Woody Allen News

Her father was Arthur Miller. Her husband is Daniel Day-Lewis. And her brother was a secret hidden from the world.

Sometimes a film comes along that its sole purpose is just to make you laugh. Well, Woody Allen directs Whatever Works set in New York and this film does just that.

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"Everything our parents said was good is bad -- sun, milk, red meat, college," Woody Allen's character in "Annie Hall" famously quipped.

A young chess player proves an unworthy opponent to Boris , the latest Woody Allen surrogate in Whatever Works.

T HE LOVE of the last word is the province of comedians; when you put someone down you want them to stay down.

Two weeks after the limited release of comedy Whatever Works , writer-director Woody Allen credits its star, Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star Larry David for the believability of the film's central character.

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Release Date: June 26, 2009 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy Run Time: 92 min. Director: Woody Allen Actors: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr., Michael McKean, Conleth Hill Whatever Works , the title of writer/director Woody Allen's latest comedy, sums up the philosophy of the film's main character, Boris Yellnikoff, and of ...

Ken Roberts, 99, an announcer whose urbane baritone introduced the long-running TV soap operas Love of Life and The Secret Storm , and who memorably parodied his dramatic delivery on the 1970s children's show The Electric Company , died June 19 at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here, with my review of a collection of films that will hopefully be making their way to you very soon in select venues that play the non-blockbusters. Enjoy... WHATEVER WORKS The story goes that more than 30 years ago, Woody Allen wrote the script that became WHATEVER WORKS for Zero Mostel to star in.

Jessica Miglio/Sony Pictures ClassicsLarry David plays a cynical genius in "Whatever Works,'' based on a script Woody Allen wrote for Zero Mostel three decades ago.

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Larry David is Boris Yellnikoff, physicist/chess tutor; Evan Rachel Wood is Melodie St.

Director Woody Allen was interviewed on the radio program Fresh Air the other day, and repeatedly insisted that, whatever his fans may think, the characters in his films bear no resemblance whatsoever to the real him.

The news, or at any rate the publicity, that Woody Allen had originally written Whatever Works for Zero Mostel and had only lately pulled the script out of a drawer and plugged in Larry David instead, might have given rise, among a few old-liners, to hopes of a return to the "funny Woody Allen," pre- Interiors, pre- Manhattan, pre- Stardust ...

Those endearing little quirks degenerate into insufferable pathologies, the funny stories become less funny with repetition, and in general the same old self-depreciating ironies and obsessive-compulsive hedges against mortality stop working.

Dona t let the coy, gentle voice fool you. Terry Gross , whoa s been interviewing folks on the radio since 1973, is a bulldog.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a lot better than any of those previous efforts, but it still falls some way short of being really good contrary to what a lot of critics are saying.