Cat No SFCD44407

Mid-price 2 CD set drawing together all the jazz, swing and nostalgia material that Woody Allen has used as the soundtrack for so many of his famous movies.  Films covered by this compilation include:  Play it Again, Sam / Interiors / Stardust Memories / Hannah & Her Sisters / Radio Days / Manhattan Murder Mystery / Bullets Over Broadway / Celebrity / Manhattan / Alice / Shadows & Fog / Mighty Aphrodite / Deconstructing Harry / Sweet & Lowdown /  and Curse Of The Jade Scorpion.

Actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright Woody Allen redefined film comedy during the 1970s, bringing a new measure of sophistication and personal complexity to the form. His movies - intimate meditations on recurring subjects such as art, religion, and romance - put a knowing, confessional spin on the anxieties of contemporary audiences, telescoping their fears and concerns through his own mordantly neurotic onscreen persona. Drawing universal insight from the traditions of Yiddish humour, Allen established himself both as a comic Everyman and one of American filmmaking's true originals, writing and directing features which broke with established narrative conventions and infused the screen-comedy form with unprecedented substance and depth.