The Woody Allen Collection (1994-2003)

[Akijama]

The Woody Allen Collection Blu-ray




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Eight-disc set includes:
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Gangsters and the Great White Way collide with comic results in writer/director Woody Allen’s Roaring ’20s spoof. Struggling author David Shayne (John Cusack) manages to get his play on Broadway, but along the way must cope with a mob boss backer who puts his girlfriend in the cast, a famed lead actress who seduces Shayne, and a hit man who advises him on script changes. Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, and Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Dianne Wiest co-star. 95 min. C/Rtg: R

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

After adopting a baby boy with his gallery owner wife (Helena Bonham Carter), a sportswriter (Woody Allen) seeks-and finds-the kid’s birth mother, a ditzy hooker and part-time porn actress (Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino). This discovery prompts the scribe to reassess his own life, while a Greek chorus comments on the proceedings. Michael Rapaport and F. Murray Abraham co-star. 95 min. C/Rtg: R

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Offering his unique spin on movie musicals, Woody Allen and his co-stars gamely break into song and dance as they trace the romantic foibles of a Manhattan family. As happily-married Bob (Alan Alda) and Steffi (Goldie Hawn) prepare for their daughter's (Drew Barrymore) wedding, Steffi’s ex-husband (Allen), living in Venice, Italy, is coached by his daughter (Natasha Lyonne) in wooing a married art student (Julia Roberts). Songs include "All My Life," "I’m Through with Love," and "My Baby Just Cares for Me." 105 min. C/Rtg: R

Celebrity (1998)

Woody Allen’s acerbic look at fame and infidelity stars Kenneth Branagh as a "Woody"-like writer named Lee Simon, who splits from his schoolteacher wife (Judy Davis), then seeks affection in the arms of a host of women, including a movie star (Melanie Griffith), a supermodel (Charlize Theron), and a waitress/would-be actress (Winona Ryder). With Joe Mantegna, and Leonardo DiCaprio as a temperamental actor. 113 min. BW/Rtg: R

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Woody Allen directs and stars in this amiable remake of "Larceny, Inc.," playing a career petty thief who hatches a scheme to buy a cookie store with his wife (Tracey Ullman), then tunnel into the bank next door with his cronies. But when the cookie business takes off rather than crumbles and leaves the couple rolling in dough, a whole new series of funny complications follow. With Hugh Grant, Jon Lovitz, Elaine May, Michael Rapaport. 95 min. C/Rtg: PG

The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion (2001)

Putting his own comic spin on a mix of "His Girl Friday" and "Double Indemnity," writer/director/star Woody Allen plays a crack insurance investigator in ’40s New York. His feud with a company efficiency expert (Helen Hunt) takes an unexpected turn when a nightclub magician hypnotizes them into revealing their true attraction to each other--while at the same time compelling him to commit a series of jewel thefts. Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron also star. 102 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Hollywood Ending (2002)

Once again biting the hand that feeds him with hilarious results, Woody Allen plays a once-hot filmmaker whose temperamental ways have relegated him to shooting TV commercials in Canada. When his ex-wife producer (Téa Leoni) lands him a job that could revive his career, things seem to pick up...until he comes down with hysterical blindness on the set! George Hamilton, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams also star. 114 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Anything Else (2003)

Woody Allen’s romantic farce stars Jason Biggs as New York comedy writer Jerry Falk, struggling with his career, his agent (Danny DeVito) and his neurotic girlfriend (Christina Ricci). For advice, Jerry seeks help from middle-aged high school teacher and wannabe comic David Dobel (Allen), who tries to talk his friend into dumping his girlfriend and agent, ignoring his meddling mother (Stockard Channing), and moving to Los Angeles. With Jimmy Fallon, KaDee Strickland and Erica Leerhsen. 109 min. C/Rtg: R

[drat]

Originally Posted by Akijama

https://www.importcds.com/the-woody-...n/628250557480

From Quiver Films (?)

It's listed as a 10 disc set. Considering that Woody has worked with a number of companies over the years, does anyone have a guess what this could contain?

[dylrichard02]

I like the price, but there's no telling what films are here. Hopefully some of the OOP Twilight Time/Arrow films or even better premieres.

[biglou114]

If I ventured a guess, with no more evidence than in the listing, maybe the Paramount-controlled titles? That would cover the Miramax and Dreamworks titles. None of which have a US Blu release.

Bullets Over Broadway
Mighty Aphrodite
Everyone Says I Love You
Celebrity
Small Time Crooks
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Hollywood Ending
Anything Else
Melinda and Melinda
Match Point

[dylrichard02]

Looks like Quiver is an independent studio. They produced and released The Fanatic with John Travolta. Maybe this set is made up of the Amazon premieres and the films which were released in the past couple of years overseas like Rifkin's Festival.

