Woody Allen: A Documentary
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Written by | Robert B. Weide |
| Directed by | Robert B. Weide |
| Music by | Paul Cantelon |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
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| Producer | Robert B. Weide |
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| Running time | 3 hrs 12 min |
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| Network | PBS |
| Release | November 19 – November 20, 2011 |
Woody Allen: A Documentary is a 2011 American documentary television miniseries directed by Robert B. Weide about the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen.[1] It premiered as part of the American Masters series on PBS. The film covers Allen's career as a standup comedian, sitcom writer, film director, and film auteur. At the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received two nominations: for Outstanding Documentary Series and for Directing for a Documentary Program.
The series covers Allen's childhood living with a large Jewish family in the neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the 1930s, to starting his career in Greenwich Village as a standup comedian and working as a comedy writer alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. It also discusses Allen's early comedy films, his awards success with Annie Hall (1977), and his prominence as a writer and director, as well as the highs and lows of his professional and personal lives spanning the seven decades leading up to his latest film, Midnight in Paris (2011).
Cast
The many artists, historians, and critics that are interviewed include:
- Diane Keaton
- Dianne Wiest
- Scarlett Johansson
- Penélope Cruz
- Mariel Hemingway
- Mira Sorvino
- Naomi Watts
- Julie Kavner
- Louise Lasser
- Owen Wilson
- Antonio Banderas
- John Cusack
- Josh Brolin
- Sean Penn
- Chris Rock
- Larry David
- Martin Scorsese
- Dick Cavett
- Annette Insdorf
- Leonard Maltin
- Richard Schickel
- Juliet Taylor
- Gordon Willis
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Original release date [2] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | "Episode One" | Robert B. Weide | November 19, 2011 | N/A |
| 2 | "Episode Two" | Robert B. Weide | November 20, 2011 | N/A |
Production
Susan Lacy, who created the PBS series American Masters and had overseen programs about subjects ranging from Buster Keaton to Jerome Robbins and John Lennon to Bob Dylan, served as an executive producer on the project, telling The Hollywood Reporter: "This is the Woody doc everybody has been waiting for, and I am delighted that this creative giant is finally assuming his rightful place in the American Masters library".[2]
