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Zee MGM unfurls Woody Allen festival this October
 
Indiantelevision.com Team

(5 October 2002 3:00 pm)
 

Zee MGM has a series of highly acclaimed hits of the celebrated Hollywood actor and director Woody Allen lined up for every Tuesday this month .

The Woody Allen festival will take off at 9:00 pm next Tuesday with his 1977's Academy Award-winning Annie Hall, a blockbuster which announced a new era of intelligence and complexity in American comedies, states an official release.

Annie Hall will be followed by the penetrating Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989),which scored three Academy Award nominations. on 15 October 2002 at 9:00 pm .

On 22 October , the channel will show Hannah and Her Sisters which won favorable comparisons to Chekhov, and earned Allen his second Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

As a grand finale to the Woody Allen festival, the channel will show Bergman and Shakespeare inspired 1982's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, which is about the misadventures of three couples who spend the weekend together in the country and realize that they all end up in love with the wrong person. It was the first of Allen's films to star new paramour Mia Farrow. The film will be aired on 29 October at 9:00 pm.

Woody Allen , the renowned actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright redefined film comedy during the 1970s, bringing a new measure of sophistication and personal complexity to the form. His movies while commenting on recurring subjects such as art, religion, and romance -- put a knowing, confessional spin on the anxieties of contemporary audiences, telescoping their fears and concerns through his own mordantly neurotic onscreen persona. With his own, unconventional narrative style, he infused the screen-comedy form with unprecedented substance and depth.

 
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