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Annie Hall
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Directed by Woody Allen
Written by
  • Woody Allen
  • Marshall Brickman
Produced by
  • Charles H. Joffe
  • Jack Rollins (uncredited)
Starring
  • Woody Allen
  • Diane Keaton
  • Tony Roberts
  • Carol Kane
  • Paul Simon
  • Janet Margolin
  • Shelley Duvall
  • Christopher Walken
  • Colleen Dewhurst
Cinematography Gordon Willis
Edited by
  • Ralph Rosenblum
  • Wendy Greene Bricmont
Music by See soundtrack

Production
company

A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production

Distributed by United Artists

Release dates

  • March 27, 1977 (Los Angeles Film Festival)
  • April 20, 1977 (United States)

Running time

93 minutes
Country United States
Languages English
German
Budget $4 million
Box office $44 million (US/UK)

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by him and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen’s manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

Principal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island, and continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which marked his first collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis, as «a major turning point»,[1] in that unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, it introduced a new level of seriousness. Academics have noted the contrast in the settings of New York City and Los Angeles, the stereotype of gender differences in sexuality, the presentation of Jewish identity, and the elements of psychoanalysis and modernism.

Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977, before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977. The film was highly praised, was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton. The film additionally won four BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe, the latter being awarded to Keaton. The film’s box office receipts in the United States and Canada of $38,251,425 are fourth-best of Allen’s works when not adjusted for inflation.

Ranking among the best films ever made, it ranks 31st on AFI’s List of the greatest films in American cinema, 4th on their list of greatest comedy films and 28th on Bravo’s «100 Funniest Movies». Film critic Roger Ebert called it «just about everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie».[2] The film’s screenplay was also named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the «101 Funniest Screenplays».[3] In 1992, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being «culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.»[4]

Plot[edit]

Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity, suddenly kissing a classmate at six years old and not understanding why she was not keen to reciprocate.

Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; Alvy imagines McLuhan himself stepping in at his invitation to criticize the man’s comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whose ardor gave him no pleasure. His second marriage was to a New York writer who did not like sports and was unable to reach orgasm.

With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun cooking a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. They had met playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk leads her to offer him a ride uptown, and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in «mental subtitles» as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie’s singing audition for a night club («It Had to be You»). After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is «a wreck», while Annie relaxes with a joint.

Soon, Annie admits she loves Alvy, while he buys her books on death and says that his feelings for her are more than just love. When Annie moves in with him, things become very tense. Eventually, Alvy finds her arm-in-arm with one of her college professors, and the two begin to argue about whether this is the «flexibility» they had discussed. They eventually break up, and he searches for the truth of relationships, asking strangers on the street about the nature of love, questioning his formative years, and imagining a cartoon version of himself arguing with a cartoon Annie portrayed as the Evil Queen in Snow White.

Alvy attempts a return to dating, but the effort is marred by neurosis and an episode of bad sex that is interrupted when Annie calls in the middle of the night, insisting that he come over immediately to kill two spiders in her bathroom. A reconciliation follows, coupled with a vow to stay together, come what may. However, their separate discussions with their therapists make it evident there is an unspoken and unbridgeable divide. When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they travel to Los Angeles with Alvy’s friend Rob. However, on the return trip, they agree that their relationship is not working. After losing Annie to her record producer Tony Lacey, Alvy unsuccessfully tries rekindling the flame with a marriage proposal. Back in New York, he stages a play of their relationship, but he changes the ending: now she accepts.

The last meeting between Annie and Alvy is a wistful coda on Manhattan’s Upper West Side after they have both moved on to someone new. Alvy’s voice returns with a summation: love is essential, especially if it is neurotic. Annie sings «Seems Like Old Times», and the credits roll.

Cast[edit]

Truman Capote, pictured here in 1959, had a cameo role in the film.

  • Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
  • Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
  • Tony Roberts as Rob
  • Carol Kane as Allison Portchnik
  • Paul Simon as Tony Lacey
  • Janet Margolin as Robin
  • Shelley Duvall as Pam
  • Christopher Walken[a] as Duane Hall
  • Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall
  • Donald Symington as Mr. Hall
  • Joan Newman as Mrs. Singer
  • Marshall McLuhan as Himself
  • Mordecai Lawner as Alvy’s father

Truman Capote has a cameo. Alvy is making quips about people walking by. He says «There’s the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest» as Truman Capote walks through the frame.[6] Several actors who later gained a higher profile had small parts in the movie: John Glover as Annie’s actor boyfriend, Jerry; Jeff Goldblum as a man who «forgot [his] mantra» at Tony Lacey’s Christmas party; Beverly D’Angelo as an actress in Rob’s TV show; and Sigourney Weaver, in her film debut, in the closing sequence as Alvy’s date at the movie theater. Laurie Bird also appears, two years before her suicide.

Style and technique[edit]

Technically, the film marked an advance for the director. He selected Gordon Willis as his cinematographer—for Allen «a very important teacher» and a «technical wizard,» saying, «I really count Annie Hall as the first step toward maturity in some way in making films.»[7] At the time, it was considered an «odd pairing» by many, Keaton among them. The director was known for his comedies and farces, while Willis was known as «the prince of darkness» for work on dramatic films like The Godfather.[8] Despite this, the two became friends during filming and continued the collaboration on several later films, including Zelig, which earned Willis his first Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.[8]

Willis described the production for the film as «relatively easy.»[8] He shot in varying styles; «hot golden light for California, grey overcast for Manhattan and a forties Hollywood glossy for … dream sequences,» most of which were cut.[9] It was his suggestion which led Allen to film the dual therapy scenes in one set divided by a wall instead of the usual split screen method.[8] He tried long takes, with some shots, unabridged, lasting an entire scene, which, for Ebert, add to the dramatic power of the film: «Few viewers probably notice how much of Annie Hall consists of people talking, simply talking. They walk and talk, sit and talk, go to shrinks, go to lunch, make love and talk, talk to the camera, or launch into inspired monologues like Annie’s free-association as she describes her family to Alvy. This speech by Diane Keaton is as close to perfect as such a speech can likely be … all done in one take of brilliant brinksmanship.» He cites a study that calculated the average shot length of Annie Hall to be 14.5 seconds, while other films made in 1977 had an average shot length of 4–7 seconds.[2] Peter Cowie suggests that «Allen breaks up his extended shots with more orthodox cutting back and forth in conversation pieces so that the forward momentum of the film is sustained.»[10] Bernd Herzogenrath notes the innovation in the use of the split-screen during the dinner scene to powerfully exaggerate the contrast between the Jewish and the gentile family.[11]

Although the film is not essentially experimental, at several points it undermines the narrative reality.[12] James Bernardoni notes Allen’s way of opening the film by facing the camera, which immediately intrudes upon audience involvement in the film.[13] In one scene, Allen’s character, in line to see a movie with Annie, listens to a man behind him deliver misinformed pontifications on the significance of Fellini’s and Marshall McLuhan’s work. Allen pulls McLuhan himself from just off-camera to correct the man’s errors personally.[2] Later in the film, when we see Annie and Alvy in their first extended talk, «mental subtitles» convey to the audience the characters’ nervous inner doubts.[2] An animated scene—with artwork based on the comic strip Inside Woody Allen—depicts Alvy and Annie in the guise of the Wicked Queen from Snow White.[2] Although Allen uses each of these techniques only once, the «fourth wall» is broken several other times when characters address the camera directly. In one, Alvy stops several passers-by to ask questions about love, and in another, he shrugs off writing a happy ending to his relationship with Annie in his autobiographical first play as forgivable «wish-fulfillment.» Allen chose to have Alvy break the fourth wall, he explained, «because I felt many of the people in the audience had the same feelings and the same problems. I wanted to talk to them directly and confront them.»[7]

Production[edit]

Writing[edit]

The idea for what would become Annie Hall was developed as Allen walked around New York City with co-writer Marshall Brickman. The pair discussed the project frequently, sometimes becoming frustrated and rejecting the idea. Allen wrote a first draft of a screenplay within a four-day period, sending it to Brickman to make alterations. According to Brickman, this draft centered on a man in his forties, someone whose life consisted «of several strands.» One was a relationship with a young woman, another was a concern with the banality of the life that we all live, and a third an obsession with proving himself and testing himself to find out what kind of character he had. Allen himself turned forty in 1975, and Brickman suggests that «advancing age» and «worries about death» had influenced Allen’s philosophical, personal approach to complement his «commercial side».[14][15] Allen made the conscious decision to «sacrifice some of the laughs for a story about human beings».[8] He recognized that for the first time he had the courage to abandon the safety of complete broad comedy and had the will to produce a film of deeper meaning which would be a nourishing experience for the audience.[1] He was also influenced by Federico Fellini’s comedy drama (1963), created at a similar personal turning point, and similarly colored by each director’s psychoanalysis.[15]

Brickman and Allen sent the screenplay back and forth until they were ready to ask United Artists for $4 million.[15] Many elements from the early drafts did not survive. It was originally a drama centered on a murder mystery with a comic and romantic subplot.[16] According to Allen, the murder occurred after a scene that remains in the film, the sequence in which Annie and Alvy miss the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face (1976).[17] Although they decided to drop the murder plot, Allen and Brickman made a murder mystery many years later: Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), also starring Diane Keaton.[18] The draft that Allen presented to the film’s editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, «ending to be shot.»[19]

Allen suggested Anhedonia, a term for the inability to experience pleasure, as a working title,[20][21] and Brickman suggested alternatives including It Had to Be Jew, Rollercoaster Named Desire and Me and My Goy.[22] An advertising agency, hired by United Artists, embraced Allen’s choice of an obscure word by suggesting the studio take out newspaper advertisements that looked like fake tabloid headlines such as «Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland!».[22] However, Allen experimented with several titles over five test screenings, including Anxiety and Annie and Alvy, before settling on Annie Hall.[22]

Casting[edit]

Several references in the film to Allen’s own life have invited speculation that it is autobiographical. Both Alvy and Allen were comedians. His birthday appears on the blackboard in a school scene, and «Alvy» was one of Allen’s childhood nicknames;[23] certain features of his childhood are found in Alvy Singer’s;[24] Allen went to New York University and so did Alvy. Diane Keaton’s real surname is «Hall» and «Annie» was her nickname, and she and Allen were once romantically involved.[25] However, Allen is quick to dispel these suggestions. «The stuff that people insist is autobiographical is almost invariably not,» Allen said. «It’s so exaggerated that it’s virtually meaningless to the people upon whom these little nuances are based. People got it into their heads that Annie Hall was autobiographical, and I couldn’t convince them it wasn’t».[26] Contrary to various interviewers and commentators, he says, Alvy is not the character that is closest to himself; he identified more with the mother (Eve, played by Geraldine Page) in his next film, Interiors.[27] Despite this, Keaton has stated that the relationship between Alvy and Annie was partly based on her relationship with the director.[28]

The role of Annie Hall was written specifically for Keaton, who had worked with Allen on Play It Again, Sam (1972), Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975).[28] She considered the character an «affable version» of herself—both were «semi-articulate, dreamed of being a singer and suffered from insecurity»—and was surprised to win an Oscar for her performance.[28] The film also marks the second film collaboration between Allen and Tony Roberts, their previous project being Play It Again, Sam.[8]

Federico Fellini was Allen’s first choice to appear in the cinema lobby scene because his films were under discussion,[17] but Allen chose cultural academic Marshall McLuhan after both Fellini and Luis Buñuel declined the cameo.[29] Some cast members, biographer John Baxter claims, were aggrieved at Allen’s treatment of them. The director «acted coldly» towards McLuhan, who had to return from Canada for reshooting, and Mordecai Lawner, who played Alvy’s father, claimed that Allen never spoke to him.[29] However, during the production, Allen began a two-year relationship with Stacey Nelkin, who appears in a single scene.[29]

Filming, editing and music[edit]

Principal photography began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island with the scene in which Alvy and Annie boil live lobsters; filming continued periodically for the next ten months,[30] and deviated frequently from the screenplay. There was nothing written about Alvy’s childhood home lying under a roller coaster, but when Allen was scouting locations in Brooklyn with Willis and art director Mel Bourne, he «saw this roller-coaster, and … saw the house under it. And I thought, we have to use this.»[24] Similarly, there is the incident where Alvy scatters a trove of cocaine with an accidental sneeze: although not in the script, the joke emerged from a rehearsal happenstance and stayed in the movie. In audience testing, this laugh was so sustained that a much longer pause had to be added so that the following dialogue was not lost.[31]

