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Allen's latest tragicomedy splits critics
Rotten Tomatoes Aug 15, 08 11:19 AM CDT
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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.”
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Prolific director has a pretty spare outlook on life, but hey, that's life
Newsweek Aug 9, 08 3:40 PM CDT
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Woody Allen has inspired more than 40 years of laughs, but remains down on life, Newsweek reports. “I don't want to depress you,” he says, “but it's a meaningless little flicker.” Some say his new film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona , celebrates the pleasures of the flesh, but Allen differs. “You have a meal, or you listen to a piece of music, and it's a pleasurable thing,” he says. “But it doesn't accrue to anything.”
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OPINION
US snubs relentless mediocrity, but director is still welcome abroad
Guardian (UK) May 20, 08 8:17 AM CDT
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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.”
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Johansson ditches Cannes showing after movie execs deny diva demands
Daily Mail (UK) May 19, 08 12:59 PM CDT
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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.
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Big-time US films won't be competing, but sure to dominate headlines
Variety Apr 23, 08 3:12 PM CDT
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The lineup at this year's Cannes Film Festival was unveiled today, and the schedule is packed with Hollywood films, Variety reports. Steven Soderbergh and Clint Eastwood both have films in contention, and the release of the new Indiana Jones movie, though not for competition, is likely to be the biggest premiere at the May event.
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