Top 5 Woody Allen Movies

5. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

The Allen-Farrow couple works again perfectly on the screen, in one of the funniest Allen’s movies ever. The dialogues are frantic, dynamic and ironic, and they make the movie light and carefree, with the usual melancholy that characterizes Allen’s masterpieces. In the Broadway set, there is no space for mediocracy, but there surely is space for love, romances between actors and singers. Brace yourself for the bitter that will last in your mouth, seeing the dark side of show business, the one which surrounds those who can’t make it.

4.  Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989)

There are few topics that Allen really likes talking about in its movies; one of them is surely God and the Christian religion. In this film, he not only involved the dangerous thematic of religion but also the contrast between good and bad, with the last one always victorious in real life. Judah (Martin Landau) and Cliff (Woody Allen) are the protagonists of a comedy inside a drama, where the thin humor of the dialogues covers the sad view of life as a set of deceptions. The eternal balance between faith and reason, good and bad; the spectator can’t be indifferent to the themes of the movie and it’s called to interact and reflect during those 107 minutes of excellent cinematography.

3. Hannah and her sisters (1986)

Common people, with common problems, interact with each other in a jumble of intrigues and relationships, where Hannah plays the turning point of the story. The three sisters performed at amazing level, touching peaks of humor which amuse and engage always the viewers. Furthermore, Dianne West (Holly) and Michael Caine (Elliot), who played the husband of Hannah, received an Academy Award each for their Supporting Roles in the movie, helping Allen reaching 3 Oscars for his film (together with Best Original Screenplay, the second of Allen’s career).

2. Manhattan (1979)

Considered by all critics a masterpiece of Allen production, Manhattan is the perfect picture of the city that never sleeps, full of its controversies and frights, ups and downs, noises and beautiful sounds. To celebrate the antithesis embodied by the city where he was born, the city he loves most in the world, Woody decided to shoot the movie in Black and White, high lightening the charm of the opposites. Thanks to the works of George Gershwin and Gordon Willis, the monologues of the writer Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) come to life, in a film which is a celebration of the director’s love for the city and the poignant romances. Oh, Allen considers it a fiasco!

1. Annie Hall (1977)

The movie who led Woody Allen into the Olympus of “the Academy” couldn’t help but not be in the first place of our top chart. Not only Allen won the Academy Award for the Best Director, but for the Best Original Screenplay also, while Diane Keaton received her one and only “Oscar” as Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Annie Hall represents the perfect balance between “the anarchic early films and the more introspective works of the eighties” (Neil Cockburn). The two main characters, also, were perfectly balanced inside the love story captured by the camera of the director: Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), in fact, share the same screen time and dialogues, surrounded by the typical humor that only Woody can put beside more critical topics, like psychology and psychoanalysis. The movie celebrates a melancholic love story in which everyone can identify with, so real and true that continues to involve spectators even after more than 40 years.