Whether it’s a good movie or not, Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival” deserved a U.S. release, solely because the blacklisting of the legendary filmmaker has been unfair and heavily biased.
The film will finally be released in select theaters on January 28, 2022. Great news. I was personally underwhelmed by the film back when I saw it via screener back in late 2020, but that doesn’t even matter.
Hell, even his last movie, the 2018 Amazon-dumped “Rainy Day in New York,” was only released recently and it’s a much better effort. With all that being said, that hasn’t stopped the 85-year-old director from continuing to work — Europeans, safe for Uber-woke UK and Germany, have welcomed him with open arms and been willing to finance the cinematic endeavors he chooses to embark on. His next film is rumoured to be set in France and said to parallel the much darker drama of “Match Point.”
“Rifkin’s Festival” is Allen’s 50th film as a director. It was shot in San Sebastian, Spain and stars Christoph Waltz, Gina Gershon, Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, and Sergi Lopez.
Europe seems to have had no problem with distributing the film, as it’s already opened in France, Portugal, Austria, Norway, Sweden Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Netherlands, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, and Mexico.
However, the wokest countries in the world (the U.S, the U.K. and Germany) decided to abstain and boycott Allen’s latest. You see, Woody is still toxic to the woke tyrannicals in these countries.
We have Signature Entertainment to thank for this release.
On 09.03.20, I wrote a lengthy piece titled “The Case for Woody Allen's Innocence,” it laid down the groundwork for why I believe the purge of Woody Allen in the industry has been nothing more than a smear campaign concocted by Ronan and Mia Farrow — not to mention an all-too-willing media taking their bait.