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A scene from Annie Hall, originally uploaded by 160507.

Found in Quiapo: Marcel Ophuls’ film The Sorrow and The Pity. Look at the top left corner of the front cover: Woody Allen Presents. How else do you market a four-hour documentary about French collaborators during the Nazi occupation?

In Annie Hall, arguably his best movie, Alvy and Annie are two minutes late for a screening of Bergman’s Face to Face, so he drags her to The Sorrow and The Pity. Later, he runs into her as she’s dragging a date to see The Sorrow and The Pity.

Just saw Annie Hall again. Here’s the ending: “This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”