One of Woody Allen's best

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2000)

I've only seen two Woody Allen movies up to now and I can already state that he is one of my favorite directors. The other movie I saw from him is "Everyone says I love you" which I thought was a very good movie with lots of laughs. However, then I saw "Annie Hall" and I realized just how good a director he really was. He won an Oscar for best director in this movie and really deserved it. Diane Keaton also won an Oscar as best actress in the movie which she also deserved. The movie is funny entertaining and doesn't drag. Actually it would be pretty for the movie if it dragged because it only lasts an hour and a half.
The story starts off with Woody Allen telling two jokes back to back. Then, he suddenly becomes a man named Alvy Singer and starts telling us the story of his relationship with a woman named Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Along the flashbacks, we see what kind of relationships he had with other women. And all along these adventures, he manages to squeeze in a ton of laughs. He finally gets to how his relationship with Annie Hall began. One day, after a tennis match with his friends where Annie was playing, he met her after the game. They talked a little and then Alvy asked her if she could give him a lift. On the way back, Alvy probably lost the taste of wanting to be in the car that Annie is driving.
Some of you could consider this to be typical Woody Allen stuff, but even if you're right, it's great stuff. What's also great about the Woody Allen movies is that in a scene in which he is playing but somebody else in speaking, it's always important to look at his face to get a funny figure or a grimace on his face. The best part of his jokes is how he is able to tell them without even smiling. Finally, throughout the whole movie, we see the love he has for New-York city. If it hadn't been for the script-writer, he would have spent the whole movie in New-York. It's a terrific movie.