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Woody Allen
Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1st December 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an actor / writer / director best known for slice-of-life drama and comedy. His defining film is probably Annie Hall (1977).
A remarkable career starting in stand-up comedy and television chat show gag writing led to an astonishing number of films with an astonishing number of them very good to great and almost every single one containing great moments and lines. Woody Allen is one of the 20th-century's most iconic and brilliant filmmakers and is arguably the greatest screenwriter ever.
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Rio rallies for Woody Allen -
14 October 2009
-Brazilian film officials have launched a new campaign to lure Woody Allen to Rio de Janeiro.-
-The movie bosses want the Vicky Cristina Barcelona director to consider setting his next film there, and, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, city chiefs are off
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Allen eyes Bruni as new muse -
19 June 2009
-Woody Allen is eyeing his next muse - and he thinks France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would be the ideal candidate.-
-The Annie Hall director was promoting his new movie Whatever Works in Paris on Thursday (18Jun09) when French reporters quizzed him on who he
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David feared he would 'ruin' Allen's movie -
18 June 2009
-Larry David tried to convince director Woody Allen to drop him from his new movie Whatever Works - because the comedian was sure he would "ruin" the film.-
-The Curb Your Enthusiasm star, who portrays lead character Boris Yellnikoff in the upcoming romantic comedy,
Woody Allen - what members say
Woody Allen - filmography
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz
Director: Woody Allen
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It’s the film that critics are hailing as Woody Allan’s return to form. Vicky Cristina Barcelona has become one of the most talked about movies of the year. A sizzling, erotically charged, relentlessly hilarious and touching romantic comedy that won Penelope Cruz (Volver, Vanilla Sky) a ..read more »
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Cassandra's Dream
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
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Scoop
(2006)
Starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Charles Dance
Director: Woody Allen
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An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
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Match Point
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer
Director: Woody Allen
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For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very ..read more »
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Melinda And Melinda
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in unexpectedly on a dinner party in an apartment in New York City, Sy (Wallace Shawn) expands it into a romantic ..read more »
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Anything Else
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing
Director: Woody Allen
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Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big, while Ricci is Amanda, a self-absorbed free spirit whom men go wild for. They fall for each other ..read more »
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The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's funny, frantic THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION is part screwball romantic comedy, part 1940s noir detective story, and part ingenious heist film. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, a set-in-his-ways old-time insurance investigator who refuses to get along with the bright new efficiency expert,..read more »
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Hollywood Ending
(2002)
Starring: Woody Allen, Tea Leone, George Hamilton
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen plays an aging film director that is suddenly afflicted with temporary blindness. However, mid way through production on his latest film, he must soldier on without letting his producers know.
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from 101 members
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Company Man
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Douglas McGrath, John Turturro
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
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COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his ..read more »
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Small Time Crooks
(2000)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Tracey Ullman, Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break. It's as if Virgil Starkwell (Allen's hysterically incompetent criminal mastermind from TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) has finally gotten out of prison and is still ..read more »
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Picking Up The Pieces
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Woody Allen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lily Tomlin
Director: Alfonso Arau
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In a mad rage, a kosher butcher named Tex (Woody Allen) murders his adulterous wife (Sharon Stone), chops her body into pieces, and buries them in a Mexican desert. In time, the dead woman's hand surfaces and an old blind woman trips over it. The fall remarkably restores her sight, leading the ..read more »
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Sweet And Lowdown
(1999)
Starring: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ..read more »
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Antz
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Allen
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
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Central Park ant drone Z longs to be an individual of accomplishment, but Z's colony is a society that puts the value of the colony over personal achievement. Young Z sets his sites on the colony's Queen daughter Bala- who is uninterested until Z successfully mounts a revolution within the colony ..read more »
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Celebrity
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Hank Azaria
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
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Deconstructing Harry
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Robin Williams
Director: Woody Allen
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Upon returning in glory to the college from which he was expelled, sexually voracious and dyspeptic writer Harry Block can find no companions for his trip--except, that is, for a hooker he's hired. The trouble with Harry, as it were, is that he's alienated everyone in his life, from a string of ..read more »
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Everyone Says I Love You
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn
Director: Woody Allen
