Finally getting a theatrical release in Australia (strangely after the release of the two films Woody Allen made after it; Midnight In Paris and To Rome With Love), You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger feels like a stylistic companion piece to his earlier, and much more successful, European piece, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The film uses the same casual, matter-of-fact [...]

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger sees Woody Allen continuing the trend to shoot in and around London instead of his classic movie home of New York City.

After five years of working throughout Europe and the UK, Woody Allen returned to his native New York for production on his 39th feature Whatever Works. The film was originally penned some thirty years before and was meant as a vehicle for the once blacklisted Zero Mostel – whom Allen had worked with on Martin Ritt’s The Front – but [...]

There’s a scene halfway through Vicky Cristina Barcelona where the narrator elaborates on the thoughts of the American Christina while spending time in Barcelona: “She was already thinking of herself as a kind of ex-patriot, not smothered by what she believed to be America’s puritanical and materialistic culture which she had little patience for. She saw herself more a European [...]

The third of Allen’s London films, Cassandra’s Dream, much like Match Point is a film within which what we know as “Woody Allen” is completely absent. It is the third London film, and the third consecutive film that deals with a murder plot. This calls into question Allen’s interest in the city as a character, and while Match Point and [...]

Woody Allen’s 2006 film Scoop was released perfectly between sport inspired Match Point and crime thriller Cassandra’s Dream.  The tagline is simple, ‘The perfect man. The perfect story.  The perfect murder.’

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s now clear that Match Point marked a turning point of sorts in Woody Allen’s long and winding career. Notably, Allen left behind his much loved city of New York to produce and film the project in London, with Match Point becoming the first of a series of films in recent years to be set [...]

Whatever you may think of the final product, it’s certainly hard to deny that Woody Allen’s 2004 film Melinda and Melinda contains one of the director’s most intriguing premises for a film. It opens with a group of writers debating whether the essence of life is inherently comedic or tragic.

Anything Else tells the story of Jerry Faulk (Jason Biggs), a frustrated New York writer who scribbles one-liners for nightclub comedians while dreaming of becoming a great nihilistic author. Like all male leads in Woody Allen’s universe, Jerry Faulk is made of that familiar cocktail of one part co-dependency, a splash of monophobia and that single, all important of mixers, [...]

By this point in his career, Woody Allen’s European migration has visited many popular tourist destinations: London, Paris and Barcelona for example. Now, it is Rome’s turn. Returning to a somewhat fantasy narrative, Allen’s 42nd feature To Rome with Love enters a grouping of films that include The Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris to a lesser extent.