It’s coming up to the 40th anniversary of Woody Allen’s seminal piece of cinema Annie Hall. Often dubbed ‘the nervous romance’, it frequently blurs genre boundaries and is considered by most Allen’s best work. Harry […]
Woody Allen: seperating fiction from reality
Woody Allen’s most recent effort, Café Society, enjoyed the privilege of premiering as the opening film of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Attention, however, was diverted from the director’s work when French comedian Laurent Lafitte, […]
Film | Magic in the Moonlight – forgettable, unadventurous and fomulaic
Image: Perdido Productions For me, Magic in the Moonlight seems less a film and more a feature-length TV drama episode. I would like to assure you I am no expert on the Woody Allen film […]
Comment | Too quick to judge Woody Allen
In an open letter to the New York Times, Dylan Farrow recently spoke openly and harrowingly about her alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Woody Allen. Farrow believes that the continued celebration […]
Photography | All About Bond: Photographs by Terry O'Neill
Since the launch of Dr No in 1962, Terry O’Neill has been the agent of choice for documenting the most famous spy of all time and a cult phenomenon all over the world – James […]
Film | Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen's Return to Form
5/5 Stars Blue Jasmine does not just mark Woody Allen’s move away from comedy into drama, it is his very own Grecian style tragedy. His tragic hero, Jasmine, was once a wealthy New York socialite […]
The Interview: Guardian Journalist Simon Hattenstone
Lucy Holden is let through the drawbridge of Guardian towers to talk anxiety, madness and famous faces with features-journalist and king of interviews, Simon Hattenstone. Thrown up in a history of brain damage, vanilla […]