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

[[New Improved edition – with restored Home From the Hill content!]]   It's March Minnelli Madness as we watch three melodramas directed by Vincente Minelli, plus one nightmarish comedy: The Long, Long Trailer (1954), starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; The Cobweb (1955), starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall (among other big names); Some Came Running (1958), based on the novel by James Jones and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine; and Home from the Hill (1960), starring Robert Mitchum as an ironic patriarch and a curiously radiant George Peppard as his illegitimate son. We talk about Minnelli as a scrutinizer of masculinity and sexual mores, about certain auteurist concerns that we discover on the fly, and about Minnelli's version of 1950s consumer culture satire. Then, in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss the Minnelli melodrama-adjacent From Here to Eternity (1953), based on James Jones's first and less eccentric novel, with Frank Sinatra in a very different role.