Annie Hall
(1977)
Description:
Australian Daybill Movie Poster
- Folded
Item Description:
Original; single-sided; Australian Daybill; folded
Year: 1977
Condition:
Near Mint
Dimension: 13" x 30"
Genre: Comedy
This movie art item is an authentic
original piece - the same item that is used in actual movie theaters. Original movie art
items are valued by collectors worldwide and can increase in value over time.
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Shelley
Duvall, Christopher Walken, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane, Tracey Walter; Director:
Woody Allen
Synopsis:
Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down
relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy
Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with
tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The
twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options
include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone
writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different. Along the rocky road of their
coupling, Allen/Alvy weigh in on such topics as endless therapy, movies vs. TV,
the absurdity of dating rituals, anti-Semitism, drugs, and, in one of the best
set pieces, repressed Midwestern WASP insanity vs. crazy Brooklyn Jewish
boisterousness. Annie wants to move to Los Angeles to find that fame that
finally does in the relationship -- but not before Alvy gets in a few digs at
vacuous, mantra-fixated California. Originally entitled Anhedonia (the inability
to enjoy oneself), Annie Hall blended the slapstick and fantasy from such
earlier Allen films as Sleeper (1973) and Bananas (1971) with the more
autobiographical musings of his stand-up and written comedy, using an array of
such movie techniques as talking heads, splitscreens, and subtitles. Within
these gleeful formal experiments and sight gags, Allen and co-writer Marshall
Brickman skewered 1970s solipsism, reversing the happy marriage of opposites
found in classic screwball comedies. Hailed as Allen's most mature and personal
film, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture and also won Oscars for
Allen as director and writer and for Keaton as Best Actress; audiences
enthusiastically responded to Allen's take on contemporary love and turned
Keaton's rumpled menswear into a fashion trend.