Writing about Woody Allen
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- December
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Author Eric Lax, who has written extensively about moviemaker Woody Allen, was in Pleasantville this Thursday at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He was talking about his latest book published by Random House in October, “Conversations with Woody Allen,” and watching a popular 1989 Allen flick, “Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Village Bookstore was on hand at the movie theater with copies for sale and Lax signed them. Movie, book and author — a perfect evening.
During a post screening Q&A with NY Times critic and Burns board member Janet Maslin, Lax talked about why his perspective of Allen is so unqiue.
The author has had a special relationship with Allen. He has interviewed him many times over more than three decades beginning in 1971, which has allowed him to put “real time” perspectives to his discussions. Most biographies, he said, offer reflections of an older person looking back on his or her younger years. Because he could retrieve earlier interviews, Lax explained he was able to show what Allen was really saying and possibly thinking at the time.
Maslin described it as a biography showing the diverse career of Allen.
And the book begins with some local color. Lax recalls driving through Tarrytown with Allen, presumably when he was shooting “Purple Rose of Cairo,” which had many scenes shot on Main Street and at the beloved Music Hall theater.
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