461 Annie Hall (1977) Part 1

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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On this week's episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha offer up their overdue tribute to the late and incredibly great Diane Keaton by revisiting 1977's 'Annie Hall'. The film stars Keaton and Woody Allen who also co-wrote and directed the movie. A satirical romantic comedy-drama with Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, Annie Hall, a role Allen wrote specifically for Keaton. The film was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Marshall Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton who also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress that year. It ranks 31st on AFI's list of the 100 greatest films in American cinema. The film's screenplay was also named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays". It's also regarded by critics as a landmark "transitional" film in Allen's career, moving his work from more "accessible" and surreal parody towards more "naturalistic" comic filmmaking. Steve and John go thru the movie scene by scene and break down the direction, acting, storylines, cinematography, score, themes, message, philosophical debates and more.

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0:00.0	The other important joke for me is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx,
0:06.0	but I think it appears originally in Freud's wit and its relation to the unconscious.
0:10.0	And it goes like this, I'm paraphrasing.
0:12.0	I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.
0:17.0	That's the key joke of my adult life in terms of my relationships with women.
0:32.6	Hello and welcome once again to the Cinefiles, where each week we enter the world of a great film.
0:36.1	We explore its themes, the history, the filmmaking, and the influence it has on us today.
0:37.7	My name is Steve Morrison. I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. Hello, everyone. My name is John Roke.
0:42.0	I'm a writer, producer, host, and voiceover artist here in San Diego, California. And today we're
0:47.2	digging into one of the great films of all time, also a film that's going to get us into
0:53.3	some issues that are somewhat complicated. And of course, that's Annie Hall, which we're discussing in honor of all time. Also, a film that's going to get us into some issues that are somewhat
0:54.4	complicated. And of course, that's Annie Hall, which we're discussing in honor of the great
0:58.3	Diane Keaton. But we couldn't be making the cinefiles without our incredible supporters on Patreon.
1:03.8	And right at this moment, we are offering the first ever holiday sale in the history of the
1:10.5	cinefiles. Every single person going to Patreon right now in the history of the cinephiles.
1:11.5	Every single person going to Patreon right now can get any of the tiers for 25% off.
1:17.7	That's amazing.
1:18.8	Is there 25% off?
1:20.0	We've never done this.
1:21.3	We were inspired by the Black Friday sales and we thought this could be fun to do for
1:25.8	some of our fans who have been maybe hesitant to join the Patreon or we're thinking about it, but not quite ready to make the jump,
1:32.1	or want to give our show as a Patreon gift to somebody who loves films.
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