Woody Allen on the Forties
Kurt Andersen and filmmaker Woody Allen talk about Allen’s new movie TheCurse of the Jade Scorpion, set in the 1940s, and our modern-day attraction to the decade’s unforgettable music, movies, and history.Allen has averaged a film a year for the last 25 years, winning Oscars for his writing and directing of Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters.
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