woody allen

i watched a few minutes of Rainy Day. It's bad. Rifkin's is supposed to be okay.

I sadly know enough movie bros who believe in some shade of Woody Allen Innocent and even they couldn't find a way to defend Rainy Dar or Rifkin's.

https://www.thewrap.com/woody-allen-rifkins-festival-box-office/

Woody Allen has posted the lowest box office opening weekend of his career with his 49th film, “Rifkin’s Festival,” grossing just $24,000 on Friday and Saturday from 26 theaters, according to box office sources.

Most of the theaters screening the film are owned by Landmark Theaters, whose flagship Los Angeles location posted the highest single theater total for the film with $2,300. Other theaters outside of Landmark’s circuit screening the film include the Quad Theatre in New York City, where the film grossed $1,600 over two days.

wondered if this was an RIP. almost is.

Also, in a thankless move but as someone who has often spoken his view of truth to power, Wallace Shawn writes about why he took the role in Rifkin's Festival.

woody allen and twiggy. i feel vindicated in never liking this fraud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VCbxVVDQk

The Twigster destroyed him.

The film-after-next will be his 50th! Not including What's Up Tiger Lily?, which barely counts. Wonder what delights he has in store for us?

A French-language 'Sinister Thriller'...and then retirement from film to write books and short pieces.

https://variety.com/2022/film/global/woody-allen-retirement-1235375939/

I thought this was going to be about Rosie O-Donnell on Howard Stern:

In the case of Allen, the film was 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, with Sean Penn and Uma Thurman. "I had done an HBO special where I said everything about him," O'Donnell told Stern. (Spoiler: She did not have good things to say about Allen.) "And then I got on my show. So it's the first year of my show and I get a call and they said, 'He wants you to be in (Sweet and Lowdown). I said, 'Please send him my HBO special.' And the woman said, 'Oh he's already seen it.' And I said, 'Send it anyway with two words: F--- and no.' And I sent it to him."

According to O'Donnell, Allen's team persisted in asking after her to play a role despite her comments. "They called back and said, 'He really wants you to do it. He'd like to talk to you about it,'" she recalled. "I said, 'I'm not doing it. I'm not working for him or with him and being associated with him.'"

Allen also was reportedly surprised when Mia Farrow didn't want to star in Manhattan Murder Mystery after the allegations emerged.

Cosmic levels of self-absorption, zero self-awareness.

Guess we'll never get to see some of these.

Woody's next 50: pic.twitter.com/ZGI6ZW2fgY

— Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) June 21, 2016

He’s retiring to spend more time marrying his family. https://t.co/CLW0SOsYRe

— Ariel Dumas (@ArielDumas) September 18, 2022

Allen's people now saying the original source misquoted him, and that he has no plans to retire from filmmaking.