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  • August 2008

    • Vicky Cristina Barcelona Dazzles, Disappoints

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Aug 15, 08 11:19 AM CDT

      Vicky Cristina Barcelona Dazzles, Disappoints

      (Newser) - Critics are sharply divided over Woody Allen’s latest flick, Vicky Cristina Barcelona . The story of two women’s romantic adventures in Spain—“as much a tragedy as a comedy,” Mahnola Dargis writes for the New York Times —carries “a sun-drenched splendor that never falters,” David Denby writes in the New Yorker . Allen, he says, “works everything out with a stringent thoroughness that still allows room for surprise.” More »

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      film  • movie review  • comedy  • Scarlett Johansson  • Woody Allen  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

  • May 2008

    • Woody Allen Refuses to Quit: Blame Europe

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 20, 08 8:17 AM CDT

      Woody Allen Refuses to Quit: Blame Europe

      (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.” More »

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      movie  • Europe  • Scarlett Johansson  • film director  • Woody Allen  • movie premiere  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    • ScarJo Snubs Woody Premiere

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  May 19, 08 12:59 PM CDT

      ScarJo Snubs Woody Premiere

      (Newser) - Scarlett Johansson ditched the Cannes premiere of her Woody Allen-directed film Vicky Cristina Barcelona over the weekend after movie execs refused to comply with the 23-year-old actress's over-the-top travel demands, the Daily Mail reports. ScarJo demanded a personal $8,000-a-day make-up artist and a special hotel suite 30 miles from the public events. More »

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      celebrity  • France  • Cannes Film Festival  • Scarlett Johansson  • Woody Allen  • movie premiere  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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