What are we to make of Woody Allen in 2013? Since at least the mid-70s the poster-boy for neurotic cinema has been steadily ploughing his own cinematic furrow, releasing films that aren’t comfortable ...
In a way, "Blue Jasmine" is a perfect encapsulation of Woody Allen's filmmaking career. Both are largely uneven creatures -- with as many elements to like about them as to dislike -- but they demand ...
She’s come undone. The title of one of my favorite Wally Lamb novels about a woman over the edge kept running through my mind as I watched Woody Allen’s new film “Blue Jasmine.” There’s just no better ...
Cate Blanchett saunters through Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” like a nervous pearl. Dressed in soft, pale colors, hair and skin expensively glowing, she’s Jasmine French (born Jeanette), a woman ...
Though the movie may be currently overshadowed by decades old events that have no bearing on the film itself, Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is one of his stronger late-period films, with a brilliant ...
Cate Blanchett puts on a powerhouse performance in "Blue Jasmine," Woody Allen's latest film, the 45th he's directed in his legendarily prolific career. Luckily, the rest of "Blue Jasmine" is up to ...
Mental Illness is something we now think of as a product of brain chemistry, not personality. But have we tilted almost too far in that direction? Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s powerful and enthralling ...
The new movie, Blue Jasmine, has been so wildly embraced by critics, while being so replete with its writer-director’s worst tendencies, that it provides the best example in years of Woody Allen’s ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. A number of new images from Woody Allen’s ...
It’s obvious from “Blue Jasmine” that Woody Allen has been to Hell; what’s more, he imagines some of the neighborhoods there that he was spared from visiting. It’s a movie about pain and loss—and ...
Blue Jasmine is no Purple Rose of Cairo or like any of Woody Allen’s earlier, funnier stuff. It is somber and bitter, almost too much to enjoy. But since Allen is in the director’s chair, comedy ...