Annie Hall (1. 97. Background. Annie Hall (1. Woody Allen, is. a quintessential masterpiece of priceless, witty and quotable one- liners.
It is a bittersweet. Hollywood films such as The Awful. Truth (1. 93. 7) and The Philadelphia Story (1. Coordinates Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, by. For Some FAST FACTS on Indus River Valley Civilization: Click here. ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST. What bizarre secrets are we still to uncover? Allen's own challenging, ambivalent New York romance with his opposite - an. Midwestern WASP female (who blossoms out in. Pygmalion- like story). Annie Hall clearly has semi- autobiographical elements. Brooklyn- born and Jewish stand- up comedian - much like Allen. The Tonight Show) - who. His unstable love. Annie Hall begins to disintegrate when she moves. Los Angeles and discovers herself - and a new life. Keaton's birth name was Diane Hall, her. Annie, and she did have a Grammy Hall. And Woody Allen played. Diane Keaton (about New York life, politics, philosophy. Tony Roberts to Allen. In contrast, this urban dramatic comedy, his best- loved. It was his most successful, deepest, self- reflexive. However, the film could have. Ralph Rosenblum. Many. The film's more sensitive and realistic (still- comical). Woody Allen cultists. With five nominations, the film was a four- time Academy Award winner: Best. Actress (Diane Keaton with her sole Oscar win), Best Picture (Charles H. Joffe. producer), Best Director (Woody Allen), and Best Original Screenplay (Woody. Allen and Marshall Brickman). It defeated the science- fiction blockbuster. Star Wars (1. 97. Best Picture. It was. Tom Jones (1. 96. Best Picture. Oscar - and before that Frank Capra's It Happened One. Night (1. 93. 4). A fifth nomination was for Woody Allen for Best Actor. Richard Dreyfuss for The Goodbye Girl (1. NY- based light romantic comedy. It was quite a feat that Allen was nominated. Despite the film's influence on fashion in New York and elsewhere. Ruth Morley worked with Ralph Lauren, who designed Annie's outfit), there. Best Costume Design nomination. Two later romantic comedies, director Rob Reiner's When. Harry Met Sally..(1. Billy Crystal's Forget Paris (1. Allen's own black comedy Deconstructing. Harry (1. 99. 7) twenty years later has been considered the 'dark' side of. Keaton's next film in the same year, Looking for Mr. Goodbar. (1. 97. 7), was a radical departure from this film, in which she took on the. Catholic girl who ended up murdered - the victim of. The major theme of the film is that there are severe limitations in life. There are a variety of innovative strategies and narrative techniques in. Woody Allen is functioning. The stylistic. strategies and cinematic techniques that support the fragmented nature of. Cinematic Technique. Commentdirect addresses to the camera. Reminiscent of Ingmar. Bergman films, and films such as Strange Interlude (1. Alfie. (1. 96. 6) with Michael Cainememory- flashbacks and other flashbacks. Influenced, in part, by Citizen. Kane (1. 94. 1)adult time- travel back to childhood. Reminiscent of Bergman's Wild Strawberries. Reminiscent of Bergman's Persona (1. He tells two. key Jewish jokes in a stand- up, vaudeville- style monologue. In his first joke. Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And. one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The. Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's. I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and. His second joke pays tribute to key individuals in his life - Groucho Marx. Sigmund Freud. From Groucho Marx, the comedian learned comedy. From Freud's. writings on wit and jokes, the 'pleasure mechanism', neuroses, dreams, and. That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships. The malcontented comic, later identified as Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) . Unless I'm one of those guys with. Devastated, the comedian switches from the chatter of his comedy. He also switches from the clearly delineated Woody Allen. The film searches for his. Why did they break up? And I still can't get my mind around that. A year ago, we were in love, you know. As a successful, but neurotic Jewish New York comedian. I- I, uh, you know. I was a reasonably happy kid, I guess. Fixated on his past as one possible answer to his question, Alvy looks back. Freudian analysis with Groucho Marx- ian humor. His over- protective, over- achieving, and panicked Jewish. Joan Newman) has brought her young and insecure, but precocious, bespectacled. Alvy Singer (Jonathan Munk) to a doctor. The boy, exhibiting. Death - he metaphysically despairs at the impending expansion. Alvy's mother: He's been depressed. All of a sudden, he can't do. Doctor: Why are you depressed, Alvy? Alvy's mother: Tell Dr. You're here in Brooklyn. And we've got. to try to enjoy ourselves while we're here, huh, huh? Flashbacks show his early childhood and grade schooling. His neurotic, nervous personality may be due to having been. Coney. Island section of Brooklyn. In the Singer home, the house was subjected. At the dinner table, Alvy suffers - . The real rollercoaster - - dubbed the Thunderbolt - - opened in 1. It was the first roller- coaster to use a steel frame. On the blackboard behind the first teacher. The teachers at his school are mocked and castigated. And those. who can't teach teach GYM. And, of course, those who couldn't do anything. I think, were assigned to our school. Bernard's School in the West Village area of New York. I can't help it. Teacher: Why couldn't you have been more like Donald? Now there was a model. Projections are made of what a few of his other classmates will be doing. In a scene which implies denial of free will, some of them. Now I'm a methadone. I was, uhm, interestingly enough. I was 4- P. In the event of war, I'm a hostage. Directly to the camera as she peels carrots, Alvy's mother. You were always out of. Even when you got famous, you still mistrusted the. A stationary camera shoots down a quiet. Their voices are heard off- screen. Insecure, sensitive. Semitic remarks, an agitated Alvy explains. Rob (Tony Roberts), that he thinks an acquaintance has. Semitic remark in a Jew- baiting incident: You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so. I said, 'Did you eat yet or what?' And Tom Christie said, 'No, JEW?' Not. Did you?'.. JEW eat? JEW eat? Rob thinks that Alvy (often called 'Max' by Rob - and vice. Rob suggests that Alvy move from crazy New York City to sunny. Los Angeles where all of show business is located, and where he can escape. Alvy clearly prefers Manhattan to living in Los Angeles: I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage. The next amusing sequence stereotypes interaction with a pushy, intrusive. While waiting outside the Beekman Theatre on Second Avenue to meet Annie. Alvy is recognized by an obnoxious. The. Godfather' (1. Diane Keaton!): Pedestrian: Are you on television? Alvy: No. What's the difference? Pedestrian: You're on, uh, the, uh, the Johnny Carson, right? Alvy: Once in a while, you know.. Pedestrian: What's your name? Alvy: I- m - I'm uh, I'm Robert Redford. Pedestrian: Come on. Alvy (extends his hand for a shake): Alvy Singer. Thanks very. much for everything. Pedestrian: Hey (loudly beckoning a friend)! Alvy (exasperated): Fellas, you know.. Pedestrian: Dis guy's on television!!! Am I right? Alvy: Gimme a break.. Pedestrian: Dis guy's on television!!! Alvy: I need the large polo mallet. Who's on television? Pedestrian: Dis guy - on the Johnny Carson Show. Alvy: Fellas, what is this? A meeting of the Teamsters? What program? Pedestrian: Kineye 'ave your ortograph? Alvy: You don't want my autograph? Pedestrian: No, I do. It's for my girlfriend. Make it out to Ralph. Alvy: (after a double- take) Your girlfriend's name is Ralph? Pedestrian: It's for my bruddah. In a brilliant introductory shot, Annie pulls up in a taxicab at the curb. Alvy: Jesus, what did ya do? Come by way of the Panama Canal? Annie: I'm in a bad mood, OK? Alvy: Bad mood? I'm standing with the cast of The Godfather.
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