Woody Allen has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.9★ across 54 ratings. The most-rated is Apropos of Nothing.
Apropos of Nothing
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The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire 60-year-long and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances, and his famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.
©2020 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. (P)2020 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Without Feathers
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Now in audio for the first time, Without Feathers is narrated by Woody Allen himself. Here they are 16 of the funniest tales and ruminations ever recorded, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From "The Whore of Mensa", to "Fabulous Tales & Mythical Beasts", to "No Kaddish for Weinstein", old and new Allen fans will laugh themselves silly over these sparkling gems. A small sample: "Getting through the night is becoming harder and harder," writes Allen in his "secret" journal. "Last evening I had the uneasy feeling that some men were trying to break into my room to shampoo me." Without Feathers delivers more of Allen's New Yorker-style humor. Worthy stand-outs include "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists", a genius piece that puts oral surgery in a whole new, much more exciting light. Throughout, Allen grapples in his wildly inventive way with the targets that obsess him: death, God (or lack of God), women (or lack of women), intellectuals, the arts, and even wildlife. There is a distinct romantic strain that runs through much of his writings, which the author describes as "either Byronic or moronic". Allen is forever at war with the universe and claims unequivocally that he is "at two with nature". His artistic ambition, as he puts it, is to "forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. And then see if I can get them mass-produced in plastic." Woody Allen's short-story collections Without Feathers, Side Effects, Getting Even, and Mere Anarchy are available separately or together as part of The Woody Allen Collection.
©1986 Woody Allen (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Soit dit en passant
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Né en 1935 à Brooklyn, Woody Allen commence sa vie professionnelle à l'âge de seize ans en rédigeant des gags pour des journaux de Broadway, avant d'écrire pour la radio, la télévision, le théâtre, le cinéma et le New Yorker. Il quitte ensuite la solitude du bureau de l'écrivain pour devenir humoriste dans des night-clubs, puis le célèbre réalisateur que l'on sait. Woody Allen revient ici sur soixante ans de carrière cinématographique, auréolée de nombreuses récompenses, et sur ses relations amicales et amoureuses. Sur un ton souvent désopilant et d'une honnêteté absolue, voici le récit d'une icône américaine qui vous dit tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sans oser le demander... Jean-Luc Kayser est la voix française officielle de Woody Allen depuis près de 30 ans. Écoutez-le : en un instant, il fait surgir Woody Allen devant vous, son ton désabusé, sa gouaille new-yorkaise, son humour en demi-teinte, tout y est !
©2020 Wody Allen Skyhorse Publishing Editions Stock (P)2020 Audiolb
Wonderful Town
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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home. East Side? Philip Roth's chronically tormented alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, has just moved there, in "Smart Money". West Side? Isaac Bashevis Singer's narrator mingles with the customers in "The Cafeteria" (who debate politics and culture in four or five different languages) and becomes embroiled in an obsessional romance. And downtown, John Updike's Maples have begun their courtship of marital disaster, in "Snowing in Greenwich Village". Wonderful Town touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook in and between its lines is to the hearts and the minds of those who populate the metropolis built by its words. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all. Including these stories from the magazine's most iconic writers: "The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever "Distant Music" by Ann Beattle "Sailor off the Bremen" by Irwin Shaw "Physics" by Tama Janowitz "The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen "What It Was Like, Seeing Chris" by Deborah Eisenberg "Drawing Room B" by John O’Hara "A Sentimental Journey" by Peter Taylor "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme "Another Marvelous Thing" by Laurie Colwin "The Failure" by Jonathan Franzen "Apartment Hotel" by Sally Benson "Midair" by Frank Conroy "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber "I See You, Bianca" by Maeve Brennan "You’re Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov "Poor Visitor" by Jamaica Kincaid "In Greenwich, There Are Many Graveled Walks" by Hortense Calisher "Some Nights When Nothing Happens Are the Best Nights in this Place" by John McNulty "Slight Rebellion off Madison" by J. D. Salinger "Brownstone" by Renata Adler "Partners" by Veronica Geng "The Evolution of Knowledge" by Niccolo Tucci "The Way We Live Now" by Susan Sontag "Do the Windows Open?" by Julie Hecht "The Mentocrats" by Edward Newhouse "The Treatment" by Daniel Menaker "Arrangement in Black and White" by Dorothy Parker "Carlyle Tries Polygamy" by William Melvin Kelley "Children Are Bored on Sunday" by Jean Stafford "Notes from a Bottle" by James Stevenson "Man in the Middle of the Ocean" by Daniel Fuchs "Me Spoulets of the Splendide" by Ludwig Bemelmans "Over by the River" by William Maxwell "Baster" by Jeffrey Eugenides "The Second Tree from the Corner" by E. B. White "Rembrandt’s Hat" by Bernard Malamud "Shot: A New York Story" by Elizabeth Hardwick "A Father-to-Be" by Saul Bellow "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer" by S. J. Perelman "Water Child" by Edwidge Danticat "The Smoker" by David Schickler
