Nostalgia, Radio Days, and Coming Attractions
Review of Woody Allen’s Radio Days on Blu (Twilight Time) + quick details of imminent reviews.
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BR: Radio Days (1987)
Made the same year as September (1987), Woody Allen goes a little Fellini in this highly nostalgic evocation of a childhood in Rockaway, NYC, with friends, family, impressionable radio personalities, and getting smacked in the head a few times for being a little insolent…
BR: Front, The (1976)
A cashier accepts an offer to submit TV scripts on behalf of his blacklisted friend during the Hollywood Blacklist era, but greed and ignorance start to undo his cozy arrangements…
Comedy at TJFF 2014 + Broadway Danny Rose on Blu
The theme is comedy at TJFF 2014, with Sheldon Leonard’s Wonderful Life, Ten from Your Show of Shows, and When Comedy Went to School + Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose on Blu from Twilight Time.
BR: Broadway Danny Rose (1983)
Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Screenplay, Woody Allen’s virtually perfect film is more than a partial homage to the absurd and ridiculous screwball misadventures of the forties and fifties, as filtered and adapted to Allen’s own sensibilities…
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