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There"s Sometimes a Buggy

Elise Moore and Dave

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

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01:18:44

The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – Fox Film...

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2019/10/24

We declare the year 1930 CANCELLED prior to discussing John Ford's UP THE RIVER & Frank Borzage's LILIOM (little known today - but based on the same source as the musical CAROUSEL). We consider the different (maybe opposite) ways in which these Fox movies portray sympathy for the victims of class society without criticizing the system, in contrast to a Warner Bros.-style treatment of similar material. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: Up the River (dir. John Ford) 0h 39m 16s: Liliom (dir

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02:13:42

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

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2019/10/18

In our second Jennifer Jones episode, we defend William Dieterle's LOVE LETTERS (1945), putting it in the context of 40s psychiatric melodramas and WWII amnesia movies, and consider the good and bad of what Ernst Lubitsch's CLUNY BROWN (1946) has to say about female sexuality and English complacency. Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s: Love Letters (dir. William Dieterle) 1h 00m 28s: Cluny Brown (dir. Ernst Lubitsch) 1h 31m 37s: Fall Cinemagoing Update 1h 33m

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01:34:44

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

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2019/10/10

In our first 1930 Warner Bros. episode, we consider DAWN PATROL as an early example of cahier hero ‘Auward ‘Awks's philosophy of masculinity, and note the emergence of the Warners ethos in Mervyn Leroy's PLAYING AROUND, including consciousness of class, sympathy for criminals, vaudeville Yiddish characters, and a touch of patriarchal anxiety. Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s: The Dawn Patrol (dir. Howard Hawks) 0h 39m 19s: Playing Around (dir. Mervyn Leroy) 1h 16m 29s: Fall Cinemagoing

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02:10:51

Autumn Special Subject: Nora Ephron - When Harry Met...

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2019/10/04

“Autumn is the most bourgeois month,” as Keats said. Elise and Dave prove this is so by exploring Nora Ephron's two autumnal Upper West Side romantic comedies, WHEN HARRY MET (1989) and YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998), a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. Elise passes judgment on the two latter movies on the basis of her extensive experience of working in retail and intimate knowledge of the Bookstore Wars of the turn of the millennium. Dave defends Bernie Bros. Time Codes: 0h 1m

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01:58:07

The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – MGM, 1930 – The...

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2019/09/27

In the first MGM episode of our Studios Year by Year series, the year is 1930, and Elise and Dave watch as the straggler studio struggles with the challenges of early sound in THE BISHOP MURDER CASE, starring Basil Rathbone as Philo Vance, with two credited directors (Elise posits a third, unknown genius). Then we switch over to a Marion Davies comedy, NOT SO DUMB, directed by King Vidor, Dave's favourite director for many reasons that he enumerates in the episode, none of them relevant to this

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02:26:54

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

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2019/09/20

Join Dave and Elise for episode one of our (near-)complete filmography series on the great Jennifer Jones (née Phylis Isley). We provide a few preliminary thoughts re: our take on the Jones/Selznick synergy and then dive right into the films. Song of Bernadette kicks things off with quite a blessed bang, situating our star at the conceptual vanishing point between the instinctual and the ineffable; while the following year’s Since You Went Away dabbles with domesticating the Jones persona (as a nod

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01:36:23

The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – Paramount, 1930...

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2019/09/12

Elise and Dave launch their extended excursion into oligarchic auteurism with a pair of films from the studio whose special touch may very well have been its hands-off approach to directorial oversight. Certainly Behind the Make-Up (aka The Feeder) makes a very interesting companion piece to Dorothy Arzner’s later masterpiece Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) – a film discussed on this very feed earlier in 2019. It stars William Powell, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, and Hal Skelly, none of whom would wind up

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02:24:57

Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Sternberg/Dietrich,...

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2019/09/06

Dave and Elise close out their discussion of the Dietrich/Sternberg septet with three films that examine three distinct paths (and aftermaths) to victory for the Dietrich persona. From superhero weepie to Henry James inflected Game of Thronery to a kind of class-conscious Carmen– this one’s got it all! Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s: Blonde Venus 0h 33m 00s: The Scarlet Empress 1h 09m 52s: The Devil is a Woman 1h 42m 54s: Elise and Dave rank the 7 films 1h 52m 01s: Listener

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'Ber Month Episode Schedule

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2019/09/01

Greetings friends! Just a little extra-advanced information about our upcoming Fall Schedule. Your humble buggy drivers understand that watching this many movies takes time! If you're not sure where to find these items, just drop us a line at therebuggy@gmail.com. ***N.B.: November 15th and December 20th episode information will be provided once we get a look at the TIFF Lightbox Cinematheque's Fall schedule.*** ++++ September 6: Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto - TIFF Sternberg/Dietrich retrospective,

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02:23:31

Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Sternberg/Dietrich,...