[pbarragan]

My money is on the MGM stuff. Considering it's ten discs, I'm guessing some might contain more than one film since Allen doesn't do bonus features. As the Kino rep said, one distributor owns the rights to most of his good stuff. His MGM era is the only era I can think of, his stuff from the early 90's to late 2000s is filled with duds and the rights are scattered all over the place. Really glad someone decided to release some of his stuff.

[dylrichard02]

Originally Posted by pbarragan

My money is on the MGM stuff. Considering it's ten discs, I'm guessing some might contain more than one film since Allen doesn't do bonus features. As the Kino rep said, one distributor owns the rights to most of his good stuff. His MGM era is the only era I can think of, his stuff from the early 90's to late 2000s is filled with duds and the rights are scattered all over the place. Really glad someone decided to release some of his stuff.

MGM stuff seems like a safe bet. Considering those films fit on BD25s from MGM and Twilight Time, Quiver could have the rights to 10 and spread them across 5 BD50s considering it will be free of extras explaining the lower price. They could even be replicating the OOP Arrow UK sets and releasing box sets containing eras of his filmography.

[pbarragan]

Originally Posted by dylrichard02

MGM stuff seems like a safe bet. Considering those films fit on BD25s from MGM and Twilight Time, Quiver could have the rights to 10 and spread them across 5 BD50s considering it will be free of extras explaining the lower price. They could even be replicating the OOP Arrow UK sets and releasing box sets containing eras of his filmography.

Hopefully, but biglou114 has a point with the Paramount owned titles since they sum up to 10. We'll see.

[BluProofie]

Hoping it’s MGM stuff.

[jshaide]

If this ends up being the 90s-00s stuff, my jaw would drop

[StLouisRibs]

I believe Paramount/Dreamworks/whoever dumped all these titles and sold them off as a batch several years ago which is why they have been perenially unavailable in digital formats in the US. I had thought the distro of Rainy Day in New York had picked them up but guess that wasn’t accurate?

Melinda and Melinda is Fox I think though, right?

ETA: The run from Bullets to Anything Else makes 1015 minutes the listed runtime. Which I would doubt as Sweet and Lowdown should be w Warners I think but I don’t think there’s any other way to get that period to that time.

[MifuneFan]

Well that's random. Given how much crap Quiver puts out, it makes me wonder if importCD's just listed the wrong distributor or something.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

Melinda and Melinda is Fox I think though, right?

Yeah, Fox searchlight.

I kept hoping Kino would do Scoop with all their Universal deals but it never happened.

[MifuneFan]

For what it's worth, BullMoose also has a listing, and they have Quiver as the distributor too, but they list it as a DVD release

https://www.bullmoose.com/p/35193184...len-collection

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

For what it's worth, BullMoose also has a listing, and they have Quiver as the distributor too, but they list it as a DVD release

https://www.bullmoose.com/p/35193184...len-collection

Different release date too

[Frightener22]

Really excited at what this might contain!

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

ETA: The run from Bullets to Anything Else makes 1015 minutes the listed runtime. Which I would doubt as Sweet and Lowdown should be w Warners I think but I don’t think there’s any other way to get that period to that time.

Most of Woody's Movies have the same running time, so the runtime would be accurate for almost any of his filmography.

Originally Posted by dylrichard02

MGM stuff seems like a safe bet. Considering those films fit on BD25s from MGM and Twilight Time, Quiver could have the rights to 10 and spread them across 5 BD50s considering it will be free of extras explaining the lower price. They could even be replicating the OOP Arrow UK sets and releasing box sets containing eras of his filmography.

This sounds good in theory, but Woody still has to OK any release (it's in his original contracts), and he's never allowed any double feature discs before.

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

I believe Paramount/Dreamworks/whoever dumped all these titles and sold them off as a batch several years ago which is why they have been perenially unavailable in digital formats in the US. I had thought the distro of Rainy Day in New York had picked them up but guess that wasn’t accurate?

Melinda and Melinda is Fox I think though, right?

ETA: The run from Bullets to Anything Else makes 1015 minutes the listed runtime. Which I would doubt as Sweet and Lowdown should be w Warners I think but I don’t think there’s any other way to get that period to that time.

Sony

[Region_unlocked]

Oof! I mean, I guess there's never going to be a great time to release a Woody Allen box set from here on in, but right now is an especially poor time to release a Woody Allen box set.

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

Oof! I mean, I guess there's never going to be a great time to release a Woody Allen box set from here on in, but right now is an especially poor time to release a Woody Allen box set.

If anyone would release one right now, it would be some no-name company.

[Cremildo]

I'll be paying attention to this. The only films of his that I own on Blu-ray are Annie Hall and Interiors, all others on DVD.