Annie Hall
Despite its status in many circles as writer/director/star Woody Allen's comedic masterpiece, Annie Hall nonetheless will remain to many the film that "stole" the Best ...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
"Annie Hall" perfects a sort of humor that can best be described as psychoanalytic slapstick. It has a Geiger-counter ear for urban clichés&#x...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
Annie Hall is by far the most brilliant Woody Allen movie to date…. For the first time in his career Woody Allen has acknowledged his own power and eminence as ...
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Critical Essay by M. J. Sobran, Jr.
He who despises himself, Nietzsche says somewhere, nonetheless esteems the despiser within himself. Woody's soliloquies (and Annie Hall teems with them) add...
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Critical Essay by Harry M. Geduld
[Woody Allen in Annie Hall] is—delightfully—in top form exposing the cultural stereotypes and clichés, the pretensions, fatuities, and hangups, ...
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Critical Essay by Geoff Brown
In some ways, Annie Hall … is Woody Allen's first film;… his technical and narrative assurance has reached a new level, and there has never before b...
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The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of ...
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The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6...
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A flop 6 years in the making, Rush Hour 3 was almost beaten out at the New York City box office this weekend by Bourne Ultimatum riding high on fantastic word of mouth.
The rest of the country, how...
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Victor RabinowitzNEW YORK (AP) — Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kat...
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The actor has lived in the apartment for almost 30 years, moving in back when it was rent-controlled. “I was lucky,” he said. “I had to grease somebody’s palm. I was in They...
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Forget the end of Labor Day weekend, Fashion Week, or the return of corduroy, tweed, and the TV network’s fall schedule: When the bright lights are festooned across the outdoor patio at Taver...
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For a man who does not watch many movies, Ravi Godse certainly enjoys making them.Watching a rough cut of his second independent film at his suburban home, Godse took notes and spoke enthusiastical...
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For a studio with a hallowed past, the star power of Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner at the helm, and a $500 million bankroll, United Artists seemed supercharged for a comeback.But th...
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Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right.
“We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the bl...
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Annie Hall
Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