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2019/08/29

Welcome to the first installment of Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto! This time out, it’s part one of our mammoth conversation covering Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg’s inspired 1930s collaborations. We saw the films as part of The TIFF Lightbox’s recently concluded retrospective, Insolent Enigma/Arrogant Auteur. Join us as we feel our way toward a critical counternarrative to the anemic analyses which have plagued the skin-deep celebration of this cinematic septet for too long. (Much of our

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02:45:51

Ethan Mordden’s The Hollywood Studios (1989)

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2019/08/23

This week’s episode serves as both a prolegomenon to our imminent Hollywood Studios Year By Year series and as a wistful look back to Dave’s teen years, when he picked up Ethan Mordden’s freewheeling speed date with Old Hollywood History and discovered a new way to split the difference between Adornian culture industry theory and auteurist ontology. Journey back to a time when oligopoly really meant something and most entertainment companies weren’t somehow beholden to Disney. We quote from and

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02:08:29

There's Sometimes an Introductory Episode

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2019/08/16

Welcome to our brand-new movie podcast! In this episode, Elise Moore and David Fiore ramble on about their respective lives cinematic and present impressionistic lists of their characteristic enthusiasms. Last, but not least, we sketch out the shape of ‘casts to come. Among the topics covered here: our not being a David Lynch podcast, RCA Videodiscs, Canadians watching New England PBS stations, Xanadu, The Lady in the Lake, reading about movies you fear you’ll never see, The Strawberry Blonde, The

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02:20:22

Another Kino Distance: Our Film Discussion Podcast -...

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2019/02/21

In the second half of our Dorothy Arzner marathon, we cover the remaining entries in the recent TIFF retrospective (Christopher Strong, Merrily We Go To Hell, and Dance, Girl, Dance), along with a pair of items we scrounged up on our own (Nana and Craig’s Wife). Dance, Girl, Dance is justifiably considered the director’s summative work, gathering all of Arzner’s countervailing preoccupations and themes into its sui generis structure like a bull in the narrative shop. The other four films form quite

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01:49:44

Another Kino Distance: Our Film Discussion Podcast -...

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2019/02/16

Inspired by TIFF Lightbox's Winter 2019 Dorothy Arzner retrospective, Elise and Dave dive into a lengthy discussion of this absurdly neglected auteur's career and context. On leg one of the journey, we examine WORKING GIRLS (1931), THE WILD PARTY (1929) and THE BRIDE WORE RED (1937), zeroing in on the director's penchant for dichotomously paired protagonists (Judith Wood/Dorothy Hall; Clara Bow/Shirley O'Hara; Joan Crawford/Joan Crawford - with MVP kibitzing from Mary Phillips), her unflinching

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02:41:32

Another Kind of Christmas 2018 - MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS...

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2018/12/22

Happy holidays from Elise and Dave! This year's X-Mas offering was inspired by Elise's new piece in The Threepenny Review and by Dave's lifelong obsession with New England Transcendentalism. See you in 2019!

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03:19:32

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

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2017/05/04

Join Elise Moore and David Fiore as they gear up for David Lynch's imminent return to the Pacific Northwest with an extended discussion of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. We'll be covering every episode of the show's much-anticipated third season, and we're more excited than ever after our most recent viewing of the director's divisive prequel/coda. Powered by Sheryl Lee's galvanizing performance, Lynch's first "Woman In Trouble" masterpiece emerged from the ashes of the TV show's rather confused (to

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03:08:57

Random Harvest (1942) & Archangel (1990)

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2016/11/25

Finally, the long-promised amnesia episode! If you haven't forgotten. (BOOM! Amnesia joke right away.) Elise and Dave look at Canadian cult film Archangel (1990) (the one not with Daniel Craig in it) by Guy Maddin and one of its sources, another amnesiac soldier film, Mervyn LeRoy's classical Hollywood melodrama Random Harvest (1942). We make our case for why amnesia movies in general, and these two in particular, ought to be thought about in a time travel narrative context. Elise, who used to be

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03:49:30

Triangle (2009) & Time Lapse (2014)

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2016/10/10

Returning to you after the most re-recordings since our PRIMER episode plus technical difficulties with the computer, Dave and Elise take on a movie that gets better when you think about it, TRIANGLE (2009) and one that gets worse with thought, TIME LAPSE (2014). Elise gets excited about fan theories about Triangle; Dave is unimpressed. But Elise and Dave agree, re: TIME LAPSE, that you shouldn't make a character-based movie and then forget to include any human beings. Episode Related Links:

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03:54:07

Our Town (1940) and Synecdoche, New York (2008)

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2016/08/31

Dave and Elise examine an unlikely cinematic duo, Our Town (1940), Sam Wood's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's experimental Pulitzer-winning play about turn-of-the-19th-century American small town life, death, time, and family, and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Charlie Kaufman's experimental movie about a theatre director in a small American city (Philip Seymour Hoffman), death, time, and family. Well, I guess it doesn't sound all that unlikely when you put it like that. Although we've once again gone

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03:14:05

Minority Report (2002) & Next (2007)

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2016/07/15

Elise and Dave try to philosophically and narratively untangle two precog movies more-or-less based on Philip K. Dick tales, Minority Report (2002) directed by Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, and Next (2007), starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Lee Tamahori. We discuss how Minority Report has been politically castrated (i.e. de-Dicked) for the sake of Spielberg feel-goodism, and debate how much of a bitch Julianne Moore really is in Next. Elise marvels at Nick Cage's “sad dad” seduction moves,

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