Features
Friday, August 3 2012
What Is Summer in New York Without Woody Allen?
Woody (and Penelope, and Alec, and Ellen, and Greta) on Woody: The director and cast of To Rome With Love talk fame, fans, and Fellini.
Friday, February 17 2012
Love, Death and Bananas: The Early Woody Allen
Woody Allen's early career is a window into his development both as a filmmaker and as an artist. Rarely are an early filmmaker's works so rewarding, where even the most lighthearted farces can be poignant and brilliant, even for a moment.
Monday, January 23 2012
The 40 Best Films of 2011
2011 was a year of good, not necessarily great, films, though the amazing choices by our staff might argue against such a overall cinematic classification.
Tuesday, January 17 2012
The Best Female Film Performances of 2011
It was a monumental year for women in film as our selections for 2011's best female performances indicate... over and over and over again.
Thursday, October 20 2011
For Whom the Buzz Stolls: An Interview with Midnight in Paris' Corey Stoll
Actor Corey Stoll breezed in to steal Midnight in Paris out from under his co-stars and now, headed into awards season, his memorable characterization of legend Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's most successful film to date feels decidedly poised to enter the Supporting Actor race.
Columns
Thursday, July 19 2012
In Defense Of... Woody Allen's Recent Work
Before you jump to conclusions about Woody Allen's latest, To Rome with Love, take a second to consider exactly what it is you are criticizing. Is it the man or is it the man's reputation?
Tuesday, February 28 2012
'A Moveable Feast' in 'Midnight in Paris'
Ernest Hemingway compared Paris to a moveable feast because no matter what time it is, Paris is always the magnificent city of lights. Woody Allen expands upon Hemingway's testimony in the magical Midnight in Paris.
Reviews
Friday, June 22 2012
'To Rome with Love' is Redundant Woody Allen
John and Jack's relationship will serve to articulate the movie's fundamental theme, the same theme you've seen in every other Woody Allen movie: men want what they don't have.
Tuesday, February 14 2012
'Woody Allen: A Documentary', Like the Best of His Movies, Makes You Laugh and Breaks Your Heart
Woody Allen has been one of the most influential figures in cinema for more than four decades while remaining an enigma...until now.
Friday, May 20 2011
'Midnight in Paris': Prufrock's My Mantra!
Being in a Woody Allen movie, Carla Bruni is at once an French fantasy and a joke about that fantasy.
Wednesday, February 23 2011
Even the Best Laid Plans... 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger'
Woody Allen's characters struggle alone, searching aimlessly for that saving grace that makes it all worthwhile. Amidst all the despair, a bit of hope glimmers.
Wednesday, September 22 2010
'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger' Is a Woody Allen Re-Run
Beware the film that opens with a quotation from Shakespeare.
Blogs
Tuesday, February 14 2012
Woody Allen's Mock-doc 'Zelig' at Stranger Than Fiction on 14 February
"I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch." Thus Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) indicates his peculiarly…
Tuesday, August 2 2011
100 Essential Directors - Woody Allen
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
Friday, May 20 2011
Let the Golden Age Begin: Woody Allen's Parisian Affair
Allen's Midnight in Paris redefines the traditional summer film, and redefines the auteur yet again...but don't call it a comeback!
Monday, June 21 2010
Once You Go Geek...: She's Out of My League
When it comes to comedy's current cyclical nature, the dork is the new dreamboat, while the good looking loser is the lynchpin for every possible punchline.
Friday, June 12 2009
Whatever Works dir. Woody Allen (video clips)
Whatever Works Director: Woody Allen Cast: Larry David, Ed Begley Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Conleth Hill, Michael McKean, Evan Rachel Wood Opening: 19 June 2009 Distributor:…
News
Tuesday, January 10 2012
Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese receive nominations for DGA Award
LOS ANGELES — There’s only one newcomer to the feature film nominees announced Monday for the 64th annual DGA Awards: Michel Hazanavicius for “The Artist.”…
Tuesday, November 8 2011
Woody Allen is the (reluctant) subject of two-part PBS documentary
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Writer-filmmaker Woody Allen may be a private kind of a guy, but when it comes to deconstructing Woody, everybody’s eager to…
Thursday, August 4 2011
TCA 2011: Woody Allen finally lets down his guard for PBS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Woody Allen is one of America's most well-known and distinctive filmmakers, but he is also intensely elusive, a filmmaker who is…
Thursday, July 14 2011
Woody Allen again opts to film movie in Europe
Woody Allen, the Brooklyn-born director who defined New York for filmgoers with such hits as "Bullets Over Broadway" and "Annie Hall," is once again choosing…
Thursday, May 12 2011
Cannes Film Festival opening all about Woody Allen
CANNES, France — The world's premier film festival has commenced, and the late 1960s Jerry Schatzberg photograph of Faye Dunaway at the center of this…
