Fifteen Minutes with Wallace Shawn on Woody Allen, What’s Wrong with American Films, and the Power of Dreams

Brandon Judell
The Shadow
Published in
9 min readApr 19, 2022

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Wallace Shawn in repose. (For full film credits, check out themoviedb.com)

I doubt anything can be inferred from Woody Allen’s latest film being released in pre-war Ukraine and Russia before hitting stateside. Throw Spain, Italy, and Slovakia into this mixture, too, to reach an international box office of barely over $1.7 million. Clearly, few folks are even aware Woody Allen…

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Brandon Judell
The Shadow

For half a century, Brandon Judell has covered the LGBTQI scene and the arts. He currently lectures at The City College of New York.