Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

The two movies Elise Moore and David Fiore discuss in this episode epitomize the maxim, “If at first you don't succeed...”. In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray, at the splendid height of his original sarcastic comedic persona, is given apparently limitless chances to accept limitation and adjust his attitude, which is the amount he needs; while the curious Edge of Tomorrow examines the ways in which the structure of Groundhog Day (although nothing else about it) resembles a video game, and slaps a weirdly generic, Sirkean title on the results. Don't forget, you can always write us at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).  We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!  

Dave and Elise contemplate two movies that share a warped sense of time and humour and the kind of reticence about meaning and what's even actually happening that induces hyperinterpretation. In the process we discover that we can talk about a David Lynch film for two hours even when it's not one of our favourites.  We need your help figuring out what's happening in these movies - the time travel, if there is any, and the rest of it too! Send your theories to anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).  We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can! And remember to DREAM.

In Part 2 of our Nimoy tribute, we look at two TV episodes dealing with time travel romance. If you've been listening to the show for a while (or even just listened to the first episode), you may already suspect that time travel + romance =/= good times all around. We contemplate the problems for writers of tragedy created by having a time-travelling hero. Also, Elise would like to apologize once and for all for always saying "cyberpunk" when she means "steampunk" (or in this case, gearpunk) in an attempt to show off her non-existent knowledge of cutting-edge sci-genres.  Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

In this episode we join the rest of the internet in paying tribute to Leonard Nimoy and his indelible creation, Mr. Spock, by looking at two time-travel movies in which he plays a key role. First we look at the Nimoy-conceived-and-directed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), a lighthearted adventure in which Spock discovers his affinity for humpback whales and his uncanny naivety seems to spread to the rest of the crew – including Kirk, who has trouble mackin' under these conditions. Then we consider the very different, badass-centric interpretation of these characters in J. J. Abrams' reboot Star Trek (2009). Kirk has some trouble mackin' in this movie too, come to think of it – Spock not so much.  Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're now on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/re

"Come with us if you want to listen!" Elise Moore and David Fiore examine James Cameron's (and James Mostow's) Terminator mythos, which offers several different perspectives on the time travel story. Is this a loop narrative? An alternate universe tale? Depends which entry in the series you happen to be watching.  Join us for another lengthy podcasting triathlon! Along the way, Elise will delight in her discovery of Arnold Schwarzeneggar's Garboesque qualities and you will no doubt share in our confusion as we wonder how John Connor managed to become a preteen Edward Furlong by 1991 despite the fact that he was born in 1984.  You might have noticed that Terminator:Salvation is not here. That's because it sucks (and David can't remember any time travel in it). Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're now on all of the podcast delivery services, inc

In their first podcast of 2015, Elise Moore and David Fiore examine a pair of wistfully off-kilter comedies that are lightly haunted by the suggestion of temporal alterity. First up, we've got Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents (2000), which is about the closest thing to a Capra time travel comedy-drama that you are ever likely to see, complete with a Mr. Deed (Vincent D'Onofrio) and with Marisa Tomei playing the Jean Arthur role in a slightly more likely to hit you with something key. Then it's onward to Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), directed by Colin Treverow and featuring a nice lineup of personable folk line Aubry Plaza, Jake Johnson, Mark Duplass, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, and Mary Lynn Rajskub. This one plays like the very best combination of Ghost World and First Blood you can imagine - with a little flux.  Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images). 

