Generations of a family live together, seaside, in Rockaway, New York, and listen to the radio. Radio Days begins in the late 1930s. In 1942, Joe (Seth Green), writer-director Woody Allen’s surrogate, is 13 and enamored of the Masked Avenger, while other family members are either interested in other radio personalities or not (“He’s a […]
Daily Archives: September 7, 2009
Inferior to his 1934 version, which is shorter, silent and in black and white, Yasujiro Ozu’s Ukigusa is nevertheless a spirited, lovely film. I am doomed for the rest of my life to see it rarely because my normal preference will always be to revisit the original. However, Ozu’s greatest decade, the 1950s, included the […]
Dennis Grunes 