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ANNIE HALL
August 10, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Sundance, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
This 1977 Woody Allen movie is one of the funniest, most inventive, most influential comedy films ever made. Several of its comic set pieces, from the argument-settling ambush appearance by Marshall McLuhan to the subtitled and split-screen dual perspectives, are by now iconic, and many of even the smallest roles pop with brilliance: Jeff Goldblum’s “I forgot my mantra,” for example, and Christopher Walken’s crazy silent stare (pictured). But give much of the credit to Diane Keaton in the title role. She’s superb, and lovably real, in every single scene, from her giddy “la-de-dah” to her full-length, hauntingly sung nightclub number.
 
 
 
 
 
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