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Mood:
- CleverHumorousWittySentimentalBittersweet
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Plot:
- Unlikely CoupleBattle of the SexesCouple RelationsLove and RomanceCouplesCity Life
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Genres:
- ComedyRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- Los AngelesNew YorkUrban
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedEssentialOscar WinnerModern ClassicPrestigious AwardsOriginal
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Style:
- EpisodicVoice OverTalky
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Annie Hall, 1977
English, German
USA
Profile of Annie Hall
The mood of Annie Hall is clever, witty, and humorous. The plot centers around a battle of the sexes, an unlikely couple, and love and romance. It is a comedy and romance movie. Stylistically, Annie Hall is episodic, includes a voice over, and is talky. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Annie Hall is set in Los Angeles and New York. It happens in the 20th century. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and essential viewing. Annie Hall is especially suggested for a date night.
Summary of Annie Hall
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.
Details
| Language: | English, German |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 20 April 1977 |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Annie Hall
as Alvy Singer
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A very fun movie to watch. I wish more movies took themselves less seriously like this movie did. I loved it when Woody Allen would stop the film and talk directly at the camera. Oh and lookout for Jeff Goldblum he makes his way into this film for a...
- 26.April.2009
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- by: stantheman198
- stantheman198 rated this movie
8/10Great
"Annie Hall" is the movie we have to thank/blame for spawning an entire genre of hideous romantic "comedies" about self-absorbed, neurotic, but otherwise well-to-do New Yorkers talking to the camera and whining to their shrinks about their...
- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie5/10So-so
