Essays on Annie Hall

There are a few ground rules usually followed when telling a story. A exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Occasionally, the story will have a few flash backs and flash forwards sprinkled throughout the tale; but they are usually tied in by subject...

As cinema evolved in the 20th century, so did what it represented: shifts in what made essentially made a film “distinctive” gave way to different kinds of theories that described it, and helped made cinema what it is today. But perhaps the most intuitive of...

Through intense visuality and the complex connections among various characters, Woody Allen in Annie Hall suggests an inextricable connection between geographical location and identity in terms of class, religion, politics, and interpersonal relationships. Within the film, key characters are presented, defined and developed for the...

Is the Faith Really Kept? With the lead in of “a priest and a rabbi” it’s hard not to anticipate a punchline with a least a little prejudice. Keeping the Faith explores the role of multiculturalism in the contemporary urban setting of New York. On...