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A melange of sentimental musical vignettes about the various members of a madcap Manhattan family, who attempt by turns to find romance. Allen returns to his improvisational comic vein, reportedly springing the musical numbers on his nonmusical stars--only Barrymore was dubbed--shortly before ..read more »
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Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: John Erman
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An updated screen adaption of Neil Simon's hilarious 1972 play telling the tale of two legendary comedians Lewis and Clark (played by Woody Allen and Peter Falk) and their return to the stage after a lengthy hiatus from show business and each other. Also stars Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Mighty Aphrodite
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom
Director: Woody Allen
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
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Bullets Over Broadway
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Woody Allen
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David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ..read more »
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen and Diane Keaton join forces again in this charming riff on such murder mystery classics as REAR WINDOW, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Allen and Keaton play Larry and Carol Lipton, a New York couple reevaluating their life together after their only son goes off to ..read more »
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Husbands And Wives
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Blythe Danner
Director: Woody Allen
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Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a ..read more »
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Shadows And Fog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack
Director: Woody Allen
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A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of ..read more »
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Scenes From A Mall
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Bette Midler, Woody Allen
Director: Paul Mazursky
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Bette Midler and Woody Allen star in director Paul Mazursky's comedy as a professional Los Angeles couple--Deborah (Midler) is the author of a best-selling self-help book about marriage and has been wed to successful lawyer Nick (Allen) for 16 years. They live a high-pressure professional life, ..read more »
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Crimes And Misdemeanors
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Anjelica Huston
Director: Woody Allen
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In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who is having an affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to reveal their relationship unless Judah commits to her and leaves his wife. He admits his sin to Ben, a friend, a patient, and a learned rabbi who is losing his ..read more »
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Alice
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Alec Baldwin
Director: Woody Allen
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Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is a rich Manhattan wife who spends her days shopping, getting pedicures, going to the salon, working out with her personal trainer, and seeing her chiropractor. But when she can't get rid of her back pain, she goes to an Asian herbalist (the wonderful Keye Luke, in his ..read more »
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Another Woman
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, John Houseman
Director: Woody Allen
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A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »
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September
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Mia Farrow, Denholm Elliott, Sam Waterston
Director: Woody Allen
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In a serene Vermont country house, six people share their dreams, their fears, and their desires, as secrets are revealed and trusts broken. The cast is led by Mia Farrow, who plays Lane, a woman who has never fully dealt with a long-ago shooting. Elaine Stritch plays Diane, Lane's mother, who ..read more »
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Hannah And Her Sisters
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband ..read more »
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Radio Days
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Julie Kavner, Michael Tucker
Director: Woody Allen
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RADIO DAYS is Woody Allen's charming, nostalgic, very funny love letter to growing up in 1940s Brooklyn during the golden age of radio. The setting is the close-knit working-class neighborhood of Rockaway, New York, where a warm, crazy, sprawling Jewish family lives, sharing their happiness as well ..read more »
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The Purple Rose Of Cairo
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
Director: Woody Allen
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As a beleaguered waitress and battered wife in Depression-era New Jersey, Cecilia's (Mia Farrow) only escape from her dreary life is her endless moviegoing. Fantasy and reality merge in a startling and comical fashion when the hero (Jeff Daniels) of a film Cecilia's watched a thousand times emerges ..read more »
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Broadway Danny Rose
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle
Director: Woody Allen
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In this Woody Allen comedy, a group of Borscht Belt comedians gathers at the Carnegie Deli to reminisce and tell anecdotes about showbiz legend Danny Rose (Allen). Danny is a no-luck Broadway talent agent with a heart of gold who shepherds his flock of dead-end performers with a sense of compassion ..read more »
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Zelig
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Michael Jeter
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's comic pseudo-documentary about a fictional 1920s media sensation named Leonard Zelig (Allen), a human chameleon who develops the ability to takes on the characteristics of anyone he happens to be with at the time. A gentle jab at America's obsession with fame and celebrity, as well as ..read more »
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jose Ferrer
Director: Woody Allen
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This wonderful, frothy treat from Woody Allen follows three couples frolicking in the countryside at the turn of the century. At a beautiful farmhouse in upstate New York, wealthy Andrew (Allen) passes his summer days tinkering as a hack inventor and attempting to make love with his frigid wife, ..read more »
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Stardust Memories
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Woody Allen, Jessica Harper
Director: Woody Allen
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Sandy Bates is a comic filmmaker who no longer feels funny. When he ventures into serious cinema for a new challenge, he is not well received by the critics or the public, and he becomes depressed.
