This 1975 Woody Allen movie is one of his early ones, but one which showed his growing sophistication as both a filmmaker and a satirist. He directed, wrote and stars in this spoof of sprawling Russian epics, both literary and cinematic. But he also mixes in a lot of jokes referring to Swedish cinema at the time, because of his love of the movies of director Ingmar Bergman. Hence, both the scythe-carrying Death figure and, in one scene featuring co-stars Diane Keaton and Jessica Harper (pictured), a visual mash-up of close-up and profile.