Fox News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... Woody had enjoyed a great run with the public. According to boxofficemojo.com, classics like “Annie Hall,” “Manhattan” and “Hannah and Her Sisters” raked in relative dough with lifetime takes of almost $40 million.Post-scandal, though, the audience walked. The better of those films — like “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Mighty Aphrodite” and “Deconstructing Harry” — just could not seem...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Everyone's a Little Queer/ Can't She Be a Little Straight? Vicky Cristina Barcelona / John Williams There's a great scene in Woody Allen's Annie Hall , a flashback that shows a young Annie talking to a spacey actor at a party. "Acting is like an exploration of the soul," he opines. "It's very religious, like a kind of liberating consciousness. It's like a visual poem." He then...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... 54 wearing a silky white pantsuit in the '70s; and of course there was the whole Diane Keaton-Annie Hall period. This fall, trends include soft knit skirts and feminine blouses paired with close-cut vests and lots of kicky oxford-style pumps. And that 80s staple, the tie, is still around, worn loosely with a tailored vest or a ladylike blouse.But the season's outfits still manage...
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Posted by Dennis Sellers By Ramona Bissudo Vicky Cristina Barcelona is far from writer-director Woody Allen at his best ( Annie Hall ), but it’s also far from the filmmaker at his worst ( Scoop ). Set in Barcelona, Spain, and gorgeously photographed (the cinematographer here is Javier Aguirresarobe, who shot Talk to Her for Pedro Almodóvar) it’s...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
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 ...
BarryBlog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Most of us don’t like to sell. The fear of a prospect saying no is too great and many of us hate rejection. The most common objection people have is “they can’t afford you/it/product/service”. But what are they really saying to you? If there were subtitles (ala Woody Allen in Annie Hall) on the conversation, [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Rating: Another year, another minor masterpiece from writer-director Woody Allen, who's been turning out a movie or more annually since completing his heavyweight New York trilogy ("Annie Hall," " Manhattan" and "Stardust Memories") in the early 1980s. Allen once aspired to be a dramatist like Ingmar Bergman or even Henrik Ibsen, but the more time passes, the more those grand pretensions...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
For 40 years, Woody Allen has been making movies. Some are among the best ever made, bringing him 21 Oscar nominations, three wins for himself and six wins for his actors. "Annie Hall" is on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 films of all time, and he has more films on AFI's list of the top 100 comedies than anyone else.
