“Art and masturbation – two areas in which I am an absolute expert.”  – Sandy Bates. Following a negative screen-test of his latest movie, Sandy Bates agrees to attend a film festival held at the Stardust Hotel, to honour his older, funnier movies.

Many have named Manhattan Woody Allen’s greatest film; some, the greatest film of all time. Allen himself was reportedly so disappointed with it that he attempted to convince United Artists to never allow it to see the light of day.

Interiors holds the distinction of being Woody Allen’s first entirely dramatic work, and while he has explored more serious subject matter in other parts of his later career, this was a marked shift from the screwball comedies of his early years.

Turkey Shoot isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It features a host of flawed acting, flawed special effects and due to a third of its budget being taken away at the last second, some extremely flawed production design.

Often regarded as the original contemporary romantic comedy, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall has endured to be one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films from his incredibly prolific career.

Hailed by Stephen King upon release in 1981 as “the most ferociously original horror film of the year”, The Evil Dead proudly continued in the footsteps of a long line of independent horror films in post World War II American cinema.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton teamed up again for this follow up to 1973’s Sleeper, respectively starring as Russian peasants Boris and Sonja, set during the Napoleonic Era. While ostensibly another absurdist comedy from Allen, this film’s blending of references to philosophy,

Released in 1988 to a storm of controversy, Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece The Last Temptation of Christ, adapted from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, departs dramatically from the gospels to show a Jesus entirely different from how he had previously been seen on the screen.

George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told, an adaptation of the New Testament, has something of a tarnished reputation as being one of the ridiculously expensive epics that almost bankrupted every major studio in the Old Hollywood.

In Sleeper, Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe, a Brooklyn health food shop owner who goes into hospital for a routine operation in 1973, and wakes from a cryogenic freeze 200 years later.