Film Review: To Rome With Love (2012)
byBy this point in his career, Woody Allen’s European migration has visited many popular tourist destinations: London, Paris and Barcelona for example. Now, it…
Wednesdays with Woody
Wednesdays with Woody: Hollywood Ending (2002)
by“I would kill for this job but the people I want to kill are offering me the job.” Woody Allen’s third film with Dreamworks…
Wednesdays with Woody: The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
byIt’s hard to believe that The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is Woody Allen’s most expensive film with a budget of $26 million. Yes,…
Wednesdays with Woody: Small Time Crooks (2000)
byEx-con Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) convinces his wife, Frenchie (Tracy Ullman), to front a cookie store so that he and his friends can tunnel…
Wednesdays with Woody: Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
byThe beginnings of Sweet and Lowdown take root some thirty years before cameras would start rolling in the Fall of 1999. The story goes that…
Wednesdays with Woody: Celebrity (1998)
byFitting nicely in between Sweet and Lowdown and Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen’s Celebrity looks at the lives of a divorced couple Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) and his…
Wednesdays with Woody: Deconstructing Harry (1997)
byWoody Allen’s offbeat comedy Deconstructing Harry opened to 1997 Venice Film Festival. After failing to get Elliot Gould, Albert Brooks, Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Hopper…
Wednesdays With Woody: Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
byIn the introduction to his collection of reviews Francois Truffaut famously made the demand “…that a film express either the joy of making cinema…
Wednesdays with Woody: Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
by“Achilles only had an Achilles heel… I’ve got an Achilles body.” Seven years after being coerced into adopting a baby boy by his art-dealing…
Wednesdays With Woody: Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
by“With an intellect that big, you tend to create your own moral universe”.