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Woody Allen: The Dramatist
Movie Mezzanine is proud to bring you an excerpt from Jason Bailey's latest book, The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion. If you enjoy the following passage, be sure to purchase it here.
“I can never bear seeing a headline like ‘Woody Dying ...
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The Directors Who Influenced “Dear White People”
Like so many others before me, I fell into the trap: After sitting down with Dear White People director Justin Simien, the first thing I brought up was Spike Lee. And while my comment didn’t directly concern the fact that both Simien and Lee are black American...
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“Magic in the Moonlight” An Unabashedly Romantic and Optimistic Entry in Woody Allen’s Career
What a period of refinement this is for Woody Allen. With last year’s Blue Jasmine, 2011’s Midnight in Paris, and now Magic in the Moonlight, the storied writer-director has ushered in his most confident work in years, maybe decades, as he maintains his one-fi...
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Joaquin Phoenix Starring in Woody Allen’s Next Film
Ever the constant worker, Woody Allen is gearing up for his next film to shoot sometime in July. In typical Woody Allen fashion there are no plot details at this time, only that Joaquin Phoenix will be taking on the lead role. Adding to theories surrounding wh...
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“Fading Gigolo”: The Inconspicuous Star of the Party
An uninitiated spectator could easily mistake John Turturro's Fading Gigolo for the work of Woody Allen, who here plays Turturro's on-screen sidekick. But what distinguishes Turturro's film from those of his legendary costar is that Turturro is able -- and wil...
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A New Era of Hollywood Scandals?
When the allegations that director Bryan Singer drugged and raped a 17-year-old boy in 1999 recently came to light, moviegoers who were looking forward to his upcoming film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, were confronted with a series of difficult questions: Shou...
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Why Cate Blanchett’s Female Power Crusade Is Important
During her acceptance speech for Best Actress at Sunday night's 86th Academy Awards, Cate Blanchett took the opportunity not to talk about recent controversies, but instead about the power that women have in the film industry. She lambasted "those of us in the...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Sony Pictures Classics to Release Allen’s Latest, ‘Magic in the Moonlight’
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that the company has acquired the North American distribution rights to Woody Allen’s upcoming period piece/romantic comedy titled Magic in the Moonlight.
Magic in the Moonlight takes place in South France during the g...
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History of Film: ‘Annie Hall’
Editor’s note: Annie Hall is one of the 10 best films of the 1970s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise, we’ll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the very end. We hope you enjo...
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