Acceptance, Forgiveness, Love!
10/10
Author: Ken from United States
23 July 2006

Oh, wow, what a great film, with comedians Jackie Gayle, Morty Gunty, Will Jordan, Sandy Baron, among others, reminiscing (hilariously!) over lunch, about the irrepressible Broadway Danny Rose! Mr. Allen is such a poor (but, extremely-likable) nebbish, who you just cannot help rooting for, as he contends with an egotistical, has-been singer named Lou Canova (portrayed by Nick Apollo Forte, who looks a heck of a lot like former New York Ranger hockey great, Phil Esposito), and the singer's "wise-guy widow" girlfriend, Tina Vitale (portrayed by the wonderful Mia Farrow, as the no-nonsense Jersey-girl with really big, blonde hair!).

I'm grateful that several of the other posters here, have explained the meanings of so many of the Italian and Yiddish words used in this uproariously funny flick. I got a big laugh, when that wise guy's over-protective mother, flashed a Universty of Texas Football-like "Hook-Em, Horns!" gesture at poor Danny in front of everyone at that lawn party, and shouted: "Corno d' oro!" as in the Italian expression, "Horns of Gold," meaning that the entirely-innocent Danny had made a cuckold of that lady's gangster-son, by getting to "know" Tina in the "Biblical sense"!

And, Mr. Allen exhibited a keen eye for New York/New Jersey details, when he had Danny driving a humble Chevy Nova (a real "Jersey-mobile"!) over the George Washington Bridge on his way to pick Tina up for Lou, in Bergen County, N.J. Tina's Garden State apartment, with the majestic view of the New York City skyline, looks as if it's located in either Fort Lee or Cliffside Park (next to the world-famous amusement park, formerly situated in Palisades Park, N.J.), all just south of the G.W. Bridge.

Alas, the Liberty View Diner in Jersey City (where the two thugs "rearrange" Danny's beloved Nova in the diner parking lot with a couple of baseball bats) is no longer there. The now-demolished diner was just off of the "beautiful" N.J. Turnpike, and next to Liberty State Park, which affords visitors an absolutely spectacular view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and lower Manhattan along an extensive walkway on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

How could you not like a film that features the eclectic likes of Howard Cosell, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis, Jr., New York City's venerable, former "Mr. Late-Night-Local T.V. Talk Show Host," Joe Franklin, a very young Ricky Schroeder, and, the film's comedic "dark horse," the one-and-only, Barney Dunn, ventriloquist/unwitting romantic "beard" par excellence!?!

-The reason Mia Farrow wears sunglasses most of the film is that Woody Allen did not feel she could pass herself as a tough Italian "broad", so he had her wear the sunglasses most of the film to hide her eyes, making her seem more sultry and mysterious. The only time she removes the sunglasses is when her character is supposed to be more vulnerable.
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-Actors Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone were considered for the role of Lou Canova. Apparently, Woody Allen initially offered the part to Stallone. In the end, Nick Apollo Forte was cast.
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-Dissatisfied with the original take of the scene, director Woody Allen re-shot the scene in which Danny Rose tries to sell acts to Phil Chomsky, re-casting comedian and singer David I. Kissel in the role of the owner of "Weinstein's Majestic Bungalow Colony". Kissel persistently called it "Mrs. Weinberg's Bungalow Colony" during filming, and Allen, exasperated, asked the actor why he kept saying this. Kissel explained that his wife always bought a brand of kosher chopped liver called "Mrs. Weinberg's Chopped Liver," and he kept thinking of that.

