On December 1 this year he will turn 76 years old, but he is still far from the critical director age as in 1969, when the world saw the first debut film directed by Woody Allen. He releases the picture every year, and each time surprises the viewer. The last masterpieces of the director - "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008), where the international stars starred, namely Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardema and Patrice Clarkson, as well as the films "Match Point" ( 2005), "What will be" (2009), "You will meet a high stranger" (2010), "Midnight in Paris" (2011).
From New York to London and Spain
The news that Allen is filming his films in England, has become a real sensation. It seemed that nothing in the world would force the maestro to leave his beloved Manhattan (all the characters of his previous films rarely went beyond Fifth Avenue or Central Park). But the reasons that prompted him to do this were very significant. In the early 2000s, it became increasingly difficult to make movies in the States. All American producers are not eager to play the role of bankers, and all the time strive to intervene in the filming process, namely: reread a hundred times the script, disrupt the shooting of permanent visits, offer the role of their candidates. Already in 2007, Woody, having finished shooting the third London film, moved to Spain, where he filmed his acclaimed film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". But no matter how many films he took outside his hometown, Allen's phenomenon spawned New York, to which he dedicated such films as The New York Trilogy, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan and many others. A famous man with an unpretentious appearance, managed to sublimate in his work all his complexes and phobias, became just like the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America!
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Today, Vuddy Allen is a film director, comic actor, producer and Oscar winner, which he received three times. In addition, he is a writer and author of a huge number of plays and stories and a jazz clarinetist.
The director received a great recognition from the public, thanks to his witty comedies, which combine elements of satire and absurdity and psychological dramas that were created under the creative influence of Ingmar Bergman. Combining these two genres, Woody came up with his new one and called it an "intellectual comedy". In addition, the director distinguished himself by the large volume of his film work and the speed with which films were produced. In addition to directing and script writing, Allen starred in her films. Favorite topics that include his films are psychoanalysis, sex and personal Jewish roots.
So, Allen Stuart Konigsberg was born in Brooklyn. From the age of 15 I was already able to join the bohemian and aristocratic environment of New York: I worked closely with well-known magazines "Playboy", "New Yorker", "Evergreen", composed skits for a TV show of comedy and nightclubs, often appeared in Broadway (taking on the name of the animated Woodpecker Woodpecker). Of course, it can not be said that Allen's first film, "Take the Money and Run" (1969), produced a huge sensation, although the flamboyant parody of the popular films of the bank robbers at that time took quite a stir. Already in three years there is a film from the director Allen "Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask" (1972). Since that time, the work of Vuddy Allen has been watched by the million-strong army of his admirers.
Triumph
The top of Allen's work is considered to be the famous New York trilogy "Annie Hall" (1977), "Interiors" (1978), "Manhattan" (1979). By the way, Annie Hall is a brilliant comedy about a professional comedian named Elvi Zinger, who, because of parting with her beloved girl, is experiencing a deep depression. This film was awarded four Oscar statuettes (direction, script, camerawork and the main female role). However, Vuddy ignored the ceremony itself, thus demonstrating a disregard for awards. After that, the films of director Allen begin to go one by one to the world of the film industry. The peak of his career, according to the director himself, can safely be considered the painting "Husbands and wives" (1993), "Alice" (1990), "Scenes in a department store" (1991), "Shadows and fog" (1992) . All these films convey the family coliseum of sexual problems and fear of loneliness. Most likely, this attitude at that time fully corresponded to the events that took place in the personal life of the director.
The film, titled "Small Scammers" (2000), was the first Allen film filmed at the DremVors studio. After the world, they saw Allen's films, "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" (2001), The Hollywood Finale (2002), "Something Else" (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004).
In 2005, one of Woody Allen's most successful films was released, which was shot already in London, under the title "Match Point." In this picture stars such as Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys-Myers played. This picture brought the director his first nominations in the categories "Best Screenplay" for "Oscar", as well as "Directing" and "Screenplay" for the Golden Globe Award. And in 2006 came the film called "Sensation", where they played: Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, Hugh Jackman and Kevin McNally. Living in the capital of England, Woody shot another film, entitled "The Dream of Cassandra" (2007). In this film, played: Evan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson. In just two years before the premiere of the film in theaters, there was a "Match Point", and in 1993, "Crimes and Misdemeanors". All three films are almost the same in the plot moves, besides they are free adaptations of the "American Tragedy" and "Crime and Punishment".
For today, Vuddy Allen continues his directorial activity and is ready to please his fans with new movie masterpieces!