Writer-director Nicole Holofcener is back with what appears to be another finely-observed comedy-drama about the contours of human relationships with “You Hurt My Feelings.” The picture stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who led Holofcener’s 2013 outing “Enough Said” opposite James Gandolfini. The new one swaps the first’s Los Angeles setting for New York City, offering classic Woody Allen vibes to this tale of aging intellectual urbanites dealing with a list of existential crises.
Louis-Dreyfus is a novelist whose work hasn’t been selling lately. She vents to her mother, played by Jeannie Berlin, that life would have been better for her if her father were physically abusive, not just verbally abusive. Her husband, played by Tobias Menzies, is a therapist who clearly is having trouble pretending to care about the mundane squabbles of his patients. While the couple puts up a front of support for one another, there are clearly cracks.
Louis-Dreyfus is a novelist whose work hasn’t been selling lately. She vents to her mother, played by Jeannie Berlin, that life would have been better for her if her father were physically abusive, not just verbally abusive. Her husband, played by Tobias Menzies, is a therapist who clearly is having trouble pretending to care about the mundane squabbles of his patients. While the couple puts up a front of support for one another, there are clearly cracks.
- 3/21/2023
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Hollywood talent manager Larry A. Thompson will be inducted into the Personal Managers Hall of Fame. The film and Broadway producer, attorney, book packager, author and motivational speaker will join other previously inaugurated members, including Bernie Brillstein, Shep Gordon, Charles H. Joffe, Ken Kragen and Jack Rollins, among others. Clinton Ford Billups Jr. is the president of the National Conference of Personal Managers (Ncopm), which recognizes outstanding careers in personal management and awards the highest recognition bestowed upon a personal manager. Other members of the 2016 class are Rushion McDonald, Doc McGhee, Edie Robb, Jerry Solomon and Jeff Wald. New posthumous inductees include George.
- 2/16/2016
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Jack Rollins, who along with his partner, the late Charles H. Joffe, had produced all of Woody Allen's films between 1969 and 1993, has died at age 100. Rollins and Joffe also served as Allen's manager. Rollins had also managed Robin Williams, Diane Keaton and Dick Cavett, among other show business notables. Rollins and Joffe were hired by Allen when he was an aspiring young filmmaker. They saw more potential in him than he saw in himself. Allen said of Rollins, "He pushed me to always be deeper, more complex, more human, more dramatic- and not to rest comfortably". Indeed, with Rollins and Joffe as his managers, Allen progressed from making popular, slapstick-oriented films to writing and directing some of the most acclaimed films in recent decades, winning Oscars for his efforts. Upon hearing of Rollins' death, Allen said "He was one of the very few people in my life who lived...
- 6/23/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Everyone knows Woody Allen. At least, everyone thinks they know Woody Allen. His plumage is easily identifiable: horn-rimmed glasses, baggy suit, wispy hair, kvetching demeanor, ironic sense of humor, acute fear of death. As is his habitat: New York City, though recently he has flown as far afield as London, Barcelona, and Paris. His likes are well known: Bergman, Dostoevsky, New Orleans jazz. So too his dislikes: spiders, cars, nature, Wagner records, the entire city of Los Angeles. Whether or not these traits represent the true Allen, who’s to say? It is impossible to tell, with Allen, where cinema ends and life begins, an obfuscation he readily encourages. In the late nineteen-seventies, disillusioned with the comedic success he’d found making such films as Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), and Annie Hall (1977), he turned for darker territory with Stardust Memories (1980), a film in which, none too surprisingly, he plays a...
- 1/24/2015
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
James Gandolfini delivers one of his best and final roles in Enough Said. There are always Woody Allen connections when discussing Nicole Holofcener and her movies. Partly it’s due to her personal history. Her mother Carol Joffe is a frequent set designer for Allen. Her stepfather Charles Joffe is Allen’s longtime producer and Holofcener once worked as Allen’s production assistant on A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. Mostly, the comparisons stem from the creative work. Holofcener writes grounded, believable characters, both adult and teen, men and women, and creates chatty comedies that emphasize dialogue over any physical gags. Her movies feel like a burst of comic fresh air each and every time.
