Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
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Christopher Walken
- Duane Hallas Duane Hall
- (as Christopher Wlaken)
Joan Neuman
- Alvy's Momas Alvy's Mom
- (as Joan Newman)
Hy Anzell
- Joey Nicholsas Joey Nichols
- (as Hy Ansel)
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents. —Huggo
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Woody Allen begins to grow up one of his best
A young comedian (Alvy Singer) has just lost his girlfriend, Annie and can't work out what happened. He goes back through his past in one long flashback to try and work out why and where it all went wrong.
Woody Allen's career started out making films that were slapstick mixed with surreal humour. He later moved to making more witty films that sought greater characterisation. The missing link in this was Annie Hall - a film that effortlessly mixes the two. The story is essentially a romance, but it spans back to Singers' childhood to weave a background for him.
The way Allen links all the flashbacks is very clever - most have a link in terms of dialogue etc so that the narrative isn't so iffy. The various tricks he uses are very imaginative as well - people's thoughts are shown in subtitles, Singer gets solves a cinema queue fight in a very novel way and at one point, to demonstrate how he makes the wrong choices in love, the film turns to a Snow White cartoon.
Allen is great in the character he has played so many times. His writing is excellent - clever mix of wit and surreal humour and his direction is faultless. Keaton is excellent and very familiar with working with Allen. The support cast is excellent and is full of cameos (from famous faces and faces that later became famous) including Paul Simon, Shelley Duval, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, Beverly D'Angelo and Jeff Goldblum (`I've forgotten my mantra').
Allen's best ever mix of his standup humour and his more adult character pieces.
Woody Allen's career started out making films that were slapstick mixed with surreal humour. He later moved to making more witty films that sought greater characterisation. The missing link in this was Annie Hall - a film that effortlessly mixes the two. The story is essentially a romance, but it spans back to Singers' childhood to weave a background for him.
The way Allen links all the flashbacks is very clever - most have a link in terms of dialogue etc so that the narrative isn't so iffy. The various tricks he uses are very imaginative as well - people's thoughts are shown in subtitles, Singer gets solves a cinema queue fight in a very novel way and at one point, to demonstrate how he makes the wrong choices in love, the film turns to a Snow White cartoon.
Allen is great in the character he has played so many times. His writing is excellent - clever mix of wit and surreal humour and his direction is faultless. Keaton is excellent and very familiar with working with Allen. The support cast is excellent and is full of cameos (from famous faces and faces that later became famous) including Paul Simon, Shelley Duval, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, Beverly D'Angelo and Jeff Goldblum (`I've forgotten my mantra').
Allen's best ever mix of his standup humour and his more adult character pieces.
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- bob the moo
- Jan 30, 2002
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