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

For our Xmas 2021 episode, two bittersweet intellectual soap operas about forbidden love and sexual non-conformity in mid-20th century America, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, and Todd Haynes' Carol (2015), starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blachett. We talk about the interplay of satire and sincerity in Sirk, romance as a vehicle for self-actualization, coming-of-age story tropes, and how these movies use the expectations set by the holiday season. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, it's the last of the 20th Century Fox Noirs at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinematheque, two great Richard Widmark films: Jean Negulesco's Road House (1948), an Ode to Losers in Love, and Sam Fuller's brutal and lurid Ode to Losers in Life, Pickup on South Street (1953). Happy Holidays and see you in 2022! Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:                ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) [dir. Douglas Sirk]  0h 38m 35s:                CAROL (2015) [dir. Todd Haynes] 01h 02m 57s: