Woody Allen

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine Feels Like It Takes Place on Another Planet

Love, Actually: Our 2013 Couples Issue

Comments: Inking Again

To Rome With Love Review

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

Mah Jonng is Your Jongg

Midnight in Paris vs. The Moderns

Alan Rudolph did Paris in the 20s over 20 years before Woody Allen

Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band - Royce Hall - 12/29/11

Christina Limson O'Connell​ Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band Royce Hall 12/29/11 Better than...Francis Ford Coppola playing the tuba. Before the start of the European tour documented in the 1997 Woody Allen documentary Wild Man Blues, Allen tells his bandmates, "Theoretically this should ... More >>

Music Picks: Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Jane Monheit, Manhattan Murder Mystery

Also, Fishbone, Luciana Souza, Infected Mushroom and others

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Living the Vida La De Da

David Harrower's Blackbird

Four Movies Opening This Weekend, as Pirates of the Caribbean Scares Away Competition

​ As Cannes winds down and the movie world waits with baited breath to find out just what exactly the ramifications of being declared "persona non grata" for calling yourself a Nazi really are, it's a slow week for theatrical openings, headlined by two out-of-competition Cannes premieres. 4. ... More >>

Midnight in Paris Review

Owen Wilson's surreal adventure in Woody Allen's latest

Woody Allen Interview

The Midnight in Paris director on the dangers of "Golden Age" thinking, "that thing with Mia" and his latest film

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

Movie Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Please Give: It's Complicated

The star-studded class-crisis comedy reveals writer-director Nicole Holofcener's own contradictions

L.A.ndmarks: Mapping Local Scenes from '500 Days of Summer'

It was inevitable: A movie that is purportedly as much a love song to L.A. as was Woody Allen's Manhattan to the city of the same name had to produce its own map. And now here it is, courtesy of LAist, which lists and locates 500 Days of Summer's key L.A.-centric landmarks for our viewing and drivin ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The End of the Line, The Proposal, Whatever Works

Also, Daytime Drinking, Irene in Time and more

Whatever Works for Woody

Allen on life, actors, younger women and his 40th film

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

We Have a Budget L.A.'s City Council unanimously passed a $7.01 billion budget that compromises over the issue of freezing new police hires. L.A. Daily NewsMurdered Cop's Mom Shot A stray bullet fired during a West L.A. street altercation Friday entered a nearby home and struck the mother of Ricardo ... More >>

The Dov Boat: Woody Allen & American Apparel Settle for $5M

David Shankbone/WikepediaLos Angeles-based garment manufacturer American Apparel has made an out-of-court settlement with Woody Allen, the Associated Press reports. Allen, the idiosyncratic film maker of Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had sued the company, owned b ... More >>

Woody Allen's Ticking Bomb Scenario

Just when you thought the war of legal words between filmmaker Woody Allen and American Apparel's Dov Charney couldn't get any more bitter, it appears that AA plans to add even more vitriolic verbiage to the mix. Specifically, from Mia Farrow, whom the company's attorneys plan to call to the witness ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

They Vant to Be Alone! The D.A.'s office is examining "dozens" of secrecy-obsessed county agencies accused of violating transparency and open-meeting provisions of the Brown Act. L.A. TimesIt Was the Best of Times . . . After a long profit slide, Commerce-based 99 Cents Only stores are making out li ... More >>

Just Don't Say "Jew Zealand"

Big-Name Directors Create Buzz at L.A. Opera

Allen and Friedkin tackle Puccini; Cronenberg helms The Fly

Puccini Goes Bananas

Woody Allen's European Vacation: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

He lived the young man's dream in Spain; next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera

Bardem Farce: Javier Makes Whoopee With Scarlett, Rebecca and Penelope

is Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director

Nymphony in 12-D

Adrift in Cassandra's Dream

Allen's latest casts him in uncertain waters

Eric Lax’s Conversations With Woody Allen

The how but not the why

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I did this for a review of Eric Lax's new collection of interviews with Woody Allen, Conversations with Woody Allen.

What, Him Worry? (Why Yes, Actually)

For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie

Whistling in the Wind

Our readers write

Still a Working Stiff

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

Double Fault

Match Point’s moral melodrama

Letters

Web Exclusive: Does Woody Allen Just Write Like Rick Moranis?

Startling similarities in their Disney parodies

I, Bug

On Spider-Man and Woody Allen

Repo Men

Silent Bob and the Woodster

Thieves Like Us

Populist morality in Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks

Buzzed

The Toronto International Film Festival

To Be Young, Different and/or Black

The Atrocity Exhibition

Notes on Happiness and Hollywood

Colonial Life

The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus

Days for Night

Sundance ’98

Notes From Half a Film Festival