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Article: Woody Allen: A Life in Film
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Woody Alten: A Life in Film, by Richard Schicket. Ivan R. Dee, September 2003. $22.50
In 2002 Woody Alien sat for an unprecedented four-hour interview on camera with Time film critic Richard Schickel. The interview became the basis for a highly acclaimed ninety-minute biographical documentary for Turner Classic Movies (April 2002), written, directed, and produced by Schickel. The transcription of the full interview is presented for the first time in this volume, which uses the same title as the documentary. The interview covers a range of subjects relating to Alien's career in film, including influences-Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Mort Sahl, the Russian literary classics-his ...