Woody Allen

Mauve Up: The script's a tad purple, but a spirited production calibrates The Violet Hour

Roman Holiday: Woody Allen talks about his new film and old themes (art, death, love)

Behold that Tiger

Fleet Foxes, Playing A Sold-Out Pageant Tonight, Just Crushed Pitchfork

Courtesy of the artist​It's not like Fleet Foxes needs endorsements -- its show tonight at the Pageant sold out with a quickness and the band's sophomore full-length, Helplessness Blues, peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard album chart. It's still hanging around at No. 61. And in spite of the f ... More >>

Midnight in Paris Brasserie by Niche

Champagne and pommes frites at Brasserie: a meal we'll surely be nostalgic about in 2020.​Most Woody Allen fans, it's safe to say, are incurable nostalgists. Even in the '70s, an Allen film was an escape to another time -- his characters were modern New Yorkers with their "analysts" and adultery, ... More >>

Investigating the problem of time in Midnight in Paris

Show Review: Loudon Wainwright III Brings Mirth Without Mercy at the Old Rock House, Monday, November 22

Roy Kasten​ A Loudon Wainwright III gig is a performance but not a show. He stands on the stage alone, with a big Martin D-28 acoustic guitar, a small table with scattered cheat sheets and a bottle of water. He barely even dresses the folksinger part. With rumpled Dockers slacks, a button-down ... More >>

Life according to Woody Allen grinds on in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Liberal guilt's got soul in Please Give

Replay's the Thing: Care to guess how many times you'll hear the title tune at the Muny's Meet Me in St. Louis?

Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.

Tonight! The Rosebuds and Megafaun at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Head to the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center tonight to catch pure-pop 'heads the Rosebuds along with friends-of-Bon Iver, Megafaun. In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer says: In Annie Hall Woody Allen's character Alvy Singer notes that a romantic relationship is like a shark: It has to keep movi ... More >>

The Rosebuds

8 p.m. Friday, April 3. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Mighty Aphrodites: Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Unreal eyes a tasty bride and apologizes for a Jewmongous error

Flirty Versus Filthy

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next (i.e., the hard part).

Life and art meet sweet in this breezy French comedy.

Avenue Montaigne

2006: The Year in Movies

Week of December 28, 2006

Here's to Beer!

Film Openings

Week of July 26, 2006

London Fog

Woody Allen wanders through Scoop

Double Fault

Woody Allen's Match Point can't return serve

Miami Rhapsody (1995)

Week of January 5, 2006

Dear Old Daddy

An Altman ensemble vet comes to town in Annie

The New Lou Reeds

Friday, November 18; Frederick's Music Lounge (4454 Chippewa Street)

New releases available this week

Parlor Game

The St. Louis Pizza Haus proves that even when pizza's kinda bad, it's still pretty good

24-Hour Pouty People

One day in the life of angst-ridden New Yorkers reveals a promising young director

Motion City Soundtrack

Tuesday, July 12; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Woody and Woody...

It's his 45th movie in 40 years, and you're not likely to remember it

Cheryl Wheeler

Tuesday, March 15; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

The Story of Us (1999)

Behold the Pfeiffer factor

Letters

Week of December 10, 2003

These You've Got to See

Five educational films that'll alter your mind

Best Bagels (Orthodox)

Valentine's Bakery

Those Were the Days

An entertaining look back at Gaslight Square, and a dated take on 9/11

Film Openings

Week of September 17, 2003

Out of the Loop

Addis is a pretty good Ethiopian restaurant with all the charm of a strip-mall liquor store

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Stage Fright

Frenchman worries that My Wife Is an Actress

Film Openings

Week of May 1, 2002

Best Weird Vegetable To Cook At Home

Long beans at Global Foods

Madcap Noir

Scorpion is fun if familiar, one of Allen's typical Manhattan riffs

The Contender

Written and directed by Rod Lurie

Can Intellectuals Fall in Love?

Street Talk published the week of June 21-27, 2000

Small Time Crooks

Written and directed by Woody Allen

SWEET AND LOWDOWN

Written and directed by Woody Allen

Moxy Früvous

Wednesday, Nov. 3; Side Door

HISTORICAL PRESENT

The Center of Contemporary Arts presents its inaugural Jewish Folk Festival