Celebrity ( Woody Allen Fall Project 1997 )

Celebrity (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Woody Allen Fall Project 1997
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
113 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Woody Allen

Written By:
Woody Allen

Actors:
Greg Mottola ..... Director
Jeff Mazzola ..... Assistant Director
Dick Mingalone ..... Camera Operator
Vladimir Bibic ..... Director of Photography
Melanie Griffith ..... Nicole Oliver
Francisco Quidjada ..... Erno Delucca
Aleksa Palladino ..... Production Assistant
Dan Moran ..... Jackhammer Operator
Peter Castellotti ..... Sound Recordist
A. Lee Morris ..... Second Assistant Cameraperson
Douglas McGrath ..... Bill Gaines
Kenneth Branagh ..... Lee Simon
Maurice Sonnenberg ..... Dalton Freed
Winona Ryder ..... Nola
Craig Ulmschneider ..... Daniel - Production Assistant

Synopsis:

Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is an unsuccessful novelist turned travel writer who immerses himself in celebrity journalism following a midlife crisis and subsequent divorce from his insecure wife, Robin (Judy Davis), a former English teacher, after sixteen years of marriage. As he stumbles his way through both professional encounters and sexual escapades with performers, models, and other players in the world of entertainment, Lee increasingly questions his purpose in life. He blows numerous opportunities due to his fame-seeking and neuroses. Meanwhile, Robin trades her many neuroses for a makeover and a job with television producer Tony Gardella (Joe Mantegna) that leads to her own celebrity interview program. She takes advantage of numerous opportunities and ends up happy and successful.

The film is about celebrity, which is a subject of major concern to the postmodernist sensibility, and it makes use of a central postmodern joke. That is, the celebrity director known as 'Woody Allen,' does not actually appear as an actor and alter ego in this film by Woody Allen, as he does in so many of his films. It is one reason why it is his best in years. But he has put in a surrogate Woody, played by (of all people) the British actor, Kenneth Branagh. Branagh, as a journalist called Lee Simon, does the Woody impersonation to a T, and everyone recognizes who he is supposed to be-a fact which makes its own ironic commentary on the matter of celebrity.

Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself.

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