Download or read book The Unruly Life of Woody Allen written by Marion Meade and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly). Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era’s most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began crafting a larger‐than‐life neurotic persona that has since entertained and enlightened millions. In his films, widely thought to be autobiographical explorations of his own comic fears and fixations, Allen carefully controlled the public’s view of him as a lovable scamp. But that all came crashing down the day Mia Farrow found a Polaroid on her mantle. What followed was a flurry of sensational headlines and legal battles. His relationship with Soon‐Yi Previn, thirty-four years his junior and the step‐daughter of his longtime girlfriend, caused shockwaves in the public’s perception of the director, yet few biographers and journalists have explored what happened and why. In this, the first deep investigation of Allen’s life and the events surrounding his split with Farrow, biographer Marion Meade tracks down dozens of friends, actors, neighbors, and film historians. They open up with insights and details rare in the world of wealth and celebrity. What results is a fascinating portrait of a flawed genius, as adept at constructing his own image as he is at crafting films. Rereleased and updated, this is an unauthorized biography that neither Woody Allen’s fans nor his detractors will be able to put down. The revised and updated edition was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal in 2013 by Carl Rollyson, in a roundup of the five best Hollywood biographies.
Download or read book The Unruly Life of Woody Allen written by Marion Meade and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woody always distrusted biographers because he felt that this would destroy his public persona. But in 1992, when his stormy private life turned into sensational headlines, the cracks in the familiar persona appeared. Meade has tracked down scores of people in Allen's life who have never before spoken to an Allen biographer: boyhood pals; Brooklyn neighbors & teachers; colleagues Buddy Hackett & Mel Brooks from his early career as a TV writer; actors Maureen Stapleton, Max von Sydow, & Bob Hope; director Sydney Pollack; & the film reviewers who have followed his career. Details the numerous examples of art imitating life in Allen's films, particularly the saga behind his marriage to the adopted daughter of his lover, Mia Farrow.
Download or read book Woody Allen written by Richard Schickel and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief but sharply honed, this book is an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the life and times of one of the most important--and least understood--American filmmakers of the era.
Download or read book Reconstructing Woody written by Mary P. Nichols and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking new book, Mary P. Nichols challenges this, arguing that Allen's work, from Play It Again, Sam to Deconstructing Harry, is actually an attempt to explore and reconcile the tension between art and life.
Download or read book Conversations with Woody Allen written by Eric Lax and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Woody Allen written by Eric Lax and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography and national best seller, now back in print and fully updated.
Download or read book Apropos of Nothing written by Woody Allen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apropos of Nothing is a comprehensive account of Woody Allen's life, both personal and professional, and describes his work in films, theater, television, nightclubs, and print. Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life.
Download or read book Woody Allen on Woody Allen written by Woody Allen and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of interviews Woody Allen shares the anxieties, frustrations, and inspirations in his life.
Download or read book Love Sex Death the Meaning of Life written by Foster Hirsch and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated with a final chapter covering the last decade of a career--as actor, director, and screenwriter--that now spans a quarter-century. ". . . Recommended to anyone who . . . would like a better understanding of this comic genius . . ".--Kansas City Chronicle.
Download or read book Woody Allen written by John Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Woody Allen revealed in 1993 that he was abandoning his long-time companion Mia Farrow to live with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, the furore that swept the world media seemed out of all proportion to the magnitude of the principal players. Yet the news coverage soon made clear that, to his generation, Woody Allen was an archetypal figure, a role model, a laureate of the lost who spoke for millions of the dispossessed, frustrated and the inept.
Download or read book Biography of Woody Allen written by Adam McKibbin and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Woody Allen is one of the most renowned film directors in American cinema history, and not only because he frequently appears in his own films as an actor. His output as a filmmaker has been prolific: he often churns out a new movie with each passing year, a pace that hasnt deteriorated even in his 60s and 70s. He writes his films himself, and directs them with wit and grace. I consider him a treasure of the cinema, Roger Ebert wrote in 2011 (Chicago Sun-Times, Midnight in Paris). Allens best-known and most beloved films routinely appear on lists of the greatest movies of all time, including Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. His frequent collaborators include Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow (both love interests in his personal life), Judy Davis, Dianne Wiest, Julie Kavner, and, more recently, Scarlett Johansson. The 2011 film Midnight in Paris marked Allens 41st feature film. MEET THE AUTHOR Adam McKibbin's work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and websites, including The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, AlterNet, Paste and Punk Planet. He's worked in web editorial and social media management for years, and is a seasoned interviewer whose favorite subjects include David Lynch, Tori Amos and human rights journalist Mac McClelland. He studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin and received the Award for Academic Excellence for his collected fiction. He's currently working on his first nonfiction book. Adam lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and can be found on Twitter at @TheRedAlert. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Allens personal romantic life outdoes most of his fictional characters in terms of tumult. He married his teenage girlfriend, Harlene Rosen, but it was an ill-fated marriage that ended acrimoniously. Allens vicious one-liners following their separation, including a joke following a report that Rosen (or The Dread Mrs. Allen, as he called her) had been assaulted, led to legal action. Allens second marriage, to actress Louise Lasser, occurred in 1966 and lasted until 1969. Unlike her predecessor, Lasser seemed to bear Allen no ill will for the split; In our relationship, he was the stable one, she said in a later interview (Contact Music, Louise Lasser Interview). During what is generally considered his most artistically fruitful period, Allen partnered up (on and off camera) with Diane Keaton. Keaton starred in eight Allen films, including Annie Hall and Manhattan, two of his best-regarded and best-grossing... Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Biography of Woody Allen + Introduction + Background and upbringing + Major Accomplishments and Awards + Personal Life + ...and much more
Download or read book The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion written by Jason Bailey and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion', film writer Jason Bailey profiles every one of Allen's films through essays, behind-the-scenes interviews, full cast lists, production details, and full-color images and artwork
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Download or read book The Woody Allen Encyclopedia written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than five decades, Woody Allen has been one of the most critically acclaimed talents in American cinema. Allen has been nominated for best director seven times by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—winning for his 1977 film Annie Hall—and he has received more Oscar nominations for best screenplay than any other individual. But Allen’s accomplishments are not limited to the big screen. In addition to writing and directing nearly fifty films—many of which he starred in—Allen has been a television writer, a stand-up comedian, a playwright, and the author of several short stories. TheWoody Allen Encyclopedia is a compendium of information and commentary about every aspect of Allen as an artist. In this volume, Thomas S. Hischak details all of Allen’s works for the cinema, television, and the stage, as well as all of his fiction; his comedy albums; his performances in other directors’ movies; and even documentaries about him. In addition to such critically acclaimed films as Sleeper, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Zelig, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point, and Midnight in Paris, entries in this volume feature many of his collaborators, including actors, actresses, cinematographers, editors, designers, producers, and cowriters. This resource also highlights themes in Allen’s work, the music he utilizes in his films, and his working methods, as well as box-office figures and awards. An extensive and comprehensive overview of this artist’s remarkable career, The Woody Allen Encyclopedia is a must-have for film aficionados and will be of great interest to all readers, from professors and students to Allen’s most devoted fans.
Download or read book Woody written by David Evanier and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade, and his sixth decade of making movies.
Download or read book Woody Allen s Angst written by Sander H. Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding his role as one of this generation's more influential filmmakers. In this work such Allen films as Annie Hall (1977), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995) are analyzed for the common philosophical themes they share. Gender issues, Allen's love-hate relationship with God, narcissism and moral relativism, and the use of the so-called existential dilemma are among the topics discussed. The extensive research is augmented with a rare interview with Allen.