Editor Ralph Rosenblum’s first assembly of the film in 1976 left Brickman disappointed. «I felt that the film was running off in nine different directions,» Brickman recalled.[32] «It was like a first draft of a novel… from which two or three films could possibly be assembled.»[33] Rosenblum characterized the first cut, at two hours and twenty minutes,[34] as «the surrealistic and abstract adventures of a neurotic Jewish comedian who was reliving his highly flawed life and in the process satirizing much of our culture… a visual monologue, a more sophisticated and more philosophical version of Take the Money and Run«.[34] Brickman found it «nondramatic and ultimately uninteresting, a kind of cerebral exercise.»[35] He suggested a more linear narrative.[36]

The present-tense relationship between Alvy and Annie was not the narrative focus of this first cut, but Allen and Rosenblum recognized it as the dramatic spine, and began reworking the film «in the direction of that relationship.»[37] Rosenblum recalled that Allen «had no hesitation about trimming away much of the first twenty minutes in order to establish Keaton more quickly.»[35] According to Allen, «I didn’t sit down with Marshall Brickman and say, ‘We’re going to write a picture about a relationship.’ I mean the whole concept of the picture changed as we were cutting it.»[36]

As the film was budgeted for two weeks of post-production photography,[19] late 1976 saw three separate shoots for the final segment, but only some of this material was used.[38] The narration that ends the film, featuring the joke about ‘we all need the eggs’, was conceived and recorded only two hours before a test screening.[38]

The credits call the film «A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production»; the two men were Allen’s managers and received this same credit on his films from 1969 to 1993. However, for this film, Joffe took producer credit and therefore received the Academy Award for Best Picture. The title sequence features a black background with white text in the Windsor Light Condensed typeface, a design that Allen would use on his subsequent films. Stig Björkman sees some similarity to Ingmar Bergman’s simple and consistent title design, although Allen says that his own choice is a cost-saving device.[39]

Very little background music is heard in the film, a departure for Allen influenced by Ingmar Bergman.[39] Diane Keaton performs twice in the jazz club: «It Had to be You» and «Seems Like Old Times» (the latter reprises in voiceover on the closing scene). The other exceptions include a boy’s choir «Christmas Medley» played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony (heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside), Tommy Dorsey’s performance of «Sleepy Lagoon»,[40] and the anodyne cover of the Savoy Brown song «A Hard Way to Go» playing at a party in the mansion of Paul Simon’s character.

Soundtrack[edit]

  • «Seems Like Old Times» (1945) — Music by Carmen Lombardo — Lyrics by John Jacob Loeb — Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
  • «It Had to Be You» (1924) — Music by Isham Jones — Lyrics by Gus Kahn — Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
  • «A Hard Way To Go» (1977) — Written and performed by Tim Weisberg
  • «Christmas Medley» (Traditional Christmas songs: «We Wish You a Merry Christmas» (uncredited), «O, Christmas Tree» (uncredited) and «God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen» (uncredited)) — Lyrics by Ernst Anschütz — Performed by the Do-Re-Mi Children’s Chorus
  • «Sleepy Lagoon» (1930) — Composed by Eric Coates — Performed by Tommy Dorsey
  • «Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Molto Allegro» (1788) (uncredited) — Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Release[edit]

Box office and release[edit]

Annie Hall was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977,[20] before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977.[41] The film ultimately earned $38,251,425 ($171 million in 2021 dollars) in the United States and Canada against a $4-million budget, making it the 11th highest-grossing picture of 1977.[41] On raw figures, it currently ranks as Allen’s fourth-highest-grossing film in the United States, after Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris; when adjusted for inflation, the gross figure makes it Allen’s biggest box office hit.[42] It played for over 100 consecutive weeks in London and grossed over $5.6 million in the United Kingdom.[43] It was first released on Blu-ray on January 24, 2012, alongside Allen’s film Manhattan (1979).[44] Both releases include the films’ original theatrical trailers.[44]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Diane Keaton received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her performance.

Annie Hall met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release, with major praise directed towards the film’s script and the performances of Allen and Keaton.

Tim Radford of The Guardian called the film «Allen’s most closely focused and daring film to date».[45] The New York Times’ Vincent Canby preferred Annie Hall to Allen’s second directorial effort, Take the Money and Run, since the former is more «humane» while the latter is more a «cartoon».[46] Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage (1973),[46][47][48] including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen’s «most three-dimensional film to date» with an ambition equal to Bergman’s best even as the co-stars become the «contemporary equivalent of … Tracy-Hepburn.»[47]

More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film «suffers from its profusion of cultural references and asides».[49] Writing for New York magazine, John Simon called the film «unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation,» and wrote that Keaton’s performance was «in bad taste to watch and indecency to display,» saying that the part should have been played by Robin Mary Paris, the actress who appears briefly in the scene where Alvy Singer has written a two-character play nakedly based on himself and Annie Hall. Simon’s review of Annie Hall «It is a film so shapeless, sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion. At this, it is successful.»[50]

The film has continued to receive positive reviews. In his 2002 lookback, Roger Ebert added it to his Great Movies list and commented with surprise that the film had «an instant familiarity» despite its age,[2] and Slant writer Jaime N. Christley found the one-liners «still gut-busting after 35 years».[48] A later Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that «this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making».[51] John Marriott of the Radio Times believed that Annie Hall was the film where Allen «found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection», referring to the «comic delight» derived from the «spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic».[52] Empire magazine rated the movie five out of five stars, calling it a «classic».[53] In 2017, Claire Dederer wrote, «Annie Hall is the greatest comic film of the twentieth century […] because it acknowledges the irrepressible nihilism that lurks at the center of all comedy.»[54]

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Annie Hall as one of his favorite films.[55][56]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 97% based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic.»[57] Metacritic gave the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 20 critical reviews, indicating «universal acclaim».[58]

Critical analysis[edit]

Love and sexuality[edit]

Sociologists Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz consider Alvy and Annie’s relationship to be a stereotype of gender differences in sexuality.[59] The nature of love is a repeating subject for Allen and co-star Tony Roberts described this film as «the story of everybody who falls in love, and then falls out of love and goes on.»[8] Alvy searches for love’s purpose through his effort to get over his depression about the demise of his relationship with Annie. Sometimes he sifts through his memories of the relationship, at another point he stops people on the sidewalk, with one woman saying that «It’s never something you do. That’s how people are. Love fades,» a suggestion that it was no one’s fault, they just grew apart and the end was inevitable. By the end of the film, Alvy accepts this and decides that love is ultimately «irrational and crazy and absurd», but a necessity of life.[60] Christopher Knight believes Alvy’s quest upon meeting Annie is carnal, whereas hers is on an emotional note.[61]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker notes the film’s «Eurocentric art-house self-awareness» and Alvy Singer’s «psychoanalytic obsession in baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions».[62]

Jewish identity[edit]

Singer is identified with the stereotypical neurotic Jewish male, and the differences between Alvy and Annie are often related to the perceptions and realities of Jewish identity. Vincent Brook notes that «Alvy dines with the WASP-y Hall family and imagines that they must see him as a Hasidic Jew, complete with payot (ear locks) and a large black hat.»[63] Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen highlight the scene in which Annie remarks that Annie’s grandmother «hates Jews. She thinks they just make money, but she’s the one. Is she ever, I’m telling you.», revealing the hypocrisy in her grandmother’s stereotypical American view of Jews by arguing that «no stigma attaches to the love of money in America».[64] Bernd Herzogenrath also considers Allen’s joke, «I would like to but we need the eggs», to the doctor at the end when he suggests putting him in a mental institution, to be a paradox of not only the persona of the urban neurotic Jew but also of the film itself.[11]

Woody Allen persona[edit]

Christopher Knight points out that Annie Hall is framed through Alvy’s experiences. «Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience’s interpretative favor.»[65] He suggests that because Allen’s films blur the protagonist with «past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself», it «makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director’s or the character’s framing of events».[66] Despite the narrative’s framing, «the joke is on Alvy.»[67] Emanuel Levy believes that Alvy Singer became synonymous with the public perception of Woody Allen in the United States.[68] Annie Hall is viewed as the definitive Woody Allen film in displaying neurotic humor.[69]

Location[edit]

Annie Hall «is as much a love song to New York City as it is to the character,»[70] reflecting Allen’s adoration of the island of Manhattan. It was a relationship he explored repeatedly, particularly in films like Manhattan (1979) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).[8] Annie Hall’s apartment, which still exists on East 70th Street between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue is by Allen’s own confession his favorite block in the city.[71] Peter Cowie argues that the film shows «a romanticized view» of the borough, with the camera «linger[ing] on the Upper East Side [… and where] the fear of crime does not trouble its characters.»[72] By contrast, California is presented less positively, and David Halle notes the obvious «invidious intellectual comparison» between New York City and Los Angeles.[73] While Manhattan’s movie theaters show classic and foreign films, Los Angeles theaters run less-prestigious fare such as The House of Exorcism and Messiah of Evil.[72] Rob’s demonstration of adding canned laughter to television demonstrates the «cynical artifice of the medium».[72] New York City serves as a symbol of Alvy’s personality («gloomy, claustrophobic, and socially cold, but also an intellectual haven full of nervous energy») while Los Angeles is a symbol of freedom for Annie.[70]

Psychoanalysis and modernism[edit]

Annie Hall has been cited as a film which uses both therapy and analysis for comic effect.[74] Sam B. Girgus considers Annie Hall to be a story about memory and retrospection, which «dramatizes a return via narrative desire to the repressed and the unconscious in a manner similar to psychoanalysis».[75] He argues that the film constitutes a self-conscious assertion of how narrative desire and humor interact in the film to reform ideas and perceptions and that Allen’s deployment of Freudian concepts and humor forms a «pattern of skepticism toward surface meaning that compels further interpretation». Girgus believes that proof of the pervasiveness of Sigmund Freud in the film is demonstrated at the beginning through a reference to a joke in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and makes another joke about a psychiatrist and patient, which Girgus argues is also symbolic of the dynamic between humor and the unconscious in the film.[75] Further Freudian concepts are later addressed in the film with Annie’s recall of a dream to her psychoanalyst in which Frank Sinatra is smothering her with a pillow, which alludes to Freud’s belief in dreams as «visual representations of words or ideas».[75]

Peter Bailey in his book The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen, argues that Alvy displays a «genial denigration of art» which contains a «significant equivocation», in that in his self-deprecation he invites the audience to believe that he is leveling with them.[76] Bailey argues that Allen’s devices in the film, including the subtitles which reveal Annie’s and Alvy’s thoughts «extend and reinforce Annie Halls winsome ethos of plain-dealing and ingenuousness».[76] He muses that the film is full of antimimetic emblems such as McLuhan’s magical appearance which provide quirky humor and that the «disparity between mental projections of reality and actuality» drives the film. His view is that self-reflective cinematic devices intelligently dramatize the difference between surface and substance, with visual emblems «incessantly distilling the distinction between the world mentally constructed and reality».[76]

In his discussion of the film’s relation to modernism, Thomas Schatz finds the film an unresolved «examination of the process of human interaction and interpersonal communication»[77] and «immediately establishes [a] self-referential stance» that invites the spectator «to read the narrative as something other than a sequential development toward some transcendent truth».[78] For him, Alvy «is the victim of a tendency toward overdetermination of meaning – or in modernist terms ‘the tyranny of the signified’ – and his involvement with Annie can be viewed as an attempt to establish a spontaneous, intellectually unencumbered relationship, an attempt which is doomed to failure.»[77]

Awards and accolades[edit]

Academy Awards
1. Best Picture, Charles H. Joffe
2. Best Director, Woody Allen
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role, Diane Keaton
4. Best Original Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Golden Globe Awards
1. Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Diane Keaton
BAFTA Awards
1. Best Film
2. Best Direction, Woody Allen
3. Best Actress, Diane Keaton
4. Best Editing, Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont
5. Best Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

Annie Hall won four Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards on April 3, 1978, and was nominated for five (the Big Five) in total. Producer Charles H. Joffe received the statue for Best Picture, Allen for Best Director and, with Brickman, for Best Original Screenplay, and Keaton for Best Actress. Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.[79] Many had expected Star Wars to win the major awards, including Brickman and Executive Producer Robert Greenhut.[8]

The film was also honored five times at the BAFTA awards. Along with the top award for Best Film and the award for Film Editing, Keaton won for Best Actress, Allen won for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay alongside Brickman.[80] The film received only one Golden Globe Award, for Best Film Actress in a Musical or Comedy (Diane Keaton), despite nominations for three other awards: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, and Best Film Actor in a Musical or Comedy (Woody Allen).

