Woody Allen

Frances Ha Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a quirky 27-year-old hipster who lives with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) in Brooklyn. Without warning, Sophie moves into her dream apartment in Tribeca with another girlfriend and Frances suddenly finds herself out on the street. Now she has to find a new place to live and re-examine her place in the world, since few of her lofty ambitions are likely to come to fruition. Filmed in black-and-white, Frances Ha is directed by Noah Baumbach...Read Full Story

Blue Jasmine is prolific filmmaker Woody Allen’s latest movie and it finds the writer/director returning to the States after a few years of films set abroad. San Francisco’s the setting of Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, and Alec Baldwin, and Sony Pictures Classics is eyeing a July 26, 2013 theatrical release.   The [...]Read Full Story

(Poster courtesy IFC Films)Noah Baumbach, famous for his Oscar-nominated portrait of divorce, The Squid and the Whale, and for his writing partnership with Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox), has teamed up with his girlfriend, actress Greta Gerwig, on his latest endeavor. The film is Frances Ha and the couple wrote it, Baumbach directed, and Gerwig stars as the eponymous character. Filmed in black and white, the indie project is a true, awkward, and very...Read Full Story

Woody Allen's forthcoming film Blue Jasmine was shrouded in mystery before it was finally given a title back in January. Now we have a trailer to see what exactly the director has been up to. In the film, Cate Blanchett stars as a troubled housewife who looses all her money to her white collar criminal husband (Alec Baldwin). She decides to move to San Francisco and in with her sister (Sally Hawkins), and it is here where things start to unravel emotionally. The tone is less comedic and...Read Full Story

Hollywood director and actor Woody Allen.—Photo by AP LOS ANGELES: Woody Allen is to make his next movie in the south of France, starring Britain’s Oscar-winning Colin Firth and US actress Emma Stone, the project’s producers announced Tuesday. The untitled film, to be shot this summer, will be the second set in France by the 77-year-old cult director, who scored his biggest commercial hit ever with 2011′s “Midnight in Paris.” Allen has made a series of Europe-based movies in recent years...Read Full Story