Article: `Wild Man': Much ado about little.(VARIETY)(Review)

The new documentary "Wild Man Blues" achieves the inconceivable. It makes an hour and a half with Woody Allen boring.

A devotee of New Orleans jazz since his teens, Allen is a solid clarinetist, and has performed weekly in New York for 25 years, first at Michael's Pub, and now at the Cafe Carlyle. In 1996, Allen and his band set out on an 18-city tour of Europe, with his then-mistress/now-wife Soon-Yi Previn, his sister Letty Aronson, and his longtime producer Jean Doumanian. Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple accompanied them, gaining a remarkable degree of access to the notoriously guarded Allen.

The result is a project with promise that ...

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