©2000 The New Yorker Magazine (P)2000 Random House Audio
Apropos ingenting
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I sine stærkt underholdende erindringer fortæller Woody Allen om et liv som instruktør, standupkomiker, forfatter, musiker og skuespiller - og som familiefar og ægtemand. Et ofte tumultarisk liv, der tager sin begyndelse i Brooklyn, New York. Allen giver et levende indblik i sin 60 år lange filmkarriere, fra klassikerne Annie Hall, Manhattan og Hannah og hendes søstre og frem til nyere film som Midnight in Paris og A Rainy Day in New York. Det er en historie om fejltagelser og succeser - og om de mange kunstnere og skuespillere, Woody Allen har mødt på sin vej. Om hans venskaber, ægteskaber og romantiske forhold. Ligesom han i erindringsbogen giver sin version af forholdet til skuespilleren Mia Farrow.
©2020 Gyldendal (P)2020 Gyldendal
100 citations Woody Allen
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Woody Allen est un réalisateur, scénariste et acteur américain. Il réalise presque un film par an depuis le début des années 1970 au cours desquelles sa popularité a explosé. Woody Allen est l'un des cinéastes américains les plus connus et les plus prolifiques de ces quarante dernières années. Les comédies de mœurs sont incontestablement son domaine favori bien qu'il s'essaye parfois à d'autres genres. Il a obtenu de nombreuses récompenses cinématographiques, dont quatre Oscars en tant que meilleur réalisateur et meilleur scénario original. Ces 100 citations visent à donner accès à son œuvre monumentale par une sélection de ses pensées les plus marquantes, dans un format accessible à tous. Une citation est plus qu'un extrait d'un propos, ce peut être un trait d'esprit, un résumé d'une pensée complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une réflexion plus profonde.
©2020 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2020 Compagnie du Savoir
100 citazioni di Woody Allen
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Queste 100 citazioni mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda. Si dice che certe frasi possono cambiare la vita. Altri ragioneranno dentro di voi per un tempo infinito, facendo eco a una personale ricerca intellettuale o spirituale.
©2020 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2020 Compagnie du Savoir
The Woody Allen Collection
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Woody Allen – writer, director, and actor – can now add narrator to his long list of achievements, as he's made his best-selling books available in audio for the very first time. The Woody Allen Collection, featuring four of his classic short-story books, highlights the comedian's biting wit and signature style – performed as only he can. These hilarious stories examine the deepest of human questions from the highest heights of absurdity. Allen muses on the relativity of space-time and how it can make a person late for work, the Cosa Nostra’s office-supply spending habits, the Frean - a sea monster with the body of a crab and the head of a certified public accountant - and much more. Everything is fair game, including art, food, crime, sex, death, and dentists. As the New York Times raved, included are "brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled... by the celebrated stand-up Flaubert." The Collection includes Woody Allen’s four books Without Feathers, Side Effects, Mere Anarchy, and Getting Even, as well as an exclusive interview conducted with the author/narrator, in which he discusses the process, challenges, and rewards or recording his books for the first time.
©1978, 1986, 1986, 2007 Woody Allen (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Side Effects
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Now, available in audio for the first time, Side Effects is narrated by Woody Allen himself. A humor classic by one of the world’s funniest writers, Side Effects is a treat for Allen fans and those just discovering how gifted he is. In classics including "Remembering Needleman", "The Kugelmass Episode", "Confessions of a Burglar", and others, Allen discusses such subjects as the nature of relativity, the UFO menace, and the predicament of modern man. Side Effects compiles 17 of Allen’s best New Yorker essays and offers wisdom and laughs in equal measure: "Ah, God, how the mind boggles when it turns to moral or ethical considerations. Better not to think too much. Rely more on the body - the body is more dependable. It shows up for meetings, it looks good in a sports jacket, and where it really comes in handy is when you want to get a rubdown." Woody Allen’s short story collections Side Effects, Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Mere Anarchy are available separately or together as part of The Woody Allen Collection.
©1986 Woody Allen (P)2010 Audible, Inc.