Every Monday evening, famed movie director, comedian, and actor Woody Allen plays clarinet in a jazz band. He never goes to award shows (even if he is nominated) and he doesn’t want to live anywhere else but New York City. So how can a man so set in his ways continue to surprise us?
Ironically (for an American), Woody Allen tends to have more consistent success in the European market. So much so, that Belgian director Andre Delvaux made a tribute documentary on the filmmaker entitled, To Woody Allen, From Europe with Love (1980). And Woody Allen returns the sentiment. In 2005, he gave another surprise to his critics and audiences. For the first time ever, he exercised his eccentric talents somewhere other than New York City: Europe. Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006), and Cassandra’s Dream (2007) were all filmed in London, England.