Filmography: Small Time Crooks (2000); The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001); Hollywood Ending (2002); Anything Else (2003); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Match Point (2005); Scoop (2006); Cassandra's Dream (2007); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Whatever Works (2009); You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010); Midnight in Paris (2011); To Rome With Love (2012); Blue Jasmine (2013); Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Say what you want about Woody Allen, but one thing's for sure, the man knows how to get work done. Having made one film every year since 1982, Allen remains one of the most prolific directors of the new millennium. Of course, with so many films at such a quick rate, it's inevitable that they're not all going to be zingers, which seems to be the excuse many use to dismiss Allen as yesterday's news. This severely ignores the fact that many of Allen's post-2000 films have been quite good. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Midnight in Paris, and Blue Jasmine are all modern classics. Others found much to like about Allen's more weighty dramatic work, such as Match Point and Cassandra's Dream, and even those who felt these efforts were a bit heavy handed are able to appreciate aspects of these films such as the performances. The biggest attack against Allen's contemporary work though is usually saved for some of his sillier features. While these films are definitely not top-notch Woody Allen, they tend to unfairly suffer from comparisons to Allen's early comedic work, which rank as some of the greatest comedies in the history of cinema. Films like Small Time Crooks and Anything Else are far from the heights of Annie Hall and Manhattan, but they're better than most give them credit for and contribute to a robust oeuvre that has made a bigger impact on 21st century cinema than most want to admit.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
