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Posts Tagged "Woody Allen"

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A Rainy Day in New York ***½ (2019, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Liev Schreiber, Jude Law, Diego Luna) – Movie Review

Woody Allen’s 48th film A Rainy Day in New York is lightweight, lighthearted, likeable and thoroughly amusing and quite charming. It is very sweetly acted by its three young principals – Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning […]

Jul, 16

Alice *** (1990, Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, Keye Luke, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Bernadette Peters, Cybill Shepherd, Julie Kavner, Gwen Verdon, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8687

Writer-director Woody Allen’s enjoyable 1990 romantic comedy Alice once again stars Mia Farrow, as Alice Tate, an uptight rich New York City housewife who meets and falls for handsome sax player Joe Ruffalo (Joe Mantegna), […]

Jul, 09

Zelig *** (1983, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 3958

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1983 comedy is a smartly conceived but clumsily developed and largely unfunny fictional spoof documentary, or mockumentary, about a human chameleon nobody called Leonard Zelig (Allen). Zelig becomes a celebrity through being able […]

Jul, 01

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy **** (1982, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3957

The light comedy of manners A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy finds writer-director Woody Allen in playful, lyrical mood in 1982, toasting one of his inspirations, Ingmar Bergman, and especially his film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), […]

Jul, 01

What’s New Pussycat **** (1965, Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3891

Director Clive Donner’s 1965 comedy film is the quintessence of stylish, wacky Sixties nonsense. It is Woody Allen’s first film both as an actor and a writer, and stars Peter O’Toole as Michael James, an infamously compulsive […]

Jun, 19

September **** (1987, Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 3039

Writer-director Woody Allen’s powerful 1987 Ingmar Bergman-style movie is an intense, serious psychological drama from Allen in which six people (played by Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston and Jack Warden) try […]

Nov, 07

Irrational Man *** (2015, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley) – Movie Review

  Woody Allen without the laughs, anybody? Joaquin Phoenix stars as Abe, a depressive, super-brainy, middle-aged philosophy professor who ironically finds the fresh will to live and a new zest for life when he commits murder. It’s […]

Sep, 09

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