Following Woody Allen on a 1996 concert tour through Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band, the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple touchingly reveals the inextricable unity of the man and his movie persona and suggests the psychic conflicts at the heart of his great films.

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Woody Allen worked on From Rome With Love at the studios a year ago.

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He also wrote one-third of "Relatively Speaking, " three one-acts on Broadway in 2011 that also included works by Woody Allen and Elaine May.

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The winds on final approach during the day of my "incident" swirled more than a Woody Allen plotline and were ruder than a belch in church.

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What he really wants to do, he insists, is appear in a comedy, a wish thus far denied him on film unless one counts his performance as the dyspeptic painter Frederick in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986).

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According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn't decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.

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