Season's Greetings from Another Kind of Distance! We've got an extra special (or, at any rate, an extra long) episode for you this time out. Our chronogically confused Christmas begins with the great Alastair Sim version of Dickens' Christmas Carol, which hit British screens as Scrooge  in 1951. Then we try our hands at giving out wings by wringing all of the meaning we can out of one of the finest Hollywood films ever made: Frank Capra's It's Wonderful Life (1946).  We 'd write more, but you've got a lot of listening to do here, so we don't want to detain you. External Reference Section (Sublime to Ridiculous Edition): 1. Elise Moore alluded to George Toles's book of film essays, A House Made of Light, which features one of her favourite essays on Capra's film 2. Meanwhile, David Fiore mentioned this not-really-a-gem from Saturday Night Live.  Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where

In an AKOD first,  Elise Moore and David Fiore cover a film that is playing at your local cinema right now (unless you're listening to this in the future - and, if so, I hope you like corn).  It's Christopher Nolan's Interstellar! Starring Matthew McConnaghy, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, some robots, and a whole bunch of other people who wanted to hang out with the Nolan brothers for some reason.  As befits a current-release discussion, we get more intertextual than usual, tossing out references to fellow podcasters on Sound on Sight and /FilmCast.  Join us as we struggle to justify our decision to pay $40 to see this thing in a theatre - and utterly fail to discern what room that bookshelf is in. Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're now on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so

Hello everyone! This evening, Elise Moore and David Fiore accompany a pair of distraught time troopers through the Foucauldian looking glass, wondering the whole time whether any of this stuff is really happening. Our first film is Terry Gilliam's justly-celebrated 12 Monkeys (1995), starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. Yes, it's based on Chris Marker's La jetée, but we'll get to that one some other time, okay?  The second item on our double-consciousness double billing was suggested by friend of the show Siskoid. We were quite impressed with The Jacket (2005), which had somehow flown under our time sensors. It was directed by John Maybury and it stars Adrien Brody, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Keira Knightly, Kris Kristofferson, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, and Daniel Craig. Also, it was filmed in Ormstown, Québec, a place David knows well. For those listening at home, the final tune wasn't sung by Bryan Ferry (as we suppose on the cast), it's actually Iggy Pop!  Please don't hesitate to contact us,

Rev your volume up to 88 and get set for our marathon discussion of all three Back to the Future films! Spoiler alert - these films have some pretty serious problems - perhaps best exemplified by Elisabeth Shue's TWO MOVIE-long nap! Back to the Future II makes About Time seem like a major advance in gender representation. But for better or worse, David Fiore and Elise Moore grew up in the 1980s, and we can't go back there and make ourselves not care about these movies! Moreover, there are a lot of time travel conundrums to ponder here. Download this before some dumb time traveler makes you disappear. Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're now on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

This is the one you've been waiting for! Elise Moore and David Fiore tackle two of the preeminent weisentimer puzzle films in the chrono canon (note: one of these puzzles comes complete with missing pieces).  First up is Nacho Vigolando's Timecrimes (2007), featuring Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga (tellingly cast-listed as "La Chica en el Bosque" - although we were just calling her The Cyclist), and the director himself.  Then, we do our best to enter the Primer (2004) fray - battling the film, each other, and the whole internet in an effort to come up with something useful to say about director/star Shane Carruth's work of engineer outsider art. And if you're keeping score at home, please help yourselves to these fine aids to reflection upon the movie: 1. THE chart 2.  Jason Gendler's "Primer: The Perils and Paradoxes of Restricted Time Travel  Narration."  Enjoy! (And keep your eyes peeled for a more in-depth Elise essay on the FB page).  Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance

This episode, Elise Moore and David Fiore try to stop time and pause to reflect upon what has come before. We explore a few scientific theories regarding the possibility of time travel (from a lay perspective, of course), and then wade into the narratological uses of time in the movies we've watched with you. We hope former fellow Torontonian Northrup Frye would be proud of our efforts to anatomize anachronicity.   Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms), or David's Tumblr (where you'll find a bunch of images).  We're now on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

