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58 years after making his debut feature, Woody Allen is sitting “on the fence" about whether his latest movie Coup de Chance, his 50th feature, will be his last cinematic outing. The veteran filmmaker has given an interview to AirMail, in which he was asked whether Coup de Chance, an erotic thriller…

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While promoting his 50th – and quite possibly, last — movie Coup de Chance at the Venice Film Festival, Woody Allen weighed in on cancel culture, the #MeToo Movement, and whether any woman has ever complained about his behavior on set. “I said years ago that I should have been a poster boy [for the…

Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The film, which was directed and written by Allen himself, received a five-minute ovation from the audience. Coup de Chance centers around Fanny and Jean who look like the ideal married couple—they're both professionally…

Exactly who are these people? They're rich, obviously. They're Parisian, which means that they are already fantasy figurines in the European curiosity shop of Woody Allen's imagination. But does any actual modern man, no matter how rich and unfathomably French, come home from work in 2023 to request a…

Woody Allen was given a rapturous reception as he hit the Venice Film Festival on Monday with his 50th film, the French-language thriller Coup de Chance which premieres Out Of Competition this evening. The journalists in the press conference broke out into spontaneous applause as the 87-year-old…

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has shown once again that he is not scared to court controversy. The festival head has given Roman Polanski a safe festival berth for his new movie The Palace at Venice, in a selection that is likely to spark debate alongside the inclusion of…

UPDATED, 1:53 AM: Amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, what the Venice Film Festival may lack in star acting talent turning up on the Lido, it certainly looks to be making up for in marquee directors — including what might prove to be some lightning-rod choices. Scroll down for the full list of titles…

Douglas C. Hart, an assistant camera operator on more than 50 feature films including Kramer vs. Kramer and such Woody Allen movies as Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Zelig, died Tuesday while under hospice care at an assisted living facility in New York City. He was…

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Allen’s latest film is heading to the EFM market in Berlin with WestEnd Films, we can reveal. To date, plot details have been kept under wraps on Allen’s 50th film but we can reveal the contemporary romantic thriller, previously known as Wasp 22, will chart the story of two young…

Woody Allen has been quick to deny rumours of his retirement that came out of an interview he gave to a Spanish magazine, saying his next film would be his last. The 86-year-old director has issued a statement Monday to clarify what he meant, saying: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, not did he say he was…

Woody Allen has announced that he will be retiring from filmmaking after the release of his next film. The 86-year-old filmmaker is set to begin production on his final feature in the coming fall and has told a Spanish newspaper he plans for this to be his last one. In an interview with La Vanguardia ahead of Wasp 22…