Allen, amused, but ever the perfectionist, taped the words "Weinstein's Majestic Bungalow Colony" to the top of a filing cabinet in the office. As you view this scene, early in the film, you will notice that Dave Kissel faces away from the camera as he says those words, and speaks with his back to the camera: he is reading the words "Weinstein's Majestic Bungalow Colony" off that "crib sheet" on the filing cabinet.
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-The movie makes mention of Weinstein's Majestic Bungalow Colony resort in the Catskills (Catskill Mountains). This is where Woody Allen got his start in show- business performing magic tricks there at sixteen years of age.
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-Woody Allen's manager and producer, Jack Rollins, was the inspiration for the Danny Rose character. Rollins appears in the movie as himself.
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-About three years after this movie was made and released, a XXX adult movie spoofed the film's title in 1987, it being called Broadway Fanny Rose (1987).
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-According to Eric Lax's book, this movie is one of Woody Allen's favorite films which are (in order): Match Point (2005), La rose pourpre du Caire (1985), Stardust Memories (1980), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), and Meurtre mystérieux à Manhattan (1993).
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-The deli owner who informs Danny Rose about the fate of one the characters in the movie was really the co-owner of the legendary Carnegie Deli where the scene was shot. He was a retired comic and actor who retained his SAG card named Leo Steiner. He was only cast after the actors Woody Allen brought to thelocation were inadequate.
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-Debut performance in a filmed production for actor Nick Apollo Forte. The film remains [to date, June 2013] his first, final and only ever appearance in a featurefilm.
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-The film screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.
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-Steve Rossi has said that he tested for the part Lou Canova but Allen in the end didn't want the movie to be known as an "Allen and Rossi" film. The part was cast with Nick Apollo Forte.(ah?...mécéki Steve Rossi?)
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-Final Woody Allen film where regular Allen art director / production designer Mel Bourne acted as either.
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-Actor Danny Aiello appeared in the movie uncredited.
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-Third of thirteen cinema movie collaborations of actress Mia Farrow and actor-writer-director Woody Allen.
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-The Carnegie Delicatessen Restaurant was shut down for two working days for the shooting of the film's scenes there.
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-Principal photography was completed in January 1984.
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-Actress Mia Farrow wore padding under her clothes so as to appear larger.(Humm j'me disais aussi)
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-The thirteenth feature film directed by Woody Allen.
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-In the film, it is touted that a sandwich be named after Danny Rose (Woody Allen). Its type and filling is suggested to be cream cheese on bagel with marinara sauce. In real life, after the movie was made and released, the Carnegie Delicatessen Restaurant, which was a setting in the picture, owner Leo Steiner, who appeared as himself in the film, created a "Danny Rose" sandwich. Its filling includes corned beef, pastrami and coleslaw and it comes in a special doggy bag. "Danny Rose" and comic strip character "Dagwood" are the only fictional icons that have a sandwich named after them at the Carnegie Deli.
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-Most of the movie's undisclosed flashback time-frame can be established as being the era of the late 60s, and around the year of 1969, due to a reference made about the moon landing.
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-After Manhattan (1979), this movie was the second Woody Allen film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Allen's next four pictures would also debut there.
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Cameo
Sammy Davis Jr.:  Uncredited, as a Thanksgiving Parade's Grand Marshall.
Milton Berle:  As himself.
Joe Franklin:  The New York talk show host as himself.
Etta Rollins:  The mother of Woody Allen's agent-producer Jack Rollins as a balloon bender and folder in the balloon act. The movie was her only ever appearance in a filmed production.

http://www.everywoodyallenmovie.com/post/broadway-danny-rose/

Jacqueline Sassard est une actrice française de cinéma née le 13 mars 1940 à Nice.
Elle est surtout connue pour avoir joué dans les films suivants : Eté violent (Valerio Zurlini 1959), Faibles femmes (Michel Boisrond 1959), Accident (Joseph Losey 1967) et enfin Les Biches (Claude Chabrol 1968) (son dernier rôle).

Filmographie

1956 : Je plaide non coupable, de Edmond T. Gréville
1957 : Guendalina, de Alberto Lattuada
1958 : Les Époux terribles, de Antonio Pietrangeli
1959 : Été violent, de Valerio Zurlini
1959 : Faibles femmes, de Michel Boisrond
1959 : Nous sommes tous coupables, de Luigi Zampa
1959 : Tutti innamorati, de Giuseppe Orlandini
1959 : Ferdinando I. re di Napoli, de Gianni Franciolini
1961 : I Soliti rapinatori a Milano, de Giulio Petroni
1961 : Mariti a congresso, de Luigi Filippo d'Amico
1962 : Les Titans, de Duccio Tessari
1962 : Freddy und das Lied der Südsee, de Werner Jacobs
1963 : Sandokan, le tigre de Bornéo, de Umberto Lenzi
1964 : Les Pirates de Malaisie, de Umberto Lenzi
1964 : Le Sexe des anges, de Pasquale Festa Campanile
1965 : La Stagione del nostro amore, de Florestano Vancini
1967 : Accident de Joseph Losey
1968 : Les Biches de Claude Chabrol

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Les Adieux à la reine est un film écrit et réalisé par Benoît Jacquot d'après le roman épo du mm nom de Chantal Thomas. Le film est fut présenté en ouverture de la Berlinale 2012 et sort(ti) en France le 15 mars 2012. Il reçoit reçut le prix Louis-Delluc du meilleur film de l'année 2012.

Résumé
En 1789, à l’aube de la Révolution, Versailles continue de vivre dans l’insouciance et la désinvolture, loin du tumulte qui gronde à Paris. Quand la nouvelle de la prise de la Bastille arrive à la Cour, le château se vide, nobles et serviteurs s’enfuient…Mais Sidonie Laborde, jeune lectrice entièrement dévouée à la Reine et logée avec les autres domestiques dans les communs du château où les rumeurs sur les puissants vont bon train,ne veut pas croire ce qu'elle entend.

Par son choix avisé des lectures, parfois controversées, qui plaisent à la souveraine,elle se sent protégée et tisse petit à petit avec cette dernière un lien qu’elle pense être de l’amitié. Elle se prend même à croire qu’elle remplacera Madame de Polignac, gouvernante et meilleure amie de la reine, dans le cœur de Marie- Antoinette. Elle ignore que ce sont les trois derniers jours qu’elle vit à ses côtés.

Lorsque la nouvelle de la prise de la Bastille fait vaciller la monarchie et met en fuite le petit personnel, Sidonie reste fidèle à son poste. Sans état d’âme, la reine d’humeur versatile et égoïste utilise sa lectrice comme un leurre en lui faisant revêtir une robe de Madame de Polignac...