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There"s Sometimes a Buggy

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 their old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and their latest frontiers (courtesy of the TIFF Cinematheque and various Toronto rep houses and festivals). The podcast will be comprised of several potentially

tv & film philosophy

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01:24:44

January Special Subject – The Alpha and Omega of...

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2020/01/23

The alpha & omega of Josef von Sternberg's oeuvre, 1925's The SALVATION HUNTERS and 1953's ANATAHAN, prompt us to consider whether the stormy marriage of auteur and system can sometimes be more conducive to artistic accomplishment than creative independence. Then, prompted by recent moviegoing, we announce upcoming episodes/series on Ritwik Ghatak and Margaret Sullavan. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: The Salvation Hunters (1925) 0h 32m 39s: Anatahan (1953) 1h 01m 00s: Winter

01:39:42

The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – Warner...

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2020/01/17

This week, for Warners Bros. 1931: THE MALTESE FALCON (dir. Roy Del Ruth) and THE LAST FLIGHT (dir. William Dieterle). Warners is an early adopter of Dashiell Hammett, but is his least political novel a good fit for the most political studio, or not? And Dieterle, in his first English-language film, turns Warners into Paramount and tackles the Lost Generation, introducing themes that he'll continue to explore in his WWII films with Joseph Cotten. Then, in our Moviegoing section: we exchange thoughts

01:43:31

Acteurist Oeuvre-View – Season 1 – Jennifer Jones:...

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2020/01/10

The masterpieces keep coming in our Jennifer Jones series. This week it's Powell and Pressburger's Gone to Earth (1950), a meta melodrama that clearly gave Kate Bush some ideas, and William Wyler's Carrie (1952), a noirish costume drama about the precariousness of the American middle class. Then we say farewell to TIFF's Scorsese retrospective with our Top 10s and discussion of MEAN STREETS and AFTER HOURS. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: Carrie (1952; dir. William Wyler) 0h 46m 24s: Gone

02:08:38

Hollywood Studios, Year-by-Year – MGM, 1931:...

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2020/01/03

In our first MGM 1931 episode, we look at two very different fallen woman movies, POSSESSED (dir. Clarence Brown), starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and SUSAN LENOX (HER FALL AND RISE) (dir. Robert Z. Leonard), with Gable supporting (in the technical sense only) Greta Garbo. POSSESSED, taking cognizance of the Depression, leans as far left as MGM will ever get, while SUSAN LENOX shows us how patriarchy can be worse for men than it is for women—and sister, is it ever bad for women. Then we talk

Revised 2020 Podcast Schedule

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2020/01/01

Happy 2020, friends! Here’s our revised schedule for the first half of the new year (a little shifting around to accommodate the TIFF Cinemathèque showtimes). As always, if you're not sure where to find these items, just drop us a line at therebuggy@gmail.com. ++++ 2020 January 10, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Jennifer Jones – Part 5: GONE TO EARTH (1950) and CARRIE (1952) January 17, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1931: THE LAST FLIGHT (dir. William Dieterle) & THE