Woody Allen narrates CAFÉ SOCIETY, his 47 th film and at age 80, his voice is sounding sadly geezerish. Set in the mid-1930’s, CAFÉ SOCIETY has a cool period soundtrack, an older man courting a much ...

“Café Society,” the latest from Woody Allen, is little more than a complicated anecdote, without much in the way of suspense or significance. But it’s amusing, pleasing to the eye and has exceptional ...

Maybe Woody Allen waited too long to make “Café Society”; it seems, weirdly, to be an uninspired remake of itself. Set in the 1930s, as a young man from the Bronx tries to get a toehold in Hollywood, ...

Woody Allen has been making pictures (as his 1930s Hollywood setting in Café Society old-timingly refers to movies) at a once a year click since 1982 — and really, he’s only missed that once-a-year ...

The urge to psychoanalyze Woody Allen through his films wouldn’t be so strong if he didn’t make it so easy. As breezy and feather-light as his scripts can be, they still feel uncomfortably revealing, ...

Writer/director Woody Allen’s newest film, a neurotic Hollywood fairy tale from Amazon Studios called Cafe Society, just opened the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival. It’s the third time one of Allen’s ...

Proving once again that high society life is captivating and amusing, four-time Academy Award winner Woody Allen (Best Original Screenplay, Midnight in Paris¸ 2012; Best Original Screenplay, Hannah ...

The setting is the not-so-great Depression which, through Woody’s eyes, never seemed less depressed. When it begins with “I Didn’t Know What Time it Was” by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, you know you ...

The new Woody Allen film, “Café Society,” is set in the nineteen-thirties—you know, that far-off land where movies were movies, cars were like boats, and a guy could wear a suit the color of peanut ...