It all started with a letter sent from a hopeful young filmmaker to his favorite author. It was a simple yet direct question: Would you consider me in making a documentary about you? Robert B. Weide ...

While digging through a box of Kurt Vonnegut’s papers at IU’s Lilly Library a few years ago, Robert Weide made an unexpected discovery: a 1982 letter from a fan who wanted to make a documentary about ...

Watch Woody Allen: A Documentary on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS. A new film not by but about Woody Allen is coming to the PBS series, “American Masters.” It’s called “Woody Allen: A ...

“I was 23 when I first approached him about making this film,” filmmaker Robert Weide says in the trailer for his IFC Films documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. “I became obsessed. What high ...

Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his Emmy-winning work on documentaries and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Description above from ...

UK’s Sky Atlantic HD has greenlighted Mr. Sloane, a six-episode comedy series created by writer/director Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm) starring popular British comedy actor Nick Frost (Shaun ...

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Robert Weide 's penchant for documenting great comedians and thinkers started when, at the age of 22, he produced his first film about the Marx Brothers. Since that first film, which was broadcast on ...

In this season of World War II anniversaries, director Robert Weide is highlighting one with a literary twist involving author Kurt Vonnegut. Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Allied firebombing ...

Robert B. Weide spent decades making a documentary about the author of "Slaughterhouse-Five." It's a worthy portrait, but the filmmaker should have left himself out of it. “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in ...

Elvis Mitchell talks to director Robert Weide about his proclivity to comedy that runs toward the absurd, most recently with his film, Woody Allen: A Documentary.