Radio Days
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Movie Reviews of Radio Days
Movie Review: Those radio moods!
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody made to my mind one of his best entries with this autobiographical portrait of his childhood, impregnated with those family anecdotes that in major or minor grade all of us keep on our memory too. From the initial shot when the thieves visit his house, Allen handles these psychological and engagements hooks keeping this delightful charm and joy pf living.
His religious irreverence when he maintains his bet for the Lone Ranger in a funny dialogue with the Rabin, to his beloved aunt who wishes to get marry, the absurd discussion about the oceans to the daily conflicts with their neighbors.
W.A. interweaves these unforgettable forties when the TV was just an unthinkable idea and there was time for falling in love through the voice; the ear and not the eye was the vehicle to suggest your favorite star.
A funny and smart entertaining and one of the most relevant works of Allen.
Movie Review: Intimate gem and a wonderful hommage
Summary: 5 Stars
Giving the enormous genius and extensive Woody Allen's work (one of my Top Five American Directors)it is practically impossible for me to choose a favorite.
Nevertheless, "Radio Days" is Allen's movie that I enjoy the most, based on a pure emotional impulse. Here you find the perfect mix of fun and love: Allen evocative memory of his infancy is treated with such tenderness and understanding, fun and respect, that even not being born or lived in the radio era you ends loving it as the author did.
And that is precisely a great piece of art: the one that correctly connect the audience with the subject depicted.
Everything here works: the superb music selection, the link between music and situations, the mood of every scene, characters and actors, and Allen's own appearance as the narrator.
A masterpiece.
Movie Review: A Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my favorite movies of all time. Sweet, sentimental, atmospheric, great story telling, well cast, visually and musically gorgeous. It appears no expense and artistic effort was spared. Dozens of scenes, even brief ones often have large costumed casts in beautifully detailed sets. This movie needs to be seen on a large screen to be fully appreciated.
Little gems abound too. When Woody tags along on a date with his aunt, a trio playing for the dancing is shown for all of three seconds, but in those three seconds we get the striking image of a bored female drummer with a cigarette dangling from her lips followed by dramatic, well lit nose exhale just before the cut.
Movie Review: An American classic.
Summary: 5 Stars
Radio Days "Radio Days", written and directed by Woody Allen, is, I believe, one of his best story telling efforts. I am 68 years old, but I fell in love with this film when it first came out in 1987. It just wrings true to the early 1940's era, which it is set in. Family life, while pictured 'these days' to have been simpler 'back then', had the same concerns, family drama and uncertanties about the future as we experience today. It is a mix of poignant human foibles and classic Woody Allen wry humor, in a dead-on war era America/New York. Five stars from me, Bill FinlayMovie Review: When radio was king
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody Allen narrates the story of a romanticized boyhood during WWII, a time when the medium of radio was at its zenith. The loosely connected vignettes tell the stories of the boy (Seth Green) and his poor Jewish family, his perpetually disappointed and lovelorn aunt (Diana Weist), and a young woman striving to make it in show biz (Mia Farrow), interspersed with anecdotes about the personalities that entered America's homes through the airwaves every day. Allen shows us what radio meant to the people of that time, leaving even those of us who are too young to have experienced it ourselves feeling a little wistful and sad at its passing. This is a delightful movie.