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 Picture Oscar away from the (retrospectively) far more...

Annie Hall is an Academy Award-winning, 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. It is one of Allen's most popular films: it won numerous awards at the time of its release, and in 2002 Roger...

BOB IVRY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-15-1997 THE OTHER SIDE OF ANNIE HALL -- HAZELLE GOODMAN TAKES ON WOODY ALLEN'S FIRST BLACK -- AND NEUROSIS-FREE -- LEAD ROLE By BOB IVRY, Staff Writer Date: 12-15-1997, Monday Section: YOUR TIME Edition:...

Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer Woody Allen's finest achievements as a screenwriter and director, they were a huge leap beyond the funny but facile nonsense of "Sleeper" or "Love and Death," and a far cry from his creative constipation in recent years....

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 Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...

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. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...

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 been so much concentration on the comic's own personality, outlook and phobias…. Allen's concerns and comic apparatus have been drastically simplified. The elaborate parody mechanisms of Sleeper and Love and Death are here abandoned…. The setting in Annie Hall is largely Manhattan, its apartments, sidewalks, booksh...

He who despises himself, Nietzsche says somewhere, nonetheless esteems the despiser within himself. Woody's soliloquies (and Annie Hall teems with them) address that despiser, trying to charm, appease, and outflank him. He treats the audience the same way, as if to anticipate its presumptive contempt for him. Why does he expect contempt? Because, apparently, he is a man of humble origins…. Sometimes he kids his anxiety by making Alvy paranoiacally touchy about antisemitism, and sometimes he in...

[Woody Allen in Annie Hall] is—delightfully—in top form exposing the cultural stereotypes and clichés, the pretensions, fatuities, and hangups, and above all the jargon, of urban American pseudo-intellectuals…. His Alvin Singer brilliantly expresses the absurdity of a contemporary Everyman trying to enact the role of l'homme moyen sensuel in the form of an inadequate, self-deprecatory paranoid runt. ("I'm the only guy I know who suffers from penisenvy."...