Woody Allen has been filming for the last week in and around Manhattan for his new, still untitled 2013 film. This continues on from last month’s filming in San Francisco. We previously reported filming on the Upper East Side of New York. Filming took place in Upper Nyack, where we finally got to see Alec […]
To Rome With Love UK and Ireland Reviews And Interviews
To Rome With Love, the new film starring, written and directed by Woody Allen, was released in the UK this week. Woody Allen did a fresh round of interviews for the UK press, who have also jumped in with their reviews. The Guardian has the best piece, written by Oliver Burkeman. The long piece covers […]
VOTW: My Little Red Book From ‘What’s New, Pussycat?’ For Hal David
A bit of fun this week. Lyricist Hal David passed away on 1st September 2012. Along with his partner Burt Bacharach, he penned many memorable songs including ‘(They Long To Be) Close To You‘, ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head‘, ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again‘, ‘Alfie‘ and dozens more. Possibly the last great sole […]
2013 Woody Allen Film Begins Shooting In NYC
Woody Allen has wrapped the San Francisco filming of his next film last month. This week he moved production to New York City, in particular his old haunt of the Upper East Side, as reported by Gothamist. Pics have started to appear on Twitter for the NYC shoot. Many of the announced cast did not […]
John Turturro Discusses Woody Allen And ‘Fading Gigolo’ At TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival (commonly called TIFF), is happening right now, and runs for another week. It’s one of the world’s biggest a best film festivals, where many films are bought and sold. One of those is writer, actor and director John Turturro, whose next film features Woody Allen. John Turturro has been doing […]
To Rome With Love September Releases – UK, Germany, Spain And More – Surpasses $50m
Woody Allen’s latest film, To Rome With Love, continues to roll out acrsso the globe. September sees it’s release in several big markets. It also passed another box office landmark this past week. The worldwide box office earnings for ‘To Rome With Love‘ currently sits at $51,491,755. As is standard for recent Woody Allen films, […]
VOTW: Woody Allen French Documentary From 1979
This week’s video has been doing the rounds on Twitter recently thanks to a recent write up on the website Dangerous Minds. It’s a one hour documentary about Woody Allen made for French TV in 1979. The wonderful video features some commentary in French, but there’s a lot of Woody being interviewed in English, in […]
August News Bits 2: NY Subway Tickets, Zelig, Emily Mortimer, The Newsroom, Dick Hyman, 1965 Resume, Annie Hall Edited, Robert Crumb
News Bits from around the web. Usually monthly but with so much going on, we had to do two this month! Artist Nina Boesch has paid tribute to some of the New York City’s icon with a part of New York itself. She has taken thousands of New York subway tickets and created new portraits […]
Woody Allen’s 2013 San Francisco Film Wraps – Photos, Video And More.
Woody Allen has wrapped shooting his next film in San Francisco. The untitled 2013 film (being made under the title ‘Woody Allen Summer Project’) has been shooting in San Francisco since 6th August. The final week saw Allen shoot in many more public locations, as well as what could be a number of reshoots. The […]
‘A Fascinating New Step’: Interiors – The Woody Allen Pages Review
Interiors is Woody Allen’s first serious work – a quiet drama about a family. It’s not only his first dramatic film – it’s his first dramatic ANYTHING. Years of stand up, playwriting, acting and writing comic short stories was put aside for 100 minutes. Allen has said that when he was young he realised he […]
VOTW: San Francisco ’68 – News Of Woody Filming Take The Money And Run
Woody Allen continued location shooting of his latest film in San Francisco this week. It’s been very exciting for the SF residents, who have been out in force, and with plenty of camera phones. It’s Allen’s second time directing a film in San Francisco. The first was, amazingly, 44 years earlier for his directorial debut […]
Crimes And Misdemeanors, Manhattan Declared Allen’s Best by Sight & Sound Director’s Poll
UK film magazine Sight & Sound has revealed the final part of their 2012 poll, by revealing all the votes from the hundreds of directors polled. They previously released the entire voting from critics – where Annie Hall was the highest voted Woody Allen film. The Director’s poll has two films tied for first place […]
2013 San Francisco Update – More Pics, Bobby Cannavale and Sally Hawkin’s Character
Woody Allen is wrapping up his third week in a row on location in San Francisco, filming his next, still untitled feature. We have more photos, a glimpse of Bobby Cannavale, and little bit more information on Sally Hawkins‘ character, and plenty of Soon Yi-Previn spotting. These past few days saw production continue at various […]
‘To Rome With Love’ Australian Premiere @ Italian Film Festival Closing Night
To Rome With Love, the latest film by Woody Allen, will premiere in Australia as part of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival. The festival runs from September til October in all five Australian capital cities. In Sydney and Melbourne, ‘To Rome With Love‘ will be the special closing night feature. The Lavazza Italian Film Festival […]
VOTW: Tony Scott Directed Woody Allen Commercial
We were sad to hear that director Tony Scott passed away on 19th August, 2012, in an apparent suicide. The much respected director specialised in action films. He will go down in history as the director of ‘Top Gun‘. He also has such hits as ‘Days Of Thunder‘, ‘Beverly Hills Cop 2‘, ‘Enemy Of the […]
‘The Best Woody Allen Film’: Annie Hall – The Woody Allen Pages Review
Annie Hall is a difficult one to review. We’ve seen this film so many times. For most people, it’s the first Woody Allen film you hear about, and the first you ever saw. It’s been with us long enough to inspire a love that led to a whole website. It’s considered the best Woody Allen […]
Site News: New Filming Locations Map – Including San Francisco
View Woody Allen Filming Locations in a larger map One of the aims for this site is to try and use new web tools in the world of Woody Allen. More cool features will come as we get to them, but today we launch our first – a Filming Locations Map. It’s still very much […]
2013 San Francisco Update – More Photos, Stars Spotted
Principal photography continues for Woody Allen’s next, still untitled film, set in San Francisco. There’s been plenty of San Francisco sightings of Woody Allen, and his cast and crew in recent weeks. This week was no exception as we got more photos thanks to people on the scene, and our first look at Sally Hawkins. […]
VOTW: Play It Again, Sam Trailer
Woody Allen is a couple of weeks into filming his latest, as-yet-untitled film in San Francisco. He has been spotted in public many times, with the city being very excited about having the director in town. It is not the first time Allen has been in a film shot in San Fran. His first film, […]
Annie Hall Declared Allen’s Best by Sight & Sound Critic’s Poll
Sight & Sound revealed the a number of lists last week – Greatest Films as voted by critics and by directors. No Woody Allen films made the critic’s 50, or the director’s 10. But Sight & Sound has now published the voting from all 800+ critics. A number of Woody Allen films have made the […]