A Wedding

Robert Altman developed a unique, instantly recognizable style that no one has ever come close to imitating well, with his enormous ensemble casts, consciously sloppy camera work and fly-on-the-wall sound design. Sometimes, that organized chaos ends up in a mess of a film Altman himself can't save, like Prêt-à-Porter, and sometimes it ends up as …

Zelig

Love him or hate him, Woody Allen is an undeniable part of American Cinema’s tapestry, having steadily cranked out one fascinating exploration into his neurotic psyche after another. Zelig is one of his best- a beautiful formalist experiment in the service of comedy, blending archival footage with Allen’s own footage to create a fictional account …

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Regardless of what Woody Allen may or may not have done in his private life, one impossible-to-erase-fact remains: no American filmmaker has made as many great films as this guy. For those of us who can separate the art from the artist, Woody Allen's films get to the root of what it is to be …