NOIVO
NERVOSO, NOIVA NEURÓTICA (ANNIE HALL, USA, 1977) - Not only is Annie Hallthe most experimental best
picture win the Oscar – it also features an entire section dedicated to
viciously roasting the shallowness of awards show culture. Before Annie Hall,
Woody Allen was a joke-scribbler and standup and talk show guest who made
small, oddball comedies that, while brilliant, were hardly known for rich
character development. His previous film, Love and Death, dumped his classic
neurotic New Yorker persona into a plot to assassinate Napoleon. (If you
haven’t seen it, you really must.) After Annie Hall he emerged as the lovechild
of Chaplin and Bergman and Buñuel by way of Philip Roth, and one of the
greatest artists in the history of cinema. (That title still fits, by the way
or anyhow). TC Cult
