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Unspooled

Annie Hall

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy clear their throat for 1977's Woody Allen breakthrough "Annie Hall"! They ask how autobiographical the film is, learn who else was considered for that Marshall McLuhan cameo, and decide if the list absolutely needs a Woody Allen film. Plus: Tony Roberts, who plays Rob in the film, talks about his relationship with Woody. Pitch us your "Raging ___" film! Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer. Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall This episode is brought to you by Invitae (www.invitae.com) and Amex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The year is 1977 and we are in a kitchen with a boy, a girl and a bunch of lobsters.

0:05.8

The movie, Any Home.

0:26.2

Hello everybody and welcome to Unspooled.

0:29.5

I'm Amy Nicholson, Paul Shear will be here in just a second, but you don't need him.

0:33.4

You have me to say right now that this is the show where every week we go through one of the films on the A.F.I.S. top 100 list from 2007

0:40.6

and talk about what that film is like today.

0:42.8

Put it in a context of history, put it in context of the modern era, put it in context of what this film contributes to this great messy thing we call cinema.

0:51.3

However you define cinema, we are not getting into the fight of what is cinema today.

0:55.5

Last week Paul and I were both just dazzled to talk about the film The Best Years of Our Lives from 1946.

1:03.1

It is a film about three soldiers or three different people from different branches of the military who return home to their small town

1:09.3

and just try to get their footing and the women that they love, the families that they love try to get their footing to kids.

1:15.0

That's a whole big, lovely, lovely, beautiful film that is kind of hard to find.

1:20.5

We are sad about that.

1:22.5

It was a film that just blew Paul away.

1:24.1

This is the film he was like, what are you?

1:26.6

I only know that there is a man who has hooks for hands.

1:30.0

He walked away a Best Years of Our Life Bestia.

1:33.8

I don't know what a Bestia is.

1:35.0

I'm trying to think of a fan group for the best years.

1:38.2

Anyway, we should come up with a name for the fans of The Best Years of Our Lives because it turns out there are just bazillions of them.

1:44.0

Everybody who has seen this movie loves this movie.

1:47.0

I loved this week just being online, just having people say,

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