Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annie Hall. Even though it's based on his real-life relationship with co-star Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's latest--and arguably best--film is far more than cinema a clef. Allen's sensitive, sometimes painfully realistic portrait of a failed love affair between a neurotic but lovable New York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic 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...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Diane Keaton plunges into a new area in her line of work--a leading role in a serious drama about a nympho working girl--and she can look back on the departure with satisfaction. Her masochistic Theresa Dunn rivals Keaton's technical excellence in portraying Annie Hall, but the character makes no claims upon our sympathy, despite all the vilification unloaded upon her by Dunn's succession of one-night lovers. Tuesday Weld provides an unmemorable contrast to Keaton as Dunn's capricious older sister Katherine, relying too heavily on the character's caricaturish wackiness...
...York's political crowd, she stands out like Diane Keaton at a fat farm. Frank, enthusiastic and relentlessly energetic, she promised to bring new clout to the post of city council president...
Visit her flat, a half-furnished encampment that looks as if someone got a great bargain in white paint, and Allen is on the phone. Interview Allen in his penthouse, a comfortable layout that might belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what...
...turn. Says Allen, "She is always afraid that she is never going to work again. She worries that she hasn't earned her success." Keaton is going to cut her first record in a few months, and, Allen predicts, "she will have no problem whatsoever performing. But she worries that she is not an interesting singer. Now she is worried about her role in my new film and worried that when she is older she will be one of those actresses who haven't aged well." He tells her she is great...