Captures the childs eye view of the Times
Added 3/14/2010
Radio Days is a series of vingettes, story snippets from a childs view of family, school, friends and the neighborhood held together by a radio theme. In the days before and during WWII the radio was a towering influencial medium for news and entertainment. That influence is shown as a contecting theme for the funny little stories about home life and even the radio stars. (Julie Kavner remains a favorite of mine.) It has some commonalities with "A Christmas Story" in presenting the kids world so if you like that you'll probably enjoy this too. I missed at the box office and never caught it on tv,I was glad to get the value priced DVD.
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sweet movie
Added 3/14/2010
I did like it;however, Woody at times talked a little too much.When Joe saw the torpedo boat break through the water Woody should have shut up for a few seconds.
I do have a inquiry;what was the name of the tune that was being played when Joe's parents were watching the search lights? I do have a closed caption on my tv;however, it didn't give the name.If anyone knows please let me know,thanks.
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HARK, I HEAR THE CANNONS ROAR......... ROOOOAAR!
Added 1/28/2010
This is one of my by far one of my favorite movies. If you love nostalgia, and I do. Give this a try. You won't regret it. I have seen it over and over and it never bores me!!!!!!
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A very memorable film about memories
Added 12/29/2009
This wonderful film is loosely based on director Woody Allen's memories of his boyhood in Rockaway, in New York. A vignette near the beginning of the movie contains a poignant scene of a rainy and windswept day there. Practically everything here is based on Woody's fond, and sometimes not so fond, remembrances of the huge affect the radio had in his and his family's lives in the late 1930s and early to mid-1940s. Many of Woody's memories are incredibly funny, especially Mia Farrow's experiences as a cigarette girl in a nightclub and later, her budding career as an actress and radio commercial personality. Rarely have I laughed so hard as the time when Ms. Farrow was practicing her elocution lessons.
We get to meet some of Woody's teachers including a Hebrew School teacher who thinks he knows how to discipline children better than Woody's parents and a gorgeous elementary substitute teacher that causes one of the male students in his class to believe that he is going "straight to hell." The film covers radio crime shows (the Masked Avenger, starring the much less than heroic looking Wallace Shawn), morning shows about rich and famous New York swells avidly listened to by Woody's envious working class parents and aunts and uncles. Diane Wiest is wonderful and very sympathetic as the maiden aunt who wins some money on one of those radio quiz shows. Let me just say that the quiz question is related to a brother-in-law's obsession with fish. Ms. Wiest also has a less than great adventure concerning a timid date who abandons her in his automobile during the infamous Orson Welles radio broadcast of the "War of the Worlds." There is also a sad news broadcast concerning a little girl who falls down a well and the efforts to rescue her. Woody and his family are arguing at the time about some petty mischief young Woody had gotten into, but the family stops to listen to this saga that brings his family and probably the rest of the country together.
As in many of Woody Allen's films, the popular tunes of the period provide enjoyable and nostalgic background music to the film. What more can I say: I loved this film and recommend that you either rent or purchase it as soon as you can.
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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.
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