Woody Allen on Woody Allen

With thirty-five years of personal film-making behind him Woody Allen is one of the most distinctive uncompromising and accomplished of all American directors.<br><br>One of the great practitioners of film comedy Allen progressed from the slapstick of <b>Take the Money and Run</b> and <b>Bananas</b> through the sophisticated Freudian one-liners and existential pratfalls of <b>Annie Hall</b> and <b>Manhattan</b> to the complex moral studies of <b>Crimes and Misdemeanours</b> and <b>Husbands and Wives</b>. In the meantime Allens own angst-ridden on-screen persona has entered the folklore of the movies to the same degree as Chaplins tramp or Groucho Marxs cigar-toting know-it-all.<br><br>This candid thoughtful and humorous career-length interview with Stig Bj&#246;rkman - editor of a similar volume on one of Allens own heroes Ingmar Bergman - traces the path of his career his motivations and inspirations and of course his nigh-legendary anxieties. Newly updated the book contains extended discussion of such recent Allen triumphs as <b>Bullets Over Broadway</b> <b>Mighty Aphrodite</b> <b>Deconstructing Harry</b> and <b>Sweet and Lowdown</b>.