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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Now the impression is of sheer confidence. The black and white carries an air of nostalgic romance, and it suits Allen's character in the film, who has, as Woody says, "the poignancy of age. He raps contemporary mores. He's clinging to Gershwin, the music of the past and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

More important, there is the enriching of his own character to consider in evaluating Manhattan. The basic Woody persona has always been a well-loved figure, a projection of the modern urban Everyman's privately held fantasies and terrors. Manhattan challenges that sense of instant identification, and makes clear just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

In that statement, all the strands he has so carefully laid out in this movie come together. Visually, and with glorious help from an often ironically used Gershwin score, he has turned Manhattan, which is one of Allen's passions, into a dream city, deliberately contrasting the awesome aspirations implicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

By all accounts, Allen lives by his own precepts. Says Brickman: "Woody is scrupulously honest and ethical in the dog-eat-dog business of entertainment. He is a good example, because he has a high moral sense." That includes playing the not always grateful part of the only conscious moralist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Allen places no more of a premium on intellectual prowess or talent than he does on money or status. "I know so many people who are well educated and supereducated," he explains. "Their common problem is that they have no understanding and no wisdom; without that, their education can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Woody | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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