HeyJaredThere'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.
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Special Subject – Against Interpretation – LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961), 3 WOMEN (1977) and Susan Sontag's essay "Bergman's Persona" (opens the original)
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For our September 2026 Special Subject we read Susan Sontag's essay "Bergman's Persona " and applied its ideas to Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad , mentioned in the essay, and Robert Altman's 3 Women , which owes a great deal to Persona . Following Sontag, we ask what it would mean to try to approach a narrative film without needing to know "what happens in the story" and what other modes of response are available for films that resist plot synopsis. And for those who are still trying to f
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1935: ENCHANTED APRIL & IN PERSON (opens the original)
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For this RKO 1935 episode, FOTP Ann Harding returns in Enchanted April (directed by Harry Beaumont), based on a novel by Elizabeth von Armin that Elise declares, based on the cinematic evidence, to be the missing link between Jane Austen and Jane Bowles. Then we turn to one of Dave's favourites, In Person (directed by William A. Seiter), a Ginger Rogers comedy that paired her with an unusually lively George Brent. We discuss the very unusual chemistry between their characters, a Hollywood actres
Acteurist Spotlight – Sandra Dee – Part 2: STRANGER IN MY ARMS (1959) and GIDGET (1959) (opens the original)
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For our second Sandra Dee episode we watched two films from 1959 (March 1959, to be exact): the Ross Hunter family melodrama A Stranger in My Arms (directed by Helmut Käutner), from a novel by the author of Written on the Wind , and the infamous Gidget (directed by Paul Wendkos), based on Frederick Kohner's novel about his daughter. We do our best to reconstruct the movie Stranger could have been while marveling at Dee's exhausting performance of a neurotic rich girl, and then turn our flabberga
Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation/20th Century Fox – 1935: THE GAY DECEPTION and THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO (opens the original)
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In this 1935 20th Century-Fox Studios Year by Year episode, Friend of the Pod William Wyler, in his only appearance at Fox during the studio era, hits it out of the park again with The Gay Deception . This is one of two comedy masterpieces by Wyler in 1935, both woefully neglected, although this one foreshadows his one well-known comedy, Roman Holiday , in certain of its plot elements. But it's recognizably a 1930s screwball comedy, albeit with Francis Lederer as the madcap heiress (or prince) d
Special Subject – Max Ophuls in Italy and the Netherlands – LA SIGNORA DI TUTTI (1934) and KOMEDIE OM GELD (1936) (opens the original)
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For this Special Subject episode, we looked at a couple of interventions in European national cinemas by Max Ophüls, La signora di tutti (1934), made in Italy, and Komedie om geld (1936), made in the Netherlands. Although not generally associated with radical politics, or politics at all, in these two early, lesser-known films Ophüls uses melodrama and comedy respectively to explore commodification, reification, and commodity fetishism. But don't worry, there's also a five-star melodrama stairca
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