By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Film icon Woody Allen continues his globe-trekking ways following the success of his films set in London (“Match Point,” “Scoop”), Barcelona (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) and Paris (“Midnight in Paris”), with yet another beautiful old European city as  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, CALIF.—The first thing you notice outside Pixar’s college campus-like headquarters here is a collection of oversized rocks strategically laid out in a circle. Is it some sort of holy place where offerings are made to the animation gods? Perhaps it’s [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lynn Shelton had never stepped onto a movie set when she made her features film, “We Go Way Back,” in 2006.  She found herself introducing herself to her crew. “Oh, hi. You’re the gaffer? What do you do?” she recalls innocently asking. From that inaus [...]