
Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of their old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and their latest frontiers (courtesy of the TIFF Cinematheque and v... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 422 | Founded | 12 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TV & FilmPhilosophySociety & Culture | |||

Our final Sandra Dee episode for a while sees us battling out whether the inanities of the Ross Hunter melodrama Portrait in Black (1960), based on a play by the writing duo behind White Heat, are fun or just dumb, after which we turn to Peter Ustino... more
For our September 2026 Special Subject we read Susan Sontag's essay "Bergman's Persona" and applied its ideas to Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, mentioned in the essay, and Robert Altman's 3 Women, which owes a great deal to Persona. Following... more
For this RKO 1935 episode, FOTP Ann Harding returns in Enchanted April (directed by Harry Beaumont), based on a novel by Elizabeth von Armin that Elise declares, based on the cinematic evidence, to be the missing link between Jane Austen and Jane Bow... more
For our second Sandra Dee episode we watched two films from 1959 (March 1959, to be exact): the Ross Hunter family melodrama A Stranger in My Arms (directed by Helmut Käutner), from a novel by the author of Written on the Wind, and the infamous Gidge... more
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…for doing this. It’s just such a joy to listen to you two talk about movies. Why? Because I’ve found someone who’s seen more than me, and because you are informed, well read, with - I’m guessing here - a strong cultural theory background. Most importantly, you just dig movies, which means I dig you too.
Love that this duo is being covered. Look, it was the 1930s; do you want to chastise something that happened 90 years ago? Astaire never meant to insult Robinson. Are you both ok with Shirley Temple dancing with Robinson, or is she just a child racist? So ridiculous.
Elise just tears apart these films unless they follow her narrative.
Now I see an older episode where you refer to Tyrone Power as nominal.
Go back to calling everything and everyone racist.
Unfollowing this show for its narro... more
Love that this duo is being covered. Look, it was the 1930s; do you want to chastise something that happened 90 years ago? Astaire never meant to insult Robinson.
Are you both ok with Shirley Temple dancing with Robinson, or is she just a child racist? So ridiculous.
Elise and Dave deep dive old movies with the aplomb of decades-long film critics. You WILL learn something new every episode, and they’ll make you want to see the films they shine a light on. A must-listen for film buffs!
Witty and engaging as David and Elise are, they’re not shy about getting into it on any given topic.
Whether they’re exploring the personae of undervalued actors or trying to work out what could possibly constitute a satisfying ending to a long-running serial narrative, it’s this seriousness of purpose and deep literary knowledge that really sets this duo apart.
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Two hosts deliver in-depth, cross-era cinema conversations that skew toward studio-era Hollywood, with a strong emphasis on film history, archival context, and nuanced gender/power analyses. Episodes mix close readings of classic titles with meta-discussion about criticism, festivals, and the evolving film culture in a North American city known for its vibrant repertory scene. Noteworthy is a dual focus on deep-d cuts and contemporary scholarly angles, plus generous host banter that keeps dense analysis approachable for cinephiles and podcast newcomers alike.
A standout quality is the show's knack for tying historical material to present-day discourse—making room for serious theory without losing pace or personality. Listeners may apprecia... more
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