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WOODY ALLEN WAS BORN in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up loving sports, movies and magic tricks (viewers of his latest flick, Shadows and Fog, should remember this). He hated school and failed out of New York University after one semester--but Allen continued to educate himself by reading philosophy and literature...
...price. "I'd be thrilled to know what's right and to have someone tell me what to do," says Jane Traulsen, a mother of two who lives in White Plains, N.Y. "But all the information is so contradictory. It's like trying to make your way through a fog...
Shadows and Fog--12, 1:55, 3:50, 5:45,8, and 10:10 p.m. Times may change after Thursday,April 2. Call Theatre for verification...
Shadows and Fog is most obviously an exercise in style, a beautifully made tribute to the expressionistic cinema of 1920s Germany. It's all here: a homicidal maniac stalking the menacing night streets of a nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
Shadows and Fog ends -- perhaps a little too abruptly -- as so many of ! Allen's recent films do, with a touch of magic realism. But that too achieves a surprisingly apt stylistic fit. The scope of this short piece may be small, but it is also a vivid, vigorous and often entrancing movie...