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    Woody Allen mulls end of career, talks with Alec Baldwin

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    Actor Alec Baldwin attends the screening for "Framing John DeLorean" during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on April 30, 2019, in New York, left, and filmmaker Woody Allen attends a press conference for the film "Irrational Man," at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 15, 2015. Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career, saying directing has lost its luster. (AP Photo)
    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Woody Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career, saying directing has lost its luster.

    The two men — each facing significant controversies — steered clear of addressing either the abuse allegations against Allen or the shooting last year on Baldwin's movie set.

    The public comment options were turned off, and the 45-minute interview attracted a modest audience of between 2,400-2,700. The two men chatted about Allen's writing, the use of profanity in films and the current state of Broadway. Allen lost his connection several times, with his screen freezing.

    Allen, 87, said movie-making is not as exciting now that his films spend a few days in movie theaters and then directly go to streaming. "A lot of the thrill is gone," he said. "It's not as enjoyable as it was." Still, he plans to make his next movie later this year in Paris. "I'm going to make another one, and I'll see how it feels."

    Baldwin, who has worked with Allen on a number of films, including "To Rome with Love," "Alice" and "Blue Jasmine," kept the mood light, complimenting Allen for his writing. and realizing that neither had contracted COVID-19.

    Allen has continued to face backlash after his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused him of molesting her as a child. Allen has denied the allegations.

    Baldwin has faced his own controversy after he fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of his film "Rust" in New Mexico. Baldwin has said he was pointing the gun at the cinematographer at her instruction when it went off without his pulling the trigger.

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    Before his return to the Oscars, Yorgos Lanthimos finds a still moment in Athens

    Friday, March 6, 2026
    A visitor takes a picture of a portrait of actress Emma Stone at an exhibition of images by Oscar nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos at Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece, on Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos paused his filmmaking and promotion schedule this week to celebrate a quieter creative pursuit: photography.

    The 52-year-old Greek director on Friday inaugurated an exhibition of his photographs in his hometown of Athens, presenting images he has taken over the past five years — many captured while making his films, wandering through movie sets and nearby neighborhoods, or on trips back to Greece.

    The exhibition gathers 182 still photographs, in color and in black and white, from the filmmaker known for his distinctive — and often disturbing — cinematic style. It opens days before Lanthimos returns to Hollywood for the March 15 Academy Awards ceremony. In his latest film, "Bugonia," a pair of conspiracy‑obsessed men kidnap a powerful female executive they accuse of being an alien.

    The movie received four Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actress for Emma Stone, along with nods for adapted screenplay and original score. The photos, all shot with a film camera, features several portraits of Stone, a frequent star in his films.

    Lanthimos on Friday said he was happy to dive into something different. Photography, he said, began for him as a technical foundation for filmmaking but gradually became something more personal.

    "In film school you learn that cinema is basically 24 photographs per second," he said. "So photography is where it all begins."

    Over time, working with still images opened a creative outlet separate from the complex machinery of movie production, he added.

    "You can be alone with a camera, walking without having something specific in mind," Lanthimos said. "A photograph can have value on its own, but many photographs together can create... Read More

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