Premiering Sunday on the popular AMERICAN MASTERS series, WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY is filmmaker ROBERT WEIDE’S four-hour love letter to one of this country’s greatest living movie-makers. Granted unprecedented access to ALLEN’S private life and creative process, the film is a riveting examination of a career that started in gag writing and stand-up performance before eventually becoming brilliant independent filmmaking. Much insight is provided by numerous new interviews with such ALLEN insiders as: SCARLETT JOHANSSON, DICK CAVETT, SEAN PENN, DIANE WIEST, TONY ROBERTS, DIANE KEATON, sister LETTY AARONSON, longtime manager JACK ROLLINS, cinematographers GORDON WILLIS and VILMOS ZSIGMOND and co-writer MARSHALL BRICKMAN. And, while highlighting his professional triumphs, the film doesn’t shy away from the personal issues that have kept him in the tabloids over the years.

Watching all this footage of ALLEN making movies reminded us that, during our recent interview, he admitted that he enjoyed the writing process but was torn when it came to actually putting script to screen. (CLICK ON THE MEDIA BAR FOR AUDIO)

Parts 1 & 2 of AMERICAN MASTERS: WOODY ALLEN A DOCUMENTARY air on PBS Sunday and Monday respectively