Chez Classics at GV: Annie Hall with John Anzalone

Let's join the lovely Chez folks and Film Professor John Anzalone for a tribute to Diane Keaton, John will do brief intro and follow up info session/Q&A after for certified cinephiles!

“Annie Hall” contains more intellectual wit and cultural references than any other movie ever to win the Oscar for best picture, and in winning the award in 1977 it edged out “Star Wars,” an outcome unthinkable today. The victory marked the beginning of Woody Allen‘s career as an important filmmaker (his earlier work was funny but slight) and it signaled the end of the 1970s golden age of American movies. With “Star Wars,” the age of the blockbuster was upon us, and movies this quirky and idiosyncratic would find themselves shouldered aside by Hollywood’s greed for mega-hits. “Annie Hall” grossed about $40 million–less than any other modern best picture winner, and less than the budgets of many of them.
Watching it again, 25 years after its April 1977 premiere, I am astonished by how scene after scene has an instant familiarity. Some of its lines have seeped into the general consciousness; they’re known by countless people who never saw the movie, like Jack Nicholson’s chicken salad speech from “Five Easy Pieces.” For years I’ve invariably described spiders as being “as big as a Buick,” and this movie may be where most people first heard Groucho Marx’s comment that he would not want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. (Roger Ebert)

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DUE TO THE LENGTH OF THE PRESENTATION NO AFTER EVENT IS PLANNED