Annie Hall Annie Hall Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe, the film stars the director as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her. Principal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976 on the South Fork of Long Island, and filming continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which
Annie Hall with the words, "ending to be shot." Allen suggested "Anhedonia", a term for the inability to experience pleasure, as a working title, and Brickman suggested alternatives including "It Had to Be Jew", "Rollercoaster Named Desire" and "Me and My Goy." An advertising agency, hired by United Artists, embraced Allen's choice of an obscure word by suggesting the studio take out newspaper advertisements that looked like fake tabloid headlines such as "Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland!". However, Allen experimented with several titles over five test screenings, including "Anxiety" and "Annie and Alvy", before settling on "Annie Hall". Several references in the film to