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News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Congratulations to ‘Birdman‘ for sweeping the Academy Awards. Woody Allen, of course, did not turn up. However, there was an article this week that tried to connect ‘Birdman‘ with Woody Allen, in particular Bullets Over Broadway. The Independent has pointed […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Singer/pianist Diana Krall appeared in a Woody Allen film. Thing is, she doesn’t remember which one. She spoke to the Guardian. Talking of New York, you’re a Woody Allen fan. Have you seen him play the clarinet at the Carlyle? […]
They Shoot Pictures Don’t They is one of the best sites on the internet. They collate almost every film list they can find, run some crazy numbers behind it, and provides some of the best Top Film Lists you can ever find. They have just updated for 2015 (their 10th edition), and Woody Allen has […]
It’s January, so we wanted to take some time out and talk about some of the new stuff we are going to try and do in 2015, and some recent changes. Of course, there’s always work being done across the various site sections. First, we are turning our film pages into film guides. Hopefully they […]
Woody Allen’s three stand-up albums from the 60s are being reissued in a new 2CD package this November. The new edition, called ‘The Stand-Up Years: 1964-1968‘, features material that has not appeared on CD before, and other bonus material. The new title will be released by the label Razor & Tie. It collects together the […]
With the imminent release of Magic In the Moonlight in Europe, Allen has been doing a new round of press. Allen was in Paris last week and some of the new interviews are starting to surface. First up is a great interview in Time Out. It was accompanied by many new shots from behind the […]
Our twice monthly wrap up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. The wonderful comedian and impersonator Bill Hader has made a remarkable list – 200 comedies everyone should see. There’s lots we’ve not seen and we have a whole slew of films to hunt down. XO Jane has the amazing list, as well […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our video of this week was featured on FilmFestivals.com and was posted on the occasion of International Kissing Day. Opening with a lovely set piece of “I’m Through With Love” from Everyone Says I Love You sung by Allen himself. Then it’s a romantic montage of Allen’s onscreen kisses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFapHDkEpU The video was put together […]
Antz takes the honour of being the most financially successful film in Woody Allen’s career. Made at a time when the idea of animation changed radically, Allen starred as an ant with big ideas to change his own station. This family friendly film still holds up, with a classic hero’s story and some pretty great […]
The Bullets Over Broadway Musical is but a week away from opening night, and the press is heating up. We’ve collected some pieces that take us behind the scenes. We have new interviews with Woody Allen, Susan Stroman, Marin Mazzie, Nick Cordero and more. The new Time magazine, which hits stands on 14th April, has a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Casting Director Marvin Paige passed away last Wednesday, due to injuries sustained in a car crash in Laurel Canyon. The Hollywood Reporter only vaguely says he was ‘believed to be in his late 80s’. Paige’s credits include many classic TV series – ‘General Hospital‘, ‘Lassie‘ and much more. Amongst the films he worked on were […]
The gang at Official Comedy have once again set their sights on Woody Allen. This time they’ve compiled a ‘supercut’ of every time someone says ‘making love’ in a Woody Allen film. And as you can imagine, there’s a lot of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2rG_xjFq9Q The thing about these supercuts and Woody Allen is he’s made forty […]
Our video of the week sounds raunchy, but it’s really a great sketch scene from 1969. It stars Allen with Candice Bergen, who went on to super stardom in ‘Murphy Brown‘. It is taken from ‘The Woody Allen Special‘ – a one off variety show. Even in 1969, Allen was working hard. He just kicked […]
Woody Allen did only a handful of interviews in June to promote Blue Jasmine, before shooting off to France to make his 2014 Film. One of those pieces, for Esquire, has just hit stands. We also catch up with an article in Variety. The Esquire piece is presented as a series of quotes, many of […]