{"id":8948,"date":"2014-05-22T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2017-03-17T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T07:24:40","slug":"br-broadway-danny-rose-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8948","title":{"rendered":"BR: Broadway Danny Rose (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"BroadwayDanny_Rose_BR\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Excellent<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Label: <\/strong>Twilight Time<\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a0All<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0April 8, 2014<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Comedy<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0A low-rent talent agent finds himself on the lam from angry brothers in a case of partially mistaken identity.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0 Isolated Mono Music & Effects Track \/ Theatrical Trailer \/ 8-page colour booklet with liner notes by Film Historian Julie Kirgo \/ Limited to 3000 copies \/ Available Exclusively at Screen Archives Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Screenplay, Woody Allen\u2019s 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\u2019s own sensibilities. Unlike Peter Bogdanovich\u2019s What\u2019s Up Doc?<\/a><\/strong> (1972) which similarly has two talky characters chased in and around a city\u2019s environs, Allen\u2019s skill as a writer and comedian ensure pacing reigns, leaving zero fat in the narrative and dialogue that\u2019s evocative rather than a pale mimic of classic screwball lunacy.<\/p>\n

In fairness, Bogdanovich\u2019s main cinematic idol in Doc was pretty much Howard Hawks, whereas Allen\u2019s mind sponged the best aspects of several idols before crafting a fairly linear story where scenes don\u2019t stop dead so characters can in and out of rooms with plenty of door-slamming.<\/p>\n

Playing like a stripped-down echo of Some Like It Hot<\/strong> (1959) with a hyper-fixation on schlubs, gangsters, and fringe talent, Broadway Danny Rose <\/strong>unfolds in a classic NYC deli as group of veteran and weathered comedians recall in increasingly detailed vignettes the schadenfreude<\/em> episodes of Rose\u2019s life \u2013 moments of personal and professional embarrassment which are nevertheless funny, and symbolic of Rose\u2019s loyalty and determination to stand by his clients because someone has to support the blind xylophonists, bird trainers, creepy ventriloquists, and fading lounge lizards because they\u2019re no less valid than a big name.<\/p>\n

Rose\u2019s biggest misadventure, as told by gravel-voiced Sandy Baron (“The Cadillac” episode in\u00a0Seinfeld<\/strong>), has him mistaken as the boyfriend of his married client \u2013 a blunder that sends both Rose (Allen) and sharp-tongued Tina (Mia Farrow) on the run from the ax-wielding brothers of Tina\u2019s obsessed admirer. As the pair flee, hide, are snatched, and escape from their goofball pursuers, the narrative switches to Rose\u2019s client Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), a fading fifties singer enjoying a blip resurgence of lounge singers in small clubs and cruise ships, and booked for a pre-show party for Milton Berle.<\/p>\n

Lou\u2019s drinking and need to have Tina present at the show is mandatory for an inspired performance, making it vital for Rose to wrap up the danger and get to the show in time and save both face and score a badly needed big booking.<\/p>\n

The key to the film\u2019s success could be tied to Rose being not a cartoon character but an ordinary guy whose moments of hurt linger on camera; Rose may be a slight variation on Allen\u2019s screen persona, but the writer \/ director presents the pain of failure, rejection, and processing that hurt as true, making Rose compelling in spite of his motor-mouth.<\/p>\n

Allen certainly channels the wit of Billy Wilder, and maybe a little Warner Bros. cartoon insanity in a short but brilliant moment where a shootout in a parade warehouse swings to the ridiculous when punctured helium canisters have all parties sounding like chipmunks. Allen\u2019s also surrounded himself with a vivid array of faces and figures who add so much character to scenes. The extras and bit actors in the party scene where Tina\u2019s uber-fan fingers Rose as his enemy is a wonderful collage of striking faces, but perhaps the most effective and poignant scene is the finale, where schlub Rose celebrates Thanksgiving with his fringe clients with TV dinners in his very small, very blah apartment. Everyone is pretty much likeable in this tight comedy, and Allen\u2019s Rose remains a decent guy you hope finds a little love, and a woman able to tolerate his motor-mouth.<\/p>\n

Twilight Times\u2019 Blu-ray features a lovely transfer of the film with a punchy mono sound mix, and Gordon Willis\u2019 cinematography combined with Allen\u2019s own visual style gives the film a peculiar veneer, marrying the director\u2019s neurotic characters with classic screwball antics, and the look of a high contrast Ingmar Bergman drama. It\u2019s an unlikely fusion, but it works perfectly.<\/p>\n

Julie Kirgo\u2019s liner notes provide context for the film within Allen\u2019s still-increasing filmography, and the isolated music & effects track showcases Forte\u2019s songs (which were released on a commercial soundtrack album).<\/p>\n

Woody Allen films released by Twilight Time include Love and Death<\/a><\/strong> (1975), Interiors\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(1978), Stardust Memories<\/a><\/strong> (1980),\u00a0Zelig<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1983), Broadway Danny Rose<\/strong> (1983), The Purple Rose of Cairo<\/a><\/strong> (1985), Radio Days<\/a><\/strong>(1987), and Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1989), and the Allen starring in the Red Menace satire The Front<\/a> <\/strong>(1976).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nIMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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