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Woody Allen 

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Composer
1935 - 
Born December 1, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Key Production Country: USA 
Key Genres: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Comedy Drama, Ensemble Film, Satire, Comedy of Manners, Comedy of Errors, Sophisticated Comedy, Psychological Drama, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Drama, Showbiz Comedy, Sex Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Mockumentary, Romance
Key Collaborators: Susan E. Morse (Editor), Santo Loquasto (Production Designer), Robert Greenhut (Producer), Mia Farrow (Leading Player), Carlo Di Palma (Cinematographer), Gordon Willis (Cinematographer), Diane Keaton (Leading Character Player), Alisa Lepselter (Editor), Mel Bourne (Production Designer), Dick Hyman (Composer)
Highly Recommended: Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Recommended: Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), Stardust Memories (1980), Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Radio Days (1987), Husbands and Wives (1992), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Small Time Crooks (2000), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Match Point (2005)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Woody Allen.Com ] [ A Woody Allen Page ] [ Another Woody Page ] [ Woody Allen Movies ] [ DGA Interview ] [ New York Sun Article (2006) ] [ Times Online Article (2007) ] [ Cineaste Interview (2008) ]
Books: [ Woody Allen on Woody Allen ] [ Woody Allen: A Biography (Eric Lax) ] [ Love, Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life ] [ Woody Allen: A Life in Film ] [ The Films of Woody Allen ] [ Woody from Antz to Zelig: A Reference Guide to Woody Allen's Creative Work, 1964-1998 ] [ Woody Allen: A Biography (John Baxter) ] [ Woody: Movies from Manhattan ] [ Woody Allen at Work ] [ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen: The Ultimate Quiz Book ] [ Woody Allen: Interviews ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Love and Death (1975), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Match Point (2005)
 
Manhattan (1979)Annie Hall (1977)Bullets Over Broadway (1994)Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
 
     
  "While most other recent screen comics have aimed their lamebrain, slapdash spoofery at teenage audiences, Allen Stewart Konigsberg, as he was born, has alone been consistent in catering to more adult tastes. His is a comedy increasingly defined by character: notably, his own." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)  
     
  "Allen's genuinely original voice in the cinema recalls writer-directors like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Preston Sturges, who dissect their portions of the American landscape primarily through comedy. In his creative virtuosity, Allen also resembles Orson Welles, whose visual and verbal wit, though contained in seemingly non-comic genres, in fact exposes the American character to satirical scrutiny." - Mark W. Estrin (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)  
     
  "Great comedians almost always portray little men attempting to cope with the trappings of a civilization that is a bit too much for them, and Woody Allen is no exception. His insecurities - physical, sexual and emotional - are truly of monumental proportions." - (The Movie Makers, 1974)  
     
  "Blends nightclub jokes, visual humor, and literary references into a wild sense of comedy. Has a good pictorial sense." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)  
     
  "If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right." - Woody Allen  
     
  "If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job." - Woody Allen  
     
 
 
 

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