Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1935: THE RIGHT TO LIVE & I FOUND STELLA PARISH
For this Warner Bros. 1935 episode we watched a couple of melodramas that show a side of the studio's 1930s output less familiar than its fa...
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Another Kind of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol and Nostalgia Podcast
Elise Moore and David Fiore aspire to cover every time travel film ever made (in this continuum, at least). Together, we'll dive deeply and dialogically into this eternally compelling genre....
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Acteurist Spotlight – Jennifer Jason Leigh – Part 3: GEORGIA (1995) and BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA (1996)
We say farewell to Jennifer Jason Leigh for now with two more harrowing works: Georgia (1995), written by Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, an...
Special Subject - Elise's Family Freak-Outs – Part 3 - LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962) and WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974)
Elise's final Family Freak-Out, as promised, is the peak of the climb: two emotional marathons totalling 316 minutes and featuring some of t...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1935: BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL & THE FLAME WITHIN
For this MGM 1935 Studios Year by Year episode we again explored the screen persona of forgotten star Ann Harding in a double feature, Biogr...
Acteurist Spotlight – Jennifer Jason Leigh – Part 2: SHORT CUTS (1993) and MRS. PARKER & THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1994)
For Part 2 of our Acteur Spotlight on Jennifer Jason Leigh we watched Robert Altman's cinematic embodiment of the Raymond Carver universe, S...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1935: THE PRESIDENT VANISHES and THE GLASS KEY
For this round of Paramount 1935 we watched William A. Wellman's The President Vanishes, based on the pacifist anti-fascist novel by Rex Sto...
* Corrected - Acteurist Spotlight – Jennifer Jason Leigh – Part 1: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) and FLESH + BLOOD (1985) -
For the first episode of our Acteurist Spotlight on Jennifer Jason Leigh, we watched Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) an...
Special Subject – Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and its Informal Antecedents - DAYS OF BEING WILD (1990); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) and 2046 (2004)
Our Special Subject for June is Wong Kar-wai's so-called "Love Trilogy": Days of Being Wild (1990), In the Mood for Love (2000), and 2046 (2...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1934: THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW & THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD
In this Universal 1934 Studios Year by Year episode, we discuss the original There's Always Tomorrow , starring Frank Morgan and Binnie Barn...
Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 3: UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE (2008) and WHITE MATERIAL (2009)
For the final episode of our Isabelle Huppert Spotlight, we watched two movies with a colonial setting: Rithy Panh's The Sea Wall (2008), ba...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1934: WE'RE RICH AGAIN & THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
Our text for this 1934 RKO Studios Year by Year episode is a William A. Seiter double feature distinguished by ultra-manipulative heroines a...
Special Subject - Elise's Family Freak-Outs – Part 2 - WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956) and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)
Our Family Freak-Outs series continues to go from strength to strength as we examine Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956) and Kenneth L...
Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 2: UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMME (1988) and THE PIANO TEACHER (2001)
For our second Isabelle Huppert Acteurist Spotlight we have another first encounter with an auteur, Claude Chabrol, with the unfortunately t...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year - Fox Film Corporation – 1934: CHANGE OF HEART & MARIE GALANTE
For this round of Fox Studios 1934 we watched Change of Heart (directed by John G. Blystone), Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell's final pairi...
Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 1: LOULOU (1980) and COUP DE TORCHON (1981)
For our first Isabelle Huppert Acteurist Spotlight episode, we watched Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), in which Huppert stars with Gérard De...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1934: I AM A THIEF & I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER
On this week's Warner Bros. 1934 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at some of the studio's mid-30s B-output: the jazzy, Modernist, monta...
The Archers in Black and White – A CANTERBURY TALE (1944); I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (1945) and THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) + 2026 Toronto Silent Film Festival
Our Special Subject for this month is The Archers in Black and White: A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), and The Smal...
Acteurist Spotlight – Deborah Kerr – Part 3: TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956) and BELOVED INFIDEL (1959)
We conclude our Deborah Kerr Acteurist Spotlight with a couple of her big Hollywood movies after the turning point of From Here to Eternity...
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1934: A WICKED WOMAN & SEQUOIA
Our MGM 1934 episode this week is a Jean Parker (Beth in RKO's 1933 Little Women ) double feature. She plays the rebellious daughter in the...
Acteurist Spotlight – Deborah Kerr – Part 2: PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950) and DREAM WIFE (1953)
For the 2nd part of our Deborah Kerr Acteurist Spotlight we check in on Kerr's "lost years" at MGM to see what Hollywood was finding for her...