Annie Hall

This is the Theater of the Living Arts' last weekend as an exclusive movie venue. So perhaps Woody Allen's bittersweet romance Annie Hall (1977), starring Allen as the lover and Diane Keaton as his battily elusive beloved, is a fitting film to celebrate Philadelphia's romance with the TLA. Allen's breakthrough film, Annie Hall is the first of his serious comedies that didn't rely on one-liners or parody to earn its heartfelt laughs. It will be shown today through Sunday at 1:30, 5 and 8:30 p.m. GERMAN FILMFEST Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal (The Twins of Zillertal)

Diane Keaton is taking it all off in her new movie - more than 25 years after her first nude scene. And at the age of 57, she's sexier than ever. "There was nudity in 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' in 1977," Keaton said in her familiar patter. "But people forget that, because I guess I'm usually clothed!" In "Goodbar," Keaton was topless, but in "Something's Gotta Give" she gives the full Monty to co-star Jack Nicholson and movie audiences. Keaton sees her skin-ful performance as part of a tit-for-tat arrangement.

Its theme song may be Cole Porter's "Easy to Love," but Woody Allen's Anything Else is hard to like. On the plus side are engaging performances by Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci, respectively as a young comedy writer besotted by an unpredictable (and unemployed) actress. On the minus side is . . . everything else. This anxious comedy wobbles like a retread of Annie Hall. This time around, Allen is the hero's mentor rather than the protagonist. He plays David Dobel, a reclusive public school teacher-comedy writer who preaches punch lines to Jerry (Biggs)

Then Again By Diane Keaton Random House. 304 pp. $26 Reviewed by Carrie Rickey   Then Again , Diane Keaton's tasty if not exactly juicy memoir, is a double-take in more than one meaning of the expression. This volume, slender, wry, and eccentric as the Oscar-winning actress herself, collages the journal entries of her late mother, Dorothy, with her own memories of generation-defining films such as The Godfather , Annie Hall , Reds , and Something's Gotta Give . Intriguingly, the tribute from Diane to Dorothy contrasts the war bride and stay-at-home mom with the unmarried working mother surfing feminism's third wave.

Diane Keaton had no intention of taking a break from acting after receiving her fourth Oscar nomination two years ago for "Something's Gotta Give. " It just worked out that way, says the actress. "The Family Stone," in theaters now worked out. In an uncharacteristic angst-free role, Keaton plays the laid-back matriarch of a big New England family who leads the pack in disliking the eldest son's girlfriend (played by Sarah Jessica Parker). Looking very much like Annie Hall in a gray bowler hat, black turtleneck, and pinstriped suit, Keaton, 59, recently talked to the Daily News.

In Love and Death, Boris Grushenko awaits his execution, but he is not about to just march meekly before the firing squad. "I have to go at 6 a.m.," explains Boris. "It was 5 a.m., but I have a good lawyer. " This is one of a salvo of sallies launched in Love and Death, a vibrant comedy and brilliant parody that was released in 1975 and turned out to be a turning point in the writing and directing career of Woody Allen. The movie forms a bridge between the riotous comedy of Bananas and Sleeper and Allen's more ambitious and accomplished work in the late '70s with such achievements as Annie Hall and Manhattan.

Let's eavesdrop on a couple of those Upper East Side cocktail parties at which Woody Allen is always the ever-reluctant guest. In Annie Hall (1977), one of the landmark American films of the '70s, Alvy Singer (Allen) is trapped at a literary soiree. Cornered by preening academics and pompous, obscure authors, he cringes at the babble of intellectual pretension on all sides and tells his girlfriend, Robin, that he would really rather be watching the Knicks on television. Then comes this exchange: Alvy - I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for Dysentery.

In a rear booth at Hollywood's Columbia Bar and Grill, Diane Keaton is displaying a trace of her most famous screen persona, the la-di-da Annie Hall. She is holding two silver-plated dinner forks in her hands and, as she talks, she mashes the prongs together, interlocking them. She pulls the forks apart, only to mash them together again. This is Keaton's first interview in some time. She's dressed in a white silk blouse and black pants cinched by her trademark 3-inch-wide belt.

Given Woody Allen's ascendency to national male mid-life crisis whipping boy, I think there was a tacit assumption that Allen would suspend his career, or at least move it to France, which would amount to the same thing. And yet here he is, small as life, in "Manhattan Murder Mystery," his funniest movie in many years, although to say it is funnier than "Alice" and "Shadows and Fog" does not shower Allen with praise. Allen and Diane Keaton play a New York couple, Larry and Carol Lipton, whose dull married routine is broken when a neighbor dies suddenly.

