woody allen

Can anyone recommend a Woody biography?

24 years old, but the last one i read

http://www.ericlax.net/books/woodyallen_bio.htm

cool, I'll check it out!

yeah, really enjoyed that - read it when I was a teenager, though it had the misfortune to be published at the exact moment that the soon-yi stuff surfaced iirc

I liked Marion Meade's 'The Unruly Life of Woody Allen', the focus is more on muckraking than analysis of his work, though it's not a total hatchet job.

there's an LRB article about the book here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/michael-wood/a-kind-of-slither

yeah my stomach couldnt take the unruly life

Meade makes no secret of the fact that she doesn't like the man, but the section on the split with Mia/Soon-Yi relationship/child abuse allegations was pretty diligently 'balanced', or that's how I remember it anyway. If anything she seems to dislike Mia Farrow even more, which maybe explains it.

this is excellent IMO; a Q+A type oral-history-and-chronological-interview-for-each-film deal, again more than a decade old

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woody-Allen-Conversation-Stig-Bjorkman/dp/0571223176

this one has the longest interview with him about Manhattan i'd ever read. in light of him never doing Director's Commentary or same, i think it'll remain so.

looks very good! ordered it from the library

yeah, that woody allen on woody allen is a treat for fans

2 new ones reviewed

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/28/woody-allen-retrospective-film-by-film-tom-shone-jason-solomons-review

I guess because it's his 80th bday this year there will be a lot of media

80 today

a career overview (i disagree with the label for his current period)

http://brightlightsfilm.com/a-much-more-thoughtful-and-is-it-possible-more-mature-director-woody-allen-at-eighty/#.Vl3BI3arR9M

the relative critical and commercial success of his post-2000 output is baffling

old buildings and prostitutes etc

Unless that's the title of his next movie, I ain't queueing.

Blue Jasmine (2013) features brilliant performances from an outstanding cast.

this reads like a good essay for a college film class

i would've settled for 'features brilliant performances by Sally Hawkins and Andrew Dice Clay.'

possible finest standup moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SkZA0FKmAw

Starrying Miley & May:

http://deadline.com/2016/01/woody-allen-miley-cyrus-elaine-may-amazon-series-1201690130/

*starring

ugh

barf

can't wait

i had no idea Elaine was still open to acting offers

Casting Miley Cyrus almost reads like trolling. But my guess is it isn't intentional.

i suspect he doesn't really know who she is, kinda like me

also i don't give a fuck, that teen queen who was in Altman's final film seemed to work out OK

yeah, putting a hypersexualized childlike star (and former child star) is definitely a total accident, I'm sure.

she was just hanging around the studio lot

yeah Woody has a "studio lot."

forgot the lynch mob was so large

that was a joke, son

wait are you actually anticipating this Morbz? cuz iirc you're just as harsh (actually maybe moreso) on Woody's post-2000 output as I am. Like, what is promising about this.

i was also semi-joking, but i do love Elaine May (and she was funny in Small Time Crooks), so i'd be curious to see if she's "got it" at 83.

you know, Ms Cyrus is 23. Did you think WA is going to fill his entire cast with octogenarians? Ellen Page was about 23 when she did that horrendous Rome movie with him, but i guess that's ok bcz she is a non-"hypersexualized" lesbian.

I don't get people being upset with Woody over this. 23 is pretty old for him, so it's an improvement considering the average age between him and his ideal sex partner is 44.

actually it's 63

I wonder if you left a kid to cool on a windowsill, would Woody Allen pick up the scent and float in the air towards it like in an old Hanna Barbera cartoon? I think so.

D-

Eh, that grade really belongs to Robert Smigel.

whose sock is larry appleton?

http://www.starwipe.com/article/weird-woody-allen-hires-overly-sexualized-girl-chi-1855

starwipe is so bad

nah it has it's moments

well that one ain't it

All North American rights, including theatrical and streaming, to Allen’s next film have been acquired by Amazon. (this is before the series)

weird. i never thought he would abandon celluloid.

the last one was shot digitally, i think? it's not like he had much of a choice, he doesn't do Nolan box office.

just googled it. looks like this is the first one to be shot digitally

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/woody-allen-digital-camera-movie-1201612893/