Spending a weekend at Stardust Hotel during a retrospective showing of his films, Sandy reflects ..read more »
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Manhattan
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Woody Allen
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MANHATTAN is Woody Allen's glorious love letter to the city that he was born to make films about. Woody plays Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced TV writer having a relationship with 17-year old Tracy, a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. Isaac's best friend, Yale (Michael Murphy), is having ..read more »
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Interiors
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt
Director: Woody Allen
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After the tremendous success of ANNIE HALL, Woody Allen took a huge risk and turned serious with INTERIORS, his Bergmanesque masterpiece--a dark, intense look at a family suffocating itself in thoughts of failure and death. Geraldine Page is extraordinary as Eve, a troubled woman who cannot face ..read more »
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Annie Hall
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen cowrote, directed, and stars in this award-winning film as a kvetchy Brooklyn comedian wistfully recalling his bygone relationship with flighty, adorable, and irrepressibly midwestern (read: not Jewish) Annie Hall. The film marked a transition from Allen's earlier absurdist comedies to ..read more »
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Love And Death
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen reinvents himself again with the epic historical satire, Love and Death. A wonderfully funny and eclectic distillation of the Russian literary soul, the film represents a bridge between Allen's early slapstick farces and his darker autobiographical comedies. One of his most visual, ..read more »
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Sleeper
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
Director: Woody Allen
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In 1973, health food store owner Miles Munroe enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a ..read more »
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Play It Again Sam
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Susan Anspach
Director: Herbert Ross
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Watch now: £2.49
Woody Allen's play is successfully brought to the screen by Woody himself in the starring role. He portrays Allan Felix, an insecure film buff haunted by a Humphrey Bogart alter ego who holds his lack of masculinity in contempt and urges him to act decisively--even with the wife of his best friend (..read more »
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Bananas
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban, Louise Lasser
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen leads a revolution in a small Latin American dictatorship in this hysterical comedy that parodies everything from the American media and political activism to the CIA and the judicial system. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a nebbish unwilling to commit to anything--until he meets Nancy, ..read more »
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Take The Money And Run
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mock documentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of the hapless criminal and his ridiculous plans ..read more »
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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What's Up Tiger Lily?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Akiko Wakabayashi
Director: Woody Allen
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A Japanese spy thriller dubbed into English with a totally new plot. In the new version agent Phil Moskowitz is on a dangerous mission to secure the recipe for the world's greatest egg salad. But, he must stop the recipe from falling into the hands of the evil Shepherd Wong.
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What's New Pussycat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen
Director: Clive Donner
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A classic 1960s sex comedy, written by Woody Allen. Deciding that he is finally ready to settle down with his fiancee Carole (Romy Schneider), fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) realises that he has a real problem: He is so very handsome, and his job as editor for a Parisian fashion ..read more »
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Play It Again, Sam
to Watch Now
(1972)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Director: Herbert Ross
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 134 minutes
Woody Allen's wonderful comedy was his first film with Diane Keaton, a relationship that would eventually bring them both Oscars ("Annie Hall"). Allen plays Allen, a fanatical movie buff with an outrageous recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart offering tips on how to make it with the ladies. His ..read more »
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8 June 2004
...must see movie for anyone who likes one liners and politically incorrect humor. Woody Allen does an excellent job in this film without coming across in a hateful manner. W...
Lets go to the dump and shoot some rats! 2 October 2004
