After making movies in London and Barcelona, Woody Allen returns to his home turf for Whatever Works. Thank goodness he's back in New York. His new movie, coming after a string of painful failures (add Oscar-winning Vicky Christina Barcelona to that list), works.

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Here I was thinking that last week's quiz was too difficult. Not the case, apparently, as few of you had problems spotting Powell and Pressburger's 1945 romcom, I Know Where I'm Going. As mentioned last week, it's a remarkable credit...

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Years before he directed Forrest Gump 2, David Fincher was up to much nastier things, like putting Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box. A genuinely disturbing serial-killer film, Seven (or, Se7en, if you prefer) hasn't lost any of its punch...

Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria has been selected to open the Venice Film Festival. An epic drama set in the Sicilian village where he was born, Tornatore's Baaria boasts a $30 million...

Literary super star couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida wrote the sceenplay for Away We Go, the story of Burt and Verona (John Kransinski and Maya Rudolph), a thirty-something couple...

1989 the number, another summer.... Can you believe it was nearly 20 years ago today (well, in about three weeks) that Spike Lee's controversial and groundbreaking Do The Right Thing was released? I was working in London at the time,...

Some of our favorite links of the last week. You can follow us on real time on Twitter at aboutworldfilm. David Lynch launches Interview Project, with new episodes every three days....

Just realized it's Wednesday.....three-day weekends really mess with my schedule. Retro in more than just its title sequence, Peyton Reed's Down With Love was a PoMo twist on the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies (Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back) of...