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Film · United Artists · 1977

Annie Hall

Name: Annie Hall scores 51 — Live Historic
Item: Annie Hall
Rating: 51
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51Watch it awake.

The love was real, it ended, and the jokes were how he hid from that.

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The review

He tells you the romance didn't last, and he tells the camera, because the jokes are how he hides. She outgrows him. It's a New York story on the side of a love that can be real and still end. Nobody owes you a reunion. If you're waiting for one, you're fighting the movie.

Adult, and it doesn't punish her for getting larger than his bit. That's the decent thing in it. The talk is specific enough that some of it stays on those streets, and that's fine. Watch it when you want an ending that isn't treated as a waste. It won't make the funny person the hero of the breakup. She gets out from under the anecdote. Let her.

Journal

Keep Annie Hall in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Princess Bride

64 instead of 51

The Princess Bride is still a comedy film, and it scores 64 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: A corrupt prince, laughed at and defeated.

The eight

5
Industry
He works as a comedian, and the jokes are the tool he uses to dodge the room.
6
Household
Two people make a real romance, and the film lets it end without a trick.
4
Piety
Nobody is stopped by a scruple; the moral fact is simply that she may leave.
6
Courage
She risks the romance by outgrowing it, and he risks telling it to the camera.
2
Republic
It is a private love in one city, with almost nothing owed to any public.
5
Temperance
The jokes keep grabbing the last word, and eventually the film takes it back.
8
Truth
He admits the romance ended, so the defense does not get to rewrite the loss.
5
Stewardship
What remains is the telling: an ended love that is still allowed to have been love.

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Film · Universal · 1916

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

51Watch it awake.

A child can watch the submarine; the bolted-on war talk is 1916, not the sea.

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The review

Captain Nemo and a submarine, and the underwater scenes were really shot underwater. That is the part I would show a child. The sea is the pleasure. This 1916 Universal picture was the year's leader on the lists still cited. It is not a later version, so don't talk over it with a newer one.

A wartime frame was added, with Nemo against a warmongering power. The added war is 1916 talking. A child can watch the boat and the water. I'd say, before that frame takes over, that the war talk was put on for the year. The dive is the part worth keeping.

Journal

Keep 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Prisoner of Zenda

63 instead of 51

The Prisoner of Zenda is still a adventure film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: A coronation needs a king in the chair, so a lookalike is asked to serve.