COUP DE CHANCE released in the US April 2024

Woody Allen’s latest film, Coup de Chance, has secured a US release. Allen’s 50th film will hit cinemas on 5 April 2024, followed by a digital release 12 April. The Hollywood Reporter has the story. The release comes from MPI Media Group, who released Allen’s last two films in the US – A Rainy Day […]

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Episode 25 – Wonder Wheel (2016)

Wonder Wheel is the 47th film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film stars Kate Winslet as Ginny, a former small time actress who has ended up a waitress at the faded Coney Island in the 50s. An affair with the local lifeguard Mickey (Justin Timberlake) can’t make her happy either, especially when her […]

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Episode 24 – Zelig (1983)

Zelig is the 11th film written and directed by Woody Allen, first released in 1983. Woody Allen stars as Leonard Zelig – the human chameleon. The film is presented as a documentary on his life in the 20s and 30s. This strange man who could take on the characteristics of the people around him. He […]

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Episode 23 – Interiors (1978)

Interiors is the 7th film written and directed by Woody Allen, first released in 1978. Diane Keaton, Mary Beth Hurt and Kristin Griffith play three sisters who barely get along. Their parents (father Arthur played by E.G. Marshall and mother Eve, played by Geraldine Page) have recently separated, leaving the daughters to deal with their […]

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Episode 22 – Whatever Works (2009)

Whatever Works is the 39th film written and directed by Woody Allen. ‘Whatever Works‘ sees Allen return to the US for the first time in many years. It was made amidst the writer’s 07/08 strike, when Allen was unable to make a new script, so he used one he had previously discarded, originally written for […]

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Episode 21 – Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Deconstructing Harry is the 27th film written and directed by Woody Allen, first released in 1997. Woody Allen stars as Harry Block, a cantankerous writer who is accused by the people in his life of using them in his work. Those in his life, many of them women, are also portrayed as their fiction selves. […]

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The Woody Allen Pages Podcast returns for season 3

The Woody Allen Pages podcast is back for 2023. Production had been dragging on this year, and with the announcement of a new Woody Allen film, Coup de chance, this season will be slightly different. I’m doing the thing that some TV studios like to do and I’m going to split a season in two. […]

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Douglas McGrath 1958-2022

Douglas McGrath, who frequently collaborated with Woody Allen and was an acclaimed writer, has died. He was 64. The news was broken by the accounts for Everything Is Fine, a play on Broadway that McGrath wrote and starred in, directed by John Lithgow. McGrath’s career really started when he wrote for Saturday Night Live in […]

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