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

  • By: Elise Moore and Dave
  • Podcast

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

By: Elise Moore and Dave
  • Summary

  • 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.
    Copy Us, Please!!
    Show More Show Less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2
Episodes
  • Christmas 2024 - The Festive Bergman – FANNY & ALEXANDER (1982)
    Dec 25 2024

    Our 2024 Christmas episode is devoted to all 312 minutes of Ingmar Bergman's late masterpiece Fanny and Alexander (1982); a phantasmagorical smorgasbord of genres and summary of the writer-director's obsessions. We explore the film's Keatsian and Kierkegaardian implications, its relationship to the Modernist moment, and its oneiric inquiry into the nature of reality... among the many other topics raised by this dramatically and conceptually rich movie. We hope the holiday season gives you many opportunities to eat, think, and be merry!

    Time Codes:

    0h 00m 25s: FANNY & ALEXANDER (1982) [dir. Ingmar Bergman]

    +++

    * 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!

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min
  • Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 1: RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS (1932) & CAVALCADE (1933)
    Dec 20 2024

    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]

    +++

    * 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!

    Show More Show Less
    53 mins
  • Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO - 1948: BERLIN EXPRESS & THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR
    Dec 13 2024

    In this 1948 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at two artefacts from Dore 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 Joel W. Finler

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

    +++

    * 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!

    Show More Show Less
    50 mins

What listeners say about There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.