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Woody Allen was one of the array of stars to appear in the new special from magician and illusionist David Blaine – called ‘Real Or Magic‘ – which aired on ABC this week. Allen has a keen interest in magic, and the two of them ended up in Allen’s bathroom for the trick. The trick […]
Huffington Post has managed to grab a lengthy, extended interview with Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Dice Clay, two of the stars of Blue Jasmine. It was a Q&A with Rob Feld, held after a screening of the film for award season voters. We haven’t heard much from Cannavale, so it’s refreshing to hear from him. […]
The gang at Official Comedy have once again set their sights on Woody Allen. This time they’ve compiled a ‘supercut’ of every time someone says ‘making love’ in a Woody Allen film. And as you can imagine, there’s a lot of them. The thing about these supercuts and Woody Allen is he’s made forty something […]
The real VOTW we wanted was the brief but excellent Woody Allen impression by Edward Norton on last week’s ‘Saturday Night Live‘. Norton of course appeared in Everyone Say I Love You (doing a little bit of a Woody Allen impersonation) and the sketch was part of the opening sequence and also featured Alec Baldwin […]
We’ve been revisiting Allen’s first burst of London films. It all began with Match Point, a massive turning point in Allen’s career, and our video this week is an interview with the primary cast – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode and Brian Cox – as well as Woody Allen himself. It […]
Our video of the week sounds raunchy, but it’s really a great sketch scene from 1969. It stars Allen with Candice Bergen, who went on to super stardom in ‘Murphy Brown‘. It is taken from ‘The Woody Allen Special‘ – a one off variety show. Even in 1969, Allen was working hard. He just kicked […]
VOTW: Woody Allen On I’ve Got A Secret, 1967 I’ve Got A Secret was a long running US panel game show. Started in 1952, they had Woody Allen on as a guest in 1967. Allen at this time was still in his standup comic phase, but was writing for Broadway (Don’t Drink the Water is […]
We never quite know how to handle the infamous scandal that engulfed Woody Allen’s life in 1992. For many people, even 20 years on, it is still the only thing that many people know about Woody Allen. The controversy involving Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn is a messy and complex affair. There are so many […]
UK press continues on this, the opening weekend of Blue Jasmine in the UK. We’ve collected a couple of the new interviews for our Video(s) Of the Week. Our first was posted by the UK distributor for ‘Blue Jasmine‘, Warner Bros. Most interesting from this is how specific the inspiration for Jasmine seems to be. […]
Blue Jasmine starts to roll out across Europe, and since the US release, there’s been several new clips released. The clips feature every member of the main cast – Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Louis CK, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay and Michael Stuhlbarg. There are several clips in this batch we […]
This fantastic 15 minute interview with Allen was conducted by reporter and critic Bobbie Wygant, who is a bit of a southern belle. It’s wonderful to see Allen both as master filmmaker (as he is by now), but still cheeky and in talk show mode. The interview was done to promote Allen’s latest film, A […]
This one was too good to pass up, so we decided to have a second Video Of the Week. It’s Woody Allen on BBC Newsnight, and it’s amazing to see Allen being interviewed on such a mainstream, popular programme. The interview was conducted in France, around the time of the French premiere of Blue Jasmine. […]
A short video this week. Zach Braff is starring in the ‘Bullets Over Broadway Musical‘, based on Allen’s 1994 film. Tickets went on sale last week, and Braff recorded a short video to get people buying tickets. Braff of course was the star of the acclaimed TV comedy ‘Scrubs‘, as well as the writer and […]
Blue Jasmine has been out for a month in the US, and is starting to roll out around the world. There’s been plenty of interviews, more than we can cover, with the cast and Allen himself. This week, we are taking the chance to catch up on some of the video interviews, in our multiple […]
This week’s video is another super cut – a mix of scenes from various films. This one is all Woody Allen films and features dozens of actors before they were famous. Even we were surprised by some of these. Some of the cameos we simply didn’t spot. Watch the video before you see the full […]
RTE recently put up a nice video from their archives. The short clip is a news report from twenty years ago, when Allen visited Dublin. It’s only a couple of minutes long, and reporter Paul Reynolds asks the guests of the Shelbourne Hotel is they’ve seen Allen. It’s pretty interesting how much interest he caused, […]
Woody Allen’s career as a stand-up comic has been getting new attention, due to recent comments he made about possibly returning to the form. Our video this week is the best video we’ve seen of Allen’s early stand-up, in a mid 1960s appearance on the Dean Martin Variety Show. Many of the jokes appear on […]
A wonderful video from the CBC archives. Taken from 1967, it’s a profile of the artist before he ever made a single film. Allen at the time was writing, just starred in ‘What’s New Pussycat?‘ and ‘Casino Royale‘ and appearing as a comic talent on TV. The 12 minute profile follows Allen into his personal […]
We can’t believe we’re finally here. We’ve been covering Blue Jasmine for over a year. From tracking all the photos coming in from San Francisco last summer, to having the exclusive on the film’s name from a French tweet, it has been quite a year. And today, ‘Blue Jasmine’ is finally released into cinemas in […]
A really wonderful video this week. It’s a one hour long interview with Allen hosted by Mark Kermode, done for the annual David Lean Lecture, and held at BAFTA. The long interview was done shortly after Match Point in 2005, but Kermode is such a fan, and revelations come from films such as Sweet And […]