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S2E02 - The Doll [1919] with Tim Brayton
S2E02 - The Doll [1919] with Tim Brayton
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Critic and friend of the show Tim Brayton returns to discuss Lubitsch’s lo-fi comic masterpiece THE DOLL. Much enthusiasm for this completely iconoclastic curio of a film is shared as we discuss the nature of artifice, history’s least-convincing fake horses, the mysterious circumstances under which this film’s release was botched, Lubitsch’s not-all-that-scathing satire of organized religion, and unacceptably bad silent film scores.
Griffin Sheel was our dialogue editor for this episode.
NEXT WEEK:
Filmmaker, critic, and academic David Cairns joins us to discuss KOHLHEISEL’S DAUGHTERS, Lubitsch’s bizarre Bavarian take on Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’.
Griffin Sheel was our dialogue editor for this episode.
NEXT WEEK:
Filmmaker, critic, and academic David Cairns joins us to discuss KOHLHEISEL’S DAUGHTERS, Lubitsch’s bizarre Bavarian take on Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’.
Released:
Mar 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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