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Summary: Annie Hall
Review: "Annie Hall" is a great film for the ages. Woody Allen does a great job portraying a man who questions modern relationships and struggles through life, so I think most people can relate to this film. With hilarious scenes like when Woody pulls out the author of the book to make one guy look like a schmuck is very funny, it's no wonder why this film won best picture. The film will have you on an emotional roller coaster ride that'll leave you speechless. You'll be laughing, crying, and even cheering for Woody through the film. Although the film is a bit paced, it's still a great movie. Overall, I highly recommend this one.
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Summary: Imperfect but funny and even poignant Woody Allen film
Review: ANNIE HALL is often considered Woody Allen's masterpiece. Certainly, it is one of his most personal and touching films, a seriocomic meditation on...well, love, basically. Love and the search for relationships. Alvy Singer, the character Allen plays in this film, is always on the lookout for a relationship, but something always seems to get in the way of true happiness with a woman for him---and (I hope I'm not spoiling anything for anyone by saying this), his central relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) in this film is no exception.
Let me say right off that I thought this film was often fun to watch. Dialogue of such sharp comic wit and intelligence as Allen writes here is always something to be treasured (although sometimes he can be a bit too witty and referential for his own good, leaving some of his audience in the dark), the performances are equally spot-on (Allen's especially), and the filmmaking style is fascinating and sometimes exhilarating. This is hardly your usual romantic comedy with a linear plot. Allen plays with the time order of events (you immediately find out about Alvy and Annie's breakup at the beginning), throws in surreal flashbacks to his childhood, and even has his character speak directly to the camera at certain points. But never does any of it seem to be film trickery for its own sake; Allen seems to use this style more searchingly. He himself seems to be trying to find out the reasons why love can hurt so much.
ANNIE HALL is not a perfect film. Maybe it would have been better if Alvy Singer's story had been told in a slightly more linear style; the film seems a bit more of a jumbled mess in its final form, and its seeming lack of a plot structure at times distracted me (since I couldn't quite figure out the reason for it). And perhaps Allen could have developed Annie Hall's character a little more than he did; as brilliantly as Diane Keaton played her (and she won an Oscar for this performance, as did the film itself), she always remained more a set of personality quirks and attitudes than an actual flesh-and-blood character. (But then, perhaps that's the whole point; maybe that's the way Alvy sees her, and maybe that's partly why he, in the end, loses her).
Still, ANNIE HALL is overall a good film, one that is a lot more mature and perceptive about love and relationships than a lot of the romantic comedies I've seen in recent times (as entertaining as some of them may be). For its laughs as well as its depth, it is worth seeing, and maybe even worth reflecting after the humor of Woody Allen's neuroses has worn off and the bittersweet poignancy of its ending remains. Recommended.
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Summary: something is missing
Review: Anyone notice that the DVD version is missing the subtitles?
In the scene where they are drinking wine on the roof, there are subtitles of what they are thinking about each other. Not here on the DVD version, but present on the video. Anyone else notice?
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Summary: i usually like woody allen flicks
Review: but this one blows. it's really really bad. you end up hating annie hall and woody.
avoid
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Summary: Annie Hall has truly stood the test of time. And I loved it
Review: I have a confession to make. Until now, I've never seen a Woody Allen movie. Boy, I sure was a "miss out". Annie Hall, made in 1977, is a classic. Why, oh why, did I wait so long? First of all it's a story, and a very funny story at that, about a New York Jewish comedian, played by Woody Allen and his WASP girlfriend, played by Diane Keaton. It pokes fun at many social mores that we take for granted and I found myself laughing throughout. There's the New Yorker who never learns to drive, the mid-westerner who orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise (which seems almost grotesque to a New Yorker like me), the pretentious movie critic, the neuroses of modern romances, and the differences between the New York and Los Angeles way of life. The film runs along at such a fast pace that there is almost no time at all between funny moments. And, to make it even better, there are some wonderful film techniques. For example, while Diane Keaton and Woody Allen are talking about photography, there are subtitles on the screen about the physical relationship that they are really thinking about. If the film were made today the phone calls would have been made on cell phones. But surprisingly, that is the only detail that might be changed. Annie Hall has really truly stood the test of time. And I loved it.