- 9/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The first thing to say about the two-part, 3-hour-and-15-minute American Masters special Woody Allen: A Documentary, which airs tonight and tomorrow on PBS, is that it mixes things you already know with things you didn’t know in an avidly enjoyable, Woody-nostalgia way. Here’s something, for instance, that I didn’t know: Allen still does all his writing on the same tiny typewriter he has owned since he was 16 — a German-made Olympia portable that he purchased for $40 in 1952. He’s written all his movies on it, all his plays, and all his New Yorker pieces. The typewriter is missing its top,...
- 11/20/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Movieline is privileged to introduce the first poster for Woody Allen's latest film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, which Sony Pictures Classics will release on Sept. 22. In quintessential Allen style, it's a relatively straightforward affair with an alphabetically listed ensemble and one historic exception: It's the first Allen poster in decades not featuring the name of his late co-producer Charles H. Joffe, who died in 2008. Jack Rollins, meanwhile, is still holding it down. Click through for a glimpse.
- 8/4/2010
- Movieline
Director: Nicole Holofcener Writer: Nicole Holofcener Starring: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele, Ann Marie Guilbert, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Lois Smith A bitter and jaded old hag, if ever I’ve seen one, Andra (Ann Guilbert) is on the brink of turning 91 at the commencement of Please Give. Andra finds fault with everyone and everything. This is a woman who no longer finds any joy in life. She tells it like she sees it, no matter how brutal her opinions might be. Andra seems resentful that she has lived for so long, though she continues to hold out hope that her ailing body parts will eventually heal (a totally inconceivable notion) at which time she will become mobile and independent once more. No matter how kind and caring people are to Andra, she is consistently ungracious ("Don't do me any favors!" is a recurring sentiment). Part...
- 6/11/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.
9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse...
9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse...
- 2/22/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Casting director Todd Thaler started as a production assistant for Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe, Woody Allen's producers and personal managers. When they decided to cast all the extras for Allen's films in-house, Thaler was given that responsibility and went on to provide "additional casting" — the unusual faces in the background — for several of Allen's works, starting with The Purple Rose of Cairo. The CD later worked with Barbra Streisand on The Mirror Has Two Faces and John Turturro on Romance & Cigarettes. He cast Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock, for which Harden won an Oscar for best supporting actress, and Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children, for which Haley was Oscar-nominated. Thaler has also cast television shows such as Ed. Back Stage: Do you get to watch for chemistry or do you go by instinct? Todd Thaler: Rarely do I get the opportunity to match up actors before deciding who will be cast.
- 11/13/2008
- by Anna Bengel
- backstage.com
Woody Allen's manager and co-producer Charles Joffe has died. He was 78.
Joffe passed away at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, following a long illness.
He had helped shape the careers of many high profile comedians including Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Lenny Bruce, and signed Allen to his New York-based agency when the funnyman was an unknown writer.
With Joffe's help, Allen negotiated his first movie deal for 1965's What's New Pussycat - writing and starring in the film.
And in 1969 Joffe began to produce Allen's films, working alongside the Hollywood legend right up until his most recent release - this year's Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.
Joffe is survived by his wife, Carol.
Joffe passed away at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, following a long illness.
He had helped shape the careers of many high profile comedians including Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Lenny Bruce, and signed Allen to his New York-based agency when the funnyman was an unknown writer.
With Joffe's help, Allen negotiated his first movie deal for 1965's What's New Pussycat - writing and starring in the film.
And in 1969 Joffe began to produce Allen's films, working alongside the Hollywood legend right up until his most recent release - this year's Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.
Joffe is survived by his wife, Carol.
- 7/15/2008
- WENN
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