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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #105. Woody Allen’s Magic in Moonlight

Published on February 19, 2014

Magic in Moonlight

Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Helen Robin, Stephen Tenenbaum
U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Hamish Linklater, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney, Erica Leerhsen, Catherine McCormack, Paul Ritter, Jeremy Shamos

For his 47th feature film, the clarinet playing Woody Allen proposes a visit to an era he must be expertly familiar with…1920’s jazz scene in France. Curious in seeing how Emma Stone will flex her muscles.

Gist: This is about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.

Release Date: Where else would you want to unload a film set in the French Riviera but in Cannes itself. Sony Pictures Classics distributes would will probably be a summer release.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).