It's Rom-Chron time on Another Kind of Distance! Elise Moore and David Fiore confront the ecstasies and the banalities of quixotic, tick-tockic love amongst the comfortable classes. On the menu this week: a glimpse of the ways in which the amnesia narrative and the time travel narrative proper become virtually indistinguishable; some discussion of the relationship between subjectivity and timelines; Schrödinger's Braces; and a lot of trash talk directed at Alain De Botton and Chuck Woolery. Our films? We start with Gary Winick's 13 Going on 30 (2004), starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, and Andy Serkis.  Then we fall into the callow chasm that is Richard Curtis' About Time (2013). This one has Domhnall Gleeson, time travel vet Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, and Lydia Wilson.  We were going to do some listener feedback, but we decided that we ought to push that to the next episode, since this one is already well over 2.5 hours.  We would, however, like to take this opportunity to thank Siskoid for

This time out, Elise Moore and David Fiore explore the heartbreak of chrono displacement syndrome. Perhaps because their parents watched too many time travel movies during the gestation period, each of our wayfarers are genetically predisposed to kick against the ticks of the clock - although they do so in spectacularly different ways. First up, we've got Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber's grim The Butterfly Effect (2004), starring Ashton Kutcher (that's not easy to say), Amy Smart, Melora Walters, and Eric Stoltz as no one's candidate for father of the year.  Our second film is Robert Schwentke's The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), based on Audrey Niffenegger's much-loved novel. This one stars Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, and Stephen Tobolowsky. The pairing gave us a great chance to talk about the differences between "time loop" films and the "timeline" entries in this vast genre.   So get set for 2.5 hours of time talk, spiced with our inevitable musings about masochism and male panic as our heroe

In this week's episode, Elise Moore and David Fiore journey back to genre basics with a pair of O.G. time machine movies - both of which feature the orginal time machine itself. We're speaking, of course, of H.G. Wells' eponymous chrono contraption from the great science fictioneer's 1895 novel.  We begin with George Pal's 1960 adaptation of The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor, Alan ("Uncle Scrooge") Young, Tom ("Gavin Elster") Helmore, and Yvette Mimieux. From there, we jostle around through the ages until we get back to H.G.'s basement for the beginning of Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time(1979). This one stars sweethearts Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen, along with David Warner and some delicious pomme frites.  One of the great things about our topic is that pretty much everything happens in time, and that's what we'll be discussing during the weeks to come. Everything. In this case, we do a fair bit of speculating about the possibility of human progress and the unfortunate ubiquity of the serial ki

This time out, Elise Moore and David Fiore set forth to explore the interior distances within the human psyche. Along the way, we question the proprietary nature of memory and gesture toward a theory of romantic stoicism.  First up is Francis Ford Coppola's wistful PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, starring Kathleen Turner, a young Nicolas Cage (voice-acted by Nicolas Cage's most impish impulses), Jim Carrey, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Barry Miller, Don Murray, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leon Ames, and the immortal John Carradine.  Then we venture into the twilit battleground between fruitfully incompatible auteurs Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry for a discussion of ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. The movie stars Jim Carrey (decidedly less manic in this one), Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Jane Adams, David Cross, and Tom Wilkinson. We hope you enjoy the program! Please don't hesitate to contact us, either at anotherkindofdistance@gmail.com, on our Facebook Page, our Twitt

{{Discaimer}} This episode sounds a bit "hollow", as we tried to record it with a fan on and then removed the noise in edits. Think of it as a communique from the liminal realm beyond the 4th dimension.  {{End of disclaimer}} We begin in a state of heated passion, with a pair of meditations on love, artistic inspiration, renunciation, and the tragic fate of time tossed muses.    Our travels commence with Jeannot Szwarc's Somewhere in Time (1980), starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, and Teresa Wright.    Then it's on to William Dieterle's magnificent Portrait of Jennie (1948), Luis Bunuel's favourite Hollywood film (and who are we to disagree with Bunuel?).     We hope you've enjoyed our ramblings - there's a lot more to come! We'll be setting up a Facebook account for the podcast in the not too distant future, but, for now, you can always write to us at anotherkindofdistance[at]gmail.com.  Please let us know what you think of our approach - and chime in with your own impressions. W