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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 397886" data-attributes="member: 8">RADIO DAYS (1987)[ATTACH=full]52938[/ATTACH]A Woody Allen comedy drama that could be seen as a follow-up to the cinema nostalgia of THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) - and Jeff Daniels, in a small supporting role, plays another character named &quot;Baxter&quot;.CAIRO is better but RADIO has, perhaps not surprisingly, the better soundtrack. And both films star Mia Farrow so it&#039;s all good.[ATTACH=full]52939[/ATTACH]Young Seth Green is a very charismatic child actor and this film also made me realise that I need to see much more of Dianne Wiest. I already knew she was good but somehow she&#039;s never been on my radar.One of the sets is the epic Radio City Music Hall and Seth Green&#039;s character (with Woody Allen&#039;s voice) describes it as &quot;it felt like entering heaven&quot;.It&#039;s not difficult to see why, especially when you&#039;re a small person.[ATTACH=full]52941[/ATTACH]Going to the cinema was an extraordinary event when I was a child, this special place where they showed very special films, to be surrounded by all that enormous sight and sound (even though you could probably fit that particular building in the entrance of RCMH).Every time we passed the building during our out-of-village shopping days I ran up the steps to get a closer look at the pretty images of films &quot;showing this week&quot; and then my mother dragged me away because we &quot;didn&#039;t have time&nbsp;&nbsp; for that!&quot;.However, this story is all about radio and its radio stars, and the place it had in the lives of many people. Contests, radio soaps, live broadcasts of peculiar events.The humour in the film is warm rather than witty and most of it comes from the actors. The result was a feel-good and sound-good experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 397886, member: 8"] RADIO DAYS (1987) [ATTACH type="full"]52938[/ATTACH] A Woody Allen comedy drama that could be seen as a follow-up to the cinema nostalgia of THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) - and Jeff Daniels, in a small supporting role, plays another character named "Baxter". CAIRO is better but RADIO has, perhaps not surprisingly, the better soundtrack. And both films star Mia Farrow so it's all good. [ATTACH type="full"]52939[/ATTACH] Young Seth Green is a very charismatic child actor and this film also made me realise that I need to see much more of Dianne Wiest. I already knew she was good but somehow she's never been on my radar. One of the sets is the epic Radio City Music Hall and Seth Green's character (with Woody Allen's voice) describes it as "it felt like entering heaven". It's not difficult to see why, especially when you're a small person. [ATTACH type="full"]52941[/ATTACH] Going to the cinema was an extraordinary event when I was a child, this special place where they showed very special films, to be surrounded by all that enormous sight and sound (even though you could probably fit that particular building in the entrance of RCMH). Every time we passed the building during our out-of-village shopping days I ran up the steps to get a closer look at the pretty images of films "showing this week" and then my mother dragged me away because we "didn't have [I]time[/I] for that!". However, this story is all about radio and its radio stars, and the place it had in the lives of many people. Contests, radio soaps, live broadcasts of peculiar events. The humour in the film is warm rather than witty and most of it comes from the actors. The result was a feel-good and sound-good experience. [/QUOTE]

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