Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Directed by Woody Allen
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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What critics compared Hannah and Her Sisters to
With its intimate camerawork, witty one-liners, drama that draws you in and haunting soundtrack, Baumbach's ( The Squid and the Whale , While We're Young ) tale certainly reminds one of the best of Woody Allen's output (think Hannah and Her Sisters , Annie Hall ).
It’s theatrical, melodramatic, over-the-top and no more representative of the end of a marriage than say a Woody Allen movie set in the same showbiz family milieu, “Hannah and Her Sisters.”
An understated architectural tour of Los Angeles recalls Sam Waterston's Big Apple presentation in Hannah and Her Sisters.
Still, he was never quite as appealing back then as when he worked in purely Woody Allen territory -- it's hard to imagine movies like Zelig, Hannah and her Sisters, and Radio Days springing from anyone else's brain.
With able support from Patricia Clarkson, as a family friend of Vicky's, living in Spain and living in pain over her own unhappy marriage, Vicky Cristina Barcelona covers familiar Allen territory: Like Husbands and Wives, Hannah and Her Sisters, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and the list can go on and on, Allen's latest offers an exploration of romantic longing, of men and women falling in and out of love, behaving foolishly, and badly.
The characters move as if on a carousel, making the film an exploration of romantic complications on the level of "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Husbands and Wives" (1992).
P.T. Anderson followed his magnificent 1997 breakthrough Boogie Nights with 1999's Magnolia, a star-studded, messy, overreaching, ultimately compelling ensemble drama in the vein of ambitious masterpieces like Hannah And Her Sisters and Short Cuts.
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Kaye once shot more film for a 30-second Volvo commercial than Woody Allen had used in making “Hannah and Her Sisters.”
Ever since Woody Allen came along with his Annie Hall and his Manhattan, his Hannah and Her Sisters and his Husbands and Wives, New York has become THE American city of the ensemble romantic dramedy, where different characters come together to discuss love, life and politics.
There are opaque shades of Woody Allen’s best work, from Annie Hall to Hannah and Her Sisters .
Closer is akin to one of Woody Allen's serious films, such as Hannah and Her Sisters and Husbands and Wives.
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This week, the answer is probably "Hannah and Her Sisters"; by the end of the month, it may well be "Antz," which, although it was not written or directed by the Woodman, is permeated through and through with his brand of neurotic humor.
She looks like her "Hannah and Her Sisters" character warmed over.