Saturday, July 07, 2007
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Woody Allen's
Like Allen, I grew up with radio.
It got into my head.
In this rich and generous, elaborate film, Allen gets to the heart of the matter.
We lived and breathed radio. Our brains made the pictures. Those pictures became deeply imbedded.
He hits all the notes here, particularly the music. A lot of the film score is from the actual recordings were heard.
The radio is on for the whole film.
There are some great bits.
There is wonderful crazy Woody humor and then war and sadness. Tragedy.
Just as radio was.
I think that radio made us more of a community. Allen captures that.
It is all there.
I loved it.
Read the Ebert review at the link. He gets it.
This is a 5 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films, nostalgia
