Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Directed by Woody Allen
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
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Every step of the way with Roberts is famed costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, pulling out the same tricks he did for Mia Farrow fifteen years back in Broadway Danny Rose.
First, there’s the surprise of Jennifer Lawrence, breaking all prior expectations — à la Mia Farrow’s turn as the Brooklyn mafia widow in Woody Allen’s marvelous Broadway Danny Rose.
The movie is shot in black and white by Sam Levy, clearly as a homage to its chief influences: the French new wave (Georges Delerue's music for Truffaut's films is quoted on the soundtrack) and monochrome Woody Allen films such as Manhattan , Stardust Memories and Broadway Danny Rose , though it's obviously Annie Hall , progenitor of the freewheeling "relationship movie", that lies behind Frances Ha.
He steals from the manager who's trying to help him (Jerry Grayson, "Find Me Guilty," who along with Sylvia Kauders as his secretary Ginny make a formidable comedy team like something right out of Woody Allen's "Broadway Danny Rose").
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On the occasions when he manages to forget Bergman and Fellini -- filmmakers whose main achievements, unlike his, depend on their original style -- he shows a flair for some of the less reputable genres of Hollywood movie art, including romantic comedy (Annie Hall), crime and showbiz (Broadway Danny Rose), melodrama (Husbands and Wives), murder mystery (Manhattan Murder Mystery), musical comedy (Everyone Says I Love You), low-budget B-film (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion), and now, with Match Point, erotic crime thriller.