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I have a confession to form. Until now, I’ve never seen a Woody Allen movie.Buy,Download, Or Stream Annie Hall! Click Here Boy, I positive was a “miss out”.
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Annie Hall, made in 1977, is a classic. Why, oh why, did I wait so long?
First of all it’s a legend, and a very laughable epic at that, about a Fresh York Jewish comedian, played by Woody Allen and his WASP girlfriend, played by Diane Keaton. It pokes fun at many social mores that we lift for granted and I found myself laughing throughout. There’s the Original Yorker who never learns to drive, the mid-westerner who orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise (which seems almost grotesque to a Unusual Yorker like me), the pretentious movie critic, the neuroses of current romances, and the differences between the Recent York and Los Angeles intention of life.
The film runs along at such a hasty move that there is almost no time at all between droll moments. And, to do it even better, there are some astounding film techniques. For example, while Diane Keaton and Woody Allen are talking about photography, there are subtitles on the conceal about the physical relationship that they are really thinking about.
If the film were made today the phone calls would have been made on cell phones. But surprisingly, that is the only detail that might be changed. Annie Hall has really truly stood the test of time. And I loved it.
`Annie Hall’, directed by Woody Allen and written by Allen and Marshall Brickman is eminently rewatchable, which is the one quality that makes it an well-behaved DVD buy. I have seen this movie at least a half dozen times, and I am smooth discovering bewitching things in the film. What makes this so strange to me is that the first time I saw it, after having seen `Manhattan’, I really did not believe it was as valid as the later film.
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My initially vulgar belief of the movie was primarily due to the numerous cinematic gimmicks harking abet to his earlier, plainly less thoughtful movies. These include flashbacks to dopey teachers and classmates, almost as a parody of Jean Shepherd; subtitles showing what the characters are really thinking of one another during a conversation; a cartoon segment where Allen and the Tony Roberts character appear with the heinous witch from Snow White; speeches to the audience; and the most celebrated, a surprise appearance by Marshall McCluhan in a movie theatre lobby to refute a college instructor pontificating about McCluhan’s ideas.
The single most notorious scene from the movie is the encounter between Allen’s character, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, played brilliantly by Diane Keaton, after their tennis match with Annie dressed in her classic layered view with vest, men’s tie, and balloonish trousers. The mountainous sound bite from this encounter is the Annie Hall exclamation `La Di Dah, La Di Dah, Dah Dah…’ and Singer’s reaction wondering how he could be enthusiastic in anyone making such comic exclamations. From this one scene came a whole leisurely 1970’s fashion trend, the `Annie Hall’ seek of layered, mannish clothes. This scene also sets the stage for my latest insight into the movie, which is the progression of Annie, with a lot of befriend from Alvy, from an unserious girl with a decent singing screech to a serious woman with a few excellent ideas and a connection to a serious Hollywood music personality, played convincingly by Paul Simon with an watch to having her performances commercially recorded.
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While so worthy can be said of the loves, frustrations, and disappointments of Alvy Singer, the movie is, after all, named `Annie Hall’, not `Alvy Singer’. Not to say that this incarnation of the Woody Allen fictional persona is not central to the myth. In the epic of Alvy Singer that frames our encounter with Annie, there are encounters with two early marriages to characters played by Carol Kane and Janet Margolin, plus less than bewitching romantic encounters with Shelley Duvall. The Allen talent for pulling in major actors and future major actors for brief appearances is in fat bloom. There are kindly runt parts for Colleen Dewhurst and Christopher Walken. There are even smaller parts for surprise appearances by Jeff Goldblum, Sigourney Weaver, and Beverly De’Angelis. Unbiased as Allen is playing his usual, highly autobiographical character, male costar Tony Roberts plays the typically untroubled successful male who is constantly on the execute for something or other, whether it be a business deal of a romantic laision. (It objective occurred to me that it is logical that Roberts did not play the male costar in `Manhattan’, as the Michael Murphy character simply did not fit the typical Tony Roberts character as it appears in `Play It Again, Sam’, `A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy’, and `Annie Hall’.
While I have not reviewed all of Allen’s later movies, I will venture the idea that not only is `Annie Hall’ better than all the films which precede it, it is as superb or better than his best later movies (such as `Hannah and Her Sisters’, `Crimes and Misdemeanors’, and `Husbands and Wives’), if only because it is so effective a mix of both character inspect and humor. Some of Allen’s jokes from this movie are some of his best known. In fact, I come by the same sense watching this movie as I do when I contemplate `Hamlet’. So many lines sound like clichés because they have been so widely quoted.
There are a lot of things which could be said about this movie which are really about themes which accelerate through almost all of Allen’s films such as doting on sexuality, phony intellectuality, fancy of Manhattan, and death. One clever riff on death is when Annie is though-provoking into Alvy’s apartment, Alvy discovers a book of Sylvia Plath’s poems, which contradicts Hall’s later statement when she is absorbing out that all the books about death were given to her by Singer. (Plath was a famously depressive poet who committed suicide in mid-career) .
Allen’s movie DVDs are uniformly free of adore extras such as commentary tracks and `Making of’ documentaries, and this is no exception. At the risk of repeating myself, I will say that the singular attraction of Allen’s body of work in general and `Annie Hall’ in particular is its rewatchability. As unrealistic as the many cinematic gimmicks are, the characters are intensely valid. They are people with which we can sincerely associate. Try that with your usual Ben Stiller character.
Highly recommended classic among both Allen movies and all movies in general.
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