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Annie Hall

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Annie Hall (1977)

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Reviews Counted: 46 Fresh: 45  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.8/10
 
Consensus: Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor. Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
Often considered the crown jewel in a highly acclaimed and prolific film career, ANNIE HALL is Woody Allen's only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This recognition, however, is not what makes the film significant. ANNIE HALL marks the beginning of the second phase of... [More]
Often considered the crown jewel in a highly acclaimed and prolific film career, ANNIE HALL is Woody Allen's only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This recognition, however, is not what makes the film significant. ANNIE HALL marks the beginning of the second phase of Allen's career as a filmmaker, abandoning the slapstick of SLEEPER and BANANAS for more thoughtful comedies (and eventually dramas) that explored human relationships and psychology. Allen's capacity as a creative filmmaker had also grown with the film, as he utilized creative subtitles, split screens, and animation, as well as evincing a sophisticated understanding of the potential of editing and camera movement for comic effect--consider the cutaway to Allen's character Alvy Singer, as seen through the eyes of "Grammy Hall" during the dinner sequence, or shortly afterward the slow pan to Alvy in the passenger seat of a car driven by Annie's unhinged brother Duane. The film is a brutally honest assessment of the prospects of a relationship between two very different people. Allen's Alvy is (like the filmmaker himself) an introverted, neurotic intellectual and a complete mismatch for Diane Keaton's vivacious, flaky Annie Hall. Although the romance is undoubtedly the center of the film, it affords Allen the opportunity to contrast his beloved New York culture with that of the Midwest, where Annie comes from, and Los Angeles, which tempts Annie with the possibility of fame and success as a singer. The city of New York itself plays an important part for the first time in an Allen film, with a great deal of location shooting that serves to highlight the city's character and atmosphere. Finally, the many comedic cameos peppered through the film--from Truman Capote to Paul Simon to media theorist Marshall McLuhan--pay tribute to the deserved reputation that Allen had gained for himself. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Shelley Duvall, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon

Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 4, 2000

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed - 1.85
  • Single Side - Single Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Production Notes

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Woody Allen's best work.

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02/19/08 01:56 PM
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Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90.

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02/05/07 03:14 PM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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If you can forgive the fact that it's a ragbag of half-digested intellectual ideas dressed up with trendy intellectual references, you should have a good laugh.

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06/24/06 03:31 AM
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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If the movie has a message, it's the same as most later Allen movies -- that love inevitably fades and only Louis Armstrong and the Marx Brothers abide.

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10/30/01 06:36 PM
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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It's a slight story but what makes this film significant in Allen's long career is that it's really the first time he wrote adult characters.

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04/17/01 11:53 PM
William Gallagher
BBC
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04/07/08 03:15 AM
David Ansen
Newsweek
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A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date.

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02/19/08 01:57 PM
Joseph McBride
Variety
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To represent the male view of romance and feelings through the role of Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen), writer-director Allen updated the familiar stock character of thje "little man" who's at bay in a complex world--a grown up Charlie Brown.

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02/03/07 07:58 AM
Emanuel Levy
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Seminal, hilarious look at contemporary relationships.

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12/13/06 08:07 PM
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags.

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12/13/06 08:06 PM
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Woody Allen at his smartest, wittiest, funniest and best.

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12/13/06 06:14 AM
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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09/17/05 12:43 PM
Cole Smithey
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06/20/05 01:30 PM
Emanuel Levy
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05/11/05 01:12 PM
Derek Smith
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05/08/05 11:33 PM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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04/15/05 07:57 PM
Nell Minow
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Lifelong anhedonia may have robbed Allen of happiness, but at least it gave him some material.

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03/25/05 07:08 AM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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10/28/04 10:33 PM
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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09/10/04 04:44 PM
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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I imagine it was probably more ground-breaking when it came out.

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06/10/04 11:15 AM
Luke Y. Thompson
LYTRules.com
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