In 1992, the United States’ Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry that includes «culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant» films.[4] The film is often mentioned among the greatest comedies of all time. The American Film Institute lists it 31st in American cinema history.[81] In 2000, they named it second greatest romantic comedy in American cinema.[81] Keaton’s performance of «Seems Like Old Times» was ranked 90th on their list of greatest songs included in a film, and her line «La-dee-da, la-dee-da.» was named the 55th greatest movie quote.[81] The screenplay was named the sixth greatest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, West[82] while IGN named it the seventh greatest comedy film of all time.[83] In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-second greatest comedy film of all time, and the seventh greatest romantic comedy film of all time.[84] Several lists ranking Allen’s best films have put Annie Hall among his greatest work.[85][86][87]

In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community and Annie Hall was placed second in the romantic comedy genre.[88] AFI also ranked Annie Hall on multiple other lists. In November 2008, Annie Hall was voted in at No. 68 on Empire magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[89] It is also ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes’ 25 Best Romantic Comedies, second only to The Philadelphia Story.[90] In 2012, the film was listed as the 127th best film of all time by the Sight & Sound critics’ poll.[91] The film was also named the 132nd best film by the Sight & Sound directors’ poll.[91]
In October 2013, the film was voted by the Guardian readers as the second best film directed by Woody Allen.[92] In November 2015, the film was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of 101 Funniest Screenplays.[93]

American Film Institute recognition[edit]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 1998: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies – #31[94]
  • 2000: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs – #4[95]
  • 2002: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – #11[96]
  • 2004: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs:
    • «Seems Like Old Times» – #90[97]
  • 2005: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes:
    • Annie Hall: «La-dee-da, la-dee-da.» – #55[98]
    • Alvy Singer «I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.» – Nominated.
    • Alvy Singer «Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.» – Nominated.
  • 2007: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #35[99]
  • 2008: AFI’s 10 Top 10:
    • #2 Romantic Comedy Film[100]

1992 – National Film Registry.[101]

In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked Keaton in Annie Hall as 60th in its list of the «100 Greatest Performances of All Time», and noted:

It’s hard to play ditzy. … The genius of Annie is that despite her loopy backhand, awful driving, and nervous tics, she’s also a complicated, intelligent woman. Keaton brilliantly displays this dichotomy of her character, especially when she yammers away on a first date with Alvy (Woody Allen), while the subtitle reads, «He probably thinks I’m a yoyo.» Yo-yo? Hardly.[102]

Legacy and influence[edit]

Diane Keaton’s dress style as Annie Hall; an influence on the fashion world during the late 1970s

Although the film received critical acclaim and several awards, Allen himself was disappointed with it, and said in an interview, «When Annie Hall started out, that film was not supposed to be what I wound up with. The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy’s mind … Nobody understood anything that went on. The relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about. That was not what I cared about … In the end, I had to reduce the film to just me and Diane Keaton, and that relationship, so I was quite disappointed in that movie».[103] Allen has repeatedly declined to make a sequel,[104] and in a 1992 interview stated that «Sequelism has become an annoying thing. I don’t think Francis Coppola should have done Godfather III because Godfather II was quite great. When they make a sequel, it’s just a thirst for more money, so I don’t like that idea so much».[105]

Diane Keaton has stated that Annie Hall was her favorite role and that the film meant everything to her.[106] When asked if being most associated with the role concerned her as an actress, she replied, «I’m not haunted by Annie Hall. I’m happy to be Annie Hall. If somebody wants to see me that way, it’s fine by me». Costume designer Ruth Morley, working with Keaton, created a look which had an influence on the fashion world during the late-70s, with women adopting the style: layering oversized, mannish blazers over vests, billowy trousers or long skirts, a man’s tie, and boots.[107] The look was often referred to as the «Annie Hall look».[108] Some sources suggest that Keaton herself was mainly responsible for the look, and Ralph Lauren has often claimed credit, but only one jacket and one tie were purchased from Ralph Lauren for use in the film.[109] Allen recalled that Lauren and Keaton’s dress style almost did not end up in the film. «She came in,» he recalled in 1992, «and the costume lady on Annie Hall said, ‘Tell her not to wear that. She can’t wear that. It’s so crazy.’ And I said, ‘Leave her. She’s a genius. Let’s just leave her alone, let her wear what she wants.«[110]

The film’s script topped the Writers Guild of America’s list of 101 funniest screenplays ever, surpassing Some Like it Hot (1959), Groundhog Day (1993), Airplane! (1980), and Tootsie (1982).[111] James Bernardoni states that the film is «one of the very few romantic comedy dramas of the New Hollywood era and one that has rightly taken its place among the classics of that reverted genre», likening the seriocomic meditation on the couple relationship to George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.[13] Since its release, other romantic comedies have inspired comparison. When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Chasing Amy (1997), Burning Annie (2007), 500 Days of Summer (2009) and Allen’s 2003 film, Anything Else, are among them,[91][112][113][114][115] while film director Rian Johnson said in an interview for the book, The Film That Changed My Life, that Annie Hall inspired him to become a film director.[116] Karen Gillan stated that she watched Annie Hall as part of her research for her lead role in Not Another Happy Ending.[117] In 2018, Matt Starr and Ellie Sachs released a short film remake starring senior citizens.[118][119]

Note[edit]

  1. ^ Misspelled as «Christopher Wlaken» in the closing credits.[5]

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External links[edit]

  • Annie Hall at IMDb
  • Annie Hall at AllMovie
  • Annie Hall at the TCM Movie Database
  • Annie Hall at the American Film Institute Catalog
  • Annie Hall at Box Office Mojo
  • Annie Hall at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Annie Hall essay by Jay Carr at National Film Registry
  • Annie Hall essay by Daniel Eagan in America’s Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pp. 738–740
Annie Hall
Anniehallposter.jpg

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Woody Allen
Written by
  • Woody Allen
  • Marshall Brickman
Produced by
  • Charles H. Joffe
  • Jack Rollins (uncredited)
Starring
  • Woody Allen
  • Diane Keaton
  • Tony Roberts
  • Carol Kane
  • Paul Simon
  • Janet Margolin
  • Shelley Duvall
  • Christopher Walken
  • Colleen Dewhurst
Cinematography Gordon Willis
Edited by
  • Ralph Rosenblum
  • Wendy Greene Bricmont
Music by See soundtrack

Production
company

A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production

Distributed by United Artists

Release dates

  • March 27, 1977 (Los Angeles Film Festival)
  • April 20, 1977 (United States)

Running time

93 minutes
Country United States
Languages English
German
Budget $4 million
Box office $44 million (US/UK)

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by him and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen’s manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

Principal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island, and continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which marked his first collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis, as «a major turning point»,[1] in that unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, it introduced a new level of seriousness. Academics have noted the contrast in the settings of New York City and Los Angeles, the stereotype of gender differences in sexuality, the presentation of Jewish identity, and the elements of psychoanalysis and modernism.

Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977, before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977. The film was highly praised, was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton. The film additionally won four BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe, the latter being awarded to Keaton. The film’s box office receipts in the United States and Canada of $38,251,425 are fourth-best of Allen’s works when not adjusted for inflation.

Ranking among the best films ever made, it ranks 31st on AFI’s List of the greatest films in American cinema, 4th on their list of greatest comedy films and 28th on Bravo’s «100 Funniest Movies». Film critic Roger Ebert called it «just about everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie».[2] The film’s screenplay was also named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the «101 Funniest Screenplays».[3] In 1992, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being «culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.»[4]

Plot[edit]

Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity, suddenly kissing a classmate at six years old and not understanding why she was not keen to reciprocate.

Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; Alvy imagines McLuhan himself stepping in at his invitation to criticize the man’s comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whose ardor gave him no pleasure. His second marriage was to a New York writer who did not like sports and was unable to reach orgasm.

With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun cooking a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. They had met playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk leads her to offer him a ride uptown, and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in «mental subtitles» as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie’s singing audition for a night club («It Had to be You»). After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is «a wreck», while Annie relaxes with a joint.

Soon, Annie admits she loves Alvy, while he buys her books on death and says that his feelings for her are more than just love. When Annie moves in with him, things become very tense. Eventually, Alvy finds her arm-in-arm with one of her college professors, and the two begin to argue about whether this is the «flexibility» they had discussed. They eventually break up, and he searches for the truth of relationships, asking strangers on the street about the nature of love, questioning his formative years, and imagining a cartoon version of himself arguing with a cartoon Annie portrayed as the Evil Queen in Snow White.

Alvy attempts a return to dating, but the effort is marred by neurosis and an episode of bad sex that is interrupted when Annie calls in the middle of the night, insisting that he come over immediately to kill two spiders in her bathroom. A reconciliation follows, coupled with a vow to stay together, come what may. However, their separate discussions with their therapists make it evident there is an unspoken and unbridgeable divide. When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they travel to Los Angeles with Alvy’s friend Rob. However, on the return trip, they agree that their relationship is not working. After losing Annie to her record producer Tony Lacey, Alvy unsuccessfully tries rekindling the flame with a marriage proposal. Back in New York, he stages a play of their relationship, but he changes the ending: now she accepts.

The last meeting between Annie and Alvy is a wistful coda on Manhattan’s Upper West Side after they have both moved on to someone new. Alvy’s voice returns with a summation: love is essential, especially if it is neurotic. Annie sings «Seems Like Old Times», and the credits roll.

Cast[edit]

Truman Capote, pictured here in 1959, had a cameo role in the film.

  • Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
  • Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
  • Tony Roberts as Rob
  • Carol Kane as Allison Portchnik
  • Paul Simon as Tony Lacey
  • Janet Margolin as Robin
  • Shelley Duvall as Pam
  • Christopher Walken[a] as Duane Hall
  • Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall
  • Donald Symington as Mr. Hall
  • Joan Newman as Mrs. Singer
  • Marshall McLuhan as Himself
  • Mordecai Lawner as Alvy’s father

Truman Capote has a cameo. Alvy is making quips about people walking by. He says «There’s the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest» as Truman Capote walks through the frame.[6] Several actors who later gained a higher profile had small parts in the movie: John Glover as Annie’s actor boyfriend, Jerry; Jeff Goldblum as a man who «forgot [his] mantra» at Tony Lacey’s Christmas party; Beverly D’Angelo as an actress in Rob’s TV show; and Sigourney Weaver, in her film debut, in the closing sequence as Alvy’s date at the movie theater. Laurie Bird also appears, two years before her suicide.

Style and technique[edit]

Technically, the film marked an advance for the director. He selected Gordon Willis as his cinematographer—for Allen «a very important teacher» and a «technical wizard,» saying, «I really count Annie Hall as the first step toward maturity in some way in making films.»[7] At the time, it was considered an «odd pairing» by many, Keaton among them. The director was known for his comedies and farces, while Willis was known as «the prince of darkness» for work on dramatic films like The Godfather.[8] Despite this, the two became friends during filming and continued the collaboration on several later films, including Zelig, which earned Willis his first Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.[8]

Willis described the production for the film as «relatively easy.»[8] He shot in varying styles; «hot golden light for California, grey overcast for Manhattan and a forties Hollywood glossy for … dream sequences,» most of which were cut.[9] It was his suggestion which led Allen to film the dual therapy scenes in one set divided by a wall instead of the usual split screen method.[8] He tried long takes, with some shots, unabridged, lasting an entire scene, which, for Ebert, add to the dramatic power of the film: «Few viewers probably notice how much of Annie Hall consists of people talking, simply talking. They walk and talk, sit and talk, go to shrinks, go to lunch, make love and talk, talk to the camera, or launch into inspired monologues like Annie’s free-association as she describes her family to Alvy. This speech by Diane Keaton is as close to perfect as such a speech can likely be … all done in one take of brilliant brinksmanship.» He cites a study that calculated the average shot length of Annie Hall to be 14.5 seconds, while other films made in 1977 had an average shot length of 4–7 seconds.[2] Peter Cowie suggests that «Allen breaks up his extended shots with more orthodox cutting back and forth in conversation pieces so that the forward momentum of the film is sustained.»[10] Bernd Herzogenrath notes the innovation in the use of the split-screen during the dinner scene to powerfully exaggerate the contrast between the Jewish and the gentile family.[11]

Although the film is not essentially experimental, at several points it undermines the narrative reality.[12] James Bernardoni notes Allen’s way of opening the film by facing the camera, which immediately intrudes upon audience involvement in the film.[13] In one scene, Allen’s character, in line to see a movie with Annie, listens to a man behind him deliver misinformed pontifications on the significance of Fellini’s and Marshall McLuhan’s work. Allen pulls McLuhan himself from just off-camera to correct the man’s errors personally.[2] Later in the film, when we see Annie and Alvy in their first extended talk, «mental subtitles» convey to the audience the characters’ nervous inner doubts.[2] An animated scene—with artwork based on the comic strip Inside Woody Allen—depicts Alvy and Annie in the guise of the Wicked Queen from Snow White.[2] Although Allen uses each of these techniques only once, the «fourth wall» is broken several other times when characters address the camera directly. In one, Alvy stops several passers-by to ask questions about love, and in another, he shrugs off writing a happy ending to his relationship with Annie in his autobiographical first play as forgivable «wish-fulfillment.» Allen chose to have Alvy break the fourth wall, he explained, «because I felt many of the people in the audience had the same feelings and the same problems. I wanted to talk to them directly and confront them.»[7]

