Annie Hall Details

1977

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Starring	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
Director	Woody Allen
Genres	Comedy, Romance

Annie Hall

Woody Allen cowrote, directed, and stars in this award-winning film as a kvetchy Brooklyn comedian wistfully recalling his bygone relationship with flighty, adorable, and irrepressibly midwestern (read: not Jewish) Annie Hall. The film marked a transition from Allen's earlier absurdist comedies to a richer vein of thoughtful consideration of relationships. The gentle narrative revolutionized the urban romantic-comedy genre, while Keaton's hip, man-tailored wardrobe set the 1977 fashion standard. The film is filled with memorable scenes and oft-quoted lines and features Allen talking right into the camera, a technique that was not commonplace at the time. Allen, playing comedian Alvy Singer, uses many of his stand-up comedy routines in the film as he woos the wonderful Diane Keaton, playing the title character, Annie Hall. As Alvy helps Annie mature, she grows apart from him, choosing to live in Southern California, which is the antithesis of his deep love for New York. The film features fabulous visual and verbal gags, a propensity for food scenes, and memorable cameos by the likes of Marshall McLuhan, Paul Simon, Christopher Walken, Truman Capote, Shelley Duvall, and others.

Starring	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken
Director	Woody Allen
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 must-see movies, 100 Rom-Coms
Genres	Comedy, Romance
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Released	DVD: 10 Jul 2000 Production year: 1977
Format	DVD

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Although Woody Allen had still to acquire great technical strength as a film-maker, this was the movie where he found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection. Peppered with hilarious, snappy insights into the meaning of life, love, psychiatry, ambition, art and New York, this comic delight also gains considerably from the spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic. The narrative runs parallel to the real-life relationship between the two leads (Keaton's father's name was Hall), and the film scooped four Oscars, including best film and screenplay (co-written with Marshall Brickman) for Allen, and best actress for Keaton.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Semi-serious collage of jokes and bits of technique, some of the former very funny and some of the latter very successful. For no very good reason it hit the box-office spot and turned its creator, of whom it is very typical, from a minority performer to
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
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22 out of 22 people found this review helpful

Woody Allens finest hour (and a half)

For anyone who's ever hated himself, and wondered why ... watch Annie Hall.

Let's face it, regardless of flaws and inconsistencies, it's worth watching pretty much any Woody Allen movie just for the few classic one-liners that are bound to be in there. With Woody playing basically himself here, he delves into past loves, metaphysics and lobsters with more of those classic lines than you can shake a stick at.

Although I think generally Woody is infinitely more talented as a stand-up comedian than as a filmmaker, I admit that I do have something of a soft spot for 'Annie Hall'. Mostly it's just the sheer simplicity of the storyline that just allows Woody to go ahead and revel in his trademark self-deprecative, depressive humour -- constantly self-referencing, coming out with witty remarks and amusing sketches as only he can. Also, it's just so INVENTIVE. You get a real sense of a director who is simply improvising, almost like watching Woody himself on stage in front of a live audience. It's a quality that very few of his movies I've seen have possessed, and that's why I think this is easily his best work.
- - Noel Clay from Colchester, England
  - Posted 08 Dec 2004 01:20
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Dissapointed..

I rented this movie because it was listed in one of the 'must-watch' movie for all movie enthusiasts. There are some interesting parts but most of it just didn't get me, I kept on going to the kitchen without even bother pausing my dvd player. It probably was a hit during that era (70s), because not many movies are made that way. Watch it if you want to see the retro fashin and homes. ;P
- - A customer from London, England
  - Posted 01 Feb 2006 unknown
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French First Lady Carla Bruni was so desperate to work with Woody Allen, she accepted an offer to star in one of his films without knowing anything about the role. Allen made no secret of wanting to cast the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy when he visited Paris back in June (09), and in September (09) Bruni confirmed she had accepted Allen's offer. Bruni admits she leaped at the chance to be the Annie Hall filmmaker's new muse, even though she still doesn't know what the job will... Read more
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