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

This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, free will, and the perils of adapting ancient Greek tragedy. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we briefly discuss the final Powell Pressburgers of TIFF cinematheque's retrospective, A Matter of Life and Death and Canadiana curiosity 49th Parallel, as well as Elise's first big-screen Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence, and how no one should ever have parties.  Time Codes: 0h 00m 30s:      SEBASTIAN (1968) [dir. David Greene] 0h 23m 17s:       OEDIPUS THE KING (1968) [dir. Philip Saville] 0h 44m 11s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto:  A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and 49th Parallel (1941) by Powell & Pressburger; A Woman Under the