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Wild Man Blues

1998, Movie, PG, 105 mins

WILD MAN BLUES
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The subject is Woody Allen, but anyone interested in his career as a writer, stand-up comedian, actor or filmmaker will learn little from Barbara Kopple's new documentary, which takes its title from a Louis Armstrong number. Its focus is Allen's devotion to traditional New Orleans jazz -- he's a dedicated amateur clarinetist who performs regularly in New York -- and the 18-city European tour he and six other musicians undertook in 1996. For all the footage dedicated to their ... read more leave a comment
Wild Man Blues movie trailer - Genre: Non-Fiction
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Length: 01:29
Posted: 12/22/2009
Academy Award-winner and Emmy Award-nominee Barbara Kopple ("American Dream," "Harlan County, USA") directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen ("Annie Hall," "Hannah and Her Sisters"), seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with Soon Yi Previn is captured on film here, and others on the European jaunt include bandleader as well as Allen's sister Letty Aronson. Followed by press, paparazzi, and gushing admirers, Allen returns home to face a more realistic critical assessment during "the lunch from hell" with his aged parents.
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Length: 01:45:30
Posted: 4/11/2009
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