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News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 103rd edition! Glenne Headly has passed away. The actress starred in great films such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy and the recent HBO series The Night Of. One of her early roles was one of the hookers in Woody […]
Miley Cyrus is the star of the first ever Woody Allen series, called Crisis In Six Scenes. The reviews for the series have been mixed, but a lot of them point to Cyrus as a bright spot. The two might initially seem from separate worlds, but both have a lot in common – from a […]
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 […]
A new Woody Allen film, Café Society, is hitting cinemas this year but he’s already moving on to his next. We haven’t heard much both his 2017 film, but Variety are now reporting the first actor in talks – Kate Winslet. Winslet came close to working with Allen ten years ago. She was cast for […]
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 […]
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! Manhattan is Woody Allen’s masterpiece. From a technical point, the film is shot beautifully, scored beautiful, […]
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 […]
A new article on Variety is reporting the acquisition of two Woody Allen films by WestEnd Films. The two films – Match Point and Scoop – join their already sizeable collection of Allen films. ‘Match Point‘ and ‘Scoop‘ were the first two films made by Allen in London, kicking off his European period. ‘Match Point‘ […]
A new interview with Woody Allen has been published in Argentinian magazine La Nacion. The interview is to coincide with the release of Irrational Man there. However, Allen makes a number of new points about his upcoming projects that worth highlighting. (Quotes were pushed through good old Google Translate) On choosing the leads for ‘Irrational Man‘. […]
Every…In Woody Allen’s Films – a new series exploring the patterns that emerge in Allen’s long, long film career. We’ve been toying with this series for a while, and we were not going to start with this one. But in light of Bruce Willis‘ sudden departure from Woody Allen’s 2016 Film, we thought it was […]
With Scoop out on DVD for the first time in the UK, it got us looking back at the 2006 murder/comedy. Because of its strange release – it was essentially a TV movie in the UK – there was not a blitz of press. So our videos of the week collects together some ‘Scoop‘ era […]
This one missed us by. It still seems a bit weird, but it looks like Scoop, the 2006 film written and directed by Woody Allen, is out on DVD for the first time in the UK. Of course, the film that stars Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson was filmed in the UK. The DVD set […]
Two new in depth interviews with Woody Allen, both packed with revelations. The first is from the Washington Post, the second was on Roger Ebert and focusses on the making of ‘Magic In the Moonlight’. From the Washington Post. Allen’s views of religion have not changed. The religions of the world have been pernicious. They’re […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round-up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler have been out promoting their new film ‘They Came Together‘. They were asked for their favourite rom-coms by Vulture. Here’s Rudd’s choice. Annie Hall is pretty amazing. A lot of the Woody Allen ones are pretty great, but […]
News bits – usually a twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. However, we have a whole month wrap up this time around. James Rebhorn has died, aged 65. His decades long career includes ‘Homeland‘, ‘Independence Day‘ and one Woody Allen film, Shadows And Fog. We liked him a lot […]
Woody Allen, as expected, did not turn up in LA to accept his Cecil B DeMille Award from the Golden Globes, but we were treated to three things instead – an introduction by Emma Stone, an acceptance by Diane Keaton and the lovely montage of Allen’s films. The montage was supervised by Robert Weide, the […]
November News Bits! Our twice-monthly round-up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been out on promo, and has talked a little about working with Woody Allen on Match Point. In particular, the sex scenes. From the Independent. Woody Allen is a disaster when it comes to doing sex scenes. […]
Woody Allen’s London period became a European period with Vicky Cristina Barcelona. And unlike his London films, which were re-written from American settings, Spain is a deep part of this film. A mix of romance and morality, it is rightly considered one of the highlights of his later career. Rebecca Hall stars as Vicky, and […]
We’ve been revisiting Allen’s first burst of London films. It all began with Match Point, a massive turning point in Allen’s career, and our video this week is an interview with the primary cast – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode and Brian Cox – as well as Woody Allen himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf18rH0_se8 […]
Allen returns to London for something a lot more light hearted and silly. Scoop is a murder mystery caper done for farce, and one of Allen’s rare comedies in his later career. Woody Allen stars as Sid Waterman, also known as The Great Splendini. An American magician on tour in London, he meets a young […]