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Article: `Wild Man Blues' draws balanced, enjoyable portrait of Woody Allen
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1998
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In "Wild Man Blues," a film about Woody Allen's tour of Europe
playing clarinet in a New Orleans jazz band, the famously neurotic
filmmaker explains, while warily eyeing a canine, that he would
rather be "bitten by a dog, than licked by it."
The same could be said about his films. They defy domestication.
They are not going to jump up in your face and lick you.
We have a similar impression of Allen himself.
Once regarded as an amusing but harmless crank, his turbulent and
controversial personal life has made him as much of a topical wedge
issue in the popular cultural zeitgeist as Whitewater or the O.J.
Simpson verdict.
Filmmaker Barbara Kopple's astute, informative and entertaining ...