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I am frequently asked why I don’t write about the films of Woody Allen. Here’s my answer. Woody Allen used to be a funny guy. Then he became a serious artist, or thought he did at any rate. His first screen “drama,” Interiors (1978), was an embarrassing episode in Allen’s career, to be followed by such others as September (1987), Another Woman (1988), and Alice (1990).
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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Wooden Allen, or Made in Manhattan. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_14
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