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Editorial Review:
Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film. In it, Allen plays a thinly disguised version of himself: Alvy Singer, a successful--if neurotic--television comedian living in Manhattan. Annie (the wholesomely luminous Dianne Keaton) is a Midwestern transplant who dabbles in photography and sings in small clubs. When the two meet, the sparks are immediate--if repressed. Alone in her apartment for the first time, Alvy and Annie navigate a minefield of self-conscious "is-this-person-someone-I'd-want-to-get-involved-with?" conversation. As they speak, subtitles flash their unspoken thoughts: the likes of "I'm not smart enough for him" and "I sound like a jerk." Despite all their caution, they connect, and we're swept up in the flush of their new romance. Allen's antic sensibility shines here in a series of flashbacks to Alvy's childhood, growing up, quite literally, under a rumbling roller coaster. His boisterous Jewish family's dinner table shares a split screen with the WASP-y Hall's tight-lipped holiday table, one Alvy has joined for the first time. His position as outsider is uncontestable he looks down the table and sizes up Annie's "Grammy Hall" as "a classic Jew-hater."

The relationship arcs, as does Annie's growing desire for independence. It quickly becomes clear that the two are on separate tracks, as what was once endearing becomes annoying. Annie Hall embraces Allen's central themes--his love affair with New York (and hatred of Los Angeles), how impossible relationships are, and his fear of death. But their balance is just right, the chemistry between Allen's worry-wart Alvy and Keaton's gangly, loopy Annie is one of the screen's best pairings. It couldn't be more engaging. --Susan Benson

Annie Hall [Region 2] Reviews:
The movie, Annie Hall
2009-11-16 - I had been trying to find this movie, but it was on backorder everywhere. I was thrilled at the quick response I received. I had my movie within just a few days and it was in outstanding condition. What a great movie this is!

Their Annie Hall
2009-11-08 - When comedians become actors and make what is considered their best film, it is often called their "Annie Hall." It has been said that "Modern Romance" is Albert Brooks' Annie Hall, "When Harry Met Sally" is Billy Crystal's Annie Hall and "Chasing Amy" is Kevin Smith's Annie Hall.

I believe this to be Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"

Best Actors & Best Screenplay
2009-09-25 - If I had to choose only one movie to be my all time favorite, this would be it. In fact, before I was married, I used to secretly "test" people I was dating and rent this movie and watch it with them. If they thouroughly enjoyed the film and also laughed at all the right moments, they "passed" the test. (Yes, my husband DID pass the test.) If they failed the test, they were a waste of my time.

In my opinion, the film is pure brilliance. It is witty and a wonderful characature of neurosis, men and women relationships, New York City, California, and the time it took place in. I love that Woody always has his character being with these very beautiful young women.

Everything about the movie cracks me up...from the waiting in line to see a film, the counseling visits, the subtitles for the male v. female thinking, the bug in the bathroom, the sprouts and mashed yeast, the children announcing what they will be when they grow up, the "universe is expanding" fear, the sneezing on the cocaine, the contemplating of the Kennedy assasination while in the bedroom...I could laugh every 30 seconds during this masterpiece.

Just please don't ask me to give Woody a grade for his personal life! That's another story!



Great Film
2009-07-21 - In Annie Hall, virtuoso film director Woody Allen, with his impeccable, sardonic humor, takes on the 1970s Zeitgeist through his character's relationship with an intelligent, warm-hearted woman from a different background than his (He is Jewish and grew up under a roller coaster and she is Protestant from a relatively cloistered, conservative family).

In his humor and style, Allen quite lucidly draws upon the Jewish American humorist tradition of Groucho Marx.

Allen's treatment of intellectuals is ambivalent. First his character, Alvie Singer, sends Annie to college to improve her mind, but then changes his own mind when he sees her falling for a professor. Allen satirizes college professors and brings a true original, Marshall MacLuhan to prove that the professor's argument is specious. Years before meeting Annie, Alvie falls for a Jewish Left Wing intellectual involved in the Adlai Stevenson Presidential campaign and then drives her away by his nightly pontifications on the possible JFK assassination conspiracy.

Annie Hall is, on the whole, a wonderful film, critical of the period in which it was made, but also a loving remembrance of a man that lived through it.






Essential Viewing
2009-07-10 - Woody Allen's Annie Hall has nmet the test of time and it is still a great film 32 years after its first release in 1977. This is truly Allen's breakthrough film and is quite possibly the model for all romantic comedies to follow. It is Allen's first film to actually concentrate on dialogue and presents some of film's most memorable lines..

Diane Keaton scored an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character and she is spot on perfect with Allen as the neurotic Alvy Singer. The film is also unique in that it makes the city of New York a primary character in the story.

The film could use some restoration but the standard definition disc by MGM does quite well. The sound is dialogue driven and is in mono but there are no real problems with clarity which is nice on a film of this age. As is usual for Woddy Allen films there are no extra features except the trailer.

See it again.