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Four! Who’d have thought. It’s been a lot of fun running this website. What started as a little project to learn a little more about websites became a thing that four years later still exists. This really shouldn’t have gotten past the talking-about-it-at-a-pub stage. This is still a one man show. Every word in this […]
Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, is out right now – if you live in France. This week we also got our first details of release dates in three other countries – Australia, UK and Russia. eOne Australia, Allen’s Australian distributor for many years, confirmed in a newsletter that the […]
Woody Allen and his cast for Café Society has generated a lot of press in the last several days (to say the least) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Here’s a big wrap of various videos, links and photos – there’s so much of it, it is frankly hard to keep up. Blake Lively and […]
Café Society has kicked off the 69th Cannes Film Festival. The official Cannes YouTube channel has now put up videos of Allen and the stars in interviews, photocalls and the press conference. You can watch it all right now. Allen’s at Cannes with Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Kristen Stewart and Corey Stoll. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro also […]
Café Society has screened at the 69th Cannes Film Festival – it was the prestigious opening night film. There was a red carpet gala featuring Allen and many of the film’s stars, as well as plenty of other guests arriving for the festival. Flanking Allen are Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Kristen Stewart and Corey Stoll. […]
It’s all happening in Cannes, as the 69th Cannes Film Festival has kicked off. Having scored the prestigious opening night film, Café Society is the first film to get the traditional Cannes photocall treatment. We now have the first pics, and we’ve learnt that Blake Lively is quite tall. Images come from Cannes Film Festival’s Facebook […]
Café Society, the newest film written and directed by Woody Allen, just premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. And twitter are weighing in with the verdict almost immediately. The first reactions are very positive. Let’s start with UK critic Robbie Collins, one of our favourite critics and second bassoonists. https://twitter.com/robbiereviews/status/730333002346201088 And friend of the […]
We are now counting down the hours until Café Society, the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. Being the prestigious opening night film, many film trades are covering this important event on the film calendar. Following The Hollywood Reporter‘s cover feature of Allen, US trade mag Variety […]
Lots and lots of news coming out for Café Society in the days leading up to its world premiere on 11th May. All eyes are on the Cannes Film Festival, Allen has been in France doing interviews. The new interview from France TV. We can’t embed the video, but you can watch it on their […]
We are just a couple of days from the premiere of Café Society. We now have our first proper clip from the film, and it features two of the film’s primary stars Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart. The short scene has the two, Vonnie and Bobby, getting to know eachother. Bobby with […]
Kristen Stewart is loved in France, and she’s been happily promoting her new film with Woody Allen, Café Society. We got our first official video interview with her now. Stewart spoke to Canal+, about working with Woody and the new film. It’s dubbed in French, but hey, it is still our video of the week. A […]
We are less than a week away from the world premiere of Café Society, the newest film written and directed by Woody Allen. We have more cool stuff, including a press kit, images and character cards. Press kits are always full of information, about the conception and the production of the film. They are also […]
Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, opens in France in just a week. In the lead up, we are starting to see some interviews with French press for both Allen and stars Kristen Stewart. Along with the articles, there are new photos. Note that some of this comes from Google […]
We are just under two weeks before the world premiere of Café Society, the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen. It will open the Cannes Film Festival on 11th May, and we are starting to get more publicity for the film. We now have posters up around France, new magazine covers and more […]
This is more like it. Lionsgate has moved the release date of Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film will now be released a month earlier in July, and will get a more traditional platform release. The film will be out in limited release on 15th July 2016. This usually […]
Jesse Eisenberg made his presence known at this year’s CinemaCon. Not only did he pick up the conventions Male Star Of the Year Award, he had many films to talk about, from Now You See Me 2 to, of course, Woody Allen’s Café Society. At a press conference, Eisenberg was asked about working with Allen […]
This is part 2 of our shot-by-shot breakdown of the trailer for Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. Check out the trailer if you’ve not seen it. Find part 1 here. Now Schneider is giving Bobby some advise. Anna Camp. She’s talking to Bobby. This scene was recently shown at […]
The trailer for Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, was released yesterday. As usual, here’s our shot-by-shot breakdown of what we learnt from the trailer. There could be some really minor spoilers so if you really don’t want to know anything, get the hell outta here. Check out the trailer if […]
Following on from the poster and the trailer, we now have the first US date for Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. It will play at the 42nd Seattle Film Festival (SIFF), and like in Cannes, it has been given the prestigious opening night slot. The festival, and the film, […]
Café Society is the new film written and directed by Woody Allen. Today, we got the poster. And it looks gorgeous. Click on it for a bigger version. It’s Woody Allen’s good old Windsor Light Condensed font. The cast’s big star names have not changed, and written in alphabetical order – Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, […]