UNFORGETTABLE FANTASY

UNFORGETTABLE

Fa n t a s y

Dreams and reality in the films of Woody Allen

Contents

Unforgettable Fantasy

The Festival 05. The Director 07. The Location 08. Schedule

The Films 11. Annie Hall 13. Midnight in Paris 15. To Rome with Love 17. The Purple Rose of Cairo 19. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The Details 23. Directions 25. Lodging & Restaurants 27. Local Attractions 29. Special Thanks

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The Festival

This film festival will be held from July 13 -15 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan. Woody Allen expresses his love for the hometown of New York City. In his films, we can see many cities, and he is very good at interpreting a city as well as its culture.

People explore art and life, dream and reality in Woody Allen’s films. Comedy is more than funny. People can feel ups and downs in the life, and find the meaning of life in the end. The theme of his films has something in common. There is a relationship between fantasy and reality. When you come back to the real world, the real world may be not going well. This is our life.

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The Director

Woody Allen

Awards

Woody Allen is one of the most influential directors in the United States. He is witty and humorous. He conveys artistic personality in his works. He explores the themes of morality, love and art, and he tells the story between imagination and reality.

Academy Award for Best Dirctor Annie Hall

Allen’s career breakthrough came in 1977 with Annie Hall, starring Diane Keaton, with whom Allen became romantically involved.

Then, there are three typical films which are Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Midnights in Paris and To Rome with Love. The Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris let the audience feel Allen’s magical power. People can ignore the unrealistic illusion in these magical scenes, and feel the joys and sorrows in the movies.

BAFTA Award for Best Film The Purple Rose of Cairo Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay Vicky Cristina Barcelona Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Midnight in Paris

Education Midwood High School City College of New York New York University

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”

– Woody Allen

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The Location

Jacob.k Javits Center The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York coordinates some of the world’s largest conventions, trade shows and special events, while providing cleaning, carpentry, electrical, plumbing and telecommunications services at the 2.1 million square-foot facility on Manhattan’s West Side.

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The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, commonly known as the Javits Center, is a large convention center located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 40th streets, in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.

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Schedule

Welcome to New York City Start your day with light fare, coffee,and compelling conversation. Note that breakfast talks start at 10am, please arrive early be seated before they begin.

July 13 10pm - Breakfast talks begins at North River Lobster Company 11pm - Arrive at the Javits Center 12pm - Annie Hall 03pm - Midnight in Paris 05pm - Food & drinks delivering

July 14 10pm - Breakfast talks begins at North River Lobster Company 11pm - Arrive at the Javits Center 12pm - To Rome with Love 03pm - The Purple Rose of Cario 05pm - Food & drinks delivering

July 15 10pm - Breakfast talks begins at North River Lobster Company 11pm - Arrive at the Javits Center 12pm - Vicky Cristina Barcelona 03pm - Film festival ends

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The Films

The Hollywood films are based on marketing but Woody Allen doesn’t stop the progress of his annual work. His works have strong personal style of writing and drama ideas. These films give people more references and thoughts as they learn and study. This film festival can let people know more about Woody Allen’s films.

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About the film Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Produced by Allen’s manager, Charles H. Joffe, the film stars the director as Alvy “Max” Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film’s eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

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1. Annie Hall

Plot The comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.

Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; McLuhan himself steps in at Alvy’s invitation to criticize the man’s comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whose ardor gave him no pleasure.

His second marriage was to a New York writer who didn’t like sports and was unable to reach orgasm.

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With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun making a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. He met her playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk led her to offer him first a ride up town and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in mental subtitles as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie’s singing audition for a night club. He suggests they kiss first to get it out of the way. After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is a wreck, while she relaxes with a joint.

Film Quotes “You, you, you are like New York, Jewish, leftwing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y’know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself.”

– Alvy Singer “I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else.

So you should be thankful that you’re miserable, because that’s very lucky, to be miserable.”

– Alvy Singer

Cast Woody Allen as Alvy Singer Diane Keaton as Annie Hall Tony Roberts as Rob Paul Simon as Tony Lacey Carol Kane as Allison Janet Margolin as Robin

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Film Quotes

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“I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing.

