Woody Allen

At the age of sixteen, Woody Allen starts his career in comedy. He writes and sends funy stories to different newspaper publishers. After writing short funny stories for TV and several chronics for magazines such as Playboy, he decides in 1961 to explore sets and cabarets.
He is notices by producer Charles Feldman, who proposes to him to rewrite the script of What’s New Pussycat in 1965. Allen keeps working on the same path and coments and alter the japenese spy movie What’s up, Tiger Lily. This is his first feature movie, followed by Take the Money and Run, and by his leading role in Herbert Ross new movie Play it again, Sam: this is one of the rare time he will be directed. (http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/woody/index3.html)

As a director, Allen is very burlesque and has a penchant for satire at first. The audience sees in him a clumsy small man with glasses. However, he manages to impose himself thanks to more personal works of art such as Annie Hall for which he is awarded with the Oscars of best director and best scriot in 1978. These new movies are tainted with melancoly but still full of autoderision. Manhattan (1979) illustrates his first muse, Diane Keaton. (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961111.html?categoryid=13&cs=1)

The 80s are highlighted by his encounter with his new fling Mia Farrow who will now appear all his all features from A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) to Husbands and Wives (1992). Loved by European filmmakers, the New York director is very influenced by their culture and finds a lot of his inspiration in Tchekhov, Distoievski or even Kafka.
His break up with Mia Farrow makes a lot of noise as he is now sharing his life with his adoptive daughter; however, this does not affect his productivity. Although succesfully works again with Diane Keaton in 1993 (Manhattan Murder Mystery), he now likes to experiment with new generation actors such as Miara Sorvino, Edward Norton of Leonardo Di caprio. The dimension of his movies is pure comedy, but they remain rich artistic creative reflexion.

In the middle of the 2000s, the Allen system seems to shift: indeed, Woody Allen abandons New York to shoot three consecutive movies in London. Scarlett Johansson becomes his new tendency and new themes come to his mind, like working around the brotherhood relationship in Cassandra's Dream. Today, he follows his european journey as he shoots his new movie, Midnight in Barcelona, on location in Spain. (http://www.happynews.com/news/5212008/home-away-home-europe-welcomes-woody-allen.htm)