Tagged: Woody Allen

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1980s / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

One of Woody Allen’s (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose) finest films, Hannah and Her Sisters sees the esteemed filmmaker return to Manhattan to deliver one of his most insightfully satisfying stories yet. At its...

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2010s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Owen Wilson stars as a Hollywood hack screenwriter named Gil, traveling to his favorite city, Paris, with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her parents, John (Fuller) and Helen (Kennedy).  Paris brings out the romanticized notions of...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

It’s the 1920s, the Jazz Age in New York.  Struggling intellectual playwright David Shayne (Cusack, The Grifters) finally has the chance to earn his first Broadway production, but to have the finances to see his dream...

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1990s / Comedy / Fantasy

Alice (1990)

Alice Tate (Farrow) is a well-to-do Manhattan housewife who is irresistibly drawn to another parent who brings his child to her school, Joe the sax player (Mantegna), who finds himself also unable to walk away...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Short, but so beautifully sweet.  The Purple Rose of Cairo sees Woody Allen in peak form in one of his most ingenious comedies.  While it may ostensibly lack the weight of some of his more...

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1990s / Comedy

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

With Deconstructing Harry, writer-director-star Woody Allen (Everyone Says I Love You, Mighty Aphrodite) continues to write stories from personal experience, as well as lift themes previously explored in the works of his favorite auteurs, Bergman and...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Another light, slight delight from filmmaker Woody Allen, who pens this fictional story about jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn), a genius of an artist, second only to Django Reinhardt in his prowess on the...

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1990s / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family

Antz (1998)

Dreamworks first big foray into the 3D animation genre proved to be successful with Antz, a beautifully rendered adventure that sparkles with comic dialogue and fantastic special effects.  It came out the same year like...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama / Musical

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Everyone Says I Love You continues the long streak of light Woody Allen comedies in the 1990s, and although this doesn’t really rank as one of his finest works, it is definitely a departure...

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1970s / Comedy / Romance

Annie Hall (1977)

A romantic comedy like no other before it, Annie Hall proves to be a tour-de-force and landmark film for Woody Allen as a writer, director, and star.  It’s the film that showed Allen, and the world,...