And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave. It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds. until it returns, as it does, to all men and then you must make really good love again.”

– Ernest

Cast Owen Wilson as Gil Marion Cotillard as Adriana Rachel McAdams as Inez Kathy Bates as Gert Carla Bruni as Museum Guide Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali

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2. Midnight in Paris About the film

Plot

Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.

In 2010, Gil Pender, a successful but creatively unfulfilled Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiancée Inez, are in Paris vacationing with Inez’s wealthy, conservative parents. Gil is struggling to finish his first novel, centered on a man who works in a nostalgia shop.

Inez dismisses his ambition as a romantic daydream, and encourages him to stick with lucrative screenwriting. Gil is considering moving to Paris (which he notes, much to the dismay of his fiancée, is at its most beautiful in the rain). Inez is intent on living in Malibu.

By chance, they are joined by Inez’s friend Paul, who is described as both pedantic and a pseudo-intellectual, and his wife Carol.

Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight.

The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism.

In 2012, the film won both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay; and was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction.

A night of wine tasting gets Gil drunk and he decides to walk the streets of Paris to get back to the hotel; Inez goes off with Paul by taxi. He stops to reconnoiter his location.

At midnight, a 1920s car pulls up beside him, and the passengers dressed in 1920s wardrobe, urge him to join them.

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3. To Rome with Love About the film couple on their honeymoon, and an Italian funeral director whose uncanny singing ability enraptures his soon to be in-law, an American opera director.

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The film features an ensemble cast, including Allen himself. The story is told in four separate vignettes: a clerk who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young

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Plot Hayley’s Story American tourist Hayley falls in love with and becomes engaged to Italian pro bono lawyer Michelangelo while spending a summer in Rome. Her parents, Jerry and Phyllis, fly to Italy to meet her fiancé and his parents.

Antonio’s Story Newlyweds Antonio and Milly plan to move to Rome because Antonio’s uncles have offered him a job in their family’s business.

Leopoldo’s Story Leopoldo lives a mundane life with his wife and two children. The best part of his day is watching his boss’s beautiful secretary Serafina walk around the office.

Film Quotes “Don’t try and psychoanalyze me.

Many have tried, all have failed. My brain doesn’t fit the usual ego, superego model.”

– Jerry “Life is sometimes very cruel. It does not give satisfaction nor to those who are rich and famous, or to those who are poor and unknown. But to be rich and famous, between the two, is definitely betterl.”

– Rapinatore hotel

John’s Story John, a well-known architect, is visiting Rome with his wife and their friends. He had lived there some thirty years ago, and he would rather revisit his old haunts than go sightseeing with the others.

Cast Woody Allen as Jerry Alec Baldwin as John Robert Benigni as Leopoldo Pisanello Penelope Cruz as Anna Judy Davis as Phyllis Jesse Eisenberg as Jack

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Film Quotes “ I just met a wonderful new man. He’s fictional but you can’t have everything.”

– Cecilia

Cast Mia Farrow as Cecilia Jeff Daniels as Tom Baxter, Gil Shepherd Danny Aiello as Monk Dianne Wiest as Emma Van Johnson as Larry Zoe as The Countess

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4. The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American romantic fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello.

Inspired by Sherlock Jr., Hellzapoppin’, and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character named Tom Baxter who leaves a fictional film of the same name and enters the real world.

The film was released on March 1, 1985 to critical acclaim. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, while Allen received several screenwriting nominations, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Writers Guild of America Award.

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About the film

Plot Set in New Jersey during the Great Depression in 1935, the film tells the story of Cecilia, a clumsy waitress who goes to the movies to escape her bleak life and loveless, abusive marriage to Monk, whom she has attempted to leave on numerous occasions.

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5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona About the film

Plot

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 SpanishAmerican romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on two American women, Vicky and Cristina, who spend a summer in Barcelona, where they meet an artist, Juan Antonio, who is attracted to both of them while still enamored of his mentally and emotionally unstable ex-wife María Elena. The film was shot in Spain in Barcelona, Avilés and Oviedo, and was Allen’s fourth consecutive film shot outside the United States.

