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  • The narrative darts about in time, interrupts itself to discuss with the camera and (with double imaging) with the characters the course of an affair doomed from the start by the self-absorbed neuroses of the people - he a New York Jewish comic called Alvy

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • I spoke with the director of every short, including directors who were no longer at the studio such as Alvy Ray Smith, Jan Pinkava and Bud Luckey.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mike 2009

  • Alvy Singer to Annie HallHave you fallen in love online?

    Topic: Love 2011

  • Using the controls on his television recording system, he searched for and paused the Annie Hall movie on precisely the scene that had inspired him — the scene in which the Alvy Singer character at that table tilts his glasses upward.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Instead of constantly lamenting his lovelife, we see Alvy Singer punching out arrogant jerks while waiting in line for the movies, causing a melee of epic proportions.

    Top 10 Movies Ruined by a Female Presence » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • Young Alvy Singer is depressed because he read that the universe is expanding and everything will eventually tear apart.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010

  • For the record, it occurs in that memorable scene where, on a movie line, Alvy Singer and Annie are forced to listen to a pretentious prig trying to impress his date.

    Elevated Reading Club Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • In the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character Alvy Singer refers to an old Groucho Marx joke that describes his relationships with women: "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."

    Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Who Does God Like To Hang Out With? Psalm 15 Sheds Some Light Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

  • "Probably met by answering an ad in the New York Review of Books," Alvy mutters.

    Elevated Reading Club Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • In the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character Alvy Singer refers to an old Groucho Marx joke that describes his relationships with women: "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."

    Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Who Does God Like To Hang Out With? Psalm 15 Sheds Some Light Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

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