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.... ☆☆☆☆☆ Polanski wasn’t the only controversial name in a line-up also featuring Woody Allen, who was greeted on the Venice Lido by both ovations and protests....
...The film-maker’s mother is Carol Joffe, a set decorator whose credits include Woody Allen’s Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters, while her late stepfather was Allen’s longtime producer Charles H Joffe....
...Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman Allen Lane £25, 288 pages Alan Livsey is Lex research editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT...
...The second hour is increasingly silly and overstuffed with loveable old faces — John Rhys-Davies’s Sallah, Karen Allen’s Marion — and new ones — not just Waller-Bridge’s Helena but light-fingered scamp Teddy...
...For Torres it was ironic that the marketing people behind the flour, and brands such as Inca Kola (created by a British man in the 1930s) and Inca cigarettes (a favourite of poet Allen Ginsberg), were using...
...Nilanjana Roy FT COLUMNIST The Covenant of Water (Grove Atlantic), Abraham Verghese’s fourth book, is a hefty 736-page summer blockbuster: set in Kerala, one of my favourite parts of India, the prose is...
...The other is by Abraham Janssen, a prominent Flemish artist who adopted Caravaggio’s innovative use of light.” Prices are undisclosed....
...Nearby is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, one of three statues of the great American president I have noticed since arriving....
...(Raphael Abraham’s rather more sympathetic review of the cannibal love story is here.)...
...The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks, Allen Lane £25, 464 pages Nick Spencer hosts the ‘Reading our Times’ podcast Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Final Whistlehttps://twitter.com/livescore/status/1534461479700684800 Tammy Abraham had a smashing debut season at AS Roma, the Italian football club owned by US billionaire Dan Friedkin....
...“When you watch a great Woody Allen film or When Harry Met Sally, you care about the journey. That’s why we have such a nostalgia for those rich comedies of the past....
...It memorialises military units known as the “honorary first defenders”, including the Allen Rifles from my Pennsylvania hometown....
...It’s been clear for several years now that Baumbach has picked up where Woody Allen left off (or might have), and with Marriage Story he gives us his Husbands and Wives....
...Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said the announcement did not inspire much confidence....
...The best line in Steven Spielberg’s otherwise inert biopic of Abraham Lincoln comes from one of the president’s dodgy middlemen....
...On Tuesday, Abraham Liu, president of Huawei’s EU office, said the “founding fathers of the US constitution would be alarmed when confronted with the actions of the Trump administration”....
...Woody Allen spins the wheel one more time....
...David Allen Green writes that last week’s Brexit white paper is a significant document, even if it fails four significant tests....
...He cheekily borrows many Godard techniques — the jump-cutting, bold intertitles and fourth-wall-breaking — but the style is often closer to early Woody Allen....
...Inevitably for a talk-heavy comedy set among arty Jewish New Yorkers, the ghost of Woody Allen never seems far away....
...Woody Allen: Seven Films, 1986-1991 Arrow Films Like an over-insistent Jewish mother in one of his movies, Arrow Films eagerly serves up a generous third helping of Woody Allen Blu-rays....
...Co-housing groups that follow the same model as Tonic are “brilliant”, said Caroline Abrahams, director of charity Age UK....
...“No, Woody Allen is faster than me,” he laughs. The new film is an erotic thriller called L’Amant double, adapted from a book by American writer Joyce Carol Oates; it will premiere at Cannes in May....
...of films from Woody Allen’s heyday....
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