462 Annie Hall (1977) Part 2

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 231 minutes

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On this week's episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their overdue tribute to the late and incredibly great Diane Keaton with Part 2 of their deep dive into 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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0:41.8	life. It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
0:52.4	Hello and welcome once again to the cinephiles, where this week we are continuing our exploration of Woody Allen's Annie Hall. My name is Steve Morris. I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. Yes, hello, my name is... I can't do it. I can't do, Woody. It's amazing. John Roca here. Thank you so much. Writer, producer and host and voiceover artist in San Diego, California.
1:12.1	Excited to be back, Steve, to dive into one of my favorite films now, having watched it again for even the second part of our discussion, because I just really enjoy this movie.
1:23.9	Regardless of all the other stuff around it, I just enjoy watching it. And I love the
1:27.6	humor. And I love the gender politics and dynamics going on with these two characters.
1:32.3	It's a kind of breath of a fresh air every time you watch and watch this movie.
1:35.6	Well, speaking of the other things that go around it, I think we have to kind of mention the
1:40.7	elephant in the room, which is that literally the day that we dropped this episode,
1:45.2	yeah.
1:45.8	Photos were released from the Epstein files that included Woody Allen and a whole bunch of other people.
1:52.3	And it's not surprising.
1:54.9	We'd been hearing forever that he had visited, you know, that he had been part of that group.
1:59.4	And photos of famous people with other famous people is not evidence of crimes.
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