• There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film

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There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film

著者: Elise Moore and Dave
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  • Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of our old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and our latest frontiers. We like to bring attention to neglected figures and dig into little-known corners of film history and popular culture, and we hope that we can also bring new perspectives to the familiar. The podcast will be comprised of several potentially never-ending series: - Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto: Our Perspectives on Choice Local Retrospectives (PAUSED BY PANDEMIC) - Hollywood Studios – Year by Year: Deep-cut dishing on Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO, Fox, and Universal items from 1930 to 1948. - Acteurist oeuvre-views/spotlights on worthy on-camera creatives, beginning with Jennifer Jones and Setsuko Hara. - And a big parade of special subjects hand-chosen by whichever of your hosts happens to have a handle on this buggy that week.
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Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of our old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and our latest frontiers. We like to bring attention to neglected figures and dig into little-known corners of film history and popular culture, and we hope that we can also bring new perspectives to the familiar. The podcast will be comprised of several potentially never-ending series: - Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto: Our Perspectives on Choice Local Retrospectives (PAUSED BY PANDEMIC) - Hollywood Studios – Year by Year: Deep-cut dishing on Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO, Fox, and Universal items from 1930 to 1948. - Acteurist oeuvre-views/spotlights on worthy on-camera creatives, beginning with Jennifer Jones and Setsuko Hara. - And a big parade of special subjects hand-chosen by whichever of your hosts happens to have a handle on this buggy that week.
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  • Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 1: RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS (1932) & CAVALCADE (1933)
    2024/12/20

    Our first Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view presents us with a couple of politically reactionary pre-Codes: Wynyard's Hollywood debut, Rasputin and the Empress (1932), which is mostly Rasputin (a very freaky Lionel Barrymore), not much Empress (Ethel B), and almost no Wynyard; and her Hollywood triumph, Cavalcade (1933), Noël Coward's version of the Modernist recoil from the 20th century. We find much to discuss in these movies' tortured relationship with recent history.

    Time Codes:

    0h 00m 25s: RASPUTIN & THE EMPRESS (1932) [dir. Richard Boleslawski]

    0h 29m 03s: CAVALCADE (1933) [dir. Frank Lloyd]

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    * 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!

    Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy

    Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com

    We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!

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    53 分
  • Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO - 1948: BERLIN EXPRESS & THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR
    2024/12/13

    In this 1948 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at two artefacts from Dory Schary's brief tenure as Head of Production at RKO, Berlin Express (directed by Jacques Tourneur), an early Cold War curiosity in which Robert Young and Merle Oberon try to save Paul Lukas from the clutches of Nazis in war-torn Frankfurt, and The Boy with Green Hair (directed by Joseph Losey), the pacifist fantasy, starring Dean Stockwell and Pat O'Brien, over which Schary clashed with the Elon Musk of studio-era Hollywood, Howard Hughes. We discuss the films' historical context, as well as the non-political pleasures they have to offer.

    Time Codes:

    0h 00m 25s: The RKO Story summary of 1948 at Radio-Keith-Orpheum

    0h 05m 08s: BERLIN EXPRESS [dir. Jacques Tourneur]

    0h 24m 19s: THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR [dir. Joseph Losey]

    0h 46m 49s: Listener mail with Amy

    Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

    Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joe W. Finler

    Link: For 'KL': The Boy With The Green Hair

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    * 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 latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating.

    * Check out Dave’s new 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!

    Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy

    Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com

    We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!

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    50 分
  • Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 6: NATIVE LAND (1942), TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942) and SONG OF THE RIVERS (1954)
    2024/12/06

    Sadly, it's time to say goodbye to another acteur after an all-too-short time. For our final Paul Robeson episode, we watched Julien Duvivier's Tales of Manhattan (1942), which notoriously brought an end to Robeson's career as a film actor, and two extraordinary socialist documentaries to which he contributed his voice, Leo Hurwitz's Native Land (1942) and Joris Ivens' The Song of the Rivers (1954). (Note that Robeson's contribution to Song of the Rivers was less than we supposed going in: an introductory song only. But we thought it paired well with Native Land anyway.) We make an argument for the subversive use of tropes in the Robeson Tales of Manhattan segment before moving on to discuss Robeson's involvement in the kind of cinema he wanted to make: independent, socialist, artistically ambitious. And finally, we of course Rank the Robesons, giving our 10 favourite Robeson films in order and summarizing the experience of building a comprehensive picture of this under-theorized body of work.

    Time Codes:

    0h 00m 25s: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942) [dir. Julien Duvivier]

    0h 21m 54s: NATIVE LAND (1942) [dirs. Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand]

    0h 53m 33s: SONG OF THE RIVERS (1954) [dir. Joris Ivens]

    1h 04m 48s: Ranking the Robesons

    1h 13m 58s: Listener mail from Andy

    Episode specific reading:

    · Musser, Charles. Paul Robeson and the End of His ‘Movie’ Career. Cinémas, Volume 19, (Number 1), Fall 2008, 147-179.

    · Klein, Jill and Michael. Native Land: An Interview with Leo Hurwitz. Cinéaste vol 6 (number 3), 1974.

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    * 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!

    Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy

    Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com

    We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!

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