Annie Hall: Considered to be "Woody Allen's breakthrough movie"
(Time), Annie Hall won four Os including Best Picture and
established Allen as the premier auteur filmmaker. Thought by
many critics to be Allen's magnum opus, Annie Hall confirmed that
Allen had "completed the journey from comic to humorist, from
comedy writer to wit [and] from inventive moviemaker to creative
artist" (Saturday Review).
Alvy Singer (Allen) is one of Manhattan's most brilliant
comedians, but when it comes to romance, his delivery needs a
little work. Introduced by his best friend, Rob (Tony Roberts),
Alvy falls in love with the ditzy but delightful nightclub singer
Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). When Alvy's own insecurities sabotage
the affair, Annie is forced to leave Alvy for a new life – and
lover (Paul Simon) – in Los Angeles. Knowing he may have lost
Annie forever, Alvy's willing to go to any lengths – even driving
L.A.'s freeways – to recapture the only thing that ever
mattered...true love.
Manhattan: Nominated for two Academy Awards, and considered "one
of [Woody] Allen's most enduring accomplishments" (Boxoffice),
Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of
modern relationships set against the backdrop of urban
alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's
first film in that format), and accompanied by a magnificent
Gershwin score, Allen's aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic
portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence"
(Time).
er: Drawing on the great tradition of silent comedy, er
is Woody Allen’s first film to tame his verbal wit and showcase
his emerging skill with visual and physical comedy. Starring
Diane Keaton (directed by Allen for the first time), er is
“a bizarre mixture of New York neuroses, splendidly lunatic
gags, Alice-in-Wonderland illogic, and too-funny-to-be-painful
satire” (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)!
When cryogenically preserved Miles Monroe (Allen) is awakened 200
years after a hospital mishap, he discovers the future’s not so
bright: all women are frigid, all men are impotent, and the world
is ruled by an evil dictator…a disembodied nose! Pursued by the
secret and recruited by anti-government rebels with a plan
to kip the dictator’s snout before it can be cloned, Miles
falls for the beautiful – but untalented – poet Luna (Keaton).
But when Miles is captured and reprogrammed by the government –
to believe he’s Miss America! – it’s up to Luna to save Miles,
lead the rebels, and cut off the nose…just to spite its face.
Forty-two-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job
he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel
Hemingway), he doesn't love, and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl
Streep), who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage...and
whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's
sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head
over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary and quitting his
job are just the beginnings of Isaac's quest for romance and
fulfillment in a city where sex is as as a handshake –
and the gateway to true love...is a revolving door.
Hannah and Her Sisters: Brimming with laughter, tears and subtle
beauty, Hannah and Her Sisters is a magnificent “summation of
[Woody Allen’s] career to date” (The New York Times). Winner of
three Os, and featuring a brilliant all-star cast, Hannah and
Her Sisters spins a tale of three unforgettable women and
showcases Allen “at his most emotionally expansive, working on
his broadest canvas with masterly ease” (Newsweek)!
The eldest daughter of show-biz parents, Hannah (Mia Farrow) is a
devoted wife, loving mother and successful actress. A loyal
supporter of her two less sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and
Holly (Dianne Wiest), she’s also the emotional back of a
family that seems to resent her stability almost as much as they
depend on it. But when Hannah’s perfect world is quietly
sabotaged by sibling rivalry, she finally begins to see that
she’s as lost as everyone else, and in order to find herself,
she’ll have to choose – between the independence her family can’t
live with…and the family she can’t live without.