Hello, new appreciation for Diane Keaton!

Some of the funniest, most cutting, truthful dialog I have ever come across in a movie. They're very simple in their storylines.

I'm sorry I hadn't seen these before. These movies had the same effect music has on me--I feel like they saved me, if only a small bit.

Alvy Singer: Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes I have to invent, of course I - I do, don't you think I do?


Alvy Singer: Well, I didn't start out spying. I thought I'd surprise you. Pick you up after school.
Annie Hall: Yeah, but you wanted to keep the relationship flexible. Remember, it's your phrase.
Alvy Singer: Oh stop it, you're having an affair with your college professor, that jerk that teaches that incredible **** course, Contemporary Crisis in Western Man...
Annie Hall: Existential Motifs in Russian Literature. You're really close.
Alvy Singer: What's the difference? It's all mental masturbation.
Annie Hall: Oh, well, now we're finally getting to a subject you know something about.
Alvy Singer: Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Annie Hall: We're not having an affair. He's married. He just happens to think I'm neat.
Alvy Singer: "Neat." What are you, 12 years old? That's one of your Chippewa Falls expressions.
Annie Hall: Who cares? Who cares?
Alvy Singer: Next thing you know, he'll find you keen and peachy, you know. Next thing you know, he's got his hand on your ***.
Annie Hall: You've always had hostility towards David, ever since I mentioned him.
Alvy Singer: Dav - you call your teacher David?
Annie Hall: It's his name.
Alvy Singer: It's a Biblical name, right? What does he call you, Bathsheba?
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Mary Wilke: I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
Isaac Davis: Oh really, he was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.


"Now that was brilliant to me, absolutely brilliant."

"The steel cube was brilliant?"

"Yes! To me it was very textural, if you know what I mean, it
was perfectly integrated and it had a marvellous kind of
negative capability. The rest of the stuff downstairs was
bull****."

was just listing these in that mammoth film survey before i gave up. well lah-de-dah.

I love Woody Allen, and of course those are two of the greats.

Pablita, the next ones you should check out are Stardust Memories, Husbands & Wives, Hannah & Her Sisters, and Sweet And Low Down.

You gotta check out Husbands & Wives for one of his other muses, Judy Davis.





or if you need more saving, Stardust Memories. soooooooo ****ing depressing it makes you feel ok about depression

I will definitely watch these. I'd like to watch everything he's ever made. My first taste of him was Match Point and I don't think many fans of his work liked it too much. I did like it very much but I had no frame of reference.

I'm always in the need for saving. Depressing movies, depressing music, depressing art...catharsis! What we need to move move the **** on.