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Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson

As part of a quartet comprised of Cruz, Bardem and Hall, the curvy Scarlett Johansson takes less place than in her previous collaborations in Scoop and Match Point. Woody Allen uses her in a more age appropriate role — youth culture/young American’s discovery of self and the world around her. The camera loves her and we love looking at her.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 20, 2008

Today’s top ten (part II gets released tomorrow) looks at the special bond that gets created between the filmmaker and the actor and how that working relationship evolves over the course of not one film but several films. I began this top ten listing last year (see here) and curiously the “repeat offenders” this year weren’t included on 07’s list. Our number ten spot is reserved to:

10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Comments: As part of a quartet comprised of Cruz, Bardem and Hall, the curvy Scarlett Johansson takes less place than in her previous collaborations in Scoop and Match Point. Woody Allen uses her in a more age appropriate role — youth culture/young American’s discovery of self and the world around her. The camera loves her and we love looking at her.

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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).