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

Our January Special Subject is Part 2 of our look at the films of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, for which we watched Follow the Fleet (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). Fred and Ginger's popularity was on the decline in his period, but these movies include some of Dave's favourites. We discuss the ways in which these films adhere to and depart from the formula established in their earlier films, for better and worse, then turn our attention to Carefree's curious portrayal of the insanity of psychiatry and Vernon and Irene Castle's unusual romanticization of marital love and its basis in shared work. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, the TIFF Lightbox Delphine Seyrig festival continues with cult horror movie Daughters of Darkness, the greatest movie of all time, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, and two feminist activist videos co-directed by Seyrig, S.C.U.M. Manifesto (in which Seyrig reads an excerpt from Valeria Solanas' b