Woody Allen’s Sleeper is far more than farce.

 

 

Here’s our continuing look at Woody Allen.

 

 

Sick of Valentine’s Day? Need a day to purge the cloying bombardment of flowers, cards, and chocolates?

 

 

Woody Allen once said in an interview that when he first showed the executives of Palomar Films his first movie, Take the Money and Run, one of them leaned over about ten minutes in and asked, “Is the whole thing going to be like this?” And thus began one of the most illustrious, prolific, and celebrated film […]

 

 

In what might be his best film since 1997’s Sweet and Lowdown, Woody Allen sheds the jittery paranoia, forced love affair, and overly-convoluted script that were staples in the 90’s by giving us Midnight in Paris, an exploration of our relationship with and admiration of nostalgia. In present-day Paris, our protagonist Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) is on vacation […]