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 wives and psychotherapists to all .. Read more
| Starring | Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Genres | Comedy |
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He's made (at least!) a film a year since 1970, a record that's all the more remarkable when you realise that he's written and directed all of them, and starred in most. They include some of the best-loved and most quoted comedies in cinema history: Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters take some beating, and that's to ignore "the early, funny ones" (Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas); the lovely miniatures from what I consider his finest period (the early 80s gave us Broadway Danny... Read more
See the entire LOVEFiLM Bergman Collection here Checkmate. Death has finally taken the great Swedish master, Ingmar Bergman, as he always knew it must. No filmmaker wrestled longer and more painfully with the knowledge of his own mortality. His father was a severe Lutheran minister, and a figure who cast a long shadow over Bergman's films, including his premature swansong, Fanny and Alexander (1982), and perhaps his purest masterpiece, Winter Light (1962), a portrait of a pastor who has lost... Read more
Legendary actors Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman turned down the chance to star in a Woody Allen movie on grounds of the pay being offered. The Oscar-winning director attempted to lure the actors to take roles in films such as Deconstructing Harry and The Curse of The Jade Scorpion, but could not afford to pay their wage, reports Showbiz Spy. He says, "There are plenty of actors and actresses that have said - even after saying 'I'm dying to work with you so I'd do anything' Read more
Special effects firm Industrial Light Magic (ILM), founded by George Lucas, has been honoured by the US president George Bush. The company received the National Medal of Technology at a ceremony at the White House in recognition of its work in visual effects. Lucas, director of Star Wars and American Graffiti and producer of Labyrinth, Willow and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, was on hand to receive the medal. The long list of films ILM has been involved in since its establishment in 1977 tells of... Read more