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Woody Allen has a new film out in the US. It’s called Rifkin’s Festival and it’s in select cinemas and VOD. Allen has never been one to do interviews, but he’s really taken to doing podcasts in recent years. Taken to in the sense that he went from zero to one or two a year. […]
In news as surprising and existentially troubling as anything else in current news, Woody Allen has announced he will be participating in an interview on Facebook. Allen will speak to Robert Weide on Facebook Live, from Allen’s official Facebook page, 17th May 2017 at 2pm New York time. That’s right. The man who doesn’t even use […]
Annie Hall turned 40 earlier in the week, and there was fair amount of articles. Here’s a wrap up of what we could find. Just like we did, Vanity Fair looked at the film that was originally envisioned. They spoke to co-writer Marshall Brickman and star Carol Kane. Brickman says the Victorian comedy story line […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 96th edition! Parker Posey is currently starring in Allen’s latest film – Café Society – and his one previous – Irrational Man. She is starring in the new Netflix film Mascots, and she spoke to the Guardian about it. […]
There is a lot of speculation that Woody Allen will be bringing his new film – Cafe Society – to 69th Cannes Film Festival, which happens in May this year. If true, it will be two years in a row – Allen brought his film Irrational Man to Cannes last year (Allen has pulled back-to-back […]
Vilmos Zsigmond has passed away. The legendary cinematographer was responsible for dozens of classic films including ‘Deliverance‘, ‘Close Encounters Of the Third Kind‘, ‘The Deer Hunter‘, ‘Heaven’s Gate‘ and more. He also worked three times with Woody Allen. He had the nickname Master Of Light. The three films that Zsigmond worked on are Melinda And […]
Woody Allen is 80! Apparently he didn’t celebrate but many others did on their behalf. Here’s a quick wrap of various articles, lists and tweets. Esquire revisited Allen’s appearances in their magazine over the years. They also compiled all the times they had Allen on the cover as well as looking at how Allen has […]
‘Woody Allen Film By Film‘ is a fantastic new book from UK film critic Jason Solomons. It is a comprehensive look at Allen’s film career – spanning all the films he wrote and directed, and taking us all the way up to date to this year’s Irrational Man. Solomons was one of the first people on […]
We are well into week 2 of production on Woody Allen’s 2016 Film and there’s plenty going on. More public filming, as well as some special guest visitors. Filming took place on Hermosa Beach, California. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart‘s characters take a stroll along the beach. There was then a costume change as they […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Michael Rapaport appears in the latest series of ‘Louie‘, the show created, written, directed and starring Louis CK (who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine). Rappaport worked with Allen on two films (Mighty Aphrodite and Small Time Crooks), and he […]
Woody Allen’s legendary manager Jack Rollins has turned 100. A very special party was held in his honour, and the Hollywood Reporter has some details. Allen, along with many others, were in attendance. Rollins has been managing Allen’s career pretty much from the beginning, and was later joined by Charles Joffe. Even to this day, […]
Robert Weide directed Woody Allen A Documentary in 2012, and since then has worked on a number of Allen related projects. The latest was supplying new audio interviews and liner notes to The Stand-Up Years 1964-1968 – a new collection of Allen’s 60s stand-up albums. In a new interview with the Huffington Post, he talked […]
A new project has just hit Kickstarter that has some great rewards for Woody Allen fans. Robert Weide, director of Woody Allen: A Documentary, has a new film project- a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut. A 30-year passion project, it has now been added to Kickstarter to get it over the line. Amongst the rewards are […]
A new compilation of Woody Allen’s 60s stand-up albums is out now in the US. Called The Stand-up Years 1964-1968, it features a number of bonus interviews conducted by Robert Weide in 2011, for his film Woody Allen: A Documentary. Much of that bonus material has appeared online as clips to help promote the new […]
A new compilation of Woody Allen’s stand-up material from the 60s has been released in the US. Called The Stand-Up Years, it collects allen’s three stand-up albums in their most complete form yet. It also has bonus features – interviews with Allen about his stand-up career recorded by Robert Weide (who directed Woody Allen A […]
We are wishing Diane Keaton a very happy birthday – she turned 69 on 5th of January. So much of what we love about Woody Allen comes from loving her and her work – and it’s probably true for a lot of people. Their friendship endures to this day. But how did it start? Our […]
A new compilation of Woody Allen’s stand-up is released next week. Called The Stand-Up Years 1964-1968, it collects the three stand-up albums Allen released in the 60s, with some new bonus features courtesy of Robert Weide, director of Woody Allen A Documentary. We have a new interview with Weide as well as the first review […]
The Stand-Up Years 1964-1968 is a new collection of Woody Allen’s stand-up albums from his pre-filmmaking years. We’ve already had one clip of the bonus materials. We now have a second taken from the new set. As reported, the new collection will feature interviews with Woody Allen, conducted by Robert Weide for Woody Allen: A Documentary. […]
Woody Allen’s three stand-up albums from the 60s are being reissued in a new 2CD package this November. The new edition, called ‘The Stand-Up Years: 1964-1968‘, features material that has not appeared on CD before, and other bonus material. The new title will be released by the label Razor & Tie. It collects together the […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round-up of Allen bits from around the world (wide web). Arthur Gelb has passed away. He was a longtime critic and editor at The New York Times. He was the first to cover many future superstars, from Lenny Bruce, Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen. The New York Times has a […]