romantic comedy
directed by Woody Allen
from a screenplay co-written with Marshall Brickman
and co-starring Diane Keaton
. One of Allen's most popular and most honored films, it won four Academy Awards
including Best Picture. Roger Ebert
described it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie".
Allen had previously been known as a maker of zany comedies; the director has described Annie Hall as "a major turning point", as it brought a new level of seriousness to his work.
The film is set in New York City
, Chippewa Falls, WI, and Los Angeles
.
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen
) is a neurotic comedian, attempting to maintain a relationship with the seemingly ditzy but exuberant Annie (Diane Keaton
).
There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
I hope to become the balding virile type, you know, as opposed to, say, the distinguished gray, unless I'm neither of those two. Unless I'm one of those guys with saliva dribbling out of his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism.
You know, even as a kid, I always went for the wrong women. I think that's my problem. When my mother took me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs|Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White. I immediately fell for the Wicked Queen.