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The Purple Rose of Cairo

Five years after depicting film fans as psychotic morons in Stardust Memories, Woody Allen sent them a bittersweet love letter in this fond, if slight memoir of his own lost days in the flickering darkness.

Purple Rose is delightful from beginning to end, not only because of the clarity and charm with which Daniels and Farrow explore the problems of their characters, but also because the movie is so intelligent.

Where Allen succeeds is in his re-creation of the old studio programmers of the 1930s...