1. Oscar J Buendia
Film History 2
Dr. Mirrer
March 1, 2012
Annie Hall
Film Slug:
Annie Hall- 1977
Comedy
Director- Woody Allen
Writers- Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Stars- Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Storyline:
Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally
neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their
first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.
Woody Allen writes a refreshing comedy for the era, in a way very similar to what we
now call romantic comedies. Annie Hall has many themes, but it has one that outshines
all the others. The main theme is the absurdity and necessity of love, Alvy searches for
the secret to successful relationships and concludes that love is ridiculous but absolutely
necessary. Once the relationship with Annie goes south he desperately tries to pinpoint
what went wrong, he even asks anonymous pedestrians to identify the key to happiness in
relationships. The answers he gets add to the absurdadity of love, since most people

2. answer that they just go along and say nothing to keep the other person happy. Despite
his eagerness to find out the answer to his necessity for love Woody Allen concludes the
Film by celebrating the romance between Annie and Alvy, even though it failed. Adding
to the paradox that even though its absurd love is needed.
The Film relates to the text because it shows how the Film used techniques
described in the text. How Film has evolved, and in the 70’s a new styles of film were
emerging. This led into what we now call romantic comedies, as they deal with love and
unusual situations as Woody Allen did in the film. During the 70’s films were how the
culture was Jazz upbeat music, animated text, and bright colors.
The Guardian article shows how to some Annie Hall may just be the best comedy
film of all time, it even says that it may be Woody Allen’s best film ever. I honextly do
not agree with this article because I did not find this film as funny as others did. It may be
that the time era of the film was not of my liking. In my opinion there are far better
comedies than Annie Hall.
In the Montreal Journal article about Annie Hall the writer makes various claims
as to Woody Allen being a genius and that for the last 20 years he has put a movies
constantly. In what the writer says he is definetly correct Woody Allen has been a great
writer, director and having a long and successful career in film industry is not an easy
one.
Annie Hall is definetly a great film in history because it marked a new era for
comedies. Some say it’s the best of all time, but I believe that people say that because of
how it impacted the Film industry. Just like Citizen Kane a great movie even ranked
number one but I believe it was more because of what it did for industry as well. To me

3. both movies are great but they were great for their time.