Waiting for ‘Midnight in Paris’ or, Woody Allen at low ebb
Nicole Kidman was supposed to star in last year’s Woody Allen movie, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” but Kidman had to back out at the last minute due to schedule changes on “Rabbit Hole.” Lucky...
View Article‘To Rome With Love’: the remarkable survival of Woody Allen
His movies have been full of talk about death and the futility of life for 40 years, but Woody Allen has never let his morbid obsessiveness get in the way of his work ethic. Watching the charming but...
View ArticleThe year of Scarlett Johansson
Although she’s been a star for more than a decade, Scarlett Johansson didn’t do a lot for me as a movie actress until this year. I enjoyed her performances in “Lost in Translation” and “Vicky Cristina...
View Article‘Woody Allen’: coffee table book with substance
The British critic and journalist Tom Shone wrote the above-average text for an Abrams book on Martin Scorsese last year – it was a tribute that managed to recognize the wildly varying quality of a...
View Article‘Crisis’: minor, but funny Woody Allen
Woody Allen’s TV series debut, “Crisis in Six Scenes,” which was released for streaming via Amazon on Friday, received some of the most withering reviews the 80-year-old writer-director-actor has...
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