Woody Allen News

The Robinson Film Center's seated-dinner-and-a-movie event, called Cinema Bistro, returns Wednesday with a showing of Woody Allen's 'Annie Hall.' The 1977 classic new York romance, an Academy Award winner for best picture, also stars Diane Keaton, Shelley Duvall and Paul Simon.

Being Jewish on Christmas isn't nearly as bad as you think. Christmas in the U.S. is so secularized that most of our cultural associations with yuletide cheer have far more to do with embarrassing sweaters, pine trees and reindeer than with the birth of Jesus Christ .

NOTE : This article compares Woody Allen's 1983 mockumentary, Zelig, and author Amy Hempel's short story "The Harvest" When the following article cites a quote or idea in "The Harvest" the parenthetical citation is .

Burly, bearded Zac Brown and his band play Sunset Cove Amphitheatre on Saturday .

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Cinematographer Gordon Willis has an impressive resume. He's the creative eye behind eight of Woody Allen's most iconic films , to say nothing of the Godfather trilogy and All The President's Men.

Howard Kissel writes the Sunday "Cultural Tourist" column and does reviews of art and classical music.

Cool Site of the Week: The art of bonsai project . It's an effort by bonsai enthusiasts to inspire others through these photo galleries to take up bonsaiing as a hobby.

As it turns out, the surrealistic "Cold Souls" - the latest installment of the Visalia Independent Film Series - did originate as a dream, one that writer/director Sophie Barthes had after watching Woody Allen's futuristic comedy "Sleeper" . Paul Giamatti stars as an actor - also named Paul Giamatti - and his sad-eyed expression is an ideal match ...

A weird mixture of the standard Ken Loach film with standard Hollywood fare . Where Woody Allen had a Bogart simulacrum do this in Play It Again, Sam, postman Steve Evets has his football hero, Eric Cantona.

If you're into classic stop-motion cheese , The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a must on Saturday for the terrific Ray Harryhausen effects, but of course check your brain at the door.

Woody Allen long has been known for his wry wit and sad-faced delivery of intellectual humor that - while a little offbeat - is really quite funny if you're paying attention.

By Thomas Hochwarter Woody Allen will come to Austria in March to perform with his jazz group, it was announced today .

Derby season's just begun and already somebody is griping about awards a ' Jonathan Chait , senior editor of The New Republic, who quotes a line from Oscar best picture champ of 1977 in his recent article: "Nearly every field of human endeavor has a regular prize.

In an iconic scene from the Oscar-winning "Annie Hall," the movie screen splits to reveal separate counseling sessions in which troubled lovers Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are being asked how often they sleep together.

This week, Californication takes several TV and movie cliches - saying goodbye to a loved one at the airport, the visit from an old high-school friend, even the crass sight gag of sex with midgets - and turns them on their heads, with mixed results.

I am sick of writing about Roman Polanski -- and I wouldn't be hurt to learn that you were sick of reading about him.

Woody Allen's latest, "Whatever Works," was originally written in the 1970s and covers many of the themes the actor-comedian-writer had on his mind in those days a ' women , old movies and music, the charms of hometown Manhattan and the impermanent and ephemeral nature of love.

Antonio Banderas , Josh Brolin , Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts are signed on to star in a new Woody Allen film, titled, "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger". Reuters reports that the new movie, 'revolves around different members of a family, their tangled love lives and their attempts to try to solve their problems.' "You Will Meet A Tall Dark ...

BEBINGTON Dramatic Society presents Woody Allen's romantic comedy Play It Again, Sam at the Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight from November 12-14. The play is about Allan Felix, who writes for a film magazine and whose life is dominated by the silver screen.