By Antoine Morin

and Benoit Rouleau

First Name: Allan Stewart KonigsbergAllan Stewart Konigsberg

Favorite movie: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity

Had a high IQ, but hated school

Was very good in sports>> Soccer, baseball, boxing

Got hooked on movies at the age of three, with the movie Snow White.

Became obsessed with magic and music

1952: He changes his name for Woody Woody AllenAllen

1953: enrolled in motion picture production at the New York University

1956: marriage with Harlene Rosen

1956-1958: gained experience in writing and directing at the Tamiment theatre

1960-1968: was a stand-up comedian, being more popular each year.

Released 3 albums in that period.

1964: officially entered the film industry when he was hired to do the screenplay What’s New Pussycat.What’s New Pussycat.

• He did his first film in 1966 (as a director)

• Actually he has produced 41 films

• He is an actor, a screenwriter, and a director

• He’s still directing movies

• Released in 1977

• Romantic Comedy

• Won an Academy Award

• 28th film on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies

• Released in 1979 • Black and White

• Romantic Comedy• Nominated for an Academy Award

•63rd film on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies

*Only as a director and the 10 most recent ones

• Scoop (2006)

• Match Point (2005)

• Melinda and Melinda (2004)

• Anything Else (2003)

• Hollywood Ending (2002)

•The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

•Small Time Crooks (2000)

•Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

•Celebrity (1998)

•Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Comedy :-Annie Hall

-Manhattan Romantic Comedy

Many other genres, like philosophy, psychology, drama, etc.

• Comedy of manners: Laugh of the manners of a social class

• Tragic Comedy (Also known as dark comedy) :

based around normally taboo subjects, death, suicide, war, …

• Romantic Comedy :

1- boy gets the girl

2- boy loses the girl

3- boy gets girl back again

• Satiric Comedy

• Modern Cinema (1966 until now)

• Black and White at the beginning

• Movement of Comedy, especially satiric comedy.

• New York

• Hobby for Jazz and Clarinet

• 30 years in psychoanalysis

• Sometimes 3 days a week

• Most of his films contain a psychoanalysis scene• He found it stimulating and exciting

• Claustrophobic and Agoraphobic

Director: 42 movies

Writer: 57 movies

Actor: 42 movies

Soundtrack performer: 4 movies

Composer: 1 movie

Producer: 1 movie

For the last 35 years…

- Woody has made almost 1 movie per year

- Most of them are comedies

He is also interested in drama recently(Example: Match Point has won many awards)

- His impressively huge number of films

- Movies that have become classics (Annie Hall)

- The fact that he’s still continuing to work at his advanced age (Woody is currently 71 years old)

- His various works (as director, actor, musician, etc.)

- His funny style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/cinema/portraits/realisateur/woody-allen/index.shtml

http://www.woodyallen.com/