Not many octogenarians are open to trying new things, but then not many octogenarians are like Woody Allen, the ever-prolific filmmaker and comedian, who has briefly paused his annual cinematic outing to dip his toes in television’s waters. At 80, Crisis In Six Scenes is Allen’s first ever small-screen effort (notwithstanding some writing for TV in the '50s). And now the first full trailer has now arrived.
Amazon Video are the unlikely suitors to coax Allen away from the big screen, and they’ve also persuaded him to act again too, after some time behind the camera. He plays Sidney Muntzinger, a 1960s suburban Jewish man who finds himself confronted with the counterculture ways of a young hippie, played by Miley Cyrus.
It’s not been an easy ride to completion, it seems: in a typically nebbish 2015 interview, Allen told Deadline that he has “regretted every second since I said 'okay'”, claiming that he hasn’t “had a pleasurable moment since I undertook it,” and admitted he had no idea what a streaming service actually was.
Let’s hope Allen’s trademark anxiety and insecurity is as creatively fruitful as it’s always been. Crisis In Six Scenes debuts in full on Amazon from 30 September; here’s our pick of the best new additions to Amazon this month.