Production[edit]

Writing[edit]

The idea for what would become Annie Hall was developed as Allen walked around New York City with co-writer Marshall Brickman. The pair discussed the project frequently, sometimes becoming frustrated and rejecting the idea. Allen wrote a first draft of a screenplay within a four-day period, sending it to Brickman to make alterations. According to Brickman, this draft centered on a man in his forties, someone whose life consisted «of several strands.» One was a relationship with a young woman, another was a concern with the banality of the life that we all live, and a third an obsession with proving himself and testing himself to find out what kind of character he had. Allen himself turned forty in 1975, and Brickman suggests that «advancing age» and «worries about death» had influenced Allen’s philosophical, personal approach to complement his «commercial side».[14][15] Allen made the conscious decision to «sacrifice some of the laughs for a story about human beings».[8] He recognized that for the first time he had the courage to abandon the safety of complete broad comedy and had the will to produce a film of deeper meaning which would be a nourishing experience for the audience.[1] He was also influenced by Federico Fellini’s comedy drama (1963), created at a similar personal turning point, and similarly colored by each director’s psychoanalysis.[15]

Brickman and Allen sent the screenplay back and forth until they were ready to ask United Artists for $4 million.[15] Many elements from the early drafts did not survive. It was originally a drama centered on a murder mystery with a comic and romantic subplot.[16] According to Allen, the murder occurred after a scene that remains in the film, the sequence in which Annie and Alvy miss the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face (1976).[17] Although they decided to drop the murder plot, Allen and Brickman made a murder mystery many years later: Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), also starring Diane Keaton.[18] The draft that Allen presented to the film’s editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, «ending to be shot.»[19]

Allen suggested Anhedonia, a term for the inability to experience pleasure, as a working title,[20][21] and Brickman suggested alternatives including It Had to Be Jew, Rollercoaster Named Desire and Me and My Goy.[22] An advertising agency, hired by United Artists, embraced Allen’s choice of an obscure word by suggesting the studio take out newspaper advertisements that looked like fake tabloid headlines such as «Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland!».[22] However, Allen experimented with several titles over five test screenings, including Anxiety and Annie and Alvy, before settling on Annie Hall.[22]

Casting[edit]

Several references in the film to Allen’s own life have invited speculation that it is autobiographical. Both Alvy and Allen were comedians. His birthday appears on the blackboard in a school scene, and «Alvy» was one of Allen’s childhood nicknames;[23] certain features of his childhood are found in Alvy Singer’s;[24] Allen went to New York University and so did Alvy. Diane Keaton’s real surname is «Hall» and «Annie» was her nickname, and she and Allen were once romantically involved.[25] However, Allen is quick to dispel these suggestions. «The stuff that people insist is autobiographical is almost invariably not,» Allen said. «It’s so exaggerated that it’s virtually meaningless to the people upon whom these little nuances are based. People got it into their heads that Annie Hall was autobiographical, and I couldn’t convince them it wasn’t».[26] Contrary to various interviewers and commentators, he says, Alvy is not the character that is closest to himself; he identified more with the mother (Eve, played by Geraldine Page) in his next film, Interiors.[27] Despite this, Keaton has stated that the relationship between Alvy and Annie was partly based on her relationship with the director.[28]

The role of Annie Hall was written specifically for Keaton, who had worked with Allen on Play It Again, Sam (1972), Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975).[28] She considered the character an «affable version» of herself—both were «semi-articulate, dreamed of being a singer and suffered from insecurity»—and was surprised to win an Oscar for her performance.[28] The film also marks the second film collaboration between Allen and Tony Roberts, their previous project being Play It Again, Sam.[8]

Federico Fellini was Allen’s first choice to appear in the cinema lobby scene because his films were under discussion,[17] but Allen chose cultural academic Marshall McLuhan after both Fellini and Luis Buñuel declined the cameo.[29] Some cast members, biographer John Baxter claims, were aggrieved at Allen’s treatment of them. The director «acted coldly» towards McLuhan, who had to return from Canada for reshooting, and Mordecai Lawner, who played Alvy’s father, claimed that Allen never spoke to him.[29] However, during the production, Allen began a two-year relationship with Stacey Nelkin, who appears in a single scene.[29]

Filming, editing and music[edit]

Principal photography began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island with the scene in which Alvy and Annie boil live lobsters; filming continued periodically for the next ten months,[30] and deviated frequently from the screenplay. There was nothing written about Alvy’s childhood home lying under a roller coaster, but when Allen was scouting locations in Brooklyn with Willis and art director Mel Bourne, he «saw this roller-coaster, and … saw the house under it. And I thought, we have to use this.»[24] Similarly, there is the incident where Alvy scatters a trove of cocaine with an accidental sneeze: although not in the script, the joke emerged from a rehearsal happenstance and stayed in the movie. In audience testing, this laugh was so sustained that a much longer pause had to be added so that the following dialogue was not lost.[31]

Editor Ralph Rosenblum’s first assembly of the film in 1976 left Brickman disappointed. «I felt that the film was running off in nine different directions,» Brickman recalled.[32] «It was like a first draft of a novel… from which two or three films could possibly be assembled.»[33] Rosenblum characterized the first cut, at two hours and twenty minutes,[34] as «the surrealistic and abstract adventures of a neurotic Jewish comedian who was reliving his highly flawed life and in the process satirizing much of our culture… a visual monologue, a more sophisticated and more philosophical version of Take the Money and Run«.[34] Brickman found it «nondramatic and ultimately uninteresting, a kind of cerebral exercise.»[35] He suggested a more linear narrative.[36]

The present-tense relationship between Alvy and Annie was not the narrative focus of this first cut, but Allen and Rosenblum recognized it as the dramatic spine, and began reworking the film «in the direction of that relationship.»[37] Rosenblum recalled that Allen «had no hesitation about trimming away much of the first twenty minutes in order to establish Keaton more quickly.»[35] According to Allen, «I didn’t sit down with Marshall Brickman and say, ‘We’re going to write a picture about a relationship.’ I mean the whole concept of the picture changed as we were cutting it.»[36]

As the film was budgeted for two weeks of post-production photography,[19] late 1976 saw three separate shoots for the final segment, but only some of this material was used.[38] The narration that ends the film, featuring the joke about ‘we all need the eggs’, was conceived and recorded only two hours before a test screening.[38]

The credits call the film «A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production»; the two men were Allen’s managers and received this same credit on his films from 1969 to 1993. However, for this film, Joffe took producer credit and therefore received the Academy Award for Best Picture. The title sequence features a black background with white text in the Windsor Light Condensed typeface, a design that Allen would use on his subsequent films. Stig Björkman sees some similarity to Ingmar Bergman’s simple and consistent title design, although Allen says that his own choice is a cost-saving device.[39]

Very little background music is heard in the film, a departure for Allen influenced by Ingmar Bergman.[39] Diane Keaton performs twice in the jazz club: «It Had to be You» and «Seems Like Old Times» (the latter reprises in voiceover on the closing scene). The other exceptions include a boy’s choir «Christmas Medley» played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony (heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside), Tommy Dorsey’s performance of «Sleepy Lagoon»,[40] and the anodyne cover of the Savoy Brown song «A Hard Way to Go» playing at a party in the mansion of Paul Simon’s character.

Soundtrack[edit]

  • «Seems Like Old Times» (1945) — Music by Carmen Lombardo — Lyrics by John Jacob Loeb — Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
  • «It Had to Be You» (1924) — Music by Isham Jones — Lyrics by Gus Kahn — Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
  • «A Hard Way To Go» (1977) — Written and performed by Tim Weisberg
  • «Christmas Medley» (Traditional Christmas songs: «We Wish You a Merry Christmas» (uncredited), «O, Christmas Tree» (uncredited) and «God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen» (uncredited)) — Lyrics by Ernst Anschütz — Performed by the Do-Re-Mi Children’s Chorus
  • «Sleepy Lagoon» (1930) — Composed by Eric Coates — Performed by Tommy Dorsey
  • «Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Molto Allegro» (1788) (uncredited) — Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Release[edit]

Box office and release[edit]

Annie Hall was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977,[20] before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977.[41] The film ultimately earned $38,251,425 ($171 million in 2021 dollars) in the United States and Canada against a $4-million budget, making it the 11th highest-grossing picture of 1977.[41] On raw figures, it currently ranks as Allen’s fourth-highest-grossing film in the United States, after Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris; when adjusted for inflation, the gross figure makes it Allen’s biggest box office hit.[42] It played for over 100 consecutive weeks in London and grossed over $5.6 million in the United Kingdom.[43] It was first released on Blu-ray on January 24, 2012, alongside Allen’s film Manhattan (1979).[44] Both releases include the films’ original theatrical trailers.[44]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Diane Keaton received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her performance.

Annie Hall met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release, with major praise directed towards the film’s script and the performances of Allen and Keaton.

Tim Radford of The Guardian called the film «Allen’s most closely focused and daring film to date».[45] The New York Times’ Vincent Canby preferred Annie Hall to Allen’s second directorial effort, Take the Money and Run, since the former is more «humane» while the latter is more a «cartoon».[46] Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage (1973),[46][47][48] including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen’s «most three-dimensional film to date» with an ambition equal to Bergman’s best even as the co-stars become the «contemporary equivalent of … Tracy-Hepburn.»[47]

More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film «suffers from its profusion of cultural references and asides».[49] Writing for New York magazine, John Simon called the film «unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation,» and wrote that Keaton’s performance was «in bad taste to watch and indecency to display,» saying that the part should have been played by Robin Mary Paris, the actress who appears briefly in the scene where Alvy Singer has written a two-character play nakedly based on himself and Annie Hall. Simon’s review of Annie Hall «It is a film so shapeless, sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion. At this, it is successful.»[50]

The film has continued to receive positive reviews. In his 2002 lookback, Roger Ebert added it to his Great Movies list and commented with surprise that the film had «an instant familiarity» despite its age,[2] and Slant writer Jaime N. Christley found the one-liners «still gut-busting after 35 years».[48] A later Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that «this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making».[51] John Marriott of the Radio Times believed that Annie Hall was the film where Allen «found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection», referring to the «comic delight» derived from the «spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic».[52] Empire magazine rated the movie five out of five stars, calling it a «classic».[53] In 2017, Claire Dederer wrote, «Annie Hall is the greatest comic film of the twentieth century […] because it acknowledges the irrepressible nihilism that lurks at the center of all comedy.»[54]

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Annie Hall as one of his favorite films.[55][56]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 97% based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic.»[57] Metacritic gave the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 20 critical reviews, indicating «universal acclaim».[58]

Critical analysis[edit]

Love and sexuality[edit]

Sociologists Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz consider Alvy and Annie’s relationship to be a stereotype of gender differences in sexuality.[59] The nature of love is a repeating subject for Allen and co-star Tony Roberts described this film as «the story of everybody who falls in love, and then falls out of love and goes on.»[8] Alvy searches for love’s purpose through his effort to get over his depression about the demise of his relationship with Annie. Sometimes he sifts through his memories of the relationship, at another point he stops people on the sidewalk, with one woman saying that «It’s never something you do. That’s how people are. Love fades,» a suggestion that it was no one’s fault, they just grew apart and the end was inevitable. By the end of the film, Alvy accepts this and decides that love is ultimately «irrational and crazy and absurd», but a necessity of life.[60] Christopher Knight believes Alvy’s quest upon meeting Annie is carnal, whereas hers is on an emotional note.[61]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker notes the film’s «Eurocentric art-house self-awareness» and Alvy Singer’s «psychoanalytic obsession in baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions».[62]

Jewish identity[edit]

Singer is identified with the stereotypical neurotic Jewish male, and the differences between Alvy and Annie are often related to the perceptions and realities of Jewish identity. Vincent Brook notes that «Alvy dines with the WASP-y Hall family and imagines that they must see him as a Hasidic Jew, complete with payot (ear locks) and a large black hat.»[63] Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen highlight the scene in which Annie remarks that Annie’s grandmother «hates Jews. She thinks they just make money, but she’s the one. Is she ever, I’m telling you.», revealing the hypocrisy in her grandmother’s stereotypical American view of Jews by arguing that «no stigma attaches to the love of money in America».[64] Bernd Herzogenrath also considers Allen’s joke, «I would like to but we need the eggs», to the doctor at the end when he suggests putting him in a mental institution, to be a paradox of not only the persona of the urban neurotic Jew but also of the film itself.[11]

Woody Allen persona[edit]

