One new release in books this week is A Companion to Woody Allen, the latest of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Film Directors series. The book costs a whopping $164.00, meaning this is not the companion for the casual Woody Allen movie-watcher, but if you are a truly dedicated fan of the the man, and want to get really academic about his work, this may be the way to go. The book is edited by two renowned Woody Allen experts and collects 26 different essays on the director and his films, covering topics like Allen’s influences as a filmmaker, his relationship to his onscreen persona, and his portrayal of [...]
Among Amazon's thousands of DVDs for sale, a lot of the discs have marked down prices for a certain amount of time for no reason in particular. Why not take advantage of this? A whole bunch of Woody Allen's best comedies, for instance, are for the month of February on sale for discounted prices and available at the click of a button, making the remainder of this month an excellent time to pick up some of his best and most recent work, including Manhattan (Blu-Ray or DVD), Hannah And Her Sisters (Blu-Ray or DVD), Annie Hall (Blu-Ray or [...]
After meeting in 1961, Woody Allen and Groucho Marx became fast friends, despite their 45-year age difference. Letters of Note has a letter Groucho wrote Woody in 1967, apologizing for being out of contact for a while and it's SO great. It starts:
Dear WW:
Goodie Ace told some unemployed friend of mine that you were disappointed or annoyed or happy or drunk that I hadn't answered the letter you wrote me some years ago. You know, of course, there is no money in answering letters—unless they're letters of credit from Switzerland or the Mafia. I write you reluctantly, for I know you are doing six things simultaneously—five [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
If "Best Week Ever" has shown us anything, it's that there is a definite market for instant nostalgia. People like being reminded of recent [...]
Lets add "answering interview questions" to the ever growing list of things Louis C.K. is amazing at. Today, A.V. Club posted a must read interview with with C.K. that thoroughly covers his work ethic, taking on The Man, and not doing a buddy cop flick with Larry the Cable Guy. One particularly endearing passage comes when he discusses how he got cast in the next Woody Allen film:
He wanted me to read, but he also wanted to meet me… I went to his office. I got there early because I was scared to be late… Then I was brought into this little room, and he’s standing there, [...]
