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Film Review: The Ever-present Nostalgia of Woody Allen

If you can accept yet another tour around a love triangle, Wonder Wheel is generally engaging and nearly always entertaining.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, Paul Dervis, Wonder Wheel, woody-Allen

Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Café Society” — Cobwebbed

Conclusion: Woody Allen is, and long long has been, an aged fart.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Cafe Society, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, woody-Allen

Film Commentary: In Defense of Woody Allen

A response to Ty Burr’s column called “Here’s why Woody Allen is overrated”in yesterday’s Boston Globe.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: boston-globe, Ken Bader, Ty-Burr, woody-Allen

Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” — Some Existential Pleasures

This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Emma Stone, Irrational Man, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Rhode Island, woody-Allen

Film Review: “Magic in the Moonlight” — Recycling Made Charming

Despite Woody Allen’s recycling of old ideas and plot points, his actors give such strong characterizations that I tossed my skepticism aside and enjoyed the moonlit ride.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Colin Firth, Magic in the Moonlight, woody-Allen

Film Review: “Fading Gigolo” — Kind of Funny, Kind of Touching

“Fading Gigolo” isn’t about fulfillment, sexual or otherwise — it’s about the transitions in the lives of its characters.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Fading Gigolo, John Turturro, romantic comedy, Sofia Vergara, woody-Allen

Film Review: “Blue Jasmine” — Woody Allen’s Evocative Triumph

What carries Blue Jasmine over the moon is the breathtaking, Oscar-worthy performance of Cate Blanchett, whose tortured Park Avenue socialite on the skids is among the most stunning performances by an actress in years.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, woody-Allen

Coming Attractions in Film: September 2011

The beginning of a not-bad fall film season in New England, with some Woody Allen classics, an Iranian melodrama among the youth set, an appearance by a legendary Japanese experimental film maker, and a couple of high-grade action flicks.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Circumstance, Contagion, Funeral Parade of Roses, Harvard Archive, Steven Soderbergh, Straw Dogs, Tashio Matsumoto, The Neurotic Genious of Woody Allen, What's Your Number?, woody-Allen

Film Commentary: Time Traveling With and Without Woody Allen

Time travel in movies, whether treated as farce or serious sci-fi mind-bending, sometimes excites us by challenging the idea that we’re trapped in a linear chronology from which we cannot escape, racking up regrets, mistakes, and old-age as we go

By: Taylor Adams Filed Under: Film Tagged: Chris Marker, Film, La jetée, Midnight in Paris, time travel, woody-Allen

“Match Point” Missed the Mark

Woody Allen’s big comeback? His best work in a decade? Genius rivaling “Annie Hall”!? What potent, absorbing, and thoroughly compelling version of “Match Point” were these critics watching? Look, it’s set in London, not New York! Listen, that crackling soundtrack is opera, not jazz! And wait a minute, there is no would-be Woody character in […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Film Tagged: comedy, Film, match-point, thriller, woody-Allen

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