Woody Allen

A near-perfect filmmaker and writer in my eyes (in terms of his craft... not getting into his personal life here!), Woody Allen's brilliance and humor totally got me again in his latest piece for The New Yorker: "Tails of Manhattan." And the whole lobster motif is such a great little throwback to the ever-classic scene from one of his/the greatest movies ever, "Annie Hall":

His next film "Whatever Works" is due out later this year, and I can't wait to see it. Love the uber-talented yet not-so-obvious casting choices - Larry David, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Johnson, Evan Rachel Wood, etc... even John Gallagher, Jr., who blazed on Broadway as a lead in the original cast of "Spring Awakening," a part for which he won a Tony (and I always find it a bit interesting to see who makes what kind of transition from the stage to the screen).