Woody Allen Summary

Allen, Woody (1935—) Woody Allen is as close to an auteur as contemporary popular culture permits. While his style has changed dramatically since the release of Take the Money and Run (1969), h... Read more

Woody Allen (born 1935) has been one of America's most prominent filmmakers, with a series of very personal films about the subjects that have always obsessed him: sex, death, and the meaning of life.... Read more

Woody Allen is one of the most prominent and important figures in contemporary film comedy. As his career has progressed, he has evolved from stand-up comic to talented writer and director, to sophist... Read more

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael Woody Allen appears before us as the battered adolescent, scarred forever, a little too nice and much too threatened to allow himself to be aggressive. He has the city-w... Read more

Critical Essay by Molly Haskell [Woody Allen] has encouraged a "just fun" attitude toward his films while stealthily adding more elaborate sketches to his repertory in order to invite co... Read more

Critical Essay by Tim Pulleine The increasing directorial ambition evinced by Sleeper and Love and Death probably made it only to be expected that Woody Allen would seek to direct a movie not centred ... Read more

Critical Essay by Joan Didion Self-absorption is general, as is self-doubt. In the large coastal cities of the United States this summer many people wanted to be dressed in "real linen,"... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Combs For all the panache with which Woody Allen dashes off sight gags and cinematic puns (everything from Potemkin to Casablanca), his visual and verbal humour have always j... Read more

Confusion best describes my reaction right after I've seen Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda and Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare. The essence and the objective of the two movies were not met and ... Read more