1. Some announcements:
No class on May 3
Next week (April 26) will be our last class
We’ll discuss both “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and
“The King of Comedy” next Monday.
Final Exam May 10
7:30-9:30
Room E-108
Monday, April 19, 2010

2. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

3. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

4. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

5. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

6. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

7. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

8. Final Exam ID possibilities
Identify the following by name and contribution to the films we have studied
Monday, April 19, 2010

9. For next time 4/19: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
& “The King Of Comedy”
Monday, April 19, 2010

10. 1977
-----A bittersweet
romantic comedy of
modern contemporary
(at the time) love and
urban relationships.
---------Explores the
interaction of past
and present.
Monday, April 19, 2010

11. Annie Hall capitalized on many of the ingredients that had been the
content of Mr. Allen’s earlier films:
- anti-Semitism
-life
-romantic angst
-drugs
-death
-his obsessive love of New York, his dislike of California (mostly
L.A.)
-fads and -intellectual pomposity
-his introspective neuroses and pessimism
-his requisite jokes and psychosexual frustration about sex,
numerous put-downs of his own appearance and personality, and
distorted memories of his childhood
Monday, April 19, 2010

12. The film's more sensitive and realistic (still-comical) yet
serious-minded tone about an intimate and emotional
relationship appealed to all film-goers, not just Woody Allen
fans.
Monday, April 19, 2010

13. With five nominations, the film was a four-time
Academy Award winner: Best Actress (Diane Keaton
with her sole Oscar win), Best Picture (Charles H.
Joffe, producer), Best Director (Woody Allen), and
Best Original Screenplay (Woody Allen and Marshall
Brickman). It defeated the science-fiction blockbuster
Star Wars (1977) for Best Picture.
Monday, April 19, 2010

14. The film influenced fashion designers (with the
masculine, androgynous "Annie Hall" look.)
Monday, April 19, 2010

15. A theme of the film
may be that although
there are limitations in
life (death and loss are
the two most
prevalent), art forms
(such as the printed
word, films, and plays)
have the power to
reshape reality and
provide some
measure of control,
thereby compensating
for life's limitations.
Monday, April 19, 2010

16. Cinematic technique utilized to communicate
theme
Direct addresses to the
camera
Reminiscent of Ingmar
Bergman films, and films
such as Strange
Interlude (1932), or Alfie
(1966) with Michael
Caine
Memory-flashbacks and other
flashbacks
Influenced, in part, by Citizen Kane
(1941)
Monday, April 19, 2010

17. Interjections into the scene.
--Reminiscent of Bergman's
Persona (1960)
vignettes
Adult time-travel back to
childhood
Reminiscent of Bergman's
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The sudden production of a real-
life character ( "Boy, if life were
only like this")
Author Marshall McLuhan
appears, to conveniently settle an
argument
Monday, April 19, 2010

18. “Annie and I broke up. And I still can't get my mind
around that. You know, I keep sifting the pieces of the
relationship through my mind, and examining my life and
trying to figure out where did the screwup come, you
know. A year ago, we were in love, you know.”
“The film searches for his answer to the
question - Why did they break up? (and by
implication, why does contemporary love
die?) “
Monday, April 19, 2010

19. Introductory shot: Our first look
at Annie...somewhere in the
middle of the relationship.
Monday, April 19, 2010

20. Cinematic approach to contrasting families
Split-screen conversation
Monday, April 19, 2010

21. Her mentor:
Monday, April 19, 2010

22. Another split screen:
"Rashomon Effect"
Observers of an event are able to produce substantially
different but equally plausible accounts of it.
Monday, April 19, 2010

23. As Annie's singing and talent
improves, so does her
confidence, personal strength,
and independence. She
ultimately becomes less self-
conscious and less self-
effacing. In a performance
which contrasts sharply with
her nervous singing debut,
she confidently sings solo at
her Manhattan club - it is a
warm, bluesy, beautiful
rendition of "Seems Like Old
Times" that commemorates
the warmth of their renewed
relationship....but further
diminishes Alvy’s dominance.
Monday, April 19, 2010

24. California trip
Voice-over commentary Their mismatched relationship
downturns for many reasons -
misunderstandings, possessiveness
and jealousy, different goals,
interests, hang-ups, and moods, and
plain irrationality.
Monday, April 19, 2010

25. “You know how you're always
trying to get things to come out
perfect in art because, uh, it's
real difficult in life.”
Scenes from the
relationship
Ends as it began
with an old joke .
Monday, April 19, 2010

26. Create a narrative or scene depicting
the start, rise, and fall of a
contemporary (2010) relationship.
Utilize at least one of the cinematic
techniques used in Annie Hall.
---direct addresses to the camera
--memory-flashbacks
--adult time-travel back to childhood
--interjections into the scene
--the sudden production of a real-life character
--split screens
--dialogue between two scenes in a split screen.
---introspective voice-overs
Monday, April 19, 2010

27. Time magazine Woody Allen Interview
Monday, April 19, 2010