World Cinema Showcase

“A feast for all Woody fans and anyone else who is interested in a prolific, persistent artist’s creative world.” — Frazier Moore, Huffington Post

Sixty years and 40 feature films after 16-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy Allen Konigsberg came up with a pen-name to put to the gags he contributed to Manhattan newspapers, Woody Allen looks back in this beguiling, funny American Masters portrait. Amusingly thorough and at ease in his stance that his achievements are all disappointments and
his ambitions merely pretentious, he’s much kinder to his collaborators. These include Diane Keaton, Louise Lasser, cinematographer Gordon Willis and co-writer Marshall Brickman who all contribute revealing tales; and Mia Farrow who, unsurprisingly, does not, but who is generously represented in the film’s numerous clips.

Filmmaker Robert B. Weide, an accomplished chronicler of American comedy, is especially deft in his incorporation of the most telling film excerpts and marvellous, less familiar TV archive.