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 Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea (2016), a couple of masterpieces of American cinema in radically different modes: Technicolor melodrama and micro-realism. We discuss the curious myth of America in Written on the Wind , as embodied in the Hadley family's tortured relationship with Rock Hudson, and the enormous pressure of trauma on the quotidian surface of Manchester by the Sea , and, of course, the key freak-out moments within the family freak-outs. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956) [dir. Douglas Sirk] 0h 33m 28s: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016) [dir. Keneth Lonergan] +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive ) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!

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Special Subject - Elise's Family Freak-Outs – Part 2 - WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956) and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016) is an episode from Another Kind of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol and Nostalgia Podcast by Dave.

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This episode was published on May 22, 2026.

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