Word: chicness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach: "Annie Hall" goes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhatten aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
...have to hold myself back here," she says, "I want to get going with my career." But Alexandra considers herself an actress, above all, and prides herself on being able to play various roles with genuine feeling. She describes herself as "moody": sometimes, she says, she is the chic. New-York-elegant actress, sometimes she's the Harvard student in blue jeans who puts her friends at school ahead of her career. Through it all, however. Alexandra insists that she wants to be honest: "I want people to like me because of me because I'm a nice, warm, genuine...
...approach; "Annie Hall" hoes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New. Yorker...
...approach: Annie Hall goes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
...assume all the earmarks of a modern-day Emperor's New Clothes parable. The New York film critie cliques seem all too ready to applaud the arrival of a new "school" of film. And once the Sarrises and Gilliatts affix their all-important seal of approval, off go the chic-conscious lemmings ready and willing to plunge into a two-hour morass of clipped dialogue and plots that never really unfold but merely plod...