Woody Allen in San Francisco: The Making of 'Blue Jasmine'

For his 45th film, the writer-director surrounded himself with faces old and new -- the cast includes Allen rookies Cate Blanchett and Andrew Dice Clay and such veterans as Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins -- in service of a fish-out-of-water romance that evokes both Tennessee Williams and Bernie Madoff. This story first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter's November stand-alone. Blue Jasmine, the 77-year-old auteur's first film shot in the U.S. in four years, because San Francisco has been his fav...