Paradise regained

Woody Allen steps in front of the camera for the first time since 2006's Scoop to join a typically starry cast in this quattro formaggi platter of love and laughs, made in the Eternal City. Allen is the opera director who is crazily inspired after ...

WireImage She beguiled Bill Murray in Japan, served as Woody Allen's muse (for a while), and kicked some serious butt as Black Widow. Now Scarlett Johansson is about to tackle a new challenge proving she's as talented behind the camera as she is on ...

If Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are the modern day Diane Keaton and Woody Allen, then "Frances Ha" is their "Annie Hall," except with the color palette of "Manhattan." Shot in relative anonymity, and not officially announced until the , the ...

Laura Stevenson describes herself as an "unfunny Woody Allen," which is another way of saying that her work channels her obsessions with death and doubt. On her third album, Wheel, she finds a way to make it all sound downright jaunty. Stevenson ...

The cover reads "Woody Allen meets Philipp Roth" - that is, irony and narrative in a perfect combination. In his new novel "Flatscreen", Adam Wilson captures on paper a new generation, the one that depends on high-speed communication and lives its ...

An Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn has forbidden thick-framed retro glasses favored by the likes of Woody Allen. We are asking that everyone buy simple glasses, reads a letter written in Yiddish that was recently issued to parents of students at ...

Beethoven and Woody Allen bathed their way to genius. Dickens (and just about everyone else) walked. And you don't want to know how Thomas Wolfe got the juices flowing. Mason Currey, author of "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" shares some of the ...

General Motors Co didn't get the reaction it was seeking from a recent commercial inspired by Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris", namely the scene in which the main character time-travels back to the Jazz Age. The 60-second ad sparked anger in China ...

Colin Firth could be adding another acclaimed director to his CV, as he is said to be in talks to star in Woody Allen's next film. The Oscar-winning King's Speech star is in negotiations to play the male lead in the as-yet-untitled film, reported ...