November 30, 2015
The director, actor and writer Woody Allen, one of the most influential and respected figures of the Seventh Art, will celebrate 80 years on Tuesday with his foray as a director and writer in a number of online TV
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Mexico.- director, actor and writer Woody Allen, one of the figures more influential and respected Seventh Art will celebrate 80 years on Tuesday with his foray as a director and writer in a number of online television.
The new work also musical “The project untitled Woody Allen” is called , an original series for Amazon, of which the cast is unknown, however, is expected to premiere in 2016, in countries like the US, UK and Germany.
On the other hand, this year, on May 16, it had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the film drama, mystery and comedy “Irrational Man,” which Allen wrote and directed, the cast included Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Jamie Blackley and Parker Posey; the United States premiere was in July.
Allan Stewart Konigsberg, Woody Allen’s real name, was born on December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of Martin and Nettie Konigsberg Jews, and brother of film producer Ellen, better known as Letty Aronson.
In his prolific career has won two Oscars, one for the film “Annie Hall” and one for “Hannah and Her Sisters”; and he was awarded the Golden Globe for “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” among other accolades.
Among other studies, he enrolled at the City College of New York and attended college in the same city ; He collaborated with the columnist Earl Wilson and changed its name to Woody Allen. Shortly after he began writing for television and early 60s worked as a comedian.
In 1956 he married Harlene Rosen, his girlfriend of adolescence, but the couple divorced in 1962. A year before he made his first public appearances, which he told his own jokes at nightclubs The Blue Angel and The Duplex, and in some television programs.
In 1964, an album of comedy on their material entitled “Woody Allen “was nominated for Grammy awards. A year later he first appeared on film in “What ‘s New, Pussycat?”, Then “Casino Royale” and made his first starring role in “Take the money and run”.
A years later he married actress Louise Lasser, but also divorced. In 1965 he wrote his first script for a film that also starred. Also prepared in playing the clarinet since 1997 and is the author of numerous collections of humor.
In 1972 he teamed up with Diane Keaton in “Dreams of a seducer.”; Keaton and Allen became girlfriend and their working partnership lasted over many years
In 1976 performed film complaint about hunting American witches entitled “The front”. Performed “Annie Hall” (1977), also with Diane Keaton, which was a success in the world and the Academy awarded him an Oscar for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Woody did not attend the delivery and preferred his jazz session, which gave him even more popularity. Some of his films failed to applause from the audience, to put aside their role as comic and focus on major social criticism.
It became popular for its romantic disagreements, although he preferred to take their personal work outside their affairs. In his films “Manhattan,” “Bullets Over Broadway” and “Mighty Aphrodite,” Allen returned to the style that made him popular and achieved again the applause of the public.
In 1980, after breaking his relationship with Keaton began longer to actress Mia Farrow, who bore him a son in 1987 named Seamus had; adopted two more children together, Dylan and Moses.
While lived with Mia, Allen became romantically involved with the actress adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who was 21 years old. In 1997, Woody and Previn married in Venice and were parents of two adopted daughters.
His recent works include the films “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001), “A final fact in Hollywood “(2002),” Anything Else “(2003),” Melinda and Melinda “(2004) and” Match Point “(2005).
In 2004, Woody Allen participated in the operation” Photographs of the stars “, organized by Reporters Without Borders, an association for the defense of press freedom that gives financial support to the families of 29 journalists are in prison in Cuba.
Allen has received numerous awards for their work, and among those honors include 20 nominations for the Academy Awards and nine for the Golden Globes.
In June 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In that year he premiered the film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” which brings together Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem.
On December 29, 2008 he attended the closing ceremony of the Centennial the Town Hall, which was held in Valladolid, Spain, as “finishing touch” to these celebrations, under the intense relationship of the city with the world of cinema.
This circumstance has been captured through Seminci, prestigious festival each fall meeting in Valladolid to highlight the Seventh Art.
The local mayor, Francisco Javier Leon de la Riva, and the deputy general manager of Caja Burgos, Jose Luis Hernandez Sanchez, signed a collaboration agreement in the framework of the commemoration of the centenary of the town hall.
The deal was that the company would sponsor, with a contribution of 60,000 euros, Gala Closing of the Centenary with the presence of Woody Allen and the New Orleans Jazz Band.
Woody Allen is considered one of the best filmmakers, whose production surpasses the art, in addition to directing movies with a style only and write books with irony and humor as flags, framework that highlights a tour that is another of his passions, jazz music.
A year later presented “Whatever works” played by Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood and Patricia Clarkson. It was released on April 22 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and commercially on June 19 in the United States.
In 2010 he wrote and directed the movie “Meet a Tall Dark Stranger”, which featured starring Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.
In 2011, also wrote the New York premiere “Midnight in Paris”, which starred Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates Adrien Brody and Marion Cotillard.
In 2012, Allen released “From Rome with Love”, a film that was shot in the Italian capital, and in which acted the Spanish Penelope Cruz, Antonio Albanese, Alec Baldwin and Roberto Benigni, among others.
In 2013 his film “Blue Jasmine”, was released in July in New York and Los Angeles, while in November the same year in Spain.
This production of Allen, was filmed in 2012 in New York and San Francisco, and has starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Dice Clay, among others.
Moreover, in Spain the staging of “Husbands and Wives”, the also writer in the Alhambra Theatre premiered.
On December 31, 2014 participated in the opening of Suite Festival in Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain.
The filmmaker sacked with his New Orleans Jazz Band, as the figure who began a series of concerts that were involved Van Morrison, Bob Geldof and Ara Malikian year ., etc.
On the other hand, Allen continued the feat of releasing a film a year, this time it was the turn of tape number 47: “Magic in the Moonlight”
The film, a romantic comedy was starring Colin Firth, Emma Stone and Gwen Stacy, which premiered in the United States and then in Colombia in November 2014.
The plot takes place in the French Riviera in the 20; “Stanley” (Colin Firth) is an English magician arrogant and skeptical, willing to expose “Sophie” (Emma Stone), a con artist claiming to be medium.
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