# Why is Woody Allen still making movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894 "2003-07-25T15:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/121 "2023-09-19T10:59:11Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m saying the speculation could be the goal. This makes no sense. He WANTS people to speculate that he’s a llar, his mother is a whore, and that Woody Allen is telling the truth about the both of them, when he could prove the opposite through irrefutable scientific evidence that he could supply easily and immediately? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/122 "2023-09-19T11:31:53Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > This makes no sense. He WANTS people to speculate that he’s a llar, I didn’t say he’s lying. I’m pretty sure I said the exact opposite. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/123 "2023-09-19T11:36:52Z")
YOU didn’t say Farrow is lying, others have and will. So why would he want to encourage others from speculating about him in print when he could shut them up easily and immediately? That’s what makes no sense about his position on DNA testing, and about yours. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/124 "2023-09-19T11:38:21Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > YOU didn’t say Farrow is lying, others have and will. About _what?_ What has he said that “others” would claim is a lie? ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/125 "2023-09-19T11:39:29Z")
That Woody Allen is his biological father, ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/126 "2023-09-19T12:10:40Z")
Maybe I missed the quote to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/127 "2023-09-19T15:02:28Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > To be honest, that doesn’t seem equivalent with “[he] is most likely a pretty gross human being.” Yeah, he’s no Roman Polanski. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/128 "2023-09-19T16:00:43Z")
As hard as it may be to believe, some people really, honestly, don’t care what other people think about them. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/129 "2023-09-19T16:53:50Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > some people really, honestly, don’t care what other people think about them. Pretty rare, in my experience, and largely limited to advanced practitioners of ascetic spiritual orders and the like. In the competitive world of journalists, lawyers, and public speakers like Farrow, it’s unheard of. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/130 "2023-09-19T17:32:14Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > To add to the credulity, Mia Farrow appears to relish in the suffering of others. She’s made a point to adopt lots of children suffering from medical issues. Including biological children, she’s had 14 kids. And rather than help them, 3 of her kids have died prematurely (one from a drug overdose, and another by suicide), and Moses Farrow wants nothing to do with her. About twenty years ago, I went to what I guess we’d call a TED Talk these days, featuring Mia Farrow describing her adoption of her kids. Gave me a case of the creeps. “I got So-and-So from X country, and he had _this_ health condition. Then I found Such-and-Such in Y country, and he had _that_ health issue…” She didn’t sound like a mother talking about her kids; she sounded like a connoisseur describing her collection. That’s just an impression and doesn’t prove anything about what kind of mother she is, or whether on not Woody abused her child; but it does make me give him a bit more benefit of the doubt. Not really a fan of Woody’s, but I did enjoy _Midnight In Paris._ ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/131 "2023-09-20T01:45:42Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > journalists, lawyers, and public speakers How many do you know? ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/132 "2023-09-20T08:32:43Z")
No idea. Hundreds. Maybe a thousand. Why? ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/133 "2023-09-20T12:55:34Z")
Why should he stop? If he still wants to make movies and has support and other who are interested in joining the project, good for him. Not a huge fan, but I like his work OK. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/134 "2023-09-20T13:47:53Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Why? And you know all of them so well that you know what they would do in Ronan’s position? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/135 "2025-11-01T21:41:31Z")
So this thread started 22 years ago and Woody is still making movies: > The Madrid regional government is hoping to harness the power of film tourism by investing €1.5m (£1.3m) in a new [Woody Allen](https://www.theguardian.com/film/woodyallen) movie that will be shot in and around the Spanish capital and which will be contractually obliged to feature the word “Madrid” in its title. > > Regional authorities are confident the 89-year-old film-maker’s next project could do for Madrid what Roman Holiday did for Rome tourism in the early 1950s, and what Sex and the City and Emily in Paris have more recently done to increase visitor numbers to New York and the French capital. > **[Madrid regional government co-funding Woody Allen’s new film – but it must...](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/31/spanish-government-co-funding-woody-allen-new-film-madrid-title)** > > Regional authority is investing €1.5m in the project but has stipulations about featuring ‘identifiable locations’ on screen and the film premiering at an international film festival I think Madrid is over-optimistic as to how well this movie will do. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/136 "2025-11-02T02:32:06Z")
Woody Allen’s most recent film, _Coup de Chance_, was shot in Paris and is almost entirely in French. It was released in some countries in 2023 and in others (including the U.S.) in 2024. It got reasonably good reviews. Outside of the U.S., most people don’t care about his personal life. he remains a famous director and writer there. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/137 "2025-11-02T14:59:13Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > So this thread started 22 years ago and Woody is still making movies: > > > The Madrid regional government is hoping to harness the power of film tourism by investing €1.5m (£1.3m) in a new [Woody Allen](https://www.theguardian.com/film/woodyallen) movie that will be shot in and around the Spanish capital and which will be contractually obliged to feature the word “Madrid” in its title. Hmmm…“Mildred Winifred Madrid”? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/138 "2025-11-02T15:06:27Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > The Madrid regional government is hoping to harness the power of film tourism by investing €1.5m (£1.3m) in a new [Woody Allen](https://www.theguardian.com/film/woodyallen) movie that will be shot in and around the Spanish capital and which will be contractually obliged to feature the word “Madrid” in its title. Well, he should be thankful it’s not “[bazoomer.com](http://bazoomer.com)." ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/139 "2025-11-02T15:39:58Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Well, he should be thankful it’s not “[bazoomer.com](http://bazoomer.com)." Well, that was a deep cut. “This is what my people died for…the right to make a movie in this town.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894/140 "2025-11-02T16:35:58Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Outside of the U.S., most people don’t care about his personal life. he remains a famous director and writer there. That also describes Roman Polanski, and many of us think it shouldn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-woody-allen-still-making-movies/190894.md?page=8)