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Almodóvar gets left off the list.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 2:25 PM

There's a hot new drama from Pedro Almodóvar; it's just not his new movie. Spain's most famous living filmmaker has had a tempestuous relationship with the Spanish Cinema Academy for year. He and his brother Agustín left the Academy in a huff in 2005 to protest the new voting rules for the Goyas (Spain's Oscars). Now the Academy's returned... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Woody Allen, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, Pedro Almodóvar, Controversy, Abroad, Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, Broken Embraces, The Dancer and the Thief, Goyas, Fernando Trueba, Spain, Gordos

Critic wrangle: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Fri, Aug 15 2008 3:55 PM

As many have pointed out, it's damning "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with faint praise to call it Woody Allen's best film since "Match Point," a minimal achievement if ever there was one. I liked the film at Cannes, and like it even more in retrospect, where it seems a little crueler, for all that it looks like a soft-focus sex farce... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic wrangle, Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson

"Oh, my God, I'm kissing Spicoli."
Wed, Aug 13 2008 2:55 PM

Yet again, the world in quotes: "The first kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. It was a crane shot--I'm sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That's a long time on film with everybody watching and, like, a fake mustache getting in your... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In quotes, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Woody Allen, James Franco, Mad Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Steve Coogan, Bill Maher, Larry Charles, Mike Figgis, Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Religulous, Milk, Richard O'Brien

"I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years."
Tue, Aug 5 2008 1:27 PM

The world in quotes: "This was like three years ago. And I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years. So I said OK. And then I didn't die." --Woody Allen on how he ended up directing an opera, at E! Online. "It's the big action ones or the ones with Will Ferrell. In those you howl for two hours and you feel like you get a six-pack [of... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In quotes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Synecdoche New York, Woody Allen, Bill Lumbergh, Mike Judge, Office Space, Will Ferrell, Samantha Morton, Deepak Chopra, Gary Cole, Mike Myers, The Love Guru

Odds: Untouchable Paris, leaves, Woody Allen's "blackish comedy."
Wed, Jul 30 2008 5:32 PM

Taking photos with Paris Hilton, who was at Comic-Con promoting "Repo: The Genetic Opera," two MTV News staffers found they displayed an identical and apparently instinctive reluctance to actually have to touch the heiress. [MTV] Maybe they'd just watched too much footage from the film, which is directed by "Saw II"-"IV"'s... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Ballast, Odds, Last Stop for Paul, Bottle Shock, Ridley Scott, Philippe Petit, Woody Allen, Repo: The Genetic Opera, self-distribution, Twilight, Larry David, Nottingham, Whatever Works, Man on Wire, Paris Hilton