If you’re not listening to Film Society of Lincoln Center’s The Close-Up podcast you need to rectify that immediately. The institution routinely has had most of the world’s greatest filmmakers come through their doors at one point or another and they often host terrifically insightful and entertaining conversations with directors, writers, producers and actors of all stripes. Recently, FSLC re-released a 2005 conversation with Woody Allen on the eve of the release of the drama “Match Point” starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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The project will continue Allen’s partnership with Spanish producing company Mediapro and will be the second of a three-picture deal Allen signed after working with company on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” The first of which is his London set project starring Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins which is set to commence shooting this summer.

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Now we’re always rooting for Allen since he’s earned so much cinematic goodwill over the years with so many masterpieces, but the last two decades have not been kind to the funnyman auteur and at this rate the filmmaker delivers a decent film about every ten years.

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Jeffrey Wells has already written his review of Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and he’s calling it a “bust.” (it’s supposed to come out late August via the Weinstein company).

Not necessarily a shocker. “Match Point” was fantastic, but at this point, looking more like a one-off fluke than a general return to form.

The only parts of Woody Allen’s ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ that feel truly alive and crackling are the Spanish-language scenes between Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.

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