Scoop on Woody Allen
July 26th, 2006 by Andre Soares
From
David Segal’s article "Cloud In the Silver Lining" in the Washington Post: "You thought a sit-down with Woody Allen would cheer you up? He is not the anxious, gesticulating quipster he’s played in so many of his movies, a man who bundles his despair with a batch of winning one-liners, a bit of vaudeville by way of Camus. There is little shtick about the real-life Woody Allen, who says that outside of his work, he is rarely funny.
"Instead, he is chatty, rueful and, though he seems vaguely uncomfortable with the setting — an empty reception room at the Mark Hotel, where he is gabbing his way through an afternoon of interviews — he is almost evangelically passionate about a few subjects. None more so than the chilling emptiness of life."
Allen’s lastest, Scoop, which he wrote, directed, and stars, opens in the U.S. on July 28.
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The seems to be something very wrong when it comes to the marketing of a Woody Allen film. I actually think that if the last two films that he has done had been marketed without any mention of his name they might have been box office winners, especially Match Point.
Marcus,
Maybe you have a point - as far as the U.S. is concerned. Woody Allen remains a box-office name in Europe and elsewhere. Well, at least “Match Point” did quite well in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany (as per the figures on the IMDb).