Christopher Knight points out that Annie Hall is framed through Alvy’s experiences. «Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience’s interpretative favor.»[65] He suggests that because Allen’s films blur the protagonist with «past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself», it «makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director’s or the character’s framing of events».[66] Despite the narrative’s framing, «the joke is on Alvy.»[67] Emanuel Levy believes that Alvy Singer became synonymous with the public perception of Woody Allen in the United States.[68] Annie Hall is viewed as the definitive Woody Allen film in displaying neurotic humor.[69]

Location[edit]

Annie Hall «is as much a love song to New York City as it is to the character,»[70] reflecting Allen’s adoration of the island of Manhattan. It was a relationship he explored repeatedly, particularly in films like Manhattan (1979) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).[8] Annie Hall’s apartment, which still exists on East 70th Street between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue is by Allen’s own confession his favorite block in the city.[71] Peter Cowie argues that the film shows «a romanticized view» of the borough, with the camera «linger[ing] on the Upper East Side [… and where] the fear of crime does not trouble its characters.»[72] By contrast, California is presented less positively, and David Halle notes the obvious «invidious intellectual comparison» between New York City and Los Angeles.[73] While Manhattan’s movie theaters show classic and foreign films, Los Angeles theaters run less-prestigious fare such as The House of Exorcism and Messiah of Evil.[72] Rob’s demonstration of adding canned laughter to television demonstrates the «cynical artifice of the medium».[72] New York City serves as a symbol of Alvy’s personality («gloomy, claustrophobic, and socially cold, but also an intellectual haven full of nervous energy») while Los Angeles is a symbol of freedom for Annie.[70]

Psychoanalysis and modernism[edit]

Annie Hall has been cited as a film which uses both therapy and analysis for comic effect.[74] Sam B. Girgus considers Annie Hall to be a story about memory and retrospection, which «dramatizes a return via narrative desire to the repressed and the unconscious in a manner similar to psychoanalysis».[75] He argues that the film constitutes a self-conscious assertion of how narrative desire and humor interact in the film to reform ideas and perceptions and that Allen’s deployment of Freudian concepts and humor forms a «pattern of skepticism toward surface meaning that compels further interpretation». Girgus believes that proof of the pervasiveness of Sigmund Freud in the film is demonstrated at the beginning through a reference to a joke in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and makes another joke about a psychiatrist and patient, which Girgus argues is also symbolic of the dynamic between humor and the unconscious in the film.[75] Further Freudian concepts are later addressed in the film with Annie’s recall of a dream to her psychoanalyst in which Frank Sinatra is smothering her with a pillow, which alludes to Freud’s belief in dreams as «visual representations of words or ideas».[75]

Peter Bailey in his book The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen, argues that Alvy displays a «genial denigration of art» which contains a «significant equivocation», in that in his self-deprecation he invites the audience to believe that he is leveling with them.[76] Bailey argues that Allen’s devices in the film, including the subtitles which reveal Annie’s and Alvy’s thoughts «extend and reinforce Annie Halls winsome ethos of plain-dealing and ingenuousness».[76] He muses that the film is full of antimimetic emblems such as McLuhan’s magical appearance which provide quirky humor and that the «disparity between mental projections of reality and actuality» drives the film. His view is that self-reflective cinematic devices intelligently dramatize the difference between surface and substance, with visual emblems «incessantly distilling the distinction between the world mentally constructed and reality».[76]

In his discussion of the film’s relation to modernism, Thomas Schatz finds the film an unresolved «examination of the process of human interaction and interpersonal communication»[77] and «immediately establishes [a] self-referential stance» that invites the spectator «to read the narrative as something other than a sequential development toward some transcendent truth».[78] For him, Alvy «is the victim of a tendency toward overdetermination of meaning – or in modernist terms ‘the tyranny of the signified’ – and his involvement with Annie can be viewed as an attempt to establish a spontaneous, intellectually unencumbered relationship, an attempt which is doomed to failure.»[77]

Awards and accolades[edit]

Academy Awards
1. Best Picture, Charles H. Joffe
2. Best Director, Woody Allen
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role, Diane Keaton
4. Best Original Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Golden Globe Awards
1. Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Diane Keaton
BAFTA Awards
1. Best Film
2. Best Direction, Woody Allen
3. Best Actress, Diane Keaton
4. Best Editing, Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont
5. Best Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

Annie Hall won four Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards on April 3, 1978, and was nominated for five (the Big Five) in total. Producer Charles H. Joffe received the statue for Best Picture, Allen for Best Director and, with Brickman, for Best Original Screenplay, and Keaton for Best Actress. Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.[79] Many had expected Star Wars to win the major awards, including Brickman and Executive Producer Robert Greenhut.[8]

The film was also honored five times at the BAFTA awards. Along with the top award for Best Film and the award for Film Editing, Keaton won for Best Actress, Allen won for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay alongside Brickman.[80] The film received only one Golden Globe Award, for Best Film Actress in a Musical or Comedy (Diane Keaton), despite nominations for three other awards: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, and Best Film Actor in a Musical or Comedy (Woody Allen).

In 1992, the United States’ Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry that includes «culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant» films.[4] The film is often mentioned among the greatest comedies of all time. The American Film Institute lists it 31st in American cinema history.[81] In 2000, they named it second greatest romantic comedy in American cinema.[81] Keaton’s performance of «Seems Like Old Times» was ranked 90th on their list of greatest songs included in a film, and her line «La-dee-da, la-dee-da.» was named the 55th greatest movie quote.[81] The screenplay was named the sixth greatest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, West[82] while IGN named it the seventh greatest comedy film of all time.[83] In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-second greatest comedy film of all time, and the seventh greatest romantic comedy film of all time.[84] Several lists ranking Allen’s best films have put Annie Hall among his greatest work.[85][86][87]

In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community and Annie Hall was placed second in the romantic comedy genre.[88] AFI also ranked Annie Hall on multiple other lists. In November 2008, Annie Hall was voted in at No. 68 on Empire magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[89] It is also ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes’ 25 Best Romantic Comedies, second only to The Philadelphia Story.[90] In 2012, the film was listed as the 127th best film of all time by the Sight & Sound critics’ poll.[91] The film was also named the 132nd best film by the Sight & Sound directors’ poll.[91]
In October 2013, the film was voted by the Guardian readers as the second best film directed by Woody Allen.[92] In November 2015, the film was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of 101 Funniest Screenplays.[93]

American Film Institute recognition[edit]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 1998: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies – #31[94]
  • 2000: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs – #4[95]
  • 2002: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – #11[96]
  • 2004: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs:
    • «Seems Like Old Times» – #90[97]
  • 2005: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes:
    • Annie Hall: «La-dee-da, la-dee-da.» – #55[98]
    • Alvy Singer «I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.» – Nominated.
    • Alvy Singer «Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.» – Nominated.
  • 2007: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #35[99]
  • 2008: AFI’s 10 Top 10:
    • #2 Romantic Comedy Film[100]

1992 – National Film Registry.[101]

In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked Keaton in Annie Hall as 60th in its list of the «100 Greatest Performances of All Time», and noted:

It’s hard to play ditzy. … The genius of Annie is that despite her loopy backhand, awful driving, and nervous tics, she’s also a complicated, intelligent woman. Keaton brilliantly displays this dichotomy of her character, especially when she yammers away on a first date with Alvy (Woody Allen), while the subtitle reads, «He probably thinks I’m a yoyo.» Yo-yo? Hardly.[102]

Legacy and influence[edit]

Diane Keaton’s dress style as Annie Hall; an influence on the fashion world during the late 1970s

Although the film received critical acclaim and several awards, Allen himself was disappointed with it, and said in an interview, «When Annie Hall started out, that film was not supposed to be what I wound up with. The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy’s mind … Nobody understood anything that went on. The relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about. That was not what I cared about … In the end, I had to reduce the film to just me and Diane Keaton, and that relationship, so I was quite disappointed in that movie».[103] Allen has repeatedly declined to make a sequel,[104] and in a 1992 interview stated that «Sequelism has become an annoying thing. I don’t think Francis Coppola should have done Godfather III because Godfather II was quite great. When they make a sequel, it’s just a thirst for more money, so I don’t like that idea so much».[105]

Diane Keaton has stated that Annie Hall was her favorite role and that the film meant everything to her.[106] When asked if being most associated with the role concerned her as an actress, she replied, «I’m not haunted by Annie Hall. I’m happy to be Annie Hall. If somebody wants to see me that way, it’s fine by me». Costume designer Ruth Morley, working with Keaton, created a look which had an influence on the fashion world during the late-70s, with women adopting the style: layering oversized, mannish blazers over vests, billowy trousers or long skirts, a man’s tie, and boots.[107] The look was often referred to as the «Annie Hall look».[108] Some sources suggest that Keaton herself was mainly responsible for the look, and Ralph Lauren has often claimed credit, but only one jacket and one tie were purchased from Ralph Lauren for use in the film.[109] Allen recalled that Lauren and Keaton’s dress style almost did not end up in the film. «She came in,» he recalled in 1992, «and the costume lady on Annie Hall said, ‘Tell her not to wear that. She can’t wear that. It’s so crazy.’ And I said, ‘Leave her. She’s a genius. Let’s just leave her alone, let her wear what she wants.«[110]

The film’s script topped the Writers Guild of America’s list of 101 funniest screenplays ever, surpassing Some Like it Hot (1959), Groundhog Day (1993), Airplane! (1980), and Tootsie (1982).[111] James Bernardoni states that the film is «one of the very few romantic comedy dramas of the New Hollywood era and one that has rightly taken its place among the classics of that reverted genre», likening the seriocomic meditation on the couple relationship to George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.[13] Since its release, other romantic comedies have inspired comparison. When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Chasing Amy (1997), Burning Annie (2007), 500 Days of Summer (2009) and Allen’s 2003 film, Anything Else, are among them,[91][112][113][114][115] while film director Rian Johnson said in an interview for the book, The Film That Changed My Life, that Annie Hall inspired him to become a film director.[116] Karen Gillan stated that she watched Annie Hall as part of her research for her lead role in Not Another Happy Ending.[117] In 2018, Matt Starr and Ellie Sachs released a short film remake starring senior citizens.[118][119]

Note[edit]

  1. ^ Misspelled as «Christopher Wlaken» in the closing credits.[5]

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External links[edit]

  • Annie Hall at IMDb
  • Annie Hall at AllMovie
  • Annie Hall at the TCM Movie Database
  • Annie Hall at the American Film Institute Catalog
  • Annie Hall at Box Office Mojo
  • Annie Hall at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Annie Hall essay by Jay Carr at National Film Registry
  • Annie Hall essay by Daniel Eagan in America’s Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pp. 738–740

Фильм 1977 года Вуди Аллена

Энни Холл
Anniehallposter.jpgАфиша театрального релиза
Режиссер Вуди Аллен
Продюсировал Чарльз Х. Джоффе
Автор
  • Вуди Аллен
  • Маршал Брикман
В главной роли
  • Вуди Аллен
  • Дайан Китон
  • Тони Робертс
  • Кэрол Кейн
  • Пол Саймон
  • Джанет Марголин
  • Шелли Дюваль
  • Кристофер Уокен
  • Коллин Дьюхерст
Кинематография Гордон Уиллис
Отредактировал Ральф Розенблюм
Распространено United Artists
Дата выпуска ‹См. TfM ›

  • 20 апреля 1977 г. (1977-04-20)
Продолжительность 93 минуты
Страна США
Язык Английский
Бюджет 4 миллиона долларов
кассовые сборы 38,3 миллиона долларов

Энни Холл — американка 1977 года романтическая комедия фильм режиссера Вуди Аллена по сценарию, написанному им в соавторстве с Маршаллом Брикманом и продюсирован менеджером Аллена, Чарльзом Х. Джоффе. В фильме Аллен играет Элви Сингера, который пытается объяснить его отношения с одноименной главной героиней, которую играет Дайан Китон в роли, написанной специально для нее.

Основная съемка фильма началась 19 мая 1976 года на Саут-Форк Лонг-Айленда и продолжалась периодически в течение следующих десяти месяцев. Аллен охарактеризовал результат, который ознаменовал его первое сотрудничество с кинематографистом Гордоном Уиллисом, как «важный поворотный момент», поскольку в отличие от фарсов и комедий, которые были его работами до того, он ввел новый уровень серьезности. Ученые отметили контраст в условиях Нью-Йорка и Лос-Анджелеса, стереотип гендерных различий в сексуальности, представление еврейской идентичности и элементы психоанализа и модернизм.

Энни Холл была представ на кинофестивале в Лос-Анджелесе в марте 1977 года до официального выхода 20 апреля 1977 года. Фильм получил высокую оценку и получил награду Академия Награда за лучший фильм получила Оскар еще в трех номинациях: две для Аллена (Лучший режиссер и, с Брикманом, Лучший оригинальный сценарий ), и Лучшая женская роль для Китона. Кроме того, фильм получил четыре награды BAFTA и Золотой глобус, причем последняя была присуждена Китону. Кассовые сборы фильма в Северной Америке в размере 38 251 425 долларов без поправки на инфляцию занимают четвертое место среди работ Аллена.

