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With less than two weeks to go until they release the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine, Sony Pictures Classics has released a new clip featuring comedian Louis C.K. They also held a series of press screenings throughout the US (Boston, Philadelphia, etc) and we’ve rounded up more initial reactions as we wait for fuller […]
News bits – our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits around the web. Kind of a quite two weeks – maybe it was the holiday, maybe it was everything else going on in Allen-land! Jeff Daniels has been on the press circuit, promoting season 2 of ‘The Newsroom‘. But the subject of Woody […]
Briefly: Woody Allen and his team have been out in the streets of Nice the past couple of nights, shooting his 2014 film. The currently untitled comedy stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone, and the team were in the French town of Nice, in front of the beautiful Opera House. We have pictures from both […]
Woody Allen and team have spent a second night shooting outside Nice Opera in the south of France, for his 2014 film. We have a few more photos and a video snippet which once again show big crowds, dramatic setting, and a smidgen of Colin Firth. First from @The_Crystal Ship We can see Darius Khondji, […]
With less than two weeks to go until Blue Jasmine gets it’s first release in the US, we have more images, a great locations guide and more reactions from recent press screenings. Even more pictures! This latest selection features Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard and one quite arty shot of Allen himself. San Francisco […]
Filming for Woody Allen’s 2014 film has apparently gone on all week, but it is only today that we have the first photos from the new production. Allen and his team were in Nice last night, shooting at the grand Nice Opera. One of our readers Liz left this in our comments: Yes! We saw […]
The L.A. Times have published a new, lengthy piece on Woody Allen. Written by Marc Olsen, it features plenty of discussion about the new film Blue Jasmine, as well as new quotes from Cate Blanchett, Andrew Dice Clay and Woody Allen himself. Some quotes and highlights: Olsen does a great job tying together Allen’s recent […]
Just in time for our video of the week! Entertainment Weekly has nabbed an exclusive clip from Blue Jasmine, our first real extended look at Woody Allen’s latest. The scene is almost one shot, featuring a taste of Cate Blanchett‘s portrayal of Jasmine that’s been getting so much buzz, as well as co-star Sally Hawkins. […]
Sony Pictures Classics just held a press screening for Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen. As a result, reactions and reviews are coming in through twitter – and they are overwhelmingly positive. Most of the postivity is around Cate Blanchett‘s performance. But the overall film seems to be a winner, with Sally Hawkins […]
Some news bits coming in from the countries that are releasing Blue Jasmine, the Woody Allen film, shortly after the US. More pictures, reviews and trailers coming through. Romanian site CinemaRX has heaps of new photos. We assume they are from the Romanian distributor who are releasing the film there on 30th August. The new […]
We haven’t been able to get our hands on it, but Nice-Matin have an exclusive new interview with Woody Allen. Their website has been promoting it, but if anyone can send us the full interview, we would much appreciated. The French newspaper covers the territory that Woody Allen, Emma Stone and Colin Firth are calling […]
Big news for us this week was the confirmed offer of money from Sweden for Woody Allen to make a film there. Allen has deep affection for Sweden and it’s film history, in particular the works of Ingmar Bergman. We have previously posted one interview with Allen about Bergman for UK TV. This one, from […]
We are now three weeks out from the premiere of Blue Jasmine, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. This week we have a couple more images, outtakes from the recent Wall Street Journal article and a chance to see the film early in Toronto. The film, starring Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, is […]
Hollywood Ending, and this period of Woody Allen’s career, is widely regarded as a low point. Another light comedy, Allen returns to Hollywood’s abuse of art as a victim of his barbed wit. Unfortunately it’s a joke that drags on for too long, although it’s peppered with many good moments. Woody Allen stars as Val […]
The last decade of Woody Allen’s career has been marked by location. His embracing of Europe and her cities have breathed new life into his films. This leads to many cities wanting to draw Allen to them. In a new report from Sweden, they are the closest having made an offer to the director. News […]
Production starts next week on Woody Allen’s 2014 film – a 1920s comedy set in the south of France. As expected, we got a big cast update today, with five more names added to the cast. Announced today are: Eileen Atkins is a mainstay of British TV and Cinema. Her recent credits include Ridley Scott‘s […]
Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen, opens in just over three weeks in the US. We now have more official images, including a poster from Sweden. Plus more positive chatter coming in from social media and a Hong Kong release date. Firstly, the official site has updated it’s gallery, adding five new photos we have […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits around the web. We were sad to hear of the passing of James Gandolfini this month. We loved him in ‘The Sopranos‘ and dozens of film roles. Amongst our faves – his starring role in John Turturro‘s ‘Romance And Cigarettes‘, his vulnerable voice performance in Spike […]
We recently added a new section of the site – Albums. Over the course of however long we run this site, we will continue to add to it. We’ve started with Allen’s three classic stand up albums from the 60s – Woody Allen, Woody Allen Volume 2 and The Third Woody Allen Album. We will […]
Briefly – Sony Pictures Classics has released another new image from Blue Jasmine, the 2013 film from Woody Allen. Although we’ve seen plenty of official photos, this is only the second one to show Woody Allen himself on set, this time with the two biggest stars of the film – Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin. […]