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Woody Allen's To Rome With Love - trailer

Woody Allen's To Rome with Love - trailer

The director delivers another Europe-set ensemble piece, with Alec Baldwin, Ellen Page and more

4 Apr 2012

Woody Allen looks set to continue his love affair with Europe (following on from Midnight in Paris and Vicky Cristina Barcelona) with his latest release, To Rome With Love. The Eternal City forms a backdrop to various intersecting comedic tales…

Oscars 2012 - live blog

Oscars 2012 - live blog

The List's lead film critic Hannah McGill delivers a play-by-play account of the big night

28 Feb 2012

11.35pm The red carpet is underway. People nominated in obscure categories are meandering needily past the photographers, while publicists strop about holding signs that say things like ‘THIS PERSON HAS BEEN NOMINATED IN AN OBSCURE CATEGORY, PLEASE ACT…

Oscars 2012 - predictions

Oscars 2012 - predictions

Some of The List's film critics give their predictions on who'll win what at the Oscars

25 Jan 2012

Best Picture. The Artist; simplicity is the reason that is soars above the other Oscar bait. The Artist probably will win, as it has won pretty much everything else going. It deserves it - when was the last time a film came along that made everyone fall…

Comedian Carey Marx tells us about his heroes

Comedian Carey Marx on his heroes

Woody Allen, Lennny Bruce, Mitch Hedberg and Louis CK are among the former magician's idols

15 Nov 2011

When I started out in comedy I was a magician and my act largely consisted of pulling vegetables out of people’s ears. I didn’t have any heroes because there is a dearth of vegetable-based magic acts. As I moved into pure stand-up (I like to think what…

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris

Another warm and witty all-star comedy from Woody Allen

(4 stars)14 Sep 2011

(12A) 94min Midnight in Paris is one of the warmest and wittiest Woody Allen films in recent memory. The jaunty manner and literary bent are reminiscent of Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Allen invests what could be a New Yorker short story with a…

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Annie Hall
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Two decades before Sex And The City had its first orgasm, Annie Hall was laying bare the mores of modern, urban romance to devastating effect while also zoning in on the specific psyche of Allen Konigsberg: anti-Semitic paranoia, metaphysical angst, the search for true love. There's a highly charged on-screen electricity between Allen and Keaton, glorious vistas of the old New York and hilarious set pieces – Alvy fighting with lobsters, the scene of his childhood home below the rollercoaster…
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9 Jun To be confirmed Cameo, Edinburgh
11 Jul–12 Jul Wed 8.30pm; Thu 6pm
13 Jul 1pm 		Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Bananas
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The lad's second feature centres on a neurotic, wimpy, Jewish New Yorker (guess who plays this part?) who gets caught up in a South American revolution. The plot is a somewhat flimsy vehicle for Woody's wonderful one-liners, but there's a degree of cynical commentary on political power struggles.
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12 Jun To be confirmed Cameo, Edinburgh
Broadway Danny Rose
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Allen is on splendid form as manager of a stable of bottom-of-the-bill nightclub acts, who finally looks about to make it big when a fading crooner takes a sudden upsurge in popularity. Matters are complicated however by Mafia connections and a misplaced romantic involvement. Beautifully controlled narrative, sparkling screenplay and excellent performances make this one of the contemporary master's best.
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26 Jul 8.30pm
27 Jul–2 Aug Fri 6.15pm; Sat 3.15pm; Sun–Thu 6.15pm 		Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Crimes and Misdemeanours
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(4 stars) Accomplished Allen offering which effortlessly blends the Big Questions side of his art with the one-line wit we've taken for granted from him. Optician Martin Landau has a hit man bump off his unsettled mistress, while worthy documentary filmmaker Allen clashes with smug media tycoon Alda.
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1 Aug–2 Aug Wed 3.45pm & 8.40pm; Thu 6.15pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Hannah and Her Sisters
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An achingly funny, insightful and well cast celebration of some surprisingly upbeat romantic perambulations within a family circle as only Woody knows how.
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29 Jul–31 Jul Mon 3.45pm; Tue 8.40pm; Sun 6pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
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