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5 Films (And A TV Show)… A new series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! Allen takes us back to another era of entertainment, comedy and music with Broadway Danny Rose. […]
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A new series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! Annie Hall’s acclaim never seems to dull. Regarded as one of the greatest films of all […]
There’s always a problem with writing books about Woody Allen – he’s bound to make your work out of date. Now we have ‘Woody: The Biography‘, a new profile on Allen that brings us up to date. In fact, there probably has not been a career long overview since Eric Lax‘s ‘Conversations With Woody Allen‘ […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Larry Brezner has died. Brezner was a manager and producer of many films, and he also worked with Woody Allen’s longtime managers Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe. Brezner was instrumental in the careers of Billy Crystal and Robin Williams (who […]
Jack Rollins, Woody Allen’s manager for over 50 years, passed away this week. It was extremely sad news. His name still graces every Woody Allen film to date. We now have details on the memorial service, for anyone who wishes to attend. It will be: Wednesday 24th June, 4pm Riverside Memorial Chapel 180 W 76th […]
Jack Rollins, the man who has nurtured and shepherded the career of Woody Allen from almost the beginning, has died. Rollins passed from natural causes in his New York home. For most of his long career, Rollins was partnered with Charles H. Joffe. Together the pair managed the careers, or discovered, of some of the […]
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, […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. As usual, when there is big news, it’s a bit quiet in this column. Joe Franklin, the legendary talk show pioneer, has passed away. Franklin hosted the The Joe Franklin Show in New York since 1962, and started his career […]
A very big edition of news bits – our twice monthly wrap up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Mordecai Lawner has passed away. The actor, who played Woody Allen’s father in Annie Hall, was aged 86. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety has a write ups. So we could easily have called this the […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Not a lot this time as there’s plenty of main Allen news happening. The Paley Center For Media (the centre that houses Men Of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story) recently paid tribute to the recently departed Sid Caesar. Allen worked with Caesar […]
News bits! Our twice monthly wrap up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Rosemary Murphy has passed away. The actress worked on many films from the 1962 classic ‘To Kill A Mockingbird‘ to 2007’s ‘Synecdoche, New York‘. She also worked with Allen three times – September, Don’t Drink the Water and Mighty Aphrodite. […]
News bits. Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Legendary composer Philip Glass are one of the very few people who have created an original score for a Woody Allen film. Famous for his use of jazz, Glass was comissioned to write the score for Cassandra’s Dream. In a […]
Our video of the week captures an interview with Woody Allen in 1967. Held at The Bitter End, the classic folk and comedy club in New York, and recorded for television, it features Woody Allen talking about his stand up. The host is Fred Weintraub and it starts with Woody Allen meeting the first guest, […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen news from around the web! We started last year, and looks like we will every year, by wishing Diane Keaton a happy birthday for 5th January. Will McCrabb always posts great, unseen pics, and posted two great ones of Keaton. As good a way as […]
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 […]
News Bits: Our twice monthly round-up of Allen news from around the web. It’s a relatively quiet couple of weeks for news bits, but here’s what we have. Buzzfeed have picked up on a new Woody Allen map. There have been many guides to Woody Allen’s New York, but this is by far one of […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Diane Keaton has stayed in the press these last couple of weeks, whilst doing press for ‘The Big Wedding‘. An interview with Saga magazine caught her reflecting on her career with Woody Allen. Anything I’ve done is based on Annie […]
Deconstructing Harry is one of Allen’s harshest films. Prostitution, kidnapping, infidelity, betrayal. Ironically, this is his first film after his deal with the cutting edge Miramax. There’s even casual use of the word cunt. But that harsh surface obscures some pretty astute comedy. But that comedy also covers up a by the numbers story. Woody […]