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Vicky Cristina Barcelona

His Fair Ladies

WOODY ALLEN HAS never made a better movie than his 1977 Oscar-winner, Annie Hatt, and it seems pretty certain now that he never will.

Annie Hall was an ambidextrous mix of comedy, drama, pathos, romance, intelligence, wisdom and originality: It begins as a standup-comédy routine, then moves elegantly back and forth between past and present, real and imagined. How can cartoon characters pop up in a live-action movie to talk about menstruation and not seem to be ridiculous and contrived? Just watch Annie Hall and you'll know.

Early in the movie, in a brief sequence at a bygone Coney Island, Allen's character and narrator, Alvy Singer, admits that he's ...

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