'Annie Hall'

- Made the same year as 'Star Wars' and beat it to oscar for best film.
- Woody Allen has made around a film per year since 1971.
- 'Annie Hall' is exceptionally edited.
- Diane Keaton was the much used wide range actressof the era e.g. Meg Ryan (1990's) and Charlize Theron (2000's). She was also dating Woody Allen at the time the film was made.
- The average length of cuts when this film was made was 4-7 seconds. 'Annie Hall' had an average cut of 20 seconds.
- The film is very dialogue based. Unlike some of his other films there aren't many
slapstick gags but if there are gags its usually the in the dialogue.
- Only slapstick gag is when he sneezes into the bag of cocaine and it goes everywhere.
- Ralph Rosenbloom wrote a great editing book after editing 'Annie Hall' including a great chapter about editing the film.
- Woody Allen always includes a budget for re-filming as he considers editing to be massively important to his films.
- Non-linear narrative (doesn't begin and run to the end, it is a mixed up narrative).