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Another couple of major territories are releasing A Rainy Day In New York, the 48th film written and directed by Woody Allen. Releases are now set for Japan in July, Australia in August and New Zealand set to follow in September. A Rainy Day In New York is released in Japan on 3rd July. Released […]
As expected, the new Woody Allen film Rifkin’s Festival is set to have it’s world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival. It will be the 49th film written and directed by Woody Allen. The news was announced by the festival. Rifkin’s Festival will open the prestigious festival, and play out of competition. Which means […]
Alec Baldwin has posted a podcast interview with Woody Allen. It’s his first podcast interview for many years, and part of Baldwin’s regular Here’s The Thing. The wide ranging podcast has Allen discussing filmmaking, his new book Apropos Of Nothing, and yes, those allegations. Baldwin and Allen are, of course, no strangers. Baldwin has worked […]
The The Woody Film Guide Volume 3 is now out! And for the next five days it is free on Amazon’s Kindle service. It’s also out on paperback. The latest volume covers 2003 to 2019, and features comprehensive looks at all the films from Anything Else to A Rainy Day In New York. The book […]
Rifkin’s Festival is the upcoming 49th film written and directed by Woody Allen. According to José Luis Rebordinos, the director of the San Sebastian Film Festival, they are working with Allen and the producers to premiere the film at that festival later in the year. He is quoted in a new interview on noticias de […]
UPDATED: With links to interviews in The Guardian and the Telegraph. There’s a number of new Woody Allen interview in the UK, done to coincide with the UK release of A Rainy Day In New York. Here’s a round up of quotes, but more more on their sites. Published by The Mail On Sunday, the […]
The world is a funny place. Woody Allen, 51 years into his directing career, has achieved a new box office record, although under very strange circumstances. For the first time ever, one of his films has topped the global box office – the highest earning film on the entire planet for one week. It helps […]
Woody Allen is finishing post production on his new film, called Rifkin’s Festival. And we now have one more piece of the puzzle – who is supplying the music. Academy Award nominated Stéphane Wrembel is returning to work with Allen for the third time. Wrembel announced that he was back on Facebook. According to his […]
A Rainy Day In New York, the 48th film written and directed by Woody Allen, has opened in another country. Following the news of the UK, the film was released in Korea on 6 May 2020. Along with the release date comes a couple of wonderful new posters. We love these international posters, our favourite […]
The 49th film written and directed by Woody Allen now has a release date. Titled Rifkin’s Festival, the film has now been set for release on 25th September 2020 in Spain. The film stars Elena Anaya, Louis Garrell, Gina Gershon, Sergi Lopez, Wallace Shawn and Christoph Waltz. It tells the story of an American couple […]
Woody Allen’s 48th film, A Rainy Day In New York, is finally seeing a UK release. The film had been released in most countries outside the US, UK and Australia. This release won’t be in cinemas (which are closed in the UK). The release comes from Signature Entertainment, who hold the rights for several Allen […]
We have the first images of the 49th film written and directed by Woody Allen. Called Rifkin’s Festival, the images come as a Spanish distributor is announced. Deadline has the distribution story. Rifkin’s Festival was filmed in San Sebastián last year, and tells the story of an American couple’s romantic entanglements at the San Sebastián […]
Eddy Davis has passed away. Since the 80s, he has been the leader of Woody Allen’s jazz band, and a prominent musician in his own right. He played on Monday nights, leading the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band, for decades with Allen. He toured the world, with and without Allen, and was known as […]
We started this poll at the start of March and the world has changed since then! Not just the coronavirus, but Woody Allen announced his autobiography, his publisher cowardly turned tail, and then the thing got published anyway. Strange times indeed. But we asked you to rank the 9 films Woody Allen released in the […]
The legendary Max Von Sydow has died at the age of 90. He influence of cinema is incalculable. He starred in some of cinema’s greatest works. He inspired Woody Allen and the pair worked together once, memorably in 1986’s Hannah And Her Sisters. Von Sydow’s work with Ingmar Bergman are some of the finest films […]
Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson…Bobby Slayton? Comedian Slayton is fast becoming a Woody Allen favourite, working with Allen three times in the last four or so years. He had role in Allen’s series Crisis In Six Scenes and the film Wonder Wheel. He is also set to return in Allen’s upcoming film […]
It’s been years since we ran a poll and with every other site running polls, we decided for March to ask you to rank Woody Allen’s 2010s. Allen released 9 films in the ten years that made up the 2010s. They are 1. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010) 2. Midnight In Paris (2011) 3. […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 106th edition. First up – couple of fabulous women who had great roles in Woody Allen films have passed away recently. Lynn Cohen has died at age 86. She appeared in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and like her husband […]
We are producing a series of books about every Woody Allen film, and the second volume is now free on Amazon’s kindle service for the next five days. It’s called The Woody Allen Film Guide Volume Two: 1988-2002. It covers every Allen film in those years, from Another Woman (1988) to Hollywood Ending (2002). Each […]
Woody Allen is not afraid to cast unknown actors in significant roles – usually over more established names. One of the earliest examples of this was Broadway Danny Rose. Allen and his long time casting directing Juliet Taylor found Nick Apollo Forte and put him in a lead role. His family has now said that […]