Annie Hall (1977)

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Jun 30 16:21

This is my kind of romantic comedy. Back in the days when smart people could be smart in films, complete with bags upon bags of neurosis and all. There probably is no better metaphor for a Woody Allen romance than one person being more New York and the other being more Los Angeles. One has a history of cosmopolitan rudeness and the other is known for being sunny and full of phonies who think they’re deep. Annie is too deep for the Hollywood literati, but she’s also not rude and paranoid enough for the Manhattan streets. She needs the sunshine and the health food restaurants, plus the therapy sessions, to properly break through her “issues.” Alvy Singer, conversely, is a New Yawker through and through. As Annie tells him, he’s a “real Jew.” Or, well, the Manhattan stereotyped ...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at May 18 3:17

"Another important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women." The world is ostensibly divided into two categories - those who adore Woody Allen films and those who abhor the works of Woody Allen. As I have viewed very few of Woody's movies I cannot be consigned into any of these categories. Nevertheless your enjoyment of each Woody Allen film is determined by your perspective on the guy's approach to filmmaking. Annie Hall was recognised by the Academy Awards whe...Read more

Rating : 8/10