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4) What is your least favorite Woody Allen Movie?  Of all the films Woody Allen has directed, The Curse of The Jade Scorpion (2001) and Hollywood Ending (2002) are the two I enjoyed the least. I don’t think I laughed a single time during either of them, and both they showcased a depressing lack of effort. At his worst, Allen’s movies can feel like filmed table-reads of unfinished scripts.

5) Has your site had any recognition in the press or by Woody himself?  If the Academy Awards can’t get Woody’s attention, I doubt I will. If Allen did somehow stumble across it, maybe after one of his grandkids sends him a link or something, he probably wouldn’t spend ten seconds on it. If he was in a good mood maybe he’d think it was kind of cute, but it’s more likely that he’d find it quite pathetic. He might even call Soon-Yi in and say something like, “look at this loser!” As for the press, I was once cited as a reference by The Guardian, which was probably unwise on their part, given my tendency to misquote people and mis-remember facts.

6) Do you have any unusual stories you can tell us about your site?  The best stories I have come courtesy of the bizarre messages I get via the contact page. Every week or two, someone (usually someone with very bad English, but not always) confuses my site with Woody Allen’s official site and sends me their acting resume and/or a request for an autographed photo. One time, someone even thought I myself was Woody Allen, writing about my own movies.

7) How was you first introduced to Woody’s work, and did you take to it straight away?  My parents were fans, and I remember watching Annie Hall with my mother when I was too young for that to be appropriate. For a long time, I don’t think about his movies too much, but then in the ’00s I remember seeing movies like Anything Else, Melinda and Melinda, and Match Point, and even though they’ve never been particularly well-regarded, something about them made them stand out from the other films coming out around the same time. It was enough to make me go back and watch movies like Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and her Sisters and renew my superfan status.

8) If you had the opportunity to speak to Woody one to one, what would you say to him, and what would you hope his response would be?  I feel like I’ve read so many interviews with Woody, there’s not much about his movies left for me to ask him. Allen has demonstrated very questionable taste when it comes to his own movies – he claims that Hollywood Ending is one of his best pictures, and was so ashamed of Manhattan that he tried to block its release – so the stubborn part of me would probably want to try to convince him of how wrong he is. Other than that, I’d probably just want to hang out and pretend to be friends with him.

9) Now not to sound too facetious or pedantic in any way shape or form, but as a Woody Alan fan myself, I find that I am a lot like him in certain ways. Are you too Trev? And if so, how?  I think we share a pessimistic outlook on life as well as the tendency to be melodramatic. Woody and I are also both judgemental, self-pitying, and self-involved. We also have the same glasses.

10) What was your favourite Woody Allen era, and why?  After he finished his early, funny movies but before he started focusing on gravely serious chamber dramas, a period encompassing approximately 1977 to 1985, Allen made a series of ambitious, meticulously crafted, boldly original movies bursting with wit, intellect and insight. It’s a string of unbridled artistry unmatched in American cinema.

“Midnight in Paris” one of Woody Allen’s biggest movie hits in recent years, July 18, 2011 – 6:00 am

(Part 32, Jean-Paul Sartre)July 10, 2011 – 5:53 am

 (Part 29, Pablo Picasso) July 7, 2011 – 4:33 am

(Part 28,Van Gogh) July 6, 2011 – 4:03 am

(Part 27, Man Ray) July 5, 2011 – 4:49 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

(Part 20, King Louis XVI of France) June 28, 2011 – 5:44 am

(Part 19,Marie Antoinette) June 27, 2011 – 12:16 am

(Part 18, Claude Monet) June 26, 2011 – 5:41 am

(Part 17, J. M. W. Turner) June 25, 2011 – 5:44 am

(Part 16, Josephine Baker) June 24, 2011 – 5:18 am

“Woody Wednesday” A 2010 review of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall

“Woody Wednesday” In 2009 interview Woody Allen talks about the lack of meaning of life and the allure of younger women

Woody Allen video interview in France talk about making movies in Paris vs NY and other subjects like God, etc

“Woody Wednesday” Woody Allen on the Emptiness of Life by Toby Simmons

Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham (Woody Wednesday)

“Woody Allen Wednesdays” can be seen on the www.thedailyhatch.org

“Woody Wednesday” Great Documentary on Woody Allen

“Woody Wednesday” Discussion of Woody Allen’s 1989 movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (Part 6)

“Woody Wednesday” Discussion of Woody Allen’s 1989 movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (Part 5)

In 2009 interview Woody Allen talks about the lack of meaning of life and the allure of younger women