Marshall Brickman, the writer and director known for co-writing some of Woody Allen‘s earlier works, died November 29 in Manhattan. He was 85. The Oscar winner’s daughter Sophie Brickman announced that her father died Friday in Manhattan, following more than 50 years of writing, directing and…

Nearly 17 years later, Rebecca Hall has more complex feelings about her professional association with Woody Allen than she previously stated. After donating her pay from Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York to Time’s Up in 2018 and stating she was “profoundly sorry” for working with him, the Golden…

Spencer Milligan, who starred in the 1970s Saturday morning series Land of the Lost from Sid & Marty Krofft and was a regular guest star on TV into the late 1980s, has died. He was 86. An obituary on the Huehns Funeral Home website said he died April 18 but did not provide details. Born on…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…