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The Fortune
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Betrayal
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Play It As It Lays
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The Outfit
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Alex in Wonderland
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
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In The Cool of the Day
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That Cold Day in the Park
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Thumb Trippin'
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Midas Run
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At Long Last Love
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Outcast of the Islands
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Run of the Arrow
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House of Secrets
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Saint Joan
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I Never Sang for My Father
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Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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When the Wind Blows
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Drowning by Numbers
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Haunted Summer
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Update: A friend talked to someone attached to the upcoming, yet-to-be-shot Woody Allen film with Josh Brolin, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts and Antonio Banderas. And the "someone" says "it's a serious comedy. Like Husbands and Wives (if only) and Manhattan."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 26, 2009 at 9:30 AM

comment #1

MickTravisMcGee says ...

The Cassandra Crossing was a 70s thriller about a virus on a train. I think Woody was busy with "Bananas" at the time.

You're thinking of Cassandra's Dream, or as I like to call it The Brothers McSullen.

This is going to be one of those Woody Allen movies with lots of cameos, I think. Nicole Kidman will probably play a fairy or something who's only in one scene.

Posted by MickTravisMcGee at March 26, 2009 9:44 AM

comment #2

Chase Kahn says ...

Who cares? Whatever it is, it will suck.

Posted by Chase Kahn at March 26, 2009 9:49 AM

comment #3

actionman says ...

The Brothers McSullen. I like that. Cassandra's Dream was damn fine. Don't get why so many people trashed it. Sure, it's not anwhere near as good as Match Point or the similarily themed Before the Devil Knows You're Dead but it's still a solid little flick. Colin Farrell was terrific in it.

Posted by actionman at March 26, 2009 9:53 AM

comment #4

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

Woody Allen is a cliched, tired, overrated filmmaker that needs to retire already.

Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk at March 26, 2009 9:54 AM

comment #5

MickTravisMcGee says ...

I think you'd like him better if you could hear the music.

Posted by MickTravisMcGee at March 26, 2009 9:55 AM

comment #6

Abbey Normal says ...

Woody has it better than any other director I can think of right now. He makes whatever film he wants, anywhere he wants, with whatever actors he chooses. Everyone wants to work with the guy. And the film doesn't have to be good, or successful, or anything.

Not bad.

Posted by Abbey Normal at March 26, 2009 10:46 AM

comment #7

raygo says ...

There was nothing special about Match Point. It was basically a reboot (HA!) of Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Posted by raygo at March 26, 2009 10:50 AM

comment #8

MAGGA says ...

Haven't seen Scoop, but Melinda and Melinda, Match Point, Cassandra's Dream and Vicky Christina Barcelona represents a run matched only buy Spielberg's A.I, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can and Munich this decade. I know our host disagrees

Posted by MAGGA at March 26, 2009 11:06 AM

comment #9

George Prager says ...

And what run is that? They both made one good movie and three shitty ones?

Posted by George Prager at March 26, 2009 11:32 AM

comment #10

BurmaShave says ...

ChaseKahn is just a dumb troll, but the suggestion that an artist ever needs to "retire already" is truly one of the more disgusting things repeated around these parts. I expected better, DeafBrown. And Mick was being a dick, but he has a point.

Posted by BurmaShave at March 26, 2009 11:36 AM

comment #11

lazarus says ...

MAGGA, while I thought Scoop was hilarious (Johansson really surprised me) and like the rest of Woody's recent run, Almodovar has the best run of anyone I've seen this decade. Spielberg is also responsible for War of the Worlds and The Terminal, which definitely lower The Beard's batting average.

Posted by lazarus at March 26, 2009 11:41 AM

comment #12

MAGGA says ...

And Indy 4, I know. No one has a recent run like Oliver Stone from 86-96: Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born On The 4th Of July, The Doors, JFK, Heaven and Earth, Natural Born Killers and Nixon. Heaven and earth is the only one of those I don't watch at least once a year. Since then he's only dissapointed, though. PTA is the only modern director I know with a flawless record according to my taste.

My point about Allen and Spielberg is that even as they age and have decades of work behind them they still keep their instrument tuned and make occational great movies, unlike almost any of their canonised contemporaries.

Point taken on Almodovar.

Posted by MAGGA at March 26, 2009 12:25 PM

comment #13

Alexander says ...

I love Spielberg's A.I..-to-Munich run (including The Terminal and War of the Worlds) and agree with MAGGA that it's one of the more impressive runs for a filmmaker in a long time.

Pedro Almodovar has had a glorious decade as well.

Woody Allen, meanwhile, has not produced much to excite me recently, though ironically I'm a fan of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, which he himself considers horrible. I still look forward to every new film he makes, in any case.

Posted by Alexander at March 26, 2009 12:38 PM

comment #14

Lev Lewis says ...

Between 1977 and 1992 Woody Allen made some of the greatest films ever created. He commands respect.

Posted by Lev Lewis at March 26, 2009 12:46 PM

comment #15

Manitoba says ...

Has any writer-director in the history of American films ever managed to get so many original screenplays made ,year after year? I'm old enough to remember "What's New Pussycat?" which started shooting in late 1964 ,though Allen was not the director. I now have a copy of the Vicky Cristina Barcelona DVD on my desk,a result of hearing my young niece say she enjoyed it.Sure they are not all gems, but Allen has "Whatever Works' ready for release, is preparing to shoot a new one in London and was in France earliier this year discussing his dream of making a film in Paris. And I gather by working on a modest scale, he does not have to get script approval beforehand from his curent fiinance sources. Preston Sturges would be envious.

Posted by Manitoba at March 26, 2009 12:52 PM

comment #16

MAGGA says ...

If Allen is able to shoot a low-budget American film in Paris without difficulty I'll admire him even more. As a DoP friend of mine said yesterday, "the problem with shooting in Paris is that it has a lot of beaurocracy and no corruption". I went to film school there, and if I was a suit I'd never, ever finance a film shot there.

And Manitoba, your point is one of the major reasons I grovel at Allen's feet. I'd love it if directors simply kept putting movies out there yearly, even if they missed their mark sometimes. As anyone trying to get even a single project made knows, the situation he's in is both admirable and enviable. The other major reason is his emotional honesty. He never shies away from the facts that human beings usually make flawed, selfish decisions, that the universe is not fair and that simple luck determines more than even hard work and dedication. He even attributes his career to that fact. And yet his films often feel uplifting precisely because of this.

Posted by MAGGA at March 26, 2009 1:10 PM

comment #17