Woody Allen

SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans

This Week's Recommended Shows

From the Barleywine Revue to My Goodness.

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band

From the Barleywine Revue to My Goodness.

Shows: The Month Ahead

From Lindsay Fuller to Brian Setzer.

Seducing Charlie Barker: Yet Another Midlife-Crisis Movie

From Lindsay Fuller to Brian Setzer.

Annie Hall

From Lindsay Fuller to Brian Setzer.

Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen in Warmly Nostalgic Mode

From Lindsay Fuller to Brian Setzer.

Today in Sex: What if Sexing Up Your Parents Was Legal?

​Or banging your brother or sister? Assuming everyone involved was above the age of consent, and it weren't against the law would you be tempted? Like most of you, my genitals sealed themselves shut at the mere thought of getting it on with anyone I'm related to, but unfortunately, this squeam ... More >>

Today in Sex: Royal Duo are Kissin' Cousins

​The British tabs are abuzz because a genealogist discovered that young Prince William is a distant relation to his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton. According to the Daily Mail, "The man who links William and Kate as kith and kin is Sir Thomas Leighton, an Elizabethan soldier, diplomat an ... More >>

The Rules of the Game

​The British tabs are abuzz because a genealogist discovered that young Prince William is a distant relation to his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton. According to the Daily Mail, "The man who links William and Kate as kith and kin is Sir Thomas Leighton, an Elizabethan soldier, diplomat an ... More >>

Stage: Artifacts of Consequence

Whom would you save: Salinger or Huey Lewis?

Whatever Works: No, Woody, It Doesn’t

Whom would you save: Salinger or Huey Lewis?

Bank Heists to Remember

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

Take the Money and Run

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

National Guard Ad Bombs

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Scarlett Johansson gets sexed up in Spain

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

Vincent Canby's Middle Class

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

$13 Worth of Woody Allen

The fourth bank robbery by the Man Hands Bandit - Thursday in Shoreline - probably earns him some sort of nod in the NW Haul of Fame. He's not too smart, a trait of memorable robbers who tend to call attention to themselves. And clearly MHB does, causing heads to swivel as he dons a woman's wig and ... More >>

The Fun Never Stops

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

Is This Show Too Jewish for Seattle?

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

The Daily Wire: When Woody Loved Mia

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

Cassandra’s Dream: Woody’s Latest Is DOA.

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

Dating Mexicans Is Not Slumming

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

Manhattan: Woody Allen Shags a Teenager!

Drew Friedman makes a mockery of our leaders and leading comics

Trust the Man

Opens at Metro and others, Fri., Sept. 1. Rated R. 103 minutes.

Scoop

Opens at Seven Gables and others, Fri., July 28. Rated PG-13. 96 minutes.

Manray

Opens at Seven Gables and others, Fri., July 28. Rated PG-13. 96 minutes.

This Week's Critics' Picks

Children's Film Fest, Sri Lanka: One Year Later, The Chieftains.

Veteran's Luck

Woody Allen reverses his career slump with a bracing English crime thriller.

I Am a Sex Addict

Runs Fri., Jan. 6–Thurs., Jan. 12, at Northwest Film Forum

Larger and Smaller Than Life

The flaws are drawn more boldly than the virtues in this scathing family fictionalization.

French Idolatry

A celebrity writer threatens to crush his inner circle in this impeccable comedy of manners.

The Vampire's Curse

Woody Allen gives us two stories for the price of one. Don't we even get half the enjoyment value for our ticket?

The 100 Greatest Don Knotts Movies of All Time

Part of the fun of making a canon of video favorites is breaking the movie snobs' mold.

What Women Really Wish Men Knew

Part of the fun of making a canon of video favorites is breaking the movie snobs' mold.

SCTV Vol. 1: Network 90

Shout Factory, $89.95

Queens of Scots

Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton deliver an art-film masterpiece.

The Ask Master

Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton deliver an art-film masterpiece.

Day for night

Real life and movie fantasies blur together in 1969 Paris.

House of wax

Again, Woody sculpts an uncanny approximation of comedy.

See no evil

A church scandal— the American way.

Radio days

Once again, Woody tunes in to a distant wavelength.

Small World

Tiny notes from our busy local arts scene

New York stories

Sex and the City they're not.

Sweet and Lowdown

Art for the artist's sake.

Fatal attraction

Art for the artist's sake.

Alan Alda speaks!

Art for the artist's sake.

Woody the pecker

Old man goes after young girl. Again.

Lost in space

How concert films free the viewer from the constraints of narrative.