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Wild Man Blues

  • 19971997
  • PGPG
  • 1h 45m
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6.9/10
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Wild Man Blues (1997)
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Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New ... Read allAcademy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn ... Read allAcademy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn is captured on film here for the first time, and others on the European jaunt include Alle... Read all
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    • Barbara Kopple
  • Stars
    • Woody Allen
    • Letty Aronson
    • Soon-Yi Previn
    • Barbara Kopple
  • Stars
    • Woody Allen
    • Letty Aronson
    • Soon-Yi Previn
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    • 45Critic reviews
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    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    • Self - The Clarinetist
    Letty Aronson
    Letty Aronson
    • Self - Sister of Woody Allen
    Soon-Yi Previn
    Soon-Yi Previn
    • Self
    • (as Soon Yi Previn)
    Dan Barrett
    • Self - the Trombonist
    Simon Wettenhall
    • Self - the Trumpeter
    • (as Simon Wettenthall)
    John Gill
    • Self - the Drummer and Vocalist
    Greg Cohen
    Greg Cohen
    • Self - the Bassist
    Cynthia Sayer
    • Self - the Pianist
    Eddy Davis
    • Self - the Band Director and Banjoist
    Nettie Konigsberg
    • Self - Mother of Woody Allen
    Martin Konigsberg
    • Self - Father of Woody Allen
    John Doumanian
    • Self (Guest in hotel suite)
    • (uncredited)
      • Barbara Kopple
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    • Trivia
      Woody Allen's parents, who were well into their 90s at the time of filming, appear on-screen late in the film. This marked the first time that Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg had anything even remotely to do with their son's film career (although they were consistently satirized throughout the years).
    • Quotes

      Woody Allen: This is Soon-Yi Previn, the notorious Soon-Yi Previn.

    • Crazy credits
      Subtitles credit Letty Aronson and Soon-Li Previn. The band members are credited orally by Woody Allen as he introduces them to an audience. Allen himself is credited by marquees during the trip.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Object of My Affection/Paulie/Nightwatch/Suicide Kings/Wild Man Blues/Chinese Box (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Lonesome Road
      Words by Gene Austin

      Music by Nathaniel Shilkret

      Paramount Music Corporation and Nathaniel Shilkret Music Co.

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    7/10
    Woody on Tour
    Here is the famous filmmaker-actor-comedian in a forthright documentary of his touring jazz-band. It's not really his band – but for all intents and purposes it may as well be. If it weren't for Woody this band would just be another New Orleans jazz style band. They certainly wouldn't fill any concert halls across Europe (in fact they wouldn't be there at all).

    We see a lot of Woody and Soon Yi in candid conversations – many of them in lavish hotel rooms in Europe (I am not kidding – one has a private swimming pool!). There is a sequence at the end with Woody's parents' in Brooklyn – this is hilarious and looks like it is straight out of one of his films. I have to admit that Woody is quite gracious with his fans who obviously adore him. If you're a fan in any way this is recommended, its' Woody as cinema verite. The only complaint I have is too many performances of the jazz-band.
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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1998 (United States)
      • United States
      • Fine Line
      • English
      • French
      • Italian
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      • Jean Doumanian Productions
      • Cabin Creek Films
      • Sweetland Films
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    • 1 hour 45 minutes
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