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Schmidt made a cameo appearance in Allen's newest film, "Hannah and Her Sisters." The cherub-faced future president plays the role of a doctor who tells Allen that his sperm count...
...lectures he delivered at Harvard in the spring of 1970. And though the lectures happened to deal with centuries-old cultural developments, this process of moral revision is forever with us. One wonders whether, someday, similar words will not be said about Woody Allen's brilliant new movie Hannah and Her Sisters...
...have made, either in the 1960s or the 1970s. That message celebrates neither the endless experimentation and rebellion of the one decade nor the untrammelled complacency of the other. Rather, the way in which the movie extols those homegrown verities that Hollywood has long patronized as bourgeois earns Hannah and Her Sisters its status as a cultural landmark...
...some, the film will appear the finely crafted comedy of an old master. And certainly there is no shortage of laughs. But the humor in Hannah and Her Sisters functions the same way that humor does in life; it cushions us in situations of discomfort...
...godless universe smiles on Hannah and her extended family. For one couple, like ends up with like; another pair discovers that compromise is the best salve for a seven-year itch. It could be that, at 50, Allen is looking not to accuse his characters, or even to absolve them, but to lay on a blessing. In his Manhattan everyone has his reasons, and almost everyone deserves a happy ending. Dear, dour Mickey gets blessed best, with a wry miracle of regeneration. The barrenness of despair gives way to a hope for continuation of the species. For most American directors...