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Would You Like a Glass of Chocolate Milk? (Appreciating Annie Hall)

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"I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion." - Manhattan "I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably be cured by now." -  Sleeper "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness." - Love and Death While Woody Allen may not be the most influential director of his generation, his filmography features many gems of American cinema. He also got nods from his two biggest influences: Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Stanley Kubrick is also said to have liked Woody Allen's work. With all that said, let's ...