has been in France doing interviews. The new interview from France TV. We can’t embed the video, but you can watch it on their […]
There is a lot of speculation that Woody Allen will be bringing his new film – Cafe Society – to 69th Cannes Film Festival, which happens in May this year. If true, it will be two years in a row – Allen brought his film Irrational Man to Cannes last year (Allen has pulled back-to-back […]