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Summary: "ANNIE HALL" WOODY ALLEN'S MASTERPIECE
Review: One of Woody Allen's best films. Twenty-two years after it's initial release, ANNIE HALL remains one of the best romantic comedies of all time. The plot is presented to us in a jigsaw mode, much like Orson Welle's CITIZEN KANE. First, we get the end of the story followed by the beginning, the middle, things that happened between the beginning and the middle, etc. My favorite scene is when Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) visits Annie (Diane Keaton) for the first time at her apartment. While standing on the balcony talking to each other, their personal thoughts are shared with us via sub-titles. How many times have all of us experienced this situation?! However, this is not just an excellent comedy but a film that makes us realize the similarities that all of us go through during love relationships and that true love is very fragile and precious. The screenplay was written by Woody and Marshall Brickman who has collaberated several times with Mr. Allen including Manhattan (another ALLEN triumph), Manhattan Murder Mystery (reuniting ALLEN with KEATON) and SLEEPER. There is a wonderful supporting cast. Tony Roberts is Alvy's macho best friend who prefers Los Angeles to New York and Woody tells him the only cultural advantage to living in L.A. is the ability to "make a right turn on a red light" (this is still illegal in New York City). Paul Simon plays a record producer wooing Annie away from Alvy. He tells Woody he moved to L.A. because New York has gotten "so dirty". Woody responds that he's "into garbage". Also look out for Carol Kane (one of Woody's girlfriends before Annie), Christopher Walken (Annie's psycho brother) and Jeff Goldblum. ANNIE HALL is a wonderful film to add to your collection. Buy yourself a red light bulb and watch it with someone you love.
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Summary: horrible
Review: This film is so caleidoscopic ; charm , innovative , bittersweet, fresh and above all spontaneous . Allen smelt the bitter times and decided to create a gentle and sincere work about the unability of getting the whole happiness . He suggests us the concept so many times repeated : the happiness is just a lovely , funny and poetic vignettes colection , but beware about to reach this utopic state for a long time .
We must laugh before being happy ; otherwise we can die without having laughed .
Since Woody and Diane are two isolated human beings in that overwhelming city in which you need to have a center in the mythical sense . They meet and feel that invisible chemistry ; plenty of reciprocal armonies and shared glances .
New York is once more a monumental and changing background to express the greatness and the unability to vibrate to the same frenetic rhtym this city beats .
Thet decide to live together and slowly as a sugessting adagio they remeet they learn the fugacity of the relationship ; the incompatibility of characters and these little diferences which progressively grow and become a invisible barrier where they acquire a new profile of loneliness due to the limits in their emotional spheres . They love themselves but no more than their independence .
Nevertheless Allen knew to avoid to fall in the so well known cliché and builds a brilliant ending for both of them .
At last Allen will reveal as a guy filled with new hopes , recognizing his inner weakness and wishing her the best .
But the form in which this romantic drama will develop its own flight is so original and well done that you can not forget it at all and like the good books this cult movie lives with you , and your memories . In particular I must confess I watch it once or twice every year .
The other point to remark is the fundamental concerns given for Allen is in the air . And thanks to that premise engaged besides, to a wider audience like the european where this film is higly loved too , because the drama (if it is real ) exits no matter you live in Tokio , Oslo or Vienna . The places , persons and situations change but how to deal with that question .
A timeless artistic winner !
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Summary: Opposites Attract: An Annie Hall Review
Review: This is a great movie. I just finished watching it for the first time. It's hilarious yet devastating at the same time. The movie focuses around a Jewish middle-aged comedian who has acute paranoia and an over-the-top fear of death. Somehow, he gets several women and has already been through two lovely and intelligent wives when he meets Annie Hall when he plays tennis against her. At first, they're very awkward and gawky, kind of like teenagers on their very first date. But eventually, their romance blossoms and they live together. Annie has a great love for life. She's a singer and photographer, young and vibrant. Eventually, they realize that they just can't work out their differences and they split up. Then he realizes he can't live without her and decides to try to win her back. I'll let you see the movie to find out exactly how THAT goes. Enjoy!
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Summary: too much blah blah blah
Review: This is my impersonation of this movie. blah blah blah. blah blah blah. If i wanted to listen to all this chatter, I'd go visit my girlfriend. Woody's movie needs a psychotic mastermind out to conquer the world, some martial arts masters, or something like that. Make it something people want to see or care about. Who cares what these nerds think about mozart. Classical muzak is the suxoor.
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Summary: Classic Woody
Review: Woody Allen finally puts it all together for this movie.Forget the overhyped praise/criticism and enjoy.Look for a hysterical Christopher Walken as Dwayne,Annies crazed brother.His 5 minutes on screen absolutely steal the movie!
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