Считается одним из лучших фильмов, когда-либо созданных, он занимает 31-е место в Списке лучших фильмов американского кино AFI и 4-е место в списке величайших комедийных фильмов и 28-е место в рейтинге «100 самых смешных фильмов» Браво. Кинокритик Роджер Эберт назвал его «почти всеми любимым фильмом Вуди Аллена». Сценарий фильма был также назван самым смешным из когда-либо написанных Гильдией писателей Америки в своем списке «101 смешнейший сценарий». В 1992 г. Библиотека Конгресса отобрала фильм для сохранения в Национальном реестре фильмов как «культурно, исторически или эстетически значимый».

Содержание

  • 1 Сюжет
  • 2 Актеры
  • 3 Производство
    • 3.1 Написание
    • 3.2 Кастинг
    • 3.3 Съемки, монтаж и музыка
  • 4 Стиль и техника
  • 5 Критично анализ
    • 5.1 Любовь и сексуальность
    • 5.2 Еврейская идентичность
    • 5.3 Персона Вуди Аллена
    • 5.4 Местоположение
    • 5.5 Психоанализ и модернизм
  • 6 Саундтрек
  • 7 Выпуск
    • 7.1 Касса
    • 7.2 Критический ответ
    • 7.3 Награды и похвалы
    • 7.4 Наследие и влияние
  • 8 Примечания
  • 9 Ссылки
  • 10 Библиография
  • 11 Внешние ссылки

Сюжет

Комик Элви Сингер пытается понять, почему его отношения с Энни Холл закончились год назад. Выросший в Бруклине, он рано проявил себя в отношении своего невинного сексуального любопытства, но он рано проявил себя в отношении своего невинного сексуального любопытства.

Энни и Элви в реплике для Печаль и жалость подслушивают другого человека, высмеивающего работу Федерико Феллини и Маршалла Маклюэна ; Элви представляет, как сам Маклюэн вмешивается по его приглашению и критикует понимание этого человека. Той ночью Энни не проявляет интереса к сексу с Элви. Вместо этого они обсуждают его первую жену, пыл которой не доставил ему удовольствия. Его второй брак был с писателем из Нью-Йорка, не любил спорт и не мог достичь оргазма.

С Энни все иначе. Они вдвоем веселятся, готовя вместе вареного лобстера. Он дразнит ее по поводу необычных мужчин в ее прошлом. Он познакомился с ней, играя, в парном теннисе с друзьями. После игры в результате неловкой светской беседы она предложила ему сначала прокатиться до центра города, а затем выпить бокал вина на своем балконе. Там то, что казалось умеренным обменом банными личными данными, раскрывается в «мысленных субтитрах» как нарастающий флирт. Их первое свидание последовало за пением Энни на прослушивании в ночном клубе («Это должен был быть ты »). Вскоре Энни признает, что любит его, а он покупает ей книги о смерти и говорит, что его чувства к ней больше, чем просто люблю. Когда она переезжает к нему, все становится очень напряженным. В конце концов, он находит ее руку об руку с одним из ее профессоров колледжа, и они начинают спорить, это «гибкость», которую они обсуждают. В конце концов они расстаются, и он ищет правду об отношениях, расспрашивая незнакомцев на улице о природе любви, ставя под сомнение годы своего становления и воображаемую мультяшную версию себя, спорящую с мультипликационной Энни, изображаемой как Злая Королева. в Белоснежка.

Элви возвращается к свиданиям, но его усилия омрачены неврозом и плохим сексом, который прерывается, когда Энни настаивает, чтобы он немедленно подошел, чтобы убить паука в ванной. Затем следует примирение и клятва оставаться вместе, что бы ни случилось. Однако отдельные их обсуждения с терапевтами показывают, что существует негласный и непреодолимый разрыв. Когда Элви принимает предложение вручить награду по телевидению, они вылетают в Лос-Анджелес вместе с другом Элви, Робом. Однако на обратном пути они соглашаются, что их отношения не складываются. После ее потерь продюсера Тони Лейси, Элви безуспешно пытается разжечь пламя предложением руки и сердца. Вернувшись в Нью-Йорк, он разыгрывает их отношения, но меняет финал: теперь она соглашается.

Последняя встреча для них — задумчивая кодекс в Верхнем Вест-Сайде Нью-Йорка, когда они оба перешли к кому-то новому. Голос Элви возвращается с заключением: любовь необходима, особенно если она невротична. Энни поет «Кажется, как в старые времена », и переходят титры.

В ролях

Трумэн Капоте, изображенный здесь в 1959 году, эпизодическую роль в фильме.

  • Вуди Аллен в роли Элви Сингер
  • Дайан Китон в роли Энни Холл
  • Тони Робертс в роли Роба
  • Кэрол Кейн в роли Эллисон Портчник
  • Пол Саймон в роли Тони Лейси
  • Джанет Марголин в роли Робина
  • Шелли Дюваль в роли Пэм
  • Кристофер Уокен в роли Дуэйна Холла
  • Коллин Дьюхерст в роли миссис Холла
  • Дональд Симингтон в роли мистера Холла
  • Джоан Ньюман в роли миссис Сингер
  • Маршалл Маклюэн в роли самого себя
  • Мордехай Лоунер в роли отца Элви

Трумэн Капоте в эпизодической роли. Элви шутит о проходящих мимо людях. Он говорит: «Есть победитель конкурса двойников Трумэна Капоте», пока Трумэн Капоте проходит через кадр.

Несколько актеров, которые позже стали более заметными, играли небольшие роли в фильме: Джон Гловер как парень-актер Энни, Джерри; Джефф Голдблюм как человек, который забыл [свою] мантру »на рождественской вечеринке Тони Лейси; Беверли Д’Анджело в роли актрисы в телешоу Роба; и Сигурни Уивер, в ее дебютном фильме, в заключительном эпизоде ​​свидания Элви в кинотеатре.

Производство

Написание

Идея того, что станет Энни Холл, возникла, когда Аллен прогуливался по Нью-Йорку с соавтором Маршалл Брикман. Пара обсуждала проект в альтернативные дни, иногда разочаровываясь и отвергая идею. Аллен написал первый набросок сценария за четыре дня и отправил его Брикману для внесения изменений. По словам Брикмана, этот проект был посвящен мужчине лет сорока, чья жизнь «складывалась из нескольких нитей». Один — отношения с молодой женщиной, другая — озабоченность банальностью жизни, которая мы все живем, а третий — навязчивой идеей проявить себя и проверить себя, чтобы выяснить, какой у него характер. Повлияли на философский, личный подход Аллена, дополнительная его «коммерческую сторону», беспокойство о смерти »Самому Аллену в 1975 году исполнилось сорок, и Брикман предположил, что пожилой возраст» и «беспокойство о смерти». Аллен принял сознательное решение «пожертвовать часть смеха ради рассказа о людях». Он осознал, что впервые у негоило смелости отказ от безопасности полноценной широкой комедии и хватило воли создать фильм с более глубоким смыслом, который был бы питательным опытом для зрителей. На него также повлияла комедия-драма Федерико Феллини 8½ (1963), созданная в тот же поворотный момент и окрашенная одинаково психоанализом каждого режиссера.

Брикман и Аллен отправили сценарий обратно и далее, пока не были готовы запросить у United Artists 4 миллиона долларов. Многие элементы из ранних набросков не сохранились. Изначально это была драма, посвященная загадке убийства с комическим и романтическим сюжетом. По словам Аллена, убийство произошло после эпизода, в котором Энни и Элви пропускают фильм Ингмара Бергмана Лицом к лицу (1976). Хотя они решили отказаться от заговора об убийствах, Аллен и Брикман много лет спустя раскрыли тайну убийств: Тайна убийства на Манхэттене (1993), также с Дайан Китон в главной роли. Черновик, который Аллен представил редактору фильма, Ральфу Розенблюму, заканчивался словами: «Концовка должна быть расстреляна».

Аллен предложит Ангедония, термин для неспособности испытывать удовольствие в качестве рабочего названия, и Брикман предложит альтернативы, в том числе «Должно быть евреем», «Американские горки под названием« Желание »и« Я и мой гой ». Рекламное агентство, нанятое United Artists, поддержало выбор Аллена неясного слова, предложив студии убрать газетную рекламу, похожую на фальшивые заголовки таблоидов, такие как «Ангедония поражает Кливленд!». Тем не менее, Аллен поэкспериментировал с использованием названий в пяти тестовых показах, включая «Тревога», «Энни и Элви», прежде чем остановился на Энни Холл.

Кастинг

Несколько упоминаний в фильме о собственной жизни Аллена вызвали предположения. что это автобиографично. И Элви, и Аллен были комиками. Его день рождения изображен на доске в школьной сцене; некоторые черты его детства можно найти в детстве Элви Сингера; Аллен поступил в Нью-Йоркский университет, и Элви тоже. Настоящая фамилия Дайан Китон — «Холл», а «Энни» было ее прозвищем, и когда-то у нее с Алленом были романтические отношения. Однако Аллен быстро развеивает эти предположения. «То, что люди настаивают на автобиографичности, почти всегда не так, — сказал Аллен. «Это настолько преувеличено, что практически бессмысленно для людей, на которых основаны эти маленькие нюансы. Людям приходило в голову, что Энни Холл автобиографична, и я не мог убедить их, что это не так ». По его словам, в отличие от различных интервьюеров и комментаторов, Элви не самый близкий ему персонаж; он больше отождествлял себя с матерью (Ева, которую играет Джеральдин Пейдж ) в своем следующем фильме Интерьеры. Несмотря на это, Китон заяв, что отношения между Элви и Энни были частично основаны на ее отношениях с режиссером.

Роль Энни Холл была написана специально для Китона, который работал с Алленом над Играть Это снова, Сэм (1972), Спящий (1973) и Любовь и смерть (1975). Она считала персонажа «приветливой версией» самой себя — оба были «полуартикулированными, мечтали стать певцами и страдали от незащищенности» — и была удивлена, получив Оскар за свое выступление. Этот фильм также знаменует собой второе совместное сотрудничество Аллена и Тони Робертса, их предыдущий проект — «Сыграй снова, Сэм».

Федерико Феллини был первым, кого Аллен выбрал выступления в лобби кинотеатра, поскольку его фильмы обсуждались. но Аллен выбрал культуролога Маршалла Маклюэна после того, как Феллини и Луис Бунюэль отказались от камео. Некоторые актеры, как утверждает биограф Джон Бакстер, были недовольны тем, как Аллен обращался с ними. Режиссер «вел себя холодно» по отношению к Маклюэну, которому пришлось пройти из Канады для повторной съемки, а Мордехай Лоунер, сыгравший отца Элви, утверждал, что Аллен никогда с ним не разговаривал. Однако во время производства Аллен начал двухлетние отношения с Стейси Нелкин, которая появляется в одной сцене.

Съемки, монтаж и музыка

Аллен увидел Удар молнии Кони-Айленда во время разведки мест и вписал это в сценарий как дом, где прошло детство Элви.

Основная фотография началась 19 мая 1976 года на Саут-Форке Лонг-Айленда со сцены, в которой Элви и Энни варят живых лобстеров; Съемки фильма продолжались периодически в течение следующих десяти месяцев и часто отклонялись от сценария. Ничего не было написано в доме, где в детстве Элви лежал под американскими горками, но когда Аллен вместе с Уиллисом и арт-директором Мелом Борном осматривал места в Бруклине, он «увидел эти американские горки и… увидел дом под ними. И я. Точно так же есть случай, когда Элви разбрасывает кучу кокаина, случайно чихнув: хотя и не в сценарии, шутка возникла в репетиции и осталась в фильме.

Первая сборка фильма редактором Ральфа Розенблюма в 1976 году оставила Брикмана разочарованным. «Я чувствовал, что фильм разворачивается в девяти разных направлениях», — вспоминал Брикман. Розенблюм охарактеризовал первую версию, продолжавшуюся два часа и двадцать минут, как «сюрреалистические и абстрактные невротического еврейского комика, который заново переживал свою весьма несовершенную жизнь и фильм». в процессе высмеивал большую часть нашей культуры… визуальный монолог, большее. изощренная и более философская версия Бери деньги и беги «. Брикман счел это «недраматичным и в конечном итоге не своим родом мозговым упражнением». Он использует более линейное повествование.

