Filmherbst III - "Der Stadtneurotiker"

In the organizer's words:

CINEMA: "The Urban Neurotic" by Woody Allen
(Orig.: Annie Hall)

Thursday, November 27, 2025, start: 8:00 pm
(Admission: 19:00)

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FEATURE SERIES "New Hollywood ... The Reinvention of American Cinema" (3/3)

FILM
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Woody Allen tells the story of a failed love affair - clever, funny and formally innovative.

With a short introduction and subsequent discussion

"The Urban Neurotic" (Annie Hall)
Woody Allen; USA; 1977; 93 minutes; German dubbed version; comedy

"The Urban Neurotic" is a bittersweet tragicomedy by Woody Allen that dissects the failure of a love affair with intellectual wit and formal sophistication. The New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) looks back on his past relationship with the eccentric singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). In a non-linear narrative style, interspersed with flashbacks, inner monologues and surreal interludes, Alvy analyzes the highs and lows of their time together.

The film breaks with classic narrative conventions: Alvy breaks the fourth wall, speaking directly to the audience, and real-life personalities such as Marshall McLuhan appear in fictional scenes. These stylistic devices lend the film an introspective depth and reflect the protagonist's neurotic self-analysis.

"The Urban Neurotic" marks a turning point in Allen's career as he moves from slapstick comedies to a more mature, introspective form of storytelling. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Diane Keaton, and is considered a milestone in modern American cinema.

"New Hollywood - cinema that crosses boundaries"

With the three masterpieces Easy Rider - Apocalypse Now - Annie Hall, this series sheds light on New Hollywood, the turbulent era in which American cinema reinvented itself. It is the time of a young generation of directors who uncompromisingly dissected their own society: Dennis Hopper filmed the rebellious dream of an entire generation with Easy Rider. Francis Ford Coppola took cinema into the abyss of war and human madness with Apocalypse Now. Finally, Woody Allen explored the depths of modern relationships with Annie Hall in a humorous and intellectual way. Together, they not only tell of social change, but also represent artistic milestones for a profound revolution in Hollywood that continues to have an impact today.

This revolutionary phase of cinema not only gave rise to a new, freer approach to film as an art form, but also to a profound change in audience expectations. Without New Hollywood, modern auteur cinema, which combines the personal and the political, would be almost inconceivable. Directors such as Steven Soderbergh, the Coen brothers and Christopher Nolan owe their narrative strategies and stylistic freedom largely to the groundbreaking work of Coppola, Hopper, Allen and their contemporaries.

Today, we owe to this era the naturalness with which films can address complex themes in a critical, sophisticated and at the same time audience-appealing way - a lasting legacy of New Hollywood.te. Without this break with tradition, there would have been neither today's bold narrative forms nor the courageous, personal auteur cinema that is celebrated at international film festivals today. New Hollywood thus not only changed the cinema of its time, but still forms the foundation for sophisticated filmmaking and cinematic diversity today.

Screening in German dubbed version

Free admission - a donation for Höchberg culture is requested.

Film starts at 8 pm, admission from 7 pm

The two Höchberg residents Ingo Petzke, film professor, and Dirk Baierlipp, designer & photographer (DBDB) and film enthusiast, have initiated the films in the Kulturscheune and will lead through the evening.

INFO

Trailer (German):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3RUtWKu_w

More about the movie:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stadtneurotiker

The director:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

MEDIA

Flyer, trailer, movie stills

THE FILMHERBST 2025:

2025.01 - Thu., Sept. 25, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
"Easy Rider"
(Orig.: Easy Rider); Director: Dennis Hopper; USA 1969; 95 minutes; German dubbed version; Drama

2025.02 - Thu., Oct. 30, 2025 - 7:30 p.m. !!!
"Apocalypse Now"
(Orig.: Apocalypse Now); Francis Ford Coppola; USA 1979; "153 minutes (theatrical version); German dubbed version; anti-war film;

2025.03 - Thu., Nov. 27, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
"The Urban Neurotic"
(Orig.: Annie Hall); Woody Allen; USA; 1977; 93 minutes; German dubbed version; comedy

And the 2026 film winter continues in January, February and March 2026. Stay tuned!

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Where: Kulturscheune Höchberg, Wallweg 3, 97204 Höchberg
Organizer: Market Höchberg
Info: www.kulturscheune-hoechberg.de
Free admission, donation for local cultural work requested.