There's Sometimes a Buggy

Author: Elise Moore and Dave

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 various Toronto rep houses and festivals). The podcast will be comprised of several potentially never-ending series: - Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto: Our Perspectives on Choice Local Retrospectives - Hollywood Studios Year by Year: Deep-cut dishing on Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO, Fox, and Universal items from 1930 to 1948. - Acteurist oeuvre-views of worthy on-camera creatives, beginning with Jennifer Jones and Setsuko Hara. - And a big parade of special subjects hand-chosen by whichever of your hosts happens to have a handle on this buggy that week
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Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 3: UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE (2008) and WHITE MATERIAL (2009)
Thursday, 4 June, 2026

For the final episode of our Isabelle Huppert Spotlight, we watched two movies with a colonial setting: Rithy Panh's The Sea Wall (2008), based on the novel by Marguerite Duras, and Claire Denis' White Material (2009). Disturbing eroticism as a lens on colonial class and racial dynamics is something the films share, as well as white colonial failure, while Huppert in White Material emerges as an AU Scarlett O'Hara whose indomitable capitalist will has become delusional monomania. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss a couple of indie movies, current release Mile End Kicks (set in 2011) and Big Night from the mid-90s (set in the 1950s). Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE (2008) [dir. Rithy Panh] 0h 21m 13s: WHITE MATERIAL (2009) [dir. Claire Denis] 0h 40m 23s: FEAR AND MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – Chandler Levack's Mile End Kicks (2025) and Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott's Big Night (1996) +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!