Отношения между Элви и Энни в настоящем времени были главной темой повествования этой первой версии, но Аллен и Розенблюм распознали в них драматический корешок и начали переработку фильма «в направлении этих отношений». Розенблюм напомнил, что Аллен «не колеблясь урезал большую часть первых двадцати минут, чтобы быстрее установить Китона». По словам Аллена, «я не садился с Маршаллом Брикманом и не говорил:« Мы собираемся написать картину об отношениях ». Я имею в виду, что вся концепция изображения изменилась по мере того, как мы его сокращали ».

Бюджет рассчитан на две недели постпродакшн-фотографии, в конце 1976 года было сделано три отдельных кадра для заключительного сегмента сегмента, но только некоторые фильма. этого материала. Заканчивающий фильм повествование шуткой о том, что «нам всем нужны яйца», было придумано и записано всего за два часа до тестового просмотра.

В титрах фильм называется «A Джек Роллинз и Чарльз Х. Иоффе Производство «; эти двое были менеджерами Аллена и получили такую ​​же награду за свои фильмы с 1969 по 1993 год. В этом фильме Джоффе взял на себя кредит продюсера и поэтому получил премию Оскар за лучший фильм. Последовательность заголовков представляет черный фон с белым текстом шрифта Windsor Light Condensed, дизайн которого Аллен будет использовать в своих фильмах. Стиг Бьёркман видит некоторое сходство с общим и последовательным дизайном заголовка Ингмара Бергмана, хотя Аллен говорит, что его собственный выбор — средство экономии.

Очень мало. В фильме звучит фоновая музыка, отъезд для Аллена под Ингмара Бергмана. Дайан Китон дважды выступает в джаз-клубе: «Кажется, старые времена» (последний повторяется за кадром в заключительной сцене). -Ан джелес, аллегро Молто из Моцарта Симфония Юпитера (слышно, когда Энни и Элви проезжают через сельскую местность), исполнение Томмиси Дорога «Sleepy Lagoon» и анодный кавер на песню Савоя Брауна «A Hard Way to Go», сыгранную на вечеринке в особняке Персонаж Пола Саймона.

Стиль и техника

Технически фильм ознаменовал собой прорыв для режиссера. Он выбрал Гордона Уиллиса своим кинематографистом — для Аллена «очень важным учителем» и «техническим волшебником», сказав: «Я действительно считаю Энни Холл первым шагом к зрелости в каким-то образом в создании фильмов «. В то время многие считали это «странной парой», в том числе Китон. Режиссер был известен своими комедиями и фарсами, а Уиллис был известен как «принц тьмы» за работу в таких драматических фильмах, как Крестный отец. Несмотря на это, они стали друзьями во время съемок и продолжили сотрудничество над несколькими более поздними фильмами, включая Зелиг, который принес Уиллису свою первую номинацию на премию Оскар за Лучшая операторская работа.

Уиллис описал производство для фильм как «относительно легкий». Он снимал в разных стилях; «Горячий золотой свет для Калифорнии, серый пасмурный туман для Манхэттена и глянцевый Голливуд сороковых годов для… сцен из снов», большинство из которых были вырезаны. Именно е го предложение побудило Аллена снять сцены двойной терапии в одном наборе, разделенном стеной, вместо обычного метода разделенного экрана. Он пробовал длинные кадры, с некоторыми кадрами, без сокращений, для всей сцены, которые, по мнению Эберта, добавляют драматичности фильма: «Мало кто из зрителей, вероятно, замечает, насколько Энни Холл состоит из людей, которые разговаривают, просто разговаривают. Они ходят. и разговаривать, сидеть и разговаривать, ходить к психиатрам, ходить на обед, заниматься любовью и разговаривать, разговаривать в камеру или начинать вдохновенные монологи, такие как свободное общение Энни, когда она описывает свою семью Элви. Это выступление Дайан Китон как близка к совершенству, поскольку такая речь, скорее всего, может быть… все сделано одним дублем с блестящей балансировкой грани «. Он цитирует исследование, в котором средняя длина кадра Энни Холл была рассчитана как 14,5 секунд, в то время как в других фильмах 1977 года средняя длина кадра составляла 4–7 секунд. Питер Коуи предполагает что «Аллен разбивает свои расширенные кадры на более ортодоксальные перерезки взад и вперед на фрагменты разговора, чтобы сохранить динамику фильма». Бернд Херцогенрат отмечает нововведение в использовании разделенного экрана во время ужина, чтобы сильно преувеличить контраст между еврейской и нееврейской семьей.

Хотя фильм по сути не экспериментальный, в некоторых моментах он подрывает повествовательная реальность. Джеймс Бернардони отмечает, как Аллен открывает фильм лицом к камере, что немедленно мешает вовлечению зрителей в фильм. В одной из сцен персонаж Аллена, стоящий в очереди на п росмотр фильма с Энни, слушает человека, стоящего за ним, который высказывает дезинформированные мнения о значении работ Феллини и Маршала Маклюэна. Аллен вытаскивает самого Маклюэна из кадра, чтобы лично исправить его ошибки. Позже в фильме, когда мы видим Энни и Элви в их первом расширенном выступлении, «мысленные субтитры» передают зрителям нервные внутренниенавыки персонажей. Анимированная сцена с изображением на основе комикса Внутри Вуди Аллена — изображает Элви и Энни в облике Злой Королевы из Белоснежки. Хотя Аллен использует каждый из этих методов только один раз, «четвертая стена » ломается несколько раз, когда персонажи обращаются непосредственно в камеру. В одном Элви останавливает несколько прохожих, чтобы задать вопросы о любви, а в другом он не обращает внимания на то, чтобы описать счастливый конец отношений с Энни в своей автобиографической первой пьесе как простительное «исполнение желаний». Аллен решил, что Элви сломал четвертую стену, объяснил он, «потому что я чувствовал, что многие люди в аудитории испытывали те же чувства и те же проблемы. Я хотел поговорить с ними напрямую и противостоять им. «

Критический анализ

Любовь и сексуальность

Вуди Аллен в Нью-Йорке в 2006 году

Социологи Вирджиния Раттер и Пеппер Шварц Считайте отношения Элви и Энни стереотипом гендерных различий в сексуальности. Природа любви — повторяющаяся тема для Аллена, и его партнер по фильму Тони Робертс описал этот фильм как «историю всех, кто влюбляется, а затем разрывается и продолжается». Элви ищет цель любви, пытаясь преодолеть депрессию из-за разрыва отношений с Энни. Иногда он просеивает свои воспоминания об отношениях, а в другой момент останавливает людей на тротуаре, когда одна женщина говорит: «Ты никогда не делаешь этого. Таковы люди. Любовь угасает », предположение, что это не чья-то вина, они просто разошлись, и конец неизбежен. К концу фильма Элви принимает это и решает, что любовь в конечном итоге «иррациональна, безумна и абсурдна», но является жизненной необходимой необходимостью. Кристофер Найт считает, что поиски «Элви при встрече» являются плотскими, в то время как ее поиски носят эмоциональный характер.

Ричард Броуди из The New Yorker отмечает «евроцентрическое самосознание арт-хауса» фильма и «Психоаналитическая одержимость Элви Сингера обнажением своих сексуальных желаний и разочарований, романтических катастроф и невротических запретов».

Еврейская идентичность

Зингера отождествляют со стереотипным невротическим еврейским мужчиной и различиями между Элви и Энни часто связаны с восприятием и реалиями еврейской идентичности. Винсент Брук отмечает, что «Элви обедает с WASP -й семьей Холла и воображает, что они должны видеть в нем хасидского еврея, в комплекте с пайотом (ушные Замки) и большая черная шляпа «. Роберт М. Зельцер и Норман Дж. Коэн выделяют сцену, в которой Энни замечает, что бабушка Энни« ненавидит евреев », она думает, что они просто зарабатывают деньги, но она единственная. -либо », форма лицемерие в стереотипном американском взгляде ее бабушки на евреев, утверждая, что« любовь к деньгам в Америке не пытается с позором ». Т.е. Бернд Херцогенрат также считает шутку Аллена« Я бы хотел, но нам нужны яйца »доктору в конце,

Персона Вуди Аллена

Кристофер Найт указывает, что Энни Холл создается через переживания Элви.. «Как правило, то, что мы знаем об Энни и об отношениях, проходит через Элви, навязчивого рассказчика, способ остановить повествование и выйти из него, чтобы попросить толкования аудитории ». Он предполагает, что, поскольку фильмы Аллена размывают главного героя с «прошлыми и будущими главными героями, а также с самим режиссером», то «имеет значение, насколько мы наиболее отзывчивы к обрамлению событий режиссером или персонажем». Несмотря на фрейм повествования, «шутка — на Элви». Эмануэль Леви считает, что Элви Сингер стал синонимом общественного восприятия Вуди Аллена в наших Штатах. Энни Холл считается фильмом Вуди Аллена, демонстрирующим невротический юмор.

Местоположение

Верхний Ист-Сайд Нью-Йорка

Энни Холл «- это песня о любви для Нью-Йорка. Город, как он есть для персонажа,» отражая обожание Аллена острова Манхэттен. Он неоднократно исследовал эти отношения, особенно в таких фильмах, как Манхэттен (1979) и Ханна и ее сестры (1986). Квартира Энни Холл, которая все еще существует на 70-й Ист-стрит между Лексингтон-авеню и Парк-авеню, по собственному признанию Аллена, является его любимым кварталом в городе. Питер Коуи утверждает, что в фильме «романтизированный вид» района камера «задерживается на Верхнем Ист-Сайде [… и где] страх перед преступностью не беспокоит его символы». Дэвид Халле отмечает очевидное «оскорбительное интеллектуальное сравнение» между Нью-Йорком и Лос-Анджелесом. такие как Дом экзорцизма и Мессия зла. Демонстрация Роба добавление смеха к телевидению демонстрирует «циничный уловок средство массовой информации». мрачный, страдающий клаустрофобией и социальный холодный, но также интеллектуальный рай, полный нервной энергии »), а Лос-Анджелес — символ свободы для Энни.

Психоанализ и модернизм

Энни Холл упоминается как фильм, который использует как терапию, т ак и анализ для достижения комического эффекта. Сэм Б. Гиргус считает, что Энни Холл — это история о памяти и ретроспективе, которая «драматизирует подавленному и бессознательному в манере, подобной психоанализу». и юмор взаимодействуют в фильме для реформирования идей и восприятий, и использование Алленом фрейдистских концепций и юмора формирует «образец скептицизма по отношению к поверхностному значению, требующему дальнейшей интерпретации». демонстрируется вначале сообщение на шутку в Анекдоты и их отношение к бессознательному, и делает еще одну шутку по поводу психиатр и пациент, что, по мнению Гиргуса, также символизирует динамику между юмором и бессознательным в фильме. исследует в фильме, когда Анни вспоминает своему психоаналитику сон, в который Фрэнк Синатра душит ее подушкой, что намекает на веру Фрейда в сновидения как «визуальные представления слов или идей».

Питер Бейли в своей книге «Неохотное киноискусство Вуди Аллена» утверждает, что Элви демонстрирует «гениальное очернение искусства», которое содержит «значительную двусмысленность», и в своем самоуничижении он предлагает зрители поверили, что он с ними равняется. Бейли утверждает, что устройство Аллена в фильме, в том числе субтитры, раскрывающие мысли Энни и Элви, «расширяют и укрепляют привлекательный дух Энни Холл — откровенности и простодушия». Он размышляет о том, что фильм полон антимиметических эмблем, таких как магическая внешность Маклюэна, который дает причудливый юмор, и что фильмом движет «несоответствие между мысленными проекциями реальности и действительностью». По его мнению, саморефлексивные кинематографические устройства разумно подчеркивают разницу между поверхностью и веществом с помощью визуальных эмблем, «постоянно подчеркивая разницу между мысленно сконструированным миром и реальностью».

В его обсуждении отношений фильма к модернизм, Томас Шац находит фильм неразрешенным «исследованием процесса взаимодействия и межличностного общения» и «сразу же устанавливает самореференциальную позицию», которая предлагает зрителю «читать повествование как» система оценки. чем последовательное развитие к некой трансцендентной истине ». Для него Элви «представляет собой жертву тенденций к сверхдетерции смысла — или, говоря модернистским языком,« тирании означаемого », — и его связь с Энни может рассматриваться как попытка установить спонтанные, интеллектуально не обремененные отношения, попытка который обречен на провал».

