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Article: Wild Man Blues.(Review)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- November 1, 2000
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Barbara Kopple
As a major part of his attempt to refurbish his image, Woody Allen agreed to participate in a documentary based on a tour of more than a dozen European cities with his Dixieland revival band. Titled Wild Man Blues, it either shows him and Soon-Yi at leisure in palatial hotels, or him playing clarinet with the band on various concert stages before adoring fans. As everybody knows, including Allen, who admits as much on camera, nobody would pay a nickel to hear him if he hadn't become so successful as an actor, director and screenwriter.
What the documentary also reveals, however, is his growing malaise as he tries to come to grips with the ...