characters, settings and scenes - the most elaborate production Allen has ever made - and it's inexhaustible, spinning out one delight after another." Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred to Allen as the "prodigal cinema resource" and spoke of the film saying, "Radio Days [...] is as free in form as it is generous of spirit." David Denby wrote for New York that: "[...] The real glue, however, is the lullingly beautiful popular music of the period — Cole Porter, Dubin and Warren, big-band jazz, crooners, torch singers, Carmen Miranda. The music, perfectly matched to images of old wood and brick buildings and old glamour spots, produces a mood of distanced, bittersweet nostalgia. Radio Days becomes a gently satiric commemorations of forgotten lives." In a poll held by Empire magazine of the 500 greatest films ever made, Radio Days was voted number 304. According to his brother-in-law Jan Harlan, Stanley Kubrick loved Radio Days so much that he watched it "twice within two days, because 'it was like watching a home movie,' he told me... He absolutely adored it." Awards and nominations References Further reading Woody Allen On Location by Thierry de Navacelle (Morrow, 1987); a day-to-day account of the making of Radio Days External links Review of Radio Days at TVGuide.com 1987 films 1987 comedy-drama films American comedy-drama films Films about families Films about radio Films about radio people American films based on actual events Films directed by Woody Allen Films produced by Robert Greenhut Films set in 1938 Films set in 1939 Films set in 1940 Films set in 1941 Films set in 1942 Films set in 1943 Films set in 1944 Films set in Brooklyn Films set in New York City Films set on the home front during World War II Films shot in New York City Films set around New Year American independent films 1987 independent films Jewish comedy and humor Orion Pictures films Rockaway, Queens Films with screenplays by Woody Allen 1980s English-language films 1980s American films