Annie Hall

1977
US
93 min
15

Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst

Two decades before Sex And The City had its first orgasm, Annie Hall was laying bare the mores of modern, urban romance to devastating effect while also zoning in on the specific psyche of Allen Konigsberg: anti-Semitic paranoia, metaphysical angst, the search for true love. There's a highly charged on-screen electricity between Allen and Keaton, glorious vistas of the old New York and hilarious set pieces – Alvy fighting with lobsters, the scene of his childhood home below the rollercoaster – and a stream of one-liners to end them all: 'Don't knock masturbation; it's sex with someone I love.' They really don't make 'em like Annie Hall anymore.