Radio Days (the movie)

[BinkieBaumont]

This is a bit of a cross-over subject, Woody Allens "Radio Days" his homage to radio in the early 1940's. I've just ordered it on DVD, had it on VHS but it got "Chewed up":rage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2AW-PFVNxI

 

[AmateisGal]

I caught this movie on cable once and loved it.

 

[dhermann1]

One of the best "Golden Age" movies ever made. Woody Allen is obsessed with the era of his childhood, and has made several great flicks set in that era. "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is also wonderfully well done.
One thing I like about "Radio Days" is that not only does he have great interiors, but he found a neighborhood in the Rockaways (I believe) that still looks enough like it did in the 40's to be usable for exteriors.

 

[JoePreppyPauper]

Radio Days complimentary films

If you liked Radio Days, you should check out Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first of Neil Simon's autobiographical plays that were adapted to film. Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound are the other two. Also, My Favorite Year is in a similar vein.

 

[Fletch]

Each of these has some very special moments - the ones I've seen, anyway. But bear in mind that they're comedies. (Altho they're all semi-serious, with My Favorite Year perhaps the least so and Biloxi Blues the most.) Each one is built on caricature and gloss, mostly thru the looks and dialogue of the characters.

They're also all drawn from pretty much the same social milieu, that of their highly perceptive but ultimately self-centered creators. Woody and Neil worked in the same TV bullpens in the 50s, putting them (years later) in a highly influential place. Not just as to what makes us laugh, but our imagination of the past.