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...
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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....
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Woody Allen falls into one of the most rarified categories of artist: the auteur filmmaker whose vision pervades every aspect of his work. Allen is also one of the most recognized cinematic figures of...
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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...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Leonard Fleischer
For all of its borrowings from silent film and Keystone Kops harum scarum, Allen's art is often very private and parochial, emerging paradoxically out of a c...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Ted Whitehead
For two years, reviewing theatre and cinema, I've managed to avoid the use of the word 'Art', because I believe that the word has come to signify l...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Young
Woody Allen, since 1971, if no farther back, had thirsted to make what he thought of as a "European" film, preferably in the monastic style of Ingmar Bergm...
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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,"...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
Woody Allen is deeply fascinated and affronted by the reign of jargon. Sociologists who write about the death of the word in America must have tin ears; American wi...
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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...
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Woody Allen is one of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969. He was born at 10:5...
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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 ...
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Allen, Woody (1935—)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
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