Showing posts with label Woody Allen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woody Allen. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2013

To Rome With Love

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(2012)
Language: English/Italian
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Faruk Alatan, Letty Aronson, Giampaolo Letta, Francesco Marras, David Nichols, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum

Synopsis: To Rome with Love is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. -- (Written by Sony Pictures Classics)

Cast:
  • Woody Allen
  • Alison Pill
  • Judy Davis
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Penélope Cruz
  • Jesse Eisenberg
  • Roberto Benigni
  • Flavio Parenti
  • Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Riccardo Scamarcio
  • Greta Gerwig
  • Ellen Page
  • Fabio Armiliato

Match Point

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(2005)
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Lucy Darwin, Charles H. Joffe, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley

Synopsis: At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)
Cast:
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Emily Mortimer
  • Matthew Goode
  • Brian Cox
  • Penelope Wilton


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Woody Allen: A Documentary

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(2012)
Genre: Documentary/Biography
Director: Robert B. Weide
Producers: Erik Gordon, Andrew S. Karsch, Susan Lacy, Michael Peyser, Brett Ratner, Fisher Stevens, Robert B. Weide

Synopsis: Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Including interviews with Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Penélope Cruz, John Cusack, Larry David, Mariel Hemingway, Scarlett Johansson, Julie Kavner, Diane Keaton, Martin Landau, Louise Lasser, Sean Penn, Tony Roberts, Chris Rock, Mira Sorvino and more! -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Whatever Works

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 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Brahim Chioua, Charles H. Joffe, Vincent Maraval, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum

Synopsis: Woody Allen writes and directs this "blackish comedy" about an eccentric upper-class New Yorker (Larry David) who abandons his comfortable lifestyle in favor of leading a more bohemian existence. After meeting a young Southern girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and her family, he discovers that life among the nonconformists isn't quite as carefree as he'd envisioned it to be. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Larry David
  • Evan Rachel Wood
  • Patricia Clarkson

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hollywood Ending

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(2002)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Charles H. Joffe, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself and his airhead live-in girlfriend, Lori (Debra Messing). Val finds his luck is about to change, however, when he receives the script for The City Never Sleeps, a period noir set against the backdrop of 1940s New York City. It seems his ex-wife, Ellie (Tea Leoni), now an executive at Galaxy Pictures, has been pulling for him to direct the picture, claiming he's the only man who can do justice to the script. She even manages to convince her boyfriend, Hal (Treat Williams), Galaxy's high-powered studio head, to take a chance on Val's "unique vision." Just when the cameras are ready to roll, however, Val finds that unique vision in jeopardy -- literally -- as he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When physicians and psychiatrists fail to cure him, Val contrives a scheme to forge ahead with the picture, for fear of blowing his one last chance at greatness. Hollywood Ending co-stars George Hamilton and Mark Rydell. ~ (Written by Michael Hastings)

Cast:
  • Woody Allen
  • Téa Leoni
  • Debra Messing
  • Treat Williams

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Melinda and Melinda

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(2004)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Charles H. Joffe, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is enjoying dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line separates the two, decides to demonstrate this notion by showing how the same essential story can be either funny or sad depending on the way certain elements are handled; for the rest of the film, we jump back and forth between two versions of the story of Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a young woman with some serious problems in her life. (Written by Mark Deming)

Cast:
  • Radha Mitchell
  • Will Ferrell
  • Amanda Peet
  • Chloë Sevigny
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Jonny Lee Miller
  • Wallace Shawn
  • Josh Brolin
  • Steve Carell
  • Vinessa Shaw
  • Brooke Smith

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Manhattan Murder Mystery

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(1997)
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Joseph Hartwick, Charles H. Joffe, Thomas A. Reilly, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins

Synopsis: Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute, for reasons well publicized at the time). Carol is a free spirit, ever willing to try new experiences, but Larry is a wet blanket. When it begins to look like a neighbor has killed his wife, Carol is eager to investigate the mystery, but Larry thinks her suspicions are nonsensical and doesn't want to leave his apartment. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Diane Keaton
  • Woody Allen
  • Alan Alda
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Jerry Adler

Scenes from a Mall

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(1991)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Writer: Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky
Producers: Pato Guzman, Paul Mazursky, Patrick McCormick, Stuart H. Peppé

Synopsis: On their 16th anniversary a married couple's trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Bette Midler
  • Woody Allen

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Midnight in Paris

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(2011)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Raphaël Benoliel, Javier Méndez, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum

 
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Synopsis: Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s was the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil's daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he's about to marry. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Owen Wilson
  • Rachel McAdams
  • Marion Cotillard
  • Kathy Bates
  • Adrien Brody
  • Alison Pill
  • Carla Bruni
  • Michael Sheen
  • Corey Stoll
  • Tom Hiddleston

Friday, August 12, 2011

Scoop

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(2006)
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Charles H. Joffe, Duncan Reid, Helen Robin, Jack Rollins, Stephen Tenenbaum, David M. Thompson, Peter Touche, Gareth Wiley

Synopsis: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Woody Allen
  • Hugh Jackman

Friday, April 29, 2011

Anything Else

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(2003)
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Synopsis: A contemporary romantic comedy set in New York city about the relationship between an older guy and his younger protege. The older guy guides the younger through a messy and hilarious love story. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Woody Allen
  • Jason Biggs
  • Christina Ricci
  • Danny DeVito
 

Monday, January 24, 2011

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

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(2010)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. (Written by Sony Pictures Classics)

Cast:
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Naomi Watts
  • Josh Brolin
  • Gemma Jones
  • Freida Pinto
  • Lucy Punch
 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Hannah and Her Sisters

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hipocondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving ... (Written by Maurizio Semolic)
Cast:
  • Michael Caine
  • Mia Farrow
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Woody Allen
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • John Turturro
 

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Manhattan

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(1979)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Synopsis: A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Woody Allen
  • Diane Keaton
  • Meryl Streep
 

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Everyone Says I Love You

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(1996)
Genre: Comedy/Musical
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Woody Allen
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Julia Roberts
  • Edward Norton
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Natalie Portman
  • Billy Crudup
  • Tim Roth
**Trailer not available - the video below is a dance scene between Woody Allen and Goldie Hawn (SUPER HILARIOUS)
     

    Sunday, October 24, 2010

    Annie Hall

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     (1977)
    Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
    Director: Woody Allen
    Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

    Synopsis: Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s. (Written by Scott Renshaw)

    Cast:
    • Woody Allen
    • Diane Keaton
    • Christopher Walken