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8 articles from 2008

24 September 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

"There an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of them says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other says, 'Yeah, I know, and such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life—full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly." —Woody Allen, Annie Hall It's a fitting coincidence that I find myself writing about Roy Andersson's mordant black comedy Songs From The Second Floor as the global economy, torpedoed by a vast Ponzi scheme involving subprime mortgages, stands on the verge of total collapse. Back in 2000, when Andersson's film shared the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, there was no shortage of apocalyptic visions—nuclear, natural, zombified—that stirred the pot of Y2K millennial anxiety. It wasn't a matter of whether society would crumble at our feet,

Scott Tobias

25 August 2008 9:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Box Office, Fandom

Woody Allen's latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, has earned mostly rave reviews, and it's doing well at the box office -- or, that is, it's doing well for a Woody Allen film. It opened in 10th place for the weekend of Aug. 15-17, the first time an Allen film has cracked the top 10 at all (let alone opened there) since Small Time Crooks, eight years and eight movies ago. And Small Time Crooks was the first one since Husbands and Wives, eight years and eight movies before that.

I wouldn't say there's ever been a time when Allen's films routinely made the top 10 -- he's always managed to release a total flop here and there to break up the streak -- but it certainly used to occur much more frequently than it does now. Manhattan opened at #1 in 1979, possibly the only Allen film ever to do so.

Eric D. Snider

15 August 2008 1:46 PM, PDT | From AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news

Vulture has laid out the sex scenes from Woody Allen’s movies that put those in Vicky Cristina to shame. Although they choose a scene from Annie Hall where Annie’s spirit leaves her body when denied the doob, they don’t pick the one with the best line, which is, “As Balzac said, ‘there goes another novel.’” They have [...]

Sasha Stone

15 August 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

Woody Allen’s latest film Vicky Christina Barcelona is being hailed by some critics as the director’s return to greatness. I suppose that’s the case if you like classic Woody Allen from his heyday. I’m talking the Annie Hall years when he focused on talky, neurotic New Yorkers in perpetual therapy. I ...

Kevin Carr

12 August 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

It's hard to gauge Woody Allen's impact on American comedy and culture, because it's vast and still ongoing. Even setting aside his comedy albums, his writings for The New Yorker and other publications, his jazz band, and his appearances as an actor in other people's work, there's still his filmography as a writer, director, and often star, stretching to more than 40 features. Beginning with Take The Money And Run in 1969—or the overdubbed 1966 lark What's Up, Tiger Lily?, if that counts—Allen has been the standard-bearer for New York Jewish wit, and a persistently insightful chronicler of human relationships. He's received an astonishing 21 Oscar nominations, and won three, for writing and directing Annie Hall (which also won Best Picture) and writing Hannah And Her Sisters. Other highlights from his long career include Bananas, Sleeper, Manhattan, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, Crimes And Misdemeanors, Husbands And Wives, Sweet And...

Scott Tobias

18 June 2008 10:35 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The American Film Institute has selected the top ten films in 10 classic genres, featuring them Tuesday night in a three-hour special that aired on CBS. (AFI launched a website today at www.afi.com that features over 400 video clips from all of the 100 movies.) The top two in each category: Animation: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio; Fantasy: The Wizard of Oz, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Gangster: The Godfather, Goodfellas; Science Fiction: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars: Episode IV (the original); Western: The Searchers, High Noon; Sports: Raging Bull, Rocky; Mystery: Vertigo, Chinatown; Romantic Comedy: City Lights, Annie Hall; Courtroom Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men; Epic: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur.

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29 May 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Executives at clothing company American Apparel have hit back at Woody Allen's claims they used his image in their advertising without permission, insisting the campaign was meant as a parody.

The veteran director sued the company in March, claiming he was never contacted by the firm - which is known for its provocative ads - about the billboard and online advertisements. The ads featured an image - taken from the 1977 movie Annie Hall - of Allen dressed as a Hasidic Jew.

But, according to the New York Daily News, bosses at the company have filed their response in Manhattan Federal Court, stating that their billboards were meant in jest.

The company's lawyer Stuart Slotnick says, "American Apparel is certainly not marketing their casual wear to Orthodox, black hat rabbis."

Billboards in New York and Los Angeles have since been taken down, but the image can still be viewed on the Internet.

The filmmaker is seeking damages of more than $10 million (GBP5 million).

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31 March 2008 6:33 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Veteran filmmaker Woody Allen has filed legal papers accusing clothing company American Apparel of using his image in its advertising without his permission.

The comedian claims he was never contacted by an American Apparel representative about the billboard and online advertisements, which featured an image - taken from the Oscar-winning 1977 movie Annie Hall - of Allen dressed as a Hasidic Jew.

In legal documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Monday, Allen says he doesn't endorse commercial products in the U.S. and that American Apparel hasn't compensated him for the use of his likeness.

Allen is seeking damages of more than $10 million (GBP5 million).

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