Woody Allen

Wonder Wheel is 82-year-old director Woody Allen's 49th film. The movie, set in the 1950s, involves four characters whose unhappy lives become entwined in Coney Island—New York City's iconic amusement park. It was not possible earlier this year to review Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World ...

“I'm a patron of the NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] and have very strong views about pedophilia,” the actor explained. “I can't come to terms with it, because I loved Woody and had a wonderful time with him. I even introduced him to Mia. I don't regret working with him, ...

Every actor who has publicly renounced their work with Woody Allen, so far. Updated March 13, 2018. Evan Agostini/Getty Images. We began tracking public condemnations of Allen from his colleagues in October 2017, when the Harvey Weinstein story launched #MeToo. In 1992, Woody Allen's daughter, Dylan Farrow, ...

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Our first episode focuses on that tiny pillar of late '70s New York Judaica, Woody Allen, who was accused of molesting Dylan Farrow, his daughter with Mia Farrow, when she was seven years old. Today, he is married to Soon-Yi Previn, another of Mia Farrow's children, and happily making movie after ...

“I named my theater after a movie I did with Woody Allen called the Purple Rose of Cairo and I'm not changing the name,” Daniels told Sunday Today host Willie Geist in an episode airing Sunday, March 11 at 8am ET/PT on NBC. “That movie meant the world to me,” he explained. “It was a turning point in ...

“Do you have sex often?” Harry Miller, who is 94 and a regular at the senior center at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, gave the question some thought. “Hardly ever,” he said. “Maybe three times a week.” Shula Chernick, 73, had a different view. “Constantly,” she said, sounding aggrieved. “I'd say three ...

“Manhattan,” Woody Allen's cinematic love letter to his hometown, was released in 1979 and nominated for two Academy Awards the following year. But you would think it belonged to the 2018 awards season, given how much it is being quoted and discussed these days. There was Seth Meyers, who ...

Alec Baldwin is still standing by his friends who have been accused of sexual abuse. The actor, 59, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his decision to stand by directors Woody Allen and James Toback despite the allegations against them. “My inclination to want to defend my friends — who either A) I ...

Two more famous Woody Allen alums are debating whether or not they would work with the director again in light of the abuse allegations levied against him. “It's such a complicated question,” Peter Sarsgaard recently told MSNBC host Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. “I believe people when they say 'I was ...

Calls to boycott Woody Allen movies over allegations that he sexually abused his daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child have been renewed amid the growing Me Too movement. Critics also cite other concerns about his treatment of women and girls in art and in life. At the University of California, ...

This was revealed, perhaps inadvertently, by the recent book Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking, in which long-time Allen chronicler Eric Lax shadowed him through the making of 2015's Irrational Man. Allen doesn't rehearse or prepare. He does the minimum number of takes and ...

Or without the synthesis articulated by Alvy Singer's creator, Woody Allen. The name-check sets up a later scene in which Alvy and Annie — played, of course, by Mr. Allen and Diane Keaton — are shown, via split screen, in contrasting therapy sessions. Like good Freudians, they call it “analysis,” and Alvy's ...

Michael Caine joins a growing number of Woody Allen film alums who have publicly vowed to never work with the director again in light of the allegations leveled against him by daughter Dylan Farrow. “I am so stunned,” actor Michael Caine — who won an Academy Award in 1987 for Allen's film Hannah ...