Which Woody Allen film is Larry David starring in?
Can Larry David channel Woody Allen for ‘Whatever Works’? In his mid-70s, Woody Allen continues to write and direct a film every year. Fairly early on in his nearly 40-film career, he created — or at least became forever identified with — a specific subgenre: It could be described as the Neurotic Romantic Comedy. But, whenever another filmmaker works in the same vein, the term that almost always comes up is “a sort of Woody Allen comedy.” To his credit, Allen has frequently made movies far outside this category — both bad (“September”) and good (“Cassandra’s Dream”). But he always returns … which is a good thing, since it brings out much of the best in him. “Whatever Works,” his latest, is firmly in this tradition. Larry David (the latest in a long line of on-screen Allen surrogates) plays Boris Yellnikoff, self-styled genius who constantly reminds people that he almost won a Nobel Prize in physics. Boris is such a grouch he makes previous Allen misanthropes look positively Panglo
