USA, 1977
93m, 8372 feet
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, English
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
An American fantasy film directed by Woody Allen.
Plot Summary
New York stand-up comedian Alvy Singer relates his brief love affair with aspiring nightclub singer Annie Hall. Along the way, they trael back in time to interact with their younger selves, subtitles give away their real thoughts while having a conversation and Alvy imagines a conversation between animated versions of himself and Annie.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Woody Allen
© United Artists Corporation MCMLXXVII [1977]
United Artists Corporation [logo] A Jack Rollins-Charles H. Joffe production
Executive Producer: Robert Greenhut
Produced by: Charles H. Joffe
Associate Producer: Fred T. Gallo
Written by: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Director of Photography: Gordon Willis
Edited by: Ralph Rosenblum
Film Editor: Wendy Greene Bricmont
Sound Mixers: James Sabat
Costume Designer: Ruth Morley
Clothing Designs by: Ralph Lauren
Makeup Artist: Fern Buchner
Hairstylist: Romaine Green
Animated Sequences: Chris Ishii
Art Director: Mel Bourne
Cast
Woody Allen (Alvy Singer)
Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
Tony Roberts (Rob)
Carol Kane (Allison)
Paul Simon (Tony Lacey)
Shelley Duvall (Pam)
Janet Margolin (Robin)
Christopher Walken 1Mis-spelled Wlaken in the end credits] (Duane Hall)
Colleen Dewhurst (Mom Hall)
Mordecai Lawner (Alvy’s dad)
Donald Symington (Dad Hall)
Joan Newman (Alvy’s mom)
John Glover (actor boy friend)
Jonathan Munk (Alvy, aged 9)
Russell Horton (man in theatre line)
Christine Jones (Dorrie)
Mary Boylan (Miss Reed)
Marshall McLuhan (himself)
Helen Ludlam (Grammy Hall)
Ruth Volner (Alvy’s aunt)
Alternative Titles
Ane Hol – Lithuania
Anhedonia – working title
Ani Hol – Yugoslavia (Serbia)
Annie Hallová – Czechoslovakia
Annie og jeg – Norway
Der Stadtneurotiker – Austria, Germany, West Germany
Dos extraños amantes – Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Eni Hol – Serbia
Ha-Roman Sheli im Annie – Israel
Io e Annie – Italy
Io e le donne – Italy
It Had to be Jew – working title
Jeg og Annie – en nervøs romanse – Norway (alternative)
Mig og Annie – Denmark
Nevrikos erastis – Greece (re-release)
Noivo Neurótico, Noiva Nervosa – Brazil
Νευρικός εραστής – Greece
Ани Хол – Bulgaria
Еннi Голл – Ukraine
Энни Холл – Russia
Links
Extracts included in
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim (2012)
References
Periodicals
- Photoplay vol.29 no.3 (March 1978) p.5 – note (Paul Wilson’s movie world by Paul Wilson)
- Time Out 15-21 September 2011 p.81 – illustrated article (This one goes up to 100: 100 best comedy movies by David Jenkins)
Books
- Film Review 1978-79 by F. Maurice Speed (ed.) p.138
- The Films of Woody Allen by G. Bendazzi pp.110-121; 205 – illustrated article; credits
- The Films of Woody Allen – by Neil Sinyard pp.8, 10,13, 29, 47-49, 54, 56, 57, 64, 87, 90, 93
- House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse p.430
- Screen World 1979 volume 30 by John Willis pp.144-145 – illustrated credits
- Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style and Politics by Jeffrey Scoce (ed.) pp.162, n.19
- The Woody Allen Companion by Stephen J. Spignesi pp.182-188
- Woody Allen: Film by Film – by Jason Solomons pp.80-85 – illustrated article
