Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
I think this was the very first Woody Allen film I ever saw. If not this, then it was Bananas, two films which are definitely not the typical Woody Allen film. I must've been about 11 years old or so, maybe younger. I think it had a lot to do with the development of my love for film.
Anyway, this was only the second time I've seen this film, and I remembered quite a bit of it. Just goes to show how much of an effect it had on me. One thing I didn't know about when I first saw it were all of the references that Allen made to early Soviet cinema. In the battle scenes (it's so weird to talk about battle scenes in a Woody Allen film!), he used conceptual montage that was obviously an homage to Eisenstein and the other greats. For instance, he would show a group of soldiers manouveuring on a field, then cut to a group of sheep running across the same field. The best bit was his homage to Eisenstein's October, specifically the famous lion montage. In Allen's verision, the series of lion statues culminates in a sleeping lion.
I'm glad I watched this again.