Wild Man Blues (1997)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Barbara Kopple

Release Date:

17 April 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot Keywords:

Pretty Young Woman | Geneva Switzerland | Concert Film | Gondola | Swimming Pool

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Letty Aronson	...	Herself - Sister of Woody Allen
Soon-Yi Previn	...	Herself (as Soon Yi Previn)
Dan Barrett	...	Himself - the Trombonist
Simon Wettenhall	...	Himself - the Trumpeter (as Simon Wettenthall)
John Gill	...	Himself - the Drummer and Vocalist
Greg Cohen	...	Himself - the Bassist
Cynthia Sayer	...	Herself - the Pianist
Eddy Davis	...	Himself - the Band Director and Banjoist
Woody Allen	...	Himself - the Clarinetist
Nettie Konigsberg	...	Herself - Mother of Woody Allen
Martin Konigsberg	...	Himself - Father of Woody Allen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Doumanian	...	Himself (Guest in hotel suite) (uncredited)

Directed by
Barbara Kopple

Produced by
J.E. Beaucaire	....	executive producer
Jean Doumanian	....	producer
Kathleen Bambrick Meier	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Tom Hurwitz		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Lawrence Silk

Production Management
Linda Saffire	....	post-production supervisor

Sound Department
Eric A. Christoffersen	....	sound consultant: Dolby
Ted Clark	....	sound engineer
Margaret Crimmins	....	sound editor
Lee Dichter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Harry Higgins	....	sound engineer
Paul Hsu	....	sound editor (as Paul D. Hsu)
Barbara Kopple	....	sound recordist
Peter Miller	....	sound recordist
E. Benjamin Posnack	....	additional sound (as E. Benjamin Bosnack)

Camera and Electrical Department
Michael Fox	....	second camera operator: London concert
Ned Hallick	....	gaffer
John Romeo	....	assistant camera
Mark Schmidt	....	additional assistant camera

Editorial Department
Richard E. Campbell	....	assistant film editor (as Richard Campbell)
Elliott Gamson	....	negative matcher
Tom Salvatore	....	color timer
Michael Yetter	....	negative cutter (uncredited)

Music Department
Woody Allen	....	musician: clarinet
Dan Barrett	....	musician: trombone
Greg Cohen	....	musician: bass
Eddy Davis	....	musician: banjo
John Gill	....	musician: drums
Cynthia Sayer	....	musician: piano
Simon Wettenhall	....	musician: trumpet (as Simon Wettenthall)

Other crew
Eddy Davis	....	band director
Eric M. Eskenazi	....	transcriber
Nicholas Kopple	....	production assistant
Steven Schechter	....	attorney (as Steve Schechter)
Jenny Schweitzer	....	transcriber
Daniel Silk	....	transcriber

Thanks
Jim Bartlett	....	special thanks
Gene Carroll	....	special thanks
Lauren G. Chapin	....	special thanks
Sam Cohn	....	special thanks
John Doumanian	....	special thanks
Ian Flooks	....	special thanks
Peter Gilbert	....	special thanks
Deborah Goldfarb	....	special thanks
Kerry Herman	....	special thanks
Ian Hutchinson	....	special thanks
Richard Jones	....	special thanks
Peter Rice	....	special thanks
Glenn Rigberg	....	special thanks (as Glen Rigberg)
Jim Stern	....	special thanks
Caroline Turner	....	special thanks
Junko Yatyu	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Jean Doumanian Productions
• Cabin Creek Films
• Sweetland Films

Distributors

• Alliance Atlantis Communications (2005) (Canada) (DVD) (distributed Motion Picture Distribution's release)
• Fine Line Features (1997) (USA) (theatrical)
• Motion Picture Distribution (2005) (Canada) (DVD)
• New Line Home Video (1999) (USA) (VHS)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (2003) (Finland) (TV)

Other Companies

• Dog Bark Sound  sound editing
• Du Art Film Laboratories  color & prints by (as DuArt Film Laboratories)
• Du Art Film and Video  color timing (as DuArt Film & Video)
• Effects House, The  opticals
• Great Northern/Reiff & Associates  insurance services
• Gulfstream Aircraft Inc.  special thanks
• Immaculate Matching  negative matching
• Sound One Corporation  sound re-recording and mixing (as Sound One, Inc.)
• Telecom Italia  special thanks

Also Known As:

Blues del hombre salvaje (Argentina) [es]
Wild Man Blues (France) [fr]
Wild Man Blues (Portugal) [pt]
Wild man blues (El blues del hombre salvaje) (Spain) [es]
Woody Allen Euroopassa (Finland) [fi]
Woody Allen, la gira del blues (Colombia) (cable TV title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for brief language.

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

French | English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | France:U | Spain:T | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Jean Doumanian Productions

Trivia:

Woody Allen's parents, who were well into their 90s at the time of filming, appear on-screen late in the film. This marked the first time that Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg had anything even remotely to do with their son's film career (although they were consistently satirized throughout the years).

Quotes:

Woody Allen: They won't pay ten cents to see one of my movies, but passing in a gondola, they love it.

Movie Connections:

References Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Soundtrack:

Bugle Boy March

A very good look at Woody's passion

I really love this movie. Woody Allen appears as a very nice man. Other comments are very right, referring to his movie Stardust Memories. I think it's a little bit sad that all these people wants to see him because he's a famous actor and director, and not because of the music he and his partners seems to love so much. That happens to be my favorite kind of jazz (Jelly Roll Morton! Yeah!) and the band are doin' it in a very attractive way. This movie should be just about music.