History Film / AnnieHall

''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marshall Brickman. The cast includes Allen, Creator/DianeKeaton, Tony Roberts, Creator/CarolKane, Music/PaulSimon, Janet Margolin, Creator/ShelleyDuvall, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and Colleen Dewhurst.

* CrappyHolidays: The Jewish Alvy endures an awkward Easter with Annie's WASP family and a sickness-inducing Christmas in Los Angeles.

* WaxingLyrical: While rhapsodizing to Alvy about a Music/BobDylan concert she attended, Pam recites the chorus from "[[Music/BlondeOnBlonde Just Like a Woman]]".

* SliceOfLife: It is a somewhat autobiographical slice of Alvy's life

** The animated Woody is the AuthorAvatar of Woody Allen's comic strip that was published in newspapers at the time.

* WhiteGuilt: Alvy's parent's argument over firing the cleaning lady. Alvy's mother said she was stealing from them. Alvy's father said they should give her a break because she's "a colored woman from Harlem", and "The colored have enough trouble already", and "She's got a RIGHT to steal from us!"

--> '''Alvy (voice-over):''' And Ivan Ackerman. Always the wrong answer. Always.

-->'''Young Alvy:''' ''(FacePalm)''

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->''"There's an old joke. Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort. One says, 'The food at this place is really terrible.' The other says, 'I know, and such small portions.' That's essentially how I feel about life: full of loneliness, misery, suffering and unhappiness...and it's all over much too quickly."''

--> '''Separate therapists''': Do you have sex often?
--> '''Alvy''': Hardly ever. Maybe three times a week.
--> '''Annie''': Constantly. I'd say three times a week.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: With a sledgehammer for 90 minutes.

--->'''Alvy:''' I can't go into a movie that's already started, because I'm anal.
--->'''Annie:''' That's a ''polite'' word for what you are.

* SilentCredits

-->'''Pam:''' Sex with you really is a [[Creator/FranzKafka Kafkaesque]] experience, isn't it.
-->'''Alvy:''' ''(nonplussed)'' Oh. Thank you.
-->'''Pam:''' I meant that as a compliment.

* FacePalm: Alvy does this in a flashback to his childhood:

* PensieveFlashback
* PowderGag: The coke-sniffing scene.

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Played with. Winner of the Truman Capote look-a-like contest is... Truman Capote.

** To Alvy, UsefulNotes/NewYork is everything Los Angeles isn't. It's crowded, energy-filled, and full of culture… and garbage. In a word, it represents home or it's Alvy's safety blanket. It symbolizes Alvy himself. When he leaves, he gets physically sick. He can't survive without its hustle, bustle, and intellectual ambiance. And he definitely can't imagine why Annie would ever want to stray from it. She's ready for a change of location… and a change of partner. After all, Annie is well aware of the realities of both Alvy and The Big Apple—and she thinks that they're both ultimately toxic. Whether he's magically summoning Marshall [=McLuhan=] or getting relationship advice from random passersby on the street, Alvy uses New York as the playground for his fantasies, which suggests just how comfortable he is there.

The story centers on comedian Alvy Singer (Allen), who's trying to understand the end of his relationship with nightclub singer Annie Hall (Keaton).

* VoxPops: Alvy discusses his relationship with Annie to various random people on the street - including a ''horse''.

* WaxingLyrical: While rhapsodizing to Alvy about a Music/BobDylan concert she attended, Pam recites the chorus from "Just Like a Woman".

* SelfPlagiarism: The standup routine Alvy performs at the college is taken from his days of when he used to be a standup comedian. Also, when Alvy is describing himself becoming a comedian, we see an excerpt of Woody Allen's appearing on the Dick Cavett show, doing a bit from one of his standup routines (which is also an example of CelebrityParadox, even though Alvy is basically based on Allen).

** To Alvy, UsefulNotes/NewYork is everything Los Angeles isn't. It's crowded, energy-filled, and full of culture… and garbage. In a word, it represents home or it's Alvy's safety blanket. It symbolizes Alvy himself. When he leaves, he gets physically sick. He can't survive without its hustle, bustle, and intellectual ambiance. And he definitely can't imagine why Annie would ever want to stray from it. She's ready for a change of location… and a change of partner. After all, Annie is well aware of the realities of both Alvy and The Big Apple—and she thinks that they're both ultimately toxic. Whether he's magically summoning Marshall McLuhan or getting relationship advice from random passersby on the street, Alvy uses New York as the playground for his fantasies, which suggests just how comfortable he is there.

* TakeThat: Alvy is aghast at the practice of TV laugh tracks, calling it "immoral" and saying it means the show isn't funny enough for a StudioAudience.
-->'''Alvy:''' Are there boos on that [the laugh track playback]?

* InJoke: At one point, Alvy gets a bit miffed over Annie having an issue of ''National Review''. Ten years before the movie came out, Woody Allen had William F. Buckley on his show, and they got along quite well.

** Additionally, when they're in the park making comments about passersby, the man they dub "[[YourCostumeNeedsWork winner of the Truman Capote lookalike contest]]" actually was Truman Capote.

Allen, who had previously been known as maker of zany comedies, has described this film as "a major turning point" in bringing a new level of seriousness to his work, in addition to consolidating his signature cinematic style, which includes long, realistically written scenes of conversation--often captured using uninterrupted takes--and an equal thematic investment in both hilarity and heartbreak. It was followed the next year by his first completely serious melodrama, ''Interiors''.

''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by and starring Creator/WoodyAllen, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marshall Brickman. The supporting cast includes Creator/DianeKeaton, Tony Roberts, Creator/CarolKane, Music/PaulSimon, Janet Margolin, Creator/ShelleyDuvall, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and Colleen Dewhurst.

''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by and starring Creator/WoodyAllen, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marshall Brickman. The story centers on comedian Alvy Singer (Allen), who's trying to understand the end of his relationship with nightclub singer Annie Hall (Creator/DianeKeaton).

Allen, who had previously been known as maker of zany comedies, has described this film as "a major turning point", bringing a new level of seriousness to his work, in addition to consolidating his signature cinematic style, which includes long, realistically written scenes of conversation--frequently captured in uninterrupted takes--and an equal thematic investment in both hilarity and heartbreak. It was followed the next year by his first completely serious melodrama, ''Interiors''.

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''Annie Hall'' (1977) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. It centers on comedian Alvy Singer (Allen), who is trying to understand the end of his relationship with nightclub singer Annie Hall (Creator/DianeKeaton).

Allen had previously been known as a maker of zany comedies; the director has described ''Annie Hall'' as "a major turning point", as it brought a new level of seriousness to his work, in addition to consolidating his signature cinematic style, which includes long, realistically written scenes of conversation, often shot in uninterrupted takes, and an equal thematic investment in both hilarity and heartbreak. It was followed the next year by his first completely serious melodrama, ''Interiors''.