Internet Movie Database . When Woody Allen makes a film in black and white, rather than color, CV's respect for him as an artist leads us to think that there were artistic reasons for doing so.
Celebrity is a film with a huge cast, multiple locations, a complicated scenario.
The black and white photography of Sven Nykvist is never something to sneeze at, but simply did not seem particularly important here. One cannot help but to speculate that Allen's own celebrity, and the invasiveness that celebrity injected into his private life, was a motivating factor in the choice of subject here. The Monica Lewinsky allusion is there, citing, without naming, another victim of celebrity. Allen does not appear in the film. The lead is played by Kenneth Branagh, but it would be a mistake to take Branagh for an Allen stand-in, despite the mimicked speech patterns.