NOVEMBER 2011 AMERICAN MASTERS A DOCUMENTARY SUNDAY 20TH & MONDAY 21ST, 9 PM THIRTEEN.ORG/AMERICAN MASTERS In This Issue: PLÁCIDO DOMINGO ON GREAT PERFORMANCES NATURE VISITS THE ANIMAL HOUSE ADELE ROCKS! LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN Visit thirteen.org/ woodyallen for video previews, interactive features, and more. AMILL H RIAN : B photo ©MGM / DECONSTRUCtING WOODy American Masters—Woody Allen: A Documentary Sun 20th and Mon 21st, 9 p.m.; thirteen.org/americanmasters OVER thE yEaRs, American Masters premiere of Midnight in Paris. It also cap- has profiled cinema greats ranging from tures Allen at home, in the editing room, Alfred Hitchcock to Gene Kelly, and com- and touring his childhood haunts in the edy legends including Bob Newhart, Carol Midwood section of Brooklyn. Larry David, Burnett, and Nichols and May. This month, Mariel Hemingway, Diane Keaton, and the Emmy Award-winning series shines its Martin Scorsese are among the colleagues spotlight on iconic writer, director, actor, sharing insights and backstory. comedian, and musician Woody Allen, who Before Allen began his current globe- allowed his life and creative process to be trotting phase (London, Barcelona, Paris, documented on-camera for the first time and now Rome), he was widely considered in Woody Allen: A Documentary. the quintessential New York filmmaker. Director Robert Weide (HBO’s Curb Annie Hall features Coney Island’s Cyclone Your Enthusiasm, Lenny Bruce: Swear rollercoaster, the Thalia cinema, and even to Tell the Truth) followed the notori - the FDR Drive. And who could forget the ously private film legend over a year breathtaking opening montage of Manhat- and a half to create the ultimate film tan with its Gershwin-infused flashes of Big biography. The two-part documentary, Apple landmarks, not to mention the iconic premiering this month on THIRTEEN, image of Allen and Diane Keaton sitting on explores Allen’s writing habits and rela- a bench in front of the Queensboro Bridge? tionship with his actors, observing him New York’s premier public television station on the London set of You Will Meet is proud to bring you this unprecedented a Tall Dark Stranger and at the Cannes look at a true New York legend. American Masters is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding for American Masters is provided by Rosalind P. Walter, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, Jack Rudin, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation, and public television viewers. 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