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Synecdoche, New York: Crisis of faith

Synecdoche, New York: Crisis of faith

14 May 2009

‘How many roads must a man walk down / before you call him a man?’ Is Bob Dylan’s most famous protest song really a surrealist riddle? What’s the road made out of, and will it hurt the tender soles of my feet? That’s the thing about the Jewish…

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

(2 stars)5 Feb 2009

COMEDY/ROMANCE Another year, another execrable Woody Allen film. Our bankrupt Icelandic friends have a proverb for this kind of thing – ‘mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.’ Young Americans Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina…

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Woody Allen's LA hate

Celebrity Gossip

16 Aug 2008

Woody Allen can't handle being in Los Angeles. The 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' director - who has never hidden his love of his home city of New York, and even directed a movie called 'Manhattan' - admits he feels like a "fish out of water" in the…

Woody Allen's kiss disinterest

Celebrity Gossip

8 Aug 2008

Penelope Cruz says Woody Allen "couldn't care less" about the lesbian kiss between her and Scarlett Johansson. Instead, the director was more concerned about a mark on his hand while they were filming the scene for new movie 'Vicky Cristina…

Woody Allen's cash complaint

Celebrity Gossip

6 Jun 2008

Woody Allen says Robert De Niro snubbed a chance to work with him because the director couldn't afford his huge wage demands. The Oscar-winning filmmaker singled out De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman as actors who had turned him down over…

Indiana Jones premieres at Cannes

24 Apr 2008

The line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and the most widely-anticipated premiere isn't even in competition. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will receive its first screening at the festival, with…

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Woody Allen - Cassandra's Dream

Glasgow Film Festival

14 Feb 2008

With those thick-rimmed glasses, that wisp of brown hair and the deeply cut grooves in his forehead, Woody Allen owns one of the most iconic faces in American cinema. These days, at 72, it’s a little more wizened and walnut-like – presumably from all…

Mere Anarchy

(4 stars)2 Jul 2007

COMIC TALES Back in the day, the artist formerly known as Allan Konigsberg appeared hell-bent on making one classic comedy movie after another. He also seemed to find time to knock up a trio of books with silly stories, philosophically daft musings…

Manhattan

(12A) 95min

(4 stars)23 Nov 2006

NEW PRINT In 1979 at the age of 44 years old Woody Allen made his one true masterpiece. Wonderfully enjoyable films - Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Love and Death and Annie Hall were behind him and there was much to follow. But in Manhattan Allen…

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