Annie Hall: Classic or Dud?

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Manhattan makes me throw up it's so unrealistic. I want to slap that girl round the face with a haddock. Meryl Streep's great in it, though, despite the naffness of the lesbians jokes.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

Search: Ralph Rosenblum's chapter on editing Annie Hall in his great book When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins.

totally! fun fact: annie hall was originally conceived of/shot as a MURDER MYSTERY!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

How on earth did I miss this thread? Annie Hall is my favorite movie of all time. The chemistry between Diane Keaton and Woody Allen is unspeakably perfect.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

Whereas "Manhatten Murder Mystery" looks llike "Annie Hall 2"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

i'm a huge crimes & misdemeanours fan too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

La-di-da, la-di-da, la la.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

See? Nickels? See? Nickels?
You can always remember me - Joey Five Cents.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

What an asshole...

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

We use a large, vibrating egg...

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

Don't be tellin' me about foot massages - I'm the foot fuckin' master.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

foot massages? what movie is that from?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

well, he's completely shallow and has nothing to say, and neither do I!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

What i wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a cartoon, cartoons don't get periods

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

I remember being a bit underwhelmed by this one. Zelig and Manhattan are currently my two favorites, but they're kinda one big smear (in a good way!).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

Still the greatest, I suppose.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

No, seriously, when does Ethan come back on this threaD?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago) link

Er, I mean $$.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago) link

zelig & manhattan are one big smear? that's weird!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

I love that scene where woody and max are walking down the street and you can hear them coming but the shot is empty until they finally arrive and then they meet the shallow couple.

Beyond classic.

and I love star wars too.

― hector (hector), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't get into Manhattan at all. I loved Manhatter Murder Mystery though. Also an early one where he was an inept bank robber.

(I don't remember the lobster scene . . .)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago) link

No, slocki, all of Allen's films are a big smear. Zelig less than most, I guess, which is why it's my favorite.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

zelig is so the best thing ever.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link

i'm so ripping that movie off one day.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

It came out 30 years ago this week. Dad took my sister and me to a Saturday matinee the first weekend at the now defunct Little Carnegie on 57th Street.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

dud

― sunny successor, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

NOT ALLOWED

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

rong BEARTRAP

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

annie hall was originally conceived of/shot as a MURDER MYSTERY!

titled Anhedonia

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"max, if she comes over here my brain is gonna turn into guacamole"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Elizabeth Berkeley was da bomb in "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion".

-- Nicole, Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:00 PM (5 years ago)

??

― s1ocki, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It was a bad joke.

― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I especially like how he dates Shelley Duvall.

"I'm sorry I took so long."
"That's alright... I think I'm starting to get some feeling back in my jaw."

― kenan, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the screenplay

"What I wouldn't give for a large sock o' horse manure."

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This movie is classic classic classic btw. (But yeah, I do like Manhattan better.)

― kenan, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

well, Manhattan has more asshole characters (ie, all of em except the retrospectively disturbing Mariel Hemingway)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Beat Star Wars for Best Picture at the Oscars

Is there any place on the net that lists what was nominated for every year? (I can only find the winners)

― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp

― kenan, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"It's dynamite ham."

― Je4nne Fuhfuh, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

dud

-- sunny successor, Monday, April 23, 2007 9:35 AM (1 hour ago)

Except for this scene.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, my suspicions have been confirmed.. the academy has shit taste in movies.

― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

after 1977 particularly

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty fucking unbelievable that Full Metal Jacket wasn't recognized.. sorry, don't mean to steer away from the thread's focus, but I find that amazing.

Walken steals every scene ever.

― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

well, that was probably his first notable freak part.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

classic for chris walken & jeff goldblum NOTHING ELSE

(i am joking it is so so good)

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Alison Portchnik" (grimace)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

classssique

― sleep, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"Beat Star Wars for Best Picture at the Oscars, so clearly dud. I will not be moved. ;-)

-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (5 years ago)"

winky carrying a lotta weight there.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

bob dylan zing :(

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I use "my raccoon had hepatitis" all the time

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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I'm sure I'll get grief for playing anything having to do with Woody Allen in a school setting, but I would always play the expanding-universe scene for students whenever that subject came up (they hardly ever laughed). I got back from a planning today, and the grade 7 class I was in for was finishing up with their language teacher, talking about a poem having to do with large spiders. So of course I thought of the spider scene in Annie Hall.

Didn't have time to check it, but I thought: "Any language?" (pretty sure not); "Any drugs?" (possibly, I think Diane Keaton lights up a joint--I can skip past that); "Anything sexual" (don't think so). All I could think of were two jokes: the spider as big as a Buick, and the one where Allen asks Keaton if she wants him to rehabilitate the spider. Seemed innocuous enough, and students don't know Woody Allen from Toy Story Woody. So I played it. I was right on those three questions, but halfway through he finds Keaton's black soap and makes a minstrel joke.

Jesus...This is the second time this has happened to me in a year (the other a Culture Club video). I will eventually get it through my thick skull not to play anything older than five or ten years unless you check it first.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link

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