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Café Society
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20 Interesting Facts About Café Society
- #002
This was Woody Allen's first film without co-producer Jack Rollins, who died in 2015 at the age of 100, since Love and Death (1975). Rollins was Allen's longtime manager, and the two worked together for more than 45 years.
- #003
This is the most expensive film Woody Allen has made, with an estimated final cost of 30 million US dollars.
- #004
For the first time since Radio Days (1987), Woody Allen narrates a film without appearing on screen.
- #005
This is Woody Allen's first film shot digitally, using the Sony Cinealta F65.
- #006
Woody Allen said he wanted the film's structure to be like a novel.
- #010
This is the third Woody Allen film to open Cannes, after Hollywood Ending (2002) and Midnight in Paris (2011).
- #011
In one scene, Jesse Eisenberg's character visits Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Kristen Stewart's hands and feet are imprinted there.
- #013
This is the third film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart together, after Adventureland (2009) and American Ultra (2015).
- #015
This is Woody Allen's first film not distributed by Sony Pictures Classics since Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).
- #016
This is the second film collaboration between director Woody Allen and actor Jesse Eisenberg, roughly four years after To Rome with Love (2012).
- #017
Bobby is told to stay with "Uncle," that is, "Phil," as they do not want to overemphasize nepotism. This is a rare instance of the word being used in exactly this sense, since it derives from Catholic popes (who had no sons) making their nephews cardinals.
- #018
Judy Davis was initially announced for the cast but does not appear in the film.
- #020
When Ben's history of theft is shown, there is also a subtle homage to The 400 Blows (1959), noting that Ben's criminal life included stealing a typewriter while he was a schoolboy. The film's protagonist, Antoine Doinel, stole a typewriter while at school.
- #022
This is the second film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in which Stewart's character has a relationship with an older man. The first was Adventureland (2009).
- #023
It is one of a group of Woody Allen films that examine the film industry in some way, whether through an actor and/or a writer-director. These films are: Celebrity (1998), Hollywood Ending (2002), Café Society (2016), The Front (1976), Stardust Memories (1980), Play It Again, Sam (1972) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
- #024
Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg first appeared together in Adventureland (2009) alongside Ryan Reynolds. In this latest film they appear with Reynolds's wife, Blake Lively.
- #025
It is the second film, after Radio Days (1987), to end during a New Year's celebration at a New York City nightclub.
- #026
The first scene was shot at the villa of Cedric Gibbons, the most famous art director of Hollywood's golden age. He designed the house (with the help of architect Douglas Honnold) and lived there with his first wife, film star Dolores Del Rio.
- #027
Actress Parker Posey and writer-director Woody Allen had previously worked together on Allen's last film, Irrational Man (2015), which was shot in 2015 and first released a year before the release of Café Society (2016).
- #030
Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Parker Posey played Lex Luthor's assistant Kitty Kowalsky in Superman Returns (2006).
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