I got confused back there, knowing that Keaton is dead and presuming that the ostensible director was as well.

The eyeline
I'd think you could get a basic approximation of where you wanted her to sit and where you wanted him to look, film the look, then go back and project the look and change her seating accordingly. Unless it went too far afield of the composition, go ahead and matte the screen and combine the two images in…

Keaton said he was at the doctor's some years later getting an examination for something and the doctor took some X—rays and asked, "When did you break your neck?" They hashed it out and Keaton concluded that it must've been that shot, because the water threw him down with his neck straight across the track and he…

Now that I think of it, I think I had a Criterion ANNIE HALL on laserdisc back in the day. I don't remember any commentary, let alone what is supposedly about an hour of deleted scenes…

@ Roy.

I'd argue that she's the best black character in all his films so far.

Woody? Criterion? What movie?

Supposedly Sinatra hated the fact that she had an acting career, which is what eventually broke them up.

What commentary? Woody finally did a commentary!?

Apparently it's "Biggby."

I read BENEATH THE UNDERDOG a very long time ago, much more for historical purposes than because I liked his literary voice (I didn't). I remember enjoying MUSIC IS MY MISTRESS much much more, as far as those things go.

I also think he was pretending at first and then slowly fell for her. Though his mask does slip a bit when he knows he's won her and he says "don't forget to bring that cute little ukelele of yours" which sounds utterly false.

I'm sorry to be wrong.

Yep. Though she did get one for BROADWAY DANNY ROSE, which is her other great role.

Forgive typos; I'm on the bumpity bump bus.

Daniels "insufficiently ruthless"
SPOILER

Third.

It makes HUSBANDS AND WIVES and MANHATTAN difficult to watch, certainly. But HUSBANDS was designed to be difficult from the start, and the timing with the whole scandal trebled the impact.

I think at the Oscars it got a screenplay nod, and that was it. But that's from memory; I could be wrong.

Woody's best movie
Unqualified success and, SHERLOCK JR. notwithstanding, probably his most original film. Certainly his most thematically consistent, resonant, and honest. Beautifully shot, too. Mia Farrow, often underrated, gives what is probably her best performance, too. Amazing movie, and Woody has said it's his…