“That was one of my best films, I thought,” Allen has said of the picture, starring himself, Charlotte Rampling, Tony Roberts and Jessica Harper. “It was one of my most stringently criticized films in the United States. They thought that the lead character was me! Not a fictional character, but me, and that I was expressing hostility toward my audience. And, of course, that was in no way the point of the film.”
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I have spent a lot of time looking at the life and thought of Woody Allen and it is very helpful to see the places that he looks for satisfying answers in life. Has he found any answers? He himself says no. I think he is running from God and needs to come to the same conclusion that Solomon came to at the end of Ecclesiastes.
| Woody Allen | |
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 Allen at the 2009 premiere of Whatever Works |
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| Born | Allen Stewart Konigsberg December 1, 1935 (1935-12-01) (age 76) The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor Director Screenwriter Comedian Musician Playwright |
| Years active | 1950–present |
| Influenced by | Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick |
| Home town | New York City, New York |
| Spouse | Harlene Rosen (m. 1954–1959) «start: (1954)–end+1: (1960)»”Marriage: Harlene Rosen to Woody Allen” Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen) Louise Lasser (m. 1966–1969) «start: (1966)–end+1: (1970)»”Marriage: Louise Lasserto Woody Allen” Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen)Soon-Yi Previn (m. 1997) «start: (1997)»”Marriage: Soon-Yi Previn to Woody Allen” Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen) |
| Partner | Mia Farrow (1980–92) |
| Children | Seamus Farrow (son) Bechet Dumaine Allen (daughter) Manzie Tio Allen (daughter)[1] |
| Relatives | Letty Aronson (sister) |
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| www.woodyallen.com | |
Allen played a wacky inventor hosting a weekend party in this comedic love story. It was his first collaboration with Mia Farrow, who ended their decade-long relationship after discovering his affair with their adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. He later married Previn in 1997.
Allen directed actresses (from left) Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow and Barbara Hershey in this film, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards (winning him a statue for best writing). At the time of the film’s release, the director and Farrow had been dating for six years and were raising two adopted children, Moses and Dylan.
Related posts (this first list are historical characters that are pictured in Woody Allen’s movie “Midnight in Paris”:
(Part 32, Jean-Paul Sartre)July 10, 2011 – 5:53 am
(Part 26,James Joyce) July 4, 2011 – 5:55 am
(Part 25, T.S.Elliot) July 3, 2011 – 4:46 am
(Part 24, Djuna Barnes) July 2, 2011 – 7:28 am
(Part 23,Adriana, fictional mistress of Picasso) July 1, 2011 – 12:28 am
(Part 22, Silvia Beach and the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore) June 30, 2011 – 12:58 am
(Part 21,Versailles and the French Revolution) June 29, 2011 – 5:34 am
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