Aug 29, 2019
Welcome to the first installment of Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto! This time out, it’s part one of our mammoth conversation covering Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg’s inspired 1930s collaborations. We saw the films as part of The TIFF Lightbox’s recently concluded retrospective, Insolent Enigma/Arrogant Auteur. Join us as we feel our way toward a critical counternarrative to the anemic analyses which have plagued the skin-deep celebration of this cinematic septet for too long. (Much of our discussion takes place in dialogue with Andrew Sarris’ 1960s monograph The Films of Josef von Sternberg.)
Time Codes:
0h 1m 00s: Preamble
0h 22m 27s: The Blue Angel
0h 46m 00s: Morocco
1h 15m 43s: Dishonored
1h 48m 30s: Shanghai Express
2h 11m 23s: Listener Mail with Todd Murry
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“What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?” – Le Tigre