September 18, 2022
"While in Europe to work on his 50th film, Woody Allen told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he intended to retire from making movies..."
"... and to dedicate more time to writing during his twilight years. What is now set to be his final film is set in Paris and will be shot entirely in French in a couple of weeks... Allen has been shooting more often in Europe as his support in the U.S. has plunged given the abuse accusations against him.... Amazon Studios shelved his previous film 'A Rainy Day in New York' after accusing Allen of 'sabotaging' the future of the film by his comments on the abuse accusations of his daughter Dylan Farrow. He sued them for $68 million alleging a breach of contract. The dispute was later settled out of court...."
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Has there ever been any proof that Allen molested anyone other than accusations from a bitter (and nutty) ex-wife?
Sure, the guy likes young (legal) women.
He's just doing what every old guy would do given half a chance...
American films occasionally have French directors, but do they write the screenplays ever?
Dylan Farrow doesn't seem to get the same media treatment as Mary Trump.
There's substance to the allegation against him. Maybe not enough to convict him in a court of law, but the allegation is credible. Contra that is the fact that there is only this one allegation. Mariel Hemingway claimed that he went all gaga over her and tried to take her to Paris, but Woody in that instance acted more like a fool than a criminal. As Hollywood pervs go, Woody is small potatoes....Compare Woody to Charley Chaplin. Chaplin claimed that he slept with over 4,000 women. You can bet that a goodly number of those women were under aged. He started dating one of his wives when she was twelve. Chaplin was reliably left in his thinking, and Hollywood treated him with respect and affection. The American public was leery of his politics and his predilections, but what do they know. After some years in the wilderness, he got a biopic that was hagiographic and a standing ovation at the Oscars.....Tough luck for Woody. Timing is everything in comedy and in sex.
Joe Smith asked: "Has there ever been any proof that Allen molested anyone?"
He married his adopted daughter, bro. You need proof? What ... you want video of the rape? You hot for some child porn?
Delete this shit.
At this point, the only thing I'm sure that Woody Allen did wrong was violate the law about sticking your dick in crazy.
His story quality has dropped off, but I will still watch it. Artists are asshoe, what a newsflash.
I think Allen is creepy but Soon Yi was not his adopted daughter. Woody and Mia were never married and never lived together; they had separate apartments on opposite sides of Central Park. Soon Yi was her adopted daughter and according to several credible accounts, Mia neglected and/or abused her many adopted children (she had 14 kids altogether), three of whom died tragically young, one by suicide.
Not a fan of Woody’s predilections, but I’m a big fan of his movies. If we boycotted every film with a creep who was in some way responsible for it, there’d be no movies to watch. Too bad he’s retiring, although he must be close to 90.
I take Charlie Chaplin -- and Wilt Chamberlain -- seriously, but not literally.
I don't believe that Woody Allen literally abused his very young daughter Dylan, though there may have been ambiguous incidents that Mia Farrow would have seen as corroborating her suspicions. He didn't like his women quite that young. I do wish he had just gone away 30 years ago. The world wouldn't have lost much.
I loved Woody when I was young. Then I feel like I outgrew him, even before the whole marrying his daughter thing. It doesn't say much for the French that they didn't outgrow him. I get that she wasn't literally his daughter, but what he did was still a long way up the creepiness and betrayal scales.
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy is a great movie. Much of his stuff consisted of puerile gags, but he made some really good ones too.
Woody was a great American comic but has long since lost the touch.
I've never been persuaded that he did anything wrong with any children besides leave them to the care of nut-job Farrow, but then adoptees were her fetish, not his.
His sex life seems to be a fetish for others though.
His body of work will stand the test of time.
Allen retired 20 years ago. He's been going through the motions and remaking his standard 3 types of movies over and over.
Amazing how these old comedians, at least the Jewish ones, live forever. George Burns lasted to 100. Laughter is the best medicine. I suppose.
People always overestimate how popular Woody is. He's had a long and storied career because (1) "The Industry" and the critics love Him and (2) Big name actors work with him for almost nothing and (3) he writes and directs his own films. So he can make a relatively small amount of box office, and still get his films financed. And still make a profit.
IMO, the last good Woody movie was "Decontructing harry" and that was 25 years ago. Made when Woody Allen was 62.
From what i can tell, Woody allen doesn't drink or smoke. He's built like an athlete (despite his shlub image) and doesn't have an ounce of body fat. He exercises religiously, and his parents lived to be almost 100.
And given his $, he has access to the best medical care. I'm sure, he'll be reading my obituary. And not the other way round.
He'll end making movies and will do more writing? If I'm your typical measure bag it all now. I don't watch your movies and would never read your stuff. You've had an undeserved time in the spotlight. Someone should have beaten you to a pulp years ago.
Why don't people just watch genuine French cinema instead?
"He married his adopted daughter, bro."
