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Release Date:
20 April 1977 (USA)
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Tagline:
A nervous romance.
Plot:
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 24 wins
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7 nominations
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(37 articles)
Roberts Recovering After Stage Collapse
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Actor Roberts Hospitalised
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Top 15 Performances in a Woody Allen Film
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Actor Roberts Hospitalised
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Top 15 Performances in a Woody Allen Film
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Woody Allen | ... | Alvy Singer | |
| Diane Keaton | ... | Annie Hall | |
| Tony Roberts | ... | Rob | |
| Carol Kane | ... | Allison | |
| Paul Simon | ... | Tony Lacey | |
| Shelley Duvall | ... | Pam | |
| Janet Margolin | ... | Robin | |
| Colleen Dewhurst | ... | Mrs. Hall | |
| Christopher Walken | ... | Duane Hall (as Christopher Wlaken) | |
| Donald Symington | ... | Mr. Hall | |
| Helen Ludlam | ... | Grammy Hall | |
| Mordecai Lawner | ... | Mr. Singer | |
| Joan Neuman | ... | Mrs. Singer (as Joan Newman) | |
| Jonathan Munk | ... | Alvy Singer - Age 9 | |
| Ruth Volner | ... | Alvy's Aunt |
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93 min
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Brazil:14 | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:S | France:U | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Norway:16 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:15 (re-rating) (2001) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:6
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Annie's outfits, which caused a brief fashion rage, were Diane Keaton's own clothes.See more »
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Continuity: After Alvy and Annie breakup, she calls him while he's in bed with Pam (Shelley Duvall). Annie later tells Alvy that she thought she heard a voice in the background but during the phone call Pam doesn't utter a sound.See more »
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Alvy Singer:[addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The...
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Alvy Singer:[addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The...
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Referenced in The Wayward Cloud (2005)See more »
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A Hard Way To GoSee more »
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Woody is an intelligent man who worries about the issues of film-making. The primary concern, the very first problem, is always to decide what the relationships are among the audience, the camera, the narrator if any, and the characters.
Woody was on his way to making a murder mystery, which is the purest form of messing about with these relationships. In a much studied decision, they decided to cut out all the mystery and just focus on the context. In this case, that context is a richly layered evocation of a relationship. I really wish I could see the original film to discover the mysteries Woody intended to hide in the folds.
And the folds are as numerous and complex as they can get. We have a framing device where Woody speaks to us partly as a conversation which blends into a standup, which is mirrored as a part of the story. We have timeshifting where we move back and forth in time in a simple 'Tarantino' way; but we go way past: characters from the 'present' enter the past as Dickensian ghosts, then they talk to characters in the past. we have characters in different pasts talking to each other via split screen. We have a layering of Woody and Diane's relationship in real life, then the film, then TWO films within: a play which is part of the action and a cartoon which is the action itself.
More: we have Woody talking to the audience as if we were shifted into the play -- early in that play we are introduced to Bergman and Fellini: in both cases while they are waiting outside. These are the two inventors of folded narrative. Even more: while some bozo perfessor spouts off about Fellini and McLuhan, Woody enlists the audience to challenge him and drags out McLuhan himself! The joke of course is that McLuhan himself was a vapid weaver of lowbrow theories.
And more and more with the constant weaving of 'analysis' and other film-like activities: singers, photographers, TeeVee stars, models...
This period was when he was first exposed to Wallace Shawn who was hanging out with Terrence Malick, two other innovators in narrative folding. All the 'New Yorker' stuff means more when you know Shawn's father was the long-time editor of that publication and defined the self-absorbed reflection that characterizes the city and this film.
Keaton's manner was essential to pulling this off, someone who could pull off the story about her uncle dying while waiting for a Turkey. Watch her.. she is clued in to simultaneously being in herself (Keaton), herself (Hall), inside the story she is telling and inside the story Woody is telling. She shifts and guffaws just as if she were stoned and moving among realities, just as her character.
Just amazing and intelligent. Will we ever see this the way it was written and shot? Or is that mystery too intelligent for us, who prefer to think of this as a funny, endearing love story.