MEDIA COOL
OK, so maybe Woody Allen has relaxed from the art struggle a bit to wallow in nostalgia for America’s Good Old Days, just like the rest of us rapidly-aging types. Still (thus?), I find this movie much more “inspiring” than Allen’s acclaimed Hannah And Her Sisters, which had too much material about rich people and their couplings (save that for the New Yorker, Woody).
MEDIA COOL
This month’s Media Cool was written by Richard Riegel, Bill Holdship, John Kordosh, Thomas Anderson and Bob Nevin.
RADIO DAYS (Orion Pictures)
OK, so maybe Woody Allen has relaxed from the art struggle a bit to wallow in nostalgia for America’s Good Old Days, just like the rest of us rapidly-aging types. Still (thus?), I find this movie much more “inspiring” than Allen’s acclaimed Hannah And Her Sisters, which had too much material about rich people and their couplings (save that for the New Yorker, Woody). Many of my favorite fantasies of America involve still-ethnic humble citizens of the 1940s sitting in their midnight linoleum kitchens, surrounded by cold cuts and depression glass—-and Radio Days induldges those fantasies to the glowing-neon max. Sure it’s episodic, but the sooner you learn life’s not a wellwrought urn, the better. R.R.
THE STEPFATHER (New Century Films)