Wednesdays with Woody: Small Time Crooks (2000)
byEx-con Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) convinces his wife, Frenchie (Tracy Ullman), to front a cookie store so that he and his friends can tunnel…
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Wednesdays with Woody: Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
byThe beginnings of Sweet and Lowdown take root some thirty years before cameras would start rolling in the Fall of 1999. The story goes that…
Wednesdays with Woody: Celebrity (1998)
byFitting nicely in between Sweet and Lowdown and Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen’s Celebrity looks at the lives of a divorced couple Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) and his…
Wednesdays with Woody: Deconstructing Harry (1997)
byWoody Allen’s offbeat comedy Deconstructing Harry opened to 1997 Venice Film Festival. After failing to get Elliot Gould, Albert Brooks, Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Hopper…
Wednesdays With Woody: Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
byIn the introduction to his collection of reviews Francois Truffaut famously made the demand “…that a film express either the joy of making cinema…
Wednesdays with Woody: Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
by“Achilles only had an Achilles heel… I’ve got an Achilles body.” Seven years after being coerced into adopting a baby boy by his art-dealing…
Wednesdays with Woody: Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
byManhattan Murder Mystery opens with Bobby Short singing Cole Porter’s “I happen to love New York” over the opening credits and adjoining snapshots of the…
Wednesdays with Woody: Husbands and Wives (1992)
byIt doesn’t take five minutes until the basic premise of Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives is set up. Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy…
Wednesdays with Woody: Alice (1990)
byAlice Tate (Mia Farrow) has been wrapped in cotton wool for almost 16 years with her affluent husband, Doug (William Hurt). They live in…
Wednesdays With Woody: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
by“Remember, if it bends its comedy. If it breaks, its not”. Woody Allen ended the eighties by combining the plight of the intelligent, but…