Саундтрек

  • Кажется, что в старые времена (1945) — Музыка Кармен Ломбардо — Слова Джона Джейкоба Леба — В исполнении Дайан Китон
  • It Had To Be You (1924) — Музыка Ишема Джонса — Слова Гаса Кана — В исполнении Дайан Китон
  • A Hard Way To Go (1977) — сценарий и исполнитель Тим Вейсберг
  • Сонная лагуна (1930) — сочинитель Эрик Коутс — исполняется Томми Дорси
  • Симфония № 41 до мажор K.551, Мольто Аллегро (1788) — Автор Вольфганг Амадей Моцарт

Выпуск

Кассовые сборы

Энни Холл была проведена в Лос Кинофестиваль в Анхелесе в марте 1977 г., до официального релиза 20 апреля. 1977 год. В конечном итоге фильм заработал в США 38 251 425 долларов (143 228 400 долларов в долларах 2013 года) с бюджетом в 4 миллиона долларов, что сделало его 11-м самым кассовым фильмом 1977 года. По необработанным данным он в настоящее время занимает четвертое место среди самых кассовых фильмов Аллена., после Манхэттена, Ханна и ее сестры и Полночь в Париже ; с поправкой на инфляцию, валовая цифра делает его самым кассовым хитом Аллена. Впервые он был выпущен на Blu-ray 24 января 2012 года вместе с фильмом Аллена «Манхэттен» (1979). Оба релиза включают оригинальные театральные трейлеры фильмов.

Отзывы критиков

Китон получила признание критиков и многочисленных похвалы за свою игру.

Энни Холл была встречена широкой критикой после выхода фильма. Тим Рэдфорд из The Guardian назвал этот фильм «самым сосредоточенным и смелым фильмом Аллена на сегодняшний день». The New York Times ‘Винсент Кэнби предпочел Энни Холл второй режиссерской работе Аллена, Бери деньги и беги, поскольку более первая «гуманна», а вторая — скорее « карикатура ». Несколько критиков положительно сравнили фильм с фильмом Бергмана Сцены из брака (1973), в том числе Джозеф Макбрайд в Разнообразие, нашел его «самым трехмерным фильмом Аллена на сегодняшний день» с амбиции равны лучшим Бергману, даже когда партнеры по фильму становятся «современными эквивалентами… Трейси — Хепберн.»

критически, Питер Коуи пишет, что фильм» страдает из-за обилия культурных ссылок и отступлений «. В статье для журнала New York Джон Саймон назвал фильм «несмешной комедией, плохим созданием фильмов и смущающим саморазоблачением» и написал, что выступление Китона было «дурным тоном смотреть. и непристойное проявление », говоря, что роль должна была сыграть Робин Мэри Пэрис, актриса, которая ненадолго появляется в сцене, где Элви Сингер написал пьесу с двумя персонажами, полностью основанную на себе и Энни Холл. Рецензия Саймона на Энни Холл «Это фильм такой бесформенный, растянутый, повторяющийся, и Мало того, чтобы просить о забвении. В этом он успешен ».

Фильм продолжал получать положительные отзывы. В своем ретроспективном обзоре 2002 года Роджер Эберт с удивлением заметил, что фильм« мгновенно стал знакомым », несмотря на то, что возраст, и Slant писатель Хайме Н. Кристли счел остроту «все еще разрушающей после 35 лет». Более поздний критик Guardian, Питер Брэдшоу, назвал его лучшим комедийным фильмом. за все время, комментируя, что «этот удивительно забавный, невыносимо грустный фильм — чудо комиксов и вдохновляющего кинопроизводства». Джон Марриотт из Radio Times полагал, что Энни Холл была фильмом, в котором Аллен «нашел его собственный особый голос, голос, который перекликается с событиями со смесью энтузиазма и самоанализа «, имея в виду» комический восторг «, происходящий от» энергичной игры Дайан Китон как чокнутой невинной с Среднего Запада, а самого Вуди как неуклюжего Нью-Йорк невротик ». Журнал Empire оценил фильм на пять звезд из пяти, назвав его« классикой ». В 2017 году Клэр Дедерер написала: «Энни Холл — величайший комический фильм двадцатого века […], потому что он признает неудержимый нигилизм, скрывающийся в центре всей комедии».

На агрегаторе рецензий Тухлые помидоры, фильм имеет рейтинг 98% на основе 81 обзора со средней оценкой 9,08 / 10. Критический консенсус сайта гласит: «Энни Холл, наполненная острыми выступлениями и разрушительным юмором, представляет собой качественный скачок для Вуди Аллена и остается американской классикой». Metacritic дал фильму оценку 92 из 100 на основе 20 критических отзывов, указывающих на «всеобщее признание».

Награды и похвалы

Награды Академии
1. Лучшее изображение, Чарльз Х. Иоффе
2. Лучший режиссер, Вуди Аллен
3. Лучшая женская роль в главной роли, Дайан Китон
4. Лучший оригинальный сценарий, Вуди Аллен и Маршалл Брикман
Золотой глобус
1. Лучшая женская роль в мюзикле или комедии, Дайан Китон
Премия BAFTA
1. Лучший фильм
2. Best Direction, Вуди Аллен
3. Лучшая женская роль, Дайан Китон
4. Лучший монтаж, Ральф Розенблюм, Венди Грин Брикмонт
5. Лучший сценарий, Вуди Аллен, Маршалл Брикман

Энни Холл получила четыре «Оскара» на 50-й церемонии вручения премии «Оскар» 3 апреля 1978 года, и всего была номинирована на пять. Продюсер Чарльз Х. Джоффе получил статую за лучший фильм, Аллен за лучший режиссер и вместе с Брикманом за лучший оригинальный сценарий, а Китон за лучшую женскую роль. Аллен также был номинирован на лучшую мужскую роль. Многие ожидали, что «Звездные войны» выиграют главные награды, в том числе Брикман и исполнительный продюсер Роберт Гринхат.

Фильм также пять раз был удостоен премии BAFTA. Наряду с высшей наградой за Лучший фильм и наградой за Монтаж фильмов Китон выиграла в категории Лучшая женская роль, а Аллен — в категории Лучшая режиссура и Лучший оригинальный сценарий вместе с Брикманом. Фильм получил только одну премию Золотой глобус за лучшую женскую роль в мюзикле или комедии (Дайан Китон), несмотря на номинации на три других награды: лучший фильм (мюзикл или комедия), лучший режиссер и лучший фильм. Киноактер в мюзикле или комедии (Вуди Аллен).

В 1992 г. Библиотека Конгресса Соединенных Штатов Америки отобрала фильм для сохранения в своем Национальном реестре фильмов, который включает фильмы «культурно, исторически или эстетически значимые».. Фильм часто называют величайшими комедиями всех времен. Американский институт кино ставит его на 31-е место в истории американского кино. В 2000 году они назвали ее второй по величине романтической комедией в американском кино. Исполнение Китон песни «Кажется, как в старые времена» заняла 90-е место в их списке величайших песен, включенных в фильм, а ее фраза «La-dee-da, la-dee-da». был назван 55-й по величине цитатой фильма. Гильдия писателей Америки, Запад назвала этот сценарий шестым по величине, а IGN назвал его седьмым величайшим комедийным фильмом всех времен. В 2000 году читатели журнала Total Film назвали его сорок вторым величайшим комедийным фильмом всех времен и седьмым величайшим романтическим комедийным фильмом всех времен. Несколько списков лучших фильмов Аллена включили Энни Холл в число его величайших работ.

В июне 2008 года AFI представило 10 лучших фильмов — Десять лучших фильмов десяти классических американских жанров — по результатам опроса более 1500 человек из творческого сообщества Энни Холл заняла второе место в жанре романтической комедии. AFI также включила Энни Холл в несколько других списков. В ноябре 2008 года Энни Холл заняла 68-е место в списке 500 величайших фильмов всех времен по версии журнала Empire. Он также занимает 2-е место в рейтинге 25 лучших романтических комедий на тухлых помидорах, уступая только Филадельфийской истории. В 2012 году фильм был назван 127-м лучшим фильмом всех времен по опросу критиков Sight Sound. По результатам опроса режиссеров Sight Sound, фильм также был назван 132-м лучшим фильмом. В октябре 2013 года читатели Guardian проголосовали за фильм как второй лучший фильм режиссера Вуди Аллена. В ноябре 2015 года Гильдия писателей Америки назвала этот фильм самым смешным сценарием в своем списке «101 смешнейший сценарий».

Фильм признан Американским институтом кино в этих списках:

  • 1998: 100 лет AFI… 100 фильмов — № 31
  • 2000 : 100 лет AFI… 100 смеха — # 4
  • 2002: 100 лет AFI… 100 страстей — # 11
  • 2004 : 100 лет AFI… 100 песен :
    • «Кажется Как в старые времена »- # 90
  • 2005: 100 лет AFI… 100 цитат из фильмов :
    • Энни Холл : «Ла-ди-да, ла-ди-да». — № 55
    • Элви Сингер «Я не хочу переезжать в город, где единственное выгодное преимущество — возможность повернуть направо на красный свет». — Назначен.
    • Элви Сингер »Не стучите мастурбацией. Это секс с тем, кого я люблю ». — Назначен.
  • 2007: 100 лет AFI… 100 фильмов (10-я юбилейная редакция) — # 35
  • 2008: 10 лучших AFI :
    • # 2 Романтический комедийный фильм

1992 — Национальный реестр фильмов.

В 2006 году журнал Премьера занял Китон в Энни Холл как 60-е место в рейтинге. его список «100 величайших выступлений всех времен», и отмечалось:

Трудно шутить… Гений Энни в том, что, несмотря на ее неуклюжий удар слева, ужасное вождение и нервные тики, она также является сложной, умная женщина. Китон блестяще демонстрирует эту дихотомию своего персонажа, особенно когда она уходит на первое свидание с Элви (Вуди Аллен), а подзаголовок гласит: «Он, наверное, думает, что я йо-йо». Йо-йо?

Наследие и влияние

Стиль одежды Китона в роли Энни Холл; влияние на мир моды в конце 1970-х

Хотя фильм получил признание и несколько наград, сам Аллен был разочарован им и сказал винтервью: «Когда Энни Холл только начинала, этот фильм не должен был быть тем, чем я закончил. Должен быть был тем, что происходит в голове у парня… Никто ничего не понимал, что происходило, что меня волновало., мне пришлось ограничить фильм только мной и Дайан Китон и этим отношениями, так что я был очень разочарован этим фильмом «. Аллен неоднократно отказывался снимать продолжение, и в интервью 1992 года заявил, что «сиквелизм стал раздражающей вещью. Я не думаю, что Фрэнсис Коппола должен был сделать Крестный отец III, потому что Крестный отец II был весьма велик. Когда они снимают сиквел, это просто жажда денег, поэтому мне не очень нравится эта идея ».

Дайан Китон заявила, что Энни Холл была ее любимой ролью и что фильм значил все для нее, когда ее спросили, беспокоит ее больше всего роль актрисы, она ответила: «Меня не преследует Энни Холл. Я счастлива быть Энни Холл. Если кто-то хочет видеть меня такой, меня это устраивает ». Художник по костюмам Рут Морли, работая с Китон, создала образ, который оказал влияние на мир моды в конце 70-х, когда женщины приняли стиль: многослойные оверсайз, мужские блейзеры поверх жилетов, пышные брюки или длинные юбки, мужской галстук и ботинки. Этот образ часто упоминается как «образ Энни Холл». Некоторые источники предполагают, что за образ в основном отвечала сама Китон., и Ральф Лорен часто заявлял о себе, но только один пиджак и один галстук были куплены у Ральфа Лорена для использования в фильме. Аллен вспомнил, что стиль одежды Лорен и Китон почти не вошел в фильм. «Она вошла», — вспоминал он в 1992 году, — и костюмерша на Энни Холл сказала: «Скажи ей, чтобы она этого не носила. Она не может это носить. Это так безумие ». И я сказал: «Оставь ее. Она гений. Давай просто оставим ее в покое, позволь ей носить то, что она хочет ».

Сценарий фильма возглавил список 101 смешнейшего сценария Гильдии писателей Америки, обогнав Some Like it Hot (1959)), День сурка (1993), Самолет! (1980) и Тутси (1982). Джеймс Бернардони утверждает, что этот фильм «один из самых несколько романтических комедий-драм эпохи Нового Голливуда и одна, которая по праву заняла свое место среди классики этого возродившегося жанра «, сравнивая серьезную медитацию об отношениях пары с Джорджем Кьюкорем Адамом Ребро (1949), в главных ролях Кэтрин Хепберн и Спенсер Трейси. С момента выхода на экраны другие романтические комедии вдохновляли сравнения. Когда Гарри встретил Салли… (1989), В погоне за Эми (1997), Горящая Энни (2007), 500 дней лета (2009) и фильм Аллена 2003 года, Anything Else, среди них, в то время как кинорежиссер Райан Джонсон сказал в интервью для В книге Фильм, который изменил мою жизнь, Энни Холл вдохновила его на то, чтобы стать режиссером. Карен Гиллан заявила, что смотрела Энни Холл в рамках своего исследования для своей главной роли. роль в Not Another Happy Ending. В 2018 году Мэтт Старр и Элли Сакс выпустили римейк короткометражного фильма с участием пожилых людей.

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