Are you an Oscarologist? If you answer correctly eight or more of these questions, consider yourself a grad of the college of Academy knowledge. 1. The Oscar winner who is the child and grandchild of Oscar winners: (a) Michael Douglas (b) Jane Fonda (c) Gwyneth Paltrow (d) Sofia Coppola 2. The Academy Award winner who can boast that Mom and Dad are also winners: (a) Robert Downey, Jr. (b) Angelina Jolie (c) Liza Minnelli (d) Anjelica Huston 3. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at: (a)

Then Again By Diane Keaton Random House. 304 pp. $26 Reviewed by Carrie Rickey   Then Again , Diane Keaton's tasty if not exactly juicy memoir, is a double-take in more than one meaning of the expression. This volume, slender, wry, and eccentric as the Oscar-winning actress herself, collages the journal entries of her late mother, Dorothy, with her own memories of generation-defining films such as The Godfather , Annie Hall , Reds , and Something's Gotta Give . Intriguingly, the tribute from Diane to Dorothy contrasts the war bride and stay-at-home mom with the unmarried working mother surfing feminism's third wave.

Are you an Oscarologist? If you answer correctly eight or more of these questions, consider yourself a grad of the college of Academy knowledge. 1. The Oscar winner who is the child and grandchild of Oscar winners: (a) Michael Douglas (b) Jane Fonda (c) Gwyneth Paltrow (d) Sofia Coppola 2. The Academy Award winner who can boast that Mom and Dad are also winners: (a) Robert Downey, Jr. (b) Angelina Jolie (c) Liza Minnelli (d) Anjelica Huston 3. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at: (a)

Here's a pickup line for you: "Life is short. Life is dull. Life is full of pain. " That's how Javier Bardem, as a painter named Juan Antonio, propositions a pair of young Americans in a Barcelona boite one night. Come with me for the weekend, he suggests to the two girlfriends, prescribing an antidote to his bleak existential assessment of things. We'll laugh, we'll dine, we'll drink, we'll make love. Why not? Well, it doesn't quite happen that way. But it's to Woody Allen's credit - writer and director of the lovely, loping Vicky Cristina Barcelona - and to that of Bardem, and Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as Vicky and Cristina, respectively, that this crucial, and perhaps improbable scene, works so convincingly.

Diane Keaton had no intention of taking a break from acting after receiving her fourth Oscar nomination two years ago for "Something's Gotta Give. " It just worked out that way, says the actress. "The Family Stone," in theaters now worked out. In an uncharacteristic angst-free role, Keaton plays the laid-back matriarch of a big New England family who leads the pack in disliking the eldest son's girlfriend (played by Sarah Jessica Parker). Looking very much like Annie Hall in a gray bowler hat, black turtleneck, and pinstriped suit, Keaton, 59, recently talked to the Daily News.

MAYBE Tom Sizemore should change his name to Tom Sizematters. It seems the Temple drama student, who made a name for himself in films like "Saving Private Ryan," "Natural Born Killers" and "Black Hawk Down," will next be seen on DVD (release date tomorrow) in "The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal," a Vivid Entertainment XXX feature offering 70 minutes of uncut, uncensored, inexhaustible Sizemore sex with a quartet of young ladies. All at once. Sizemore is a self-proclaimed sex addict - in much the same way that Tattle is a self-proclaimed hermit - who says he has a condition known as priapism, which allows him to stay aroused for extended periods.

"Dying is hard," croaked Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean on his deathbed. "But not as hard as comedy. "Though Kean's famous last words have been the mantra of working actors for almost 200 years, you wouldn't know it from the Academy Awards. At Hollywood's annual throwdown, drama almost always trumps comedy. "Oscar voters don't get the joke," says Tom O'Neil, author of numerous books on the Academy Awards and their history. "They like high-minded, morally uplifting, serious films because it makes what they do look more important.

Diane Keaton is taking it all off in her new movie - more than 25 years after her first nude scene. And at the age of 57, she's sexier than ever. "There was nudity in 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' in 1977," Keaton said in her familiar patter. "But people forget that, because I guess I'm usually clothed!" In "Goodbar," Keaton was topless, but in "Something's Gotta Give" she gives the full Monty to co-star Jack Nicholson and movie audiences. Keaton sees her skin-ful performance as part of a tit-for-tat arrangement.

Its theme song may be Cole Porter's "Easy to Love," but Woody Allen's Anything Else is hard to like. On the plus side are engaging performances by Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci, respectively as a young comedy writer besotted by an unpredictable (and unemployed) actress. On the minus side is . . . everything else. This anxious comedy wobbles like a retread of Annie Hall. This time around, Allen is the hero's mentor rather than the protagonist. He plays David Dobel, a reclusive public school teacher-comedy writer who preaches punch lines to Jerry (Biggs)

'I'M NOT worthy, I'm not worthy" Punchline from the "Wayne's World" skit/movies to you and me - a daily mantra, apparently, for neurotic director Woody Allen. Upon receiving the prestigious cultural honor, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Art in Madrid, Spain, the funnyman said yesterday he was not in the same league as fellow winners playwright Arthur Miller and the Brazilian soccer team. Didn't know Ronaldo and friends were into the arts? They're not. The World Cup team was awarded the prize for sports whilst Miller won for literature, based on such work as "Death of A Salesman" and "The Crucible.