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Marshall Brickman, Co-Writer of ‘Annie Hall’ & ‘Jersey Boy,’ Dead at 85

Screenwriter Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on several of his most important films, died in Manhattan on November 29 at the age of 85. Brickman also co-wrote the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys and The Addams Family. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer for Allen Funt’s Candid Camera as well as…

‘Coup de chance,’ Woody Allen’s First Foreign Language Film Is Fantastique

Presented at the 80th Venice Film Festival, Woody Allen’s latest work is his first French-language motion picture and represents the realisation of a dream for him. The filmmaker said: “I would have really liked to be a European director, perhaps Swedish or Italian. I finally managed to have the opportunity to make my first film…

Oscar and Tony Award-nominated Writer-Director Douglas McGrath Dies at 64

Famed movie, theater and television writer-director-actor, Douglas McGrath died suddenly Thursday in New York City at the age of 64, Deadline is reporting. He was best known for being nominated for a Tony Award for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar for the screenplay he co-penned with Woody Allen for Bullets Over Broadway….

Woody Allen Denies He’s Retirement From Filmmaking

A prolific New York director Woody Allen has announced his retirement from filmmaking. Currently, he’s in Europe to tackle his 50th film, Allen had spilled the beans on the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he decided to leave the director’s chair only to focus on his writing about his twilight years.  The 86-year-old filmmaker’s last…

Woody Allen Discusses Retirement with Alec Baldwin in Instagram Interview

At 86, is the legendary Woody Allen about to trade his director’s chair for a rocking chair? That was the implication in a livestreamed Instagram interview on Tuesday, when Allen told Alec Baldwin he wanted to direct “one or two more films” while lamenting the disappearance of the traditional moviegoing experience. “The thrill is gone,” he…

Cancel Culture Is Getting Out Of Control

Back in the summer of 2020, the 1939  Oscar-winning Gone With The Wind was removed from HBO Max, after 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, who won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for his work, wrote a column in the Los Angeles Times saying it should not continue to be shown because of its…

Rifkin’s Festival, Woody Allen’s Homage To The European Masters Of Cinema — Film Review

After the world debut at the San Sebastian Film Festival (where the story is set) in September, the Spanish release in October, and December in the Russian and Dutch ones, Woody Allen’s new comedy, Rifkin’s Festival continues its European release, arriving in Italian cinemas on May 6th. The Italy-Spain co-production created by The Mediapro Studio,…