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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Considered to be "Woody Allen's breakthrough movie" (Time), Annie Hall won* four OscarsÂ(r), 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 he 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 byhis best friend, Rob (Tony Roberts), Alvy falls in love with the ditzy but delightful nightclub singer, Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). When his own insecurities sabotage the affair, Annie is forced to leave Alvy for a new lifeand lover (Paul Simon)in Los Angeles. Knowing he may have lost Annie forever, Alvy's willing to go to any lengthseven driving L.A.'s freewaysto recapture the only thing that ever mattered'true love. *1977: Picture; Actress (Keaton); Director; Original Screenplay | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Janet Margolin | | Director: | Woody Allen | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, French | | Subtitle: | English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | MGM (Video & DVD) | | Run Time: | 93 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | May 30, 2000 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 188 reviews |
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 Great film, good DVD Jan 04, 2009
This is one of MGM's earliest DVDs, and is typical of these (though no worse for it). The disc contains the theatrical widescreen (1.85:1) version of the film on one side and the TV fullscreen (1.33:1) on the other. The main menu is functional, but it isn't pretty: the background is a grainy film still of Allen and Keaton at the waterfront with the Brooklyn Bridge as the backdrop, and the menu selections are lime green text! You can't miss them.
The audiovisual quality is unexceptional. The dialogue seems slightly muted in some scenes.
The scene selection menu of this disc consists of titled thumbnail images, and is as extensive as any that I've seen. Forty-nine individual scenes can be selected, so it's pretty easy to jump to your favorite joke if that's what you're looking for. The French dubbed dialogue track is very good, as are the English, French and Spanish subtitles. A mediocre theatrical trailer is also included.
 Allen's Finest! Too Bad About the DVD! Dec 22, 2008
After watching a few of Woody Allen's films this is the one I found the most accomplished, interesting and funny other than "Take The Money and Run". "Sleeper" really lives up (or should I say down) to its name and after that I didn't think I'd risk another Allen flick until I watched this one. Allen plays the neurotic romantic self-sabotager role very well and watching his attempts at getting the ultimate chalk and cheese relationship to work was amusing for the most part and hilarious in a few of the scenes that actually managed to age pretty well over the last 30 years.
The only beef I have with this dvd version of the film is that the picture quality is very poor with numerous imperfections throughout such as black circles, spots etc on many frames and the very poor sound quality which comes in mono. Thankfully, in a film like this where sound effects matter little and it's the dialogue that makes this one great, one's overall enjoyment isn't diminished too much but if they are thinking of doing a Director's Cut of this film or if they are looking at putting this on Blu-ray, they should take the opportunity to clean up both the picture and the sound quality with a 5.1 surround sound option as well as with good Special Features to boot.
Overall this is Woody Allen at his best in a film that only he could make and I actually enjoyed it a great deal but you should wait until they release a better dvd version in either standard or Blu-ray formats but with better Special Features and much, much better picture and sound quality options preferably in a new Director's Cut.
 A very classic Woody Allen...had to be written by him Dec 20, 2008
Woody Allen is a genius..............as certainly brought forth in Annie Hall. I sat thru the movie three times when I first saw it...as did the people I was with......It's definately worth adding to a collection...and enjoyed every minute of it. Diane Keaton can best be described as fetchingly perfect as his girlfriend.....I cannot even picture anyone else in that particular movie.
3.5 stars out of 4 Dec 18, 2008
The Bottom Line:
A delightful, original film starring a very funny Woody Allen and perfectly-cast Diane Keaton, Annie Hall is one of the best movies Allen has ever made and one of the best romantic comedies ever made by anyone.
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 five stars for brilliance, one star for perversity and depression Dec 11, 2008
this movie is brilliant - quick, smart, and funny - got me to laugh out loud many times, which is rare for a movie, especially one created over thirty years ago. for that i give it five stars.
BUT, i average those five stars with one star for the sick negatives of the movie: the palpable negativity and perversity of Woody Allen (like this is news to anyone!), the pointless casual sex which is killing our species, the ultimately hopeless message that dating and romance is the way (it's not!), and the lack of anything deeply redeeming in the piece.
i used to think this was a great movie overall - goes to show how sick and lost i used to be. this time around i couldn't finish watching it. i also used to be able to finish off two macdonald's whoppers, a large fries, and a coke. not anymore! my stomach now knows what's good for it!
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