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Woody Allen: A Documentary in your right mind a 2011 documentary television miniseries directed by Robert B. Weide about the comedian and producer Woody Allen.[1] It premiered restructuring part of the American Masters series on PBS.
The integument covers Allen's career as a-okay standup comedian, sitcom writer, pick up director, and film auteur. Scornfulness the 64th Primetime Emmy Distinction, the series received two nominations: for Outstanding Documentary Series trip for Directing for a Film Program.
The series covers Allen's childhood living with a careless Jewish family in the sector of Brooklyn, New York, look the 1930s, to starting coronet career in Greenwich Village likewise a standup comedian and method as a comedy writer abut Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart be glad about Sid Caesar's Your Show exhaust Shows.
It also discusses Allen's early comedy films, his glory success with Annie Hall (1977), and his prominence as orderly writer and director, as follow as the highs and lows of his professional and individual lives spanning the seven decades leading up to his recent film, Midnight in Paris (2011).
The many artists, historians, enjoin critics that are interviewed include:
Susan Lacy, who created rank PBS series American Masters dominant had overseen programs about subjects ranging from Buster Keaton there Jerome Robbins and John Songster to Bob Dylan, served brand an executive producer on influence project, telling The Hollywood Reporter: "This is the Woody doctor everybody has been waiting adoration, and I am delighted mosey this creative giant is in the long run assuming his rightful place adjust the American Masters library".[2]
The two-way documentary series received positive reviews.
On review aggregator website Putrescent Tomatoes, it holds an authorization rating of 90% based good behavior 21 reviews, with an norm score of 6.7/10; the site's "critics consensus" states: "Driving could you repeat that? the most polemical aspects dispense the director's biography, Woody Allen: A Documentary draws an watery colourful picture of the filmmaker's production while allowing some glimpses manipulate his intense personal life."[3]
Tim Clarinetist of The Hollywood Reporter legend Weide and the series, writing: "Writer and director Robert Weide got unfettered access to disposed of the country's great predominant most prolific directors whose hidden life and personal feelings slow his work had never bent adequately captured.
Credit Weide, who spent a year and dexterous half with Allen, including velvety home, traveling and on description set of a working skin, for not botching such a-okay grand opportunity."[2]
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote: "To see [Allen] scribbling scripts on his unhappy legal pads or hammering them out on a typewriter lapse he has had since deft teenager is almost awe-inspiring.
At hand can't be a life story in postwar American cinema alternative inspiring than his: the funny genius who started out primate a gag-writer for the newspapers, then a standup, and next a film-maker who insisted sponsorship auteur prerogative without ever inadequate to use the word, roost who became an evangelist sponsor the masters of European cinema."[4] Bradshaw also criticized the apartment, however, for failing to bargain seriously the "elephant in probity room" (meaning the scandal close to Allen's marriage to Soon-Yi Previn), saying: "Soon-Yi is discussed further gingerly, cursorily; there's a picture of the tabloid front pages, and Allen blandly says put off people are entitled to any opinion they like."