Could Woody Allen be making a film to reflect our current times? Is it possible that one of his usually quite wealthy and well off characters may be forced to live in a rental unit? The times may be changing for the helmer who has spent his last few pictures gallavanting around London ("You Wil...
Read More »The big talk of the week has been Sight & Sound's once-every-decade greatest films of all time list as determined by critics from around the world. However, the publication also take the temperature from film directors, asking for greatest lists from 358 filmmakers around the world, and collating th...
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Read More »Just like clockwork, a new Woody Allen movie is in theaters, continuing the director's annual output he's keeping up for years and years now. And while "To Rome With Love" has been playing thus far in limited release, this weekend Sony Pictures Classics will launch it wide, an...
Read More »Once synonymous with New York City, Woody Allen in recent years has become known for his more international ventures that have left his passport stamped with a variety of ink, as he's filmed in London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome. But in a curious little bit of film trivia, the director headed to ...
Read More »Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love" managed a massive limited debut this weekend. It scored both the second best per-theater-average so far this year (after "Moonrise Kingdom") and the second best of Allen's career (after "Midnight in Paris").
Read More »“With Woody Allen, you have someone who is responsible for more memorable moments than anyone who’s ever been involved in films,” says Alec Baldwin, one of the stars of “To Rome With Love,” who joined various cast members and the director in New York City to talk with press with about the film. The ...
Read More »While Woody Allen is known for commanding starry, ensemble casts who will work for next to nothing to just to appear in his films, he's generally shied away from stunt casting. But doing the press rounds for his latest European trifle, "To Rome With Love" (read our review here), he reveals he once h...
Read More »The latest Woody Allen vehicle calls to mind an unexpected precedent.
Read More »Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love" had its stateside debut last night at the LA Film Fest, and American critics seem slightly more wooed by the director's latest loveletter to a foreign city than the Italians, but not by much. Review round-up below.
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