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Woody Allen Refuses to Quit: Blame Europe

Posted May 20, 08 8:17 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – America may have spawned Woody Allen, but “the perpetuation of Allen's zombie-like career is one atrocity for which we refuse to be held accountable,” Joe Queenan argues in the Guardian. The diminutive director’s recent films have bombed stateside; when eight people showed up for a New York screening of Hollywood Ending, Queenan writes, it signaled that “Allen was finished as a driving force in US cinema.”

So Allen transplanted his neurotic shtick to London, where he made three consecutive stinkers, including Match Point, a sycophantic ode to moneyed WASPs. And because Europeans inexplicably continue bankrolling Allen’s projects and filling theaters, his crew descended on Spain next. The resulting Vicky Cristina Barcelona just moves him closer to "that cataleptic Eric Claptonesque state where an artist is revered as a god, but not by anyone who originally worshiped in his church."

Source Guardian (UK)

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Woody Allen smiles on the first day filming of his new movie in Barcelona, Spain, in this July 9, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez,File)
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, American director Woody Allen and British actress Rebecca Hall pose at the photo call for the film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" during the 61st International film festival...   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Director Woody Allen gestures on the set of his new movie in Barcelona, Spain. Allen wanted to create a portrait of the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on a par with his 1979 film "Manhattan."   (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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