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The movies we discussed for our 2022 Christmas Special Subject are a little on the dark side, as all great Christmas movies are, but these ones perhaps more obviously than ever. We paired Mitchell Leisen's Remember\xa0the Night\xa0(1940), with a screenplay by Preston Sturges, with William\xa0Dieterle's\xa0I'll Be Seeing You\xa0(1944), two movies about women who've fallen afoul of the law, and whose experience of falling out of step with society is contrasted with the comforts that bourgeois family life can offer. We zero in on the complexity of Barbara Stanwyck's relationship with her own morality in\xa0Remember the Night\xa0and the relationship that develops between Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten's traumatized soldier, who struggles with a different kind of alienation, in\xa0I'll Be Seeing You. We also discuss the way that the two movies associate the holiday season and spirit with the material and emotional comforts of bourgeois family life even while showing that the empathy fostered by the latter has limitations.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) [dir. Mitchell Leisen]

0h 46m 37s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 I\u2019LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) [dir. William Dieterle]

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project \u2013 a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of\xa0The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise\u2019s piece on Gangs of New York \u2013 \u201cMaking America Strange Again\u201d

* Check out Dave\u2019s Robert Benchley blog \u2013 an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist\u2019s 2000+ pieces as he can locate \u2013 Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!\xa0

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