Four Films: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories
by Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's screenplays are some of the wittiest and most sophisticated of modern cinema classics, and these four scripts reflect the emotional range of his talent. Annie Hall, subtitled 'A Nervous Romance', starred Diane Keaton with Woody Allen and won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Script, Best Actress and Best Director. Manhattan takes city life as its subject and stars Woody Allen as TV-comedy writer. Interiors and Stardust Memories are studies of the inner lives of their show more characters. show lessTags
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Essentially the screenplays to four of Woody Allen's movies, with an occasional photograph from the films: "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan", two of his best, "Interiors", an experiment by Allen at a totally "serious" movie with mixed results, and the nearly unwatchable "Stardust Memories". A fine reference for the Woody Allen fan, which I am still to a degree.
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Allen's favorite personality-the bemused neurotic, the perpetual worrywart, the born loser-dominates his plays, his movies, and his essays. A native New Yorker, Allen attended local schools and despised them, turning early to essay writing as a way to cope with his Since his apprenticeship, writing gags for comedians such as Sid Caesar and Garry show more Moore, the image he projects-of a "nebbish from Brooklyn"-has developed into a personal metaphor of life as a concentration camp from which no one escapes alive. Allen wants to be funny, but isn't afraid to be serious either-even at the same time. His film Annie Hall, co-written with Marshall Brickman and winner of four Academy Awards, was a subtle, dramatic development of the contemporary fears and insecurities of American life. In her review of Love and Death, Judith Christ wrote that Allen was more interested in the character rather than the cartoon, the situation rather than the set-up, and the underlying madness rather than the surface craziness. Later Allen films, such as Crimes and Misdemeanors or Husbands and Wives, take on a far more somber and philosophic tone, which has delighted some critics and appalled others. In Allen's essays and fiction reprinted from the New Yorker, Getting Even New Yorker, (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980), the situations and characters don't just speak to us, they are us. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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