Vicky and Cristina visit Barcelona for the summer, staying with Vicky’s distant relative Judy and her husband Mark. While the two are great friends, Vicky is practical and traditional in her approach to love and commitment and is engaged to the reliable Doug, whereas Cristina imagines herself to be a nonconformist, spontaneous but unsure of what she wants f rom life or love.

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At an art exhibition, Cristina is intrigued by artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who Judy says has suffered a violent relationship with his ex-wife. Later, he brazenly approaches the two women to invite them to join him right away for the weekend in the city of Oviedo, in a small plane he flies himself, for sight-seeing, fine eating and drinking, and hopefully, lovemaking. Cristina is won over by the offer almost at once, but Vicky is unimpressed and reluctant; she, however, eventually decides to accompany her friend anyway, mainly to watch over her.

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Film Quotes “Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain and this is the chance for something special.”

– Juan Antonio “We are meant for each other and not meant for each other. It’s a contradiction.”

– Juan Antonio “And if I was free to have some sort of dalliance with a Spaniard, it certainly wouldn’t be this one.”

– Vicky “Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.”

– Maria Elena “I will go to your room, but you’ll have to seduce me.”

– Cristina “At least he’s not one of those factorymade zombies.”

– Cristina

Cast Javier Bardem as Juan Antonio Gonzalo Penélope Cruz as María Elena Scarlett Johansson as Cristina Rebecca Hall as Vicky Chris Messina as Doug Patricia Clarkson as Judy Nash Kevin Dunn as Mark Nash Pablo Schreiber as Ben Carrie Preston as Sally Zak Orth as Adam Julio Perillán as Charles

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The Details

The details could also provide information on local information and attractions.

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Map of Location Directions

By Subway These Subway lines stop near Javits Center: 7

By Bus These Bus lines stop near Javits Center: 164 M34-SBS QM20

By Train TheseTrain lines stop near Javits Center: BABYLON JOURNAL SQUARE - 33RD PORT WASHIONGTON

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Lodging and Restaurants Lodging

Restaurants

A. Travel Inn Hotel 515 W 42nd Street 866-925-7881 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

F. North River Lobster Company Pier 81 W 41st Street 212-630-8831 0.2 miles to the Javits Center

B. Midtown Convention Center Hotel 522 W 38th Street 866-925-7881 0.2 miles to the Javits Center

G. Hudson’s at Pier 81 Pier 81 at West 41st Street 212-630-8840 0.2 miles to the Javits Center

C.36 Hudson Hotel 449 West 36th Street 866-573-4235 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

H.La Vela Dining & Bar 558 11th Ave 212-695-2112 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

D.Four Points By Sheraton 446 10th Avenue 866-573-4235 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

I.EDEN Local 508 w. 42nd Street 646-572-7978 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

E.Hudson River Hotel 442 West 36th Street 866-925-7881 0.3 miles to the Javits Center

J.West Side Steakhouse 597 10th Ave 212-564-4803 0.4 miles to the Javits Center K.India Kitchen 493 9th Ave 212-244-6342 0.4 miles to the Javits Center

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Local Attractions Central Park Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. state of New York. It comprises 843 acres between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, roughly bounded

by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park West (Eighth Avenue) on the west, Central Park South (59th Street) on the south, and Central Park North (110th Street) on the north. The park was established in 1857 on 778 acres of land acquired by the city.

Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. The New York and Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883. Thousands of people attended the opening ceremony.

Empire State Building The site of the Empire State Building, located on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was originally part of an early 18th century farm.

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Times Square Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually.

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Rockefeller Center

High Line

Rockefeller Center has two parts: the original center and the later International style buildings. The 14 original Art Deco buildings span the area between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, split by a large sunken square and a private street called Rockefeller Plaza.

Five International Style buildings, built later, are located on the west side of Sixth Avenue and at the head of Rockefeller Plaza.

It was created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Since opening in 2009, the High Line has become an icon of contemporary landscape architecture.

Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, nd accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

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Special Thanks Jacob.k Javits Center Academy of Art University North River Lobster Company Rebecca Bollman Travis Carr Alison Commender

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