Woody Allen News

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.

A man called "Zloz" stepped off the airplane, looking like a landscaper, because he was a landscaper.

Sounds like the punchline to a joke about a carnival fortune teller. Woody Allen has been quietly making his next film, and as per usual we've known almost nothing about it up until now.

The BBC is right to hold Nick Griffin to account on Question Time. Now the panellists must deftly expose the true nature of his politics "Has anybody read that Nazis are going to march in New Jersey, you know?" says Woody Allen's character in Manhattan .

Where's the Little Corporal? Muzeo's exhibit will help you sort out the truth from the tall tales about Napoleon In the graveyard of pop culture, Napoleon Bonaparte is often more sniggering caricature than formidable world leader: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton double-talk philosophy as they attempt to assassinate him in Love and Death ; his biggest ...

In Woody Allen 's 1971 political satire, "Bananas," a prisoner is forced listen, over and over, to the cast recording from the 1920s musical "No, No Nannette." The scene is good for a laugh.

The story is about Kieren McGrath, an Irish carriage driver in Manhattan, who is talked into becoming a male escort for some of the wealthy women on New York's upper east side.

The White House-Fox News tussle of the past 10 days makes you long for a real-life version of the classic movie-line argument scene in Annie Hall.

Is there anything more American than Chinese food? Remember that scene in " Manhattan " where Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway cozy up in bed in his cramped apartment with cardboard boxes of something in black-bean sauce while W. C. Fields plays on the television? Or the scene in "A Christmas Story" when the holiday meal is rescued by crispy duck? ...

Jonathan Parker's high art send-up practically begs crippling questions about its own existence: for instance, to whom is such a film supposed to appeal? A pretentious Manhattan art scene of cynical gallery owners and inflated avant-garde sculptors isn't material ripe for popular satire, and the few connoisseurs of the beaux arts with whom the film ...

Photo: Paul Schiraldi Aussie Ladette to Lady Nine, 9.30pm In the film Annie Hall , Woody Allen's character wonders whether he always falls for the wrong women; as a child he fell for the Wicked Witch while everyone loved Snow White.