Woody Allen

The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Apropos of Nothing

The classic, with 316,000 copies sold to date.

Getting Even

Side Effects

For the first time in one hardcover edition, here are three best-selling books by one of 20th century's greatest movie directors. Woody Allen is an American cultural icon -- funny, philosophical, and controversial in his work and personal life. In this side-splitting collection, containing Without Feathers, Getting Even, and Side Effects. the Academy Award-winning filmmaker explores subjects ranging from sleeplessness to the UFO menace. No Woolly fan will want to be without his hilarious ruminations on the moral and ethical predicaments of modern life.

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen

Sixteen pieces show Allen's unique perspective on Socrates, restaurant reviews, the UFO menace, love and passion, and other topics and issues of undying interest.

Born in Brooklyn, Woody Allen began working in entertainment when he was just 16 years old, writing jokes for columns about Broadway. He has spent more than 60 years working in film, both in front of and behind the camera. In this autobiography, he discusses his relationships and his unprecedented career.

A Propósito de NADA

Mere Anarchy

Yan etkiler

Three One-act Plays

A new collection of eighteen stories, including eight never-before-published pieces, features the author's inimitable reflections on everything from nanny tell-alls and film camp to clothes that smell like twice-cooked pork, in such works as "Nanny Dearest," "Sam You Made the Pants Too Fragrant," "Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut," and "How Deadly Your Taste Buds, My Sweet." 75,000 first printing.

" Ce que je sais, en physique, c'est que pour un homme se tenant sur la berge, le temps passe plus vite que pour celui qui se trouve en bateau -surtout si ce dernier est avec sa femme. " Dans l'erreur est humaine, Woddy Allen renoue avec un sens du décalage, de la dérision et de l'absurde qui rappelle l'esprit de ses premiers films. Avec, comme toujours, des dialogues à hurler de rire.

L'erreur est humaine

En este único volumen reunimos los tres libros de cuentos -Cómo acabar de una vez por todas con la cultura, Sin plumas y Perfiles- del gran cineasta, guionista y actor cómico Woody Allen, publicados ya en otra colección. Considerados así, como obra unitaria, estos escritos satíricos reflejan, con la habitual sabiduría de su inteligente humor, la esencia misma de las preocupaciones que acostumbran a obsesionarle : Dios, la muerte, el amor y el sexo. Sigue sorprendiendo la enorme capacidad de Woody Allen para reírse, y hacernos reir, de nuestra propia torpeza en el momento de enfrentarnos precisamente con aquellos problemas que más hondamente nos afectan. Y comprobamos, una vez más, cuán gratificante es recobrar un poco, en este acelerado mundo nuestro, la serenidad que tan saludablemente nos insufla el infrecuente ejercicio del humor.

Cuentos sin plumas

مرگ در مىزند

Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully

Don't Drink the Water

Woody Allen ha sido siempre un provocador. Con esa pinta de infeliz que no se come una rosca, se permite insolencias que ni siquiera los más «duros» pueden a veces perdonar. Tras ser expulsado de la New York University y del City College, se dedicó a lo que realmente le interesaba : escribir para la radio y la televisión. También escribió su primer guión cinematográfico : What ́s new Pussicat. No contento con violentar a la gente desde un escenario, consiguió finalmente hacerlo desde la pantalla. Le faltaba un medio para mejor fastidiar : la palabra escrita. De modo que empezó a colaborar regularmente en la revista The New Yorker, de donde proviene la mayoría de los textos reunidos en este volumen. Como escritor Woody Allen quiere acabar de una vez por todas con la cultura, aunque tendría primero que acabar con consigo mismo, porque, no cabe duda, Woody Allen lo sabe absolutamente todo y se permite el lujo de ironizar sobre Freud y la psiquiatría, Kant y la filosofía, Ingmar Bergman y el cine, Gretrude Stein y las autobiografías, la mafia y todos los padrinos, los políticos, el poder y la autoridad, en fin, todo lo que creíamos verdades e instituciones inquebrantables.

Cómo acabar de una vez por todas con la cultura

Comprises three classic works: Without Feathers, Getting Even , and Side Effects

Sammlung

'Que loucura!' traz textos em que Allen mistura humor, filosofia, psicanálise e história, tudo com uma indefectível dose da neurose moderna que é sua característica principal. Em 'A pele de Sócrates,' o humorista coloca-se no lugar do filósofo, nos seus últimos dias de vida, antes de ser obrigado a suicidar-se. No conto intitulado 'O caso Kugelmass', um professor, graças aos poderes de um obscuro mágico, é levado para dentro de Madame Bovary, onde viverá uma história de amor - longe da sua mulher supercontroladora. Com seu estilo personalíssimo e sua imaginação que desconhece limites, o autor prescruta - sempre rindo, é claro - as mais inusitadas situações e facetas da humanidade.

Shveta Thakrar

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