Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year Paramount 1942: SULLIVANS TRAVELS & THE ROAD TO MOROCCO + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO Delphine Seyrig series at TIFF: Be Pretty and Shut Up (1981), India Song (1975) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year Paramount 1942: SULLIVANS TRAVELS & THE ROAD TO MOROCCO + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO Delphine Seyrig series at TIFF: Be Pretty and Shut Up (1981), India Song (1975) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 5:54 a.m.

For our Paramount 1942 episode, we hit the road with a comedy with a lot on its mind, Preston Sturges'\xa0Sullivan's Travels, and a comedy without any mind, the Hope/Crosby road movie\xa0Road to Morocco. We debate just how much deep thinking a comedy should do and consider what kind of thinking comedy itself can do without any help from an auteur. We also isolate some of the unusual features of the Hope/Crosby double act that lend\xa0Road to Morocco\xa0an invigorating unpleasantness. And then, in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we start off the TIFF Cinematheque Delphine Seyrig retrospective with a feminist documentary directed by the actress,\xa0Be Pretty and Shut Up!, and a couple of mind-bending European art films about the leisure class, Marguerite Duras'\xa0India Song\xa0and Alain Resnais'\xa0Last Year at Marienbad.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 SULLIVAN\u2019S TRAVELS [dir. Preston Sturges]

0h 35m 39s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 ROAD TO MOROCCO [dir. David Butler]

0h 55m 34s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO \u2013 Delphine Seyrig series at TIFF: Sois belle et tais-toi (1981), India Song (1975) and L\u2019ann\xe9e derni\xe8re \xe0 Marienbad (1961)

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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