Woody Allen Film Festival: BLUE JASMINE (2013)

Woody Allen Extended Film Festival! (Remember, if there's one you particularly want us to watch, let me know!)

Blue Jasmine (2013). Okay, let's watch a much more recent one. I think this is probably Allen's best receive recent movie (oh except for Midnight in Paris), and it was filmed in my own San Francisco. I don't know anything about it. Weird cast, including Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis CK, and Andrew Dice Clay(?).

Woody Allen is one of the greatest directors of all time. It's hard to overstate how great he is, emotionally deep, funny af of course, intellectual, and filmically creative. He made one or two movies EVERY YEAR from the seventies until recently, only slowing down in his eighties. I've chosen five to start us with, but we'll stick with him until we've seen all of them we want to.

The movies we'll be starting with, Manhattan (1979), Interiors (1978), Husband and Wives (1992), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Blue Jasmine (2013), represent a good cross-section of Allen's output, the late '70s when he was creative output was on fire, the '80s/'90s when he was producing one consistently great movie after another, and then one much more recent one, when he has been less consistent but still sometimes great.

Most of these movies will be available on any streaming service, or as always you can find a (free) link here:

https://gregoryberry.net/woodyallen (Note: GoDaddy killed my website, so you're on your own until I rebuild it.)

We will meet on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 8PM, at LEANING TOWER OF PIZZA at 24th Street and Lyndale, same as always. See you there!