Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 4: ALICE (1990); SHADOWS AND FOG (1991) & HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)

There's Sometimes a Buggy

We say farewell to Farrow and Allen (for now, although we'll probably encounter them individually on the podcast again) with this final episode on their cinematic collaboration, covering Alice (1990), Shadows and Fog (1991), and one of their very best, the ill-fated Husbands and Wives (1992). In the first two, two more Allen characters struggle to live the good life in what couldn't be more different settings, and then we join Allen in meditating on all of the different ways that romantic relationships attempting to function at a high level can go wrong. Then, on Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we briefly glance at Siodmak's 1944 Phantom Lady, covered by us before, and Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950), to be covered in detail very soon as part of our Gloria Grahame series.

Time Codes:

0h 00m 25s: ALICE (1990) [dir. Woody Allen]

0h 23m 27s: SHADOWS AND FOG (1991) [dir. Woody Allen]

0h 33m 41s: HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992) [dir. Woody Allen]

0h 59m 00s: Our favourites from the Farrow/Allen canon

1h 01m 54s: Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto – Robert Siodmak’s PHANTOM LADY (1944) at TIFF Lightbox & Nicholas Ray’s IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) at The Revue Cinema (Designing the Movies)

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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!

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