“Love fades,” Diane Keaton says in “Annie Hall.” But Woody Allen says he’s “lucked out” with his wife Soon-Yi Previn, to whom he’s been married for 20 years now. In an , Allen spoke out about the relationship, the success of which he attributes to its “paternal” dynamics. Allen is 35 years older than Previn,…
Here’s a free idea for a play. Or maybe it’s just a skit. I was thinking of writing it a while back, but the premise seemed thin, so I set it aside. It’s a light comedy, circa 1970-something. A young, neurotic film critic — just getting out of yet another bad relationship — is visited…
Will Woody Allen soon be on Twitter? During an appearance on “Conan” with Conan O’Brien to promote her role in Allen’s latest film, “Irrational Man,” Emma Stone told the audience how she described and later showed Twitter to Woody Allen. Stone, who unfortunately doesn’t have her own Twitter account, explained to Allen that, “It’s a…
Writer-director Woody Allen brings his latest film feature “Irrational Man” to cinemas this month, telling the story of a troubled philosophy professor who finds a sense of purpose after overhearing a stranger’s conversation. Joaquin Phoenix plays professor Abe Lucas, who moves to a small town and gets involved with both professor Rita Richards, played by…
After the earnest entreaties of Emmanuelle Bercot’s “Standing Tall,” the French social drama about at-risk youth that opened the festival, and the dystopian provocations of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster,” the mood at Cannes changed palpably when Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” unspooled out-of-competition, injecting some adrenalin and existential angst (not to mention star power) into a…
Award-winning film maker Woody Allen fears his first foray into directing for the small screen will be a disaster, saying that he should never have signed up to make a television show for Amazon.com. Amazon announced in January it had secured a deal for Allen to write and direct a series of half-hour episodes for…
Woody Allen’s latest movie finally has a trailer. And the plot is, well, a little problematic. “Irrational Man,” starring fellow MOT Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, promises another older-man-falls-in-love-with-young-muse, thinks-it-will-solve-inadequacies kind of story. According to the trailer, Phoenix plays philosophy teacher Abe Lucas, who joins a college faculty while grappling with an existential crisis. Lucky…
Getty Images Amazon.com Inc said it signed Woody Allen to write and direct a new TV series for its video streaming service. The half-hour series will be shown on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video in the United States, the UK and Germany, Amazon said. The company said it had ordered an entire season of the “Untitled…
