Episode 3 – Bananas (1971)

Bananas is the 2nd film written and directed by Woody Allen, first released in 1971. Woody Allen plays Fielding Mellish, who is really just Woody Allen’s stock persona in the 70s – a cynical, smart-assed, New York guy. To impress a girl, he gets caught up in a revolution, and stumbles his way to the […]

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Every Cinematographer from Woody Allen’s Films – Gordon Willis, Carlos Di Palma, Darius Khondji, Vittorio Storaro and More

Woody Allen is the film critic’s darling, and outside of directors, the role that critics love to talk about is cinematography. And with Allen, rightly so. Allen himself has never been the most technically minded, or technically patient, filmmaker. Yet he is meticulous about making beautiful films. The result is Allen usually allows cinematographers to […]

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Official Woody Allen Website Relaunched

Woody Allen, who famously still writes his scripts on a typewriter, has relaunched his website – WoodyAllen.com. The old one was very old and outdated. The new version doesn’t add much content, but it looks much better. There’s a mailing list you can join with official Woody Allen news, and an archive of the big […]

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