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    Box office. $44 million. Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the ...

  3. Annie Hall, American romantic comedy film, released in 1977, that was cowritten and directed by Woody Allen and starred Allen and Diane Keaton. The movie, with its mix of comic sequences and observations about the impermanence of romance, became a critical and popular favourite. It garnered both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best ...

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  4. Apr 19, 2017 · 1. The film's original title was Anhedonia, meaning the "inability to experience pleasure." 2. Other titles Allen considered included Anxiety and Alvy and Me, while co-writer Marshall...

  5. May 19, 2024 · The film was originally titled “Anhedonia”. Initially, the film was named “Anhedonia,” which is a psychological condition that refers to the inability to experience pleasure. However, Allen decided to change the title to “Annie Hall” as he felt it was more fitting for the story.

    • ALLEN’S ORIGINAL IDEA FOR THE MOVIE WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. Although Annie Hall is now heralded as one of the most influential and inventive romantic comedies of all time, director and co-writer Woody Allen’s original mission was not to make a relationship picture.
    • EARLY DRAFTS CONTAINED A SLEW OF FANTASY ELEMENTS. Included among the original script’s fantasy scenes and dream sequences were Alvy and Annie’s time-hopping visits to the Garden of Eden, the French Resistance, and Nazi Germany, parodies of the films Angel on My Shoulder and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a guided tour of Hell (featuring Richard Nixon), and a basketball game between the New York Knicks and philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard.
    • ONE DISCARDED SUBPLOT FROM ANNIE HALL BECAME ANOTHER MOVIE. The Annie Hall scene following Alvy and Annie’s last-minute decision to skip out on the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face was initially meant to kick off a sequence in which the pair witnesses and investigates a murder.
    • THE STUDIO HIRED AN AD AGENCY TO MAKE ALLEN’S TITLE MORE MARKETABLE. United Artists. United Artists, the distributor of Allen’s four previous films (Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Sleeper, and Love and Death) recognized the inherent difficulty in marketing a film called Anhedonia.
  6. Apr 20, 2017 · Diane Keaton's real name is Diane Hall and her nickname is Annie. 10. Woody Allen had a knack for casting for up-and-comers

  7. May 12, 2002 · Lore about "Annie Hall" on imdb.com includes the revealing detail that Diane Keaton, who lived with Allen at the time, was born as Diane Hall, and her nickname was Annie. The movie originally contained a murder subplot, entirely dropped; a 140 minute rough cut became a 95 minute film in a process described in editor Ron Rosenblum's book When ...

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