Woody Allen - A Documentary [DVD]

The iconic writer, director, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen agrees for the first time to have a camera document the creative process that guides each of his films. With this unlimited access for a year and a half, director Robert Weide, Emmy® winner and Oscar® nominee, captures the daily life of one of the living legends of the seventh art with the aim of offering us the definitive biography about Woody Allen. From his childhood and adolescence to his first professional works, Woody Allen: The Documentary reviews Allen's long career from his work as a scriptwriter and stand-up comedian on TV shows during the 50s and 60s, to his first projects as a director with Take the Money Take the Money and Run, 1969, Bananas (1971), Sleeper, 1973, and The Last Night of Boris Grushenko (Love and Death, 1975), including his most admired and awarded films such as Annie. Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Husbands and women (Husbands &, Wives, 1992), Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Poderosa Aphrodite (Mighty Aphrodite, 1995), until her most recent European journey with Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) or Midnight in Paris (2011). The documentary features the participation of actors Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Penélope Cruz, John Cusack, Larry David, Seth Green, Mariel Hemingway, Scarlett Johansson, Julie Kavner, Diane Keaton, Martin Landau, Louise Lasser, Sean Penn, Tony Roberts , Chris Rock, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Dianne Wiest, and Owen Wilson , from his collaborators Marshall Brickman, Mickey Rose, and Doug McGrath, from cinematographers Gordon Willis and Vilmos Zsigmond, from his sister and producer, Letty Aronson, from the producers Robert Greenhut and Stephen Tenenbaum, his representatives Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe, his casting director Juliet Taylor, his friend Dick Cavett, and Martin Scorsese, among many others.