"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2006)

Virtually every line in "Annie Hall" is funny, and virtually every funny line is brilliant. The advantage of watching the movie today on DVD or VHS is that you can rewind to hear the dialog repeated, whereas in 1977 when the film came out, I probably missed a good five minutes trying to recover from the lobster behind the refrigerator scene. You know, the one about using a dish of melted butter and a nutcracker to scare the lobster out of hiding. It's impossible not to picture that, and when I do, I hit the floor rolling.
Surprisingly, watching the film today it doesn't seem dated. Perhaps Annie's (Diane Keaton) wardrobe is, a definite product of the Seventies, but the nuances of love and life's miseries resonate strongly in the story. It's the story of Everyman and Everywoman just trying to get along and have some fun along the way, in a world divided into two parts, the horrible and the miserable.
Irony of ironies, who could have known at the time that Frank Sinatra's appearance to Annie in a dream could have real life repercussions almost two decades later, though it wouldn't be Annie the Chairman would want to suffocate.
Hey, was that Mick Jagger at the party?