Well, among all the inaccuracies already mounting up here, this one is not only inaccurate, it is utterly trivial. It actually makes me laugh. I mean he "married" her, after all. Judging by today's standards perhaps THAT is what some see as perverse. I mean I have to admit, I'm married, too. Not to my (or someone's) adopted daughter, I admit. But she could have been my adopted sister, I suppose. Had my parents been in line to adopt one and had she been available to be adopted. Alas, it was not to be. She grew up with her own parents. But I married her anyway.
Good grief, get a life. Woody's made some good films. Period.
I took a film class as an elective senior year high school. I was taught by and old beatnik, Mr. Kampka. He drove and old 1950s beat up Volvo and claimed he never took the same route to get to Wrigley Field from the suburbs.
He have us extra credit if we went to see "Radio Days" which was released in Jan 1987. I went. I think I've seen every Woody Allen movie because of that.
Ran into Mr. Kampka at a Jr. High performance for my daughter about ten years ago. Hadn't seen him since high school. Don't even know if he remembered me. He died only like a year later.
But I had a chance to tell him that he turned me into a Woody Allen fan. I think he appreciated it. We laughed about Woody Allen and agreed "Broadway Danny Rose" was one of his best, underrated movies. Especially the hangover cure that included chicken fat.
Show anyone the final skit/scene from "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but We're Afraid to Ask" and they'll laugh.
Brilliantly funny. Tony Randall and Burt Reynolds running mission control from the brain.
Wonder if he meant to spoof 1966 "Fantastic Voyage".
He married his adopted daughter, bro. You need proof? What ... you want video of the rape?
Says the moron who hasn't seen enough proof that the war in Ukraine is actually happening. Hey, why don't you go there and investigate bro?
Rape? Beating to a pulp?
What sort of gallantry BS is being foisted here?
Little guy triggers a lot of people.
Self-respecting Frenchmen would realize that the Woody Allen cult is an especially egregious example of US cultural imperialism, but the CIA tricked them by telling them that we hated Woody in the States and only cultured Europeans could appreciate him.
"He married his adopted daughter, bro."
No, he didn't, dumbfuck. He married a young woman who had an entirely different dad who raised her from a young age. And he stayed married to her.
Mia Farrow is a monster. Woody Allen is a self-involved nebbish.
I forgot about that bit with Burt Reynolds, worth the price of admission right there.
I mean he "married" her, after all.
And they've stayed married for 25 years.
Hollywood politics is sick.
Here is a standing ovation for Roman Polanski, a child rapist. His victim was 13 and he drugged her first.
I personally suspect Allen was innocent. I don't know of course. But accusations made in the context of a divorce are suspicious. (See Donald Trump and his first wife, later retracted).
It's a popularity contest more than a criminal accusation. "Trump is guilty of crimes because we hate him!"
"Woody Allen must have done it because I watched Manhattan and she was a child."
Factual truth is important. It might "feel true" but if it's not, fuck it. You can't applaud people, or hate them, based on the vibes in your heart. I mean you can, but emotion is dangerous too and we all need to be cognizant of how anger, fear, and hate can make us dishonest.
Hannah and Her Sisters is miraculous.
'He married his adopted daughter, bro. You need proof? What ... you want video of the rape? You hot for some child porn?'
Fuck you.
He's never been tried or convicted of anything.
She was 27 years old.
He may be a perv and it's weird (not by Hollywood standards) to marry your adopted daughter, but it's NOT FUCKING ILLEGAL.
So again, fuck off. Your comment was uncalled for and nasty.
Joe Smith asked: "Has there ever been any proof that Allen molested anyone?"
Nope.
Saint Croix said...
Hannah and Her Sisters is miraculous.
Blue Jasmine was good enough for me to watch twice, on purpose.
Fifty films! And I haven't seen half of them, especially the later and dramatic ones.
Incroyable.
>>Blue Jasmine was good enough for me to watch twice, on purpose.
I think that was the most recent one that I have seen. It was pretty good.
--gpm
>>Blue Jasmine was good enough for me to watch twice, on purpose.
Everybody was great in that... even the OJ acolite Alec Baldwin.
Midnight in Paris was very enjoyable, certainly worth the price of a ticket and my time. I also liked Magic in the Moonlight, but I'm a big Emma Stone fan.
Glad to see the commenters already corrected the record about Woody marrying Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, who was not his at all, and that it was not an impulse as the marriage has lasted.
"He married his adopted daughter, bro."
Woody Allen was never married to Mia Farrow, never lived with her, and never adopted any of her children. There was not anything criminal or immoral about his relationship with Soon Yi. (Not that this erases the definite creep/selfish asshole/yuck factor of the whole situation.)
"creep/selfish asshole/yuck" factor of the Allen-Farrow situation.
They say politics makes strange bedfellows.
I've never been yucked or creeped out by Woody's sex life, but the topic seems to bring a lot of gallant gents out of the closet here.
"He married his adopted daughter"
Anyone know Soon-Yi's last name?
It's Previn.
It's Previn because Andre Previn adopted Soon-Yi when he was in a relationship with Mia Farrow.
Woody Allen never adopted her and never married or even lived with Mia Farrow.
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