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Special Subject - Back To School 2020 - Loser (2000) & Damsels in Distress (2011)

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 4:41 a.m.

A strange back-to-school episode for a strange back-to-school year: we look at Amy Heckerling's LOSER (2000) and Whit Stillman's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (2011), two comedies with very different, but equally dark, visions of class and university life in America, neither of which fared well with audiences or critics at the time. Dave defends the former as a blending of Capra and Wilder romantic comedy modes, while Elise makes the case for the latter as \u201ca perfect movie\u201d\u2014maybe even \u201cthe only perfect movie.\u201d All the trigger warnings for lots of discussion of roofies, anal, Ronald Firbank, and Whit Stillman's terrible political views, and irreverence about suicide.

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Loser (2000) [dir: Amy Heckerling]

0h 40m 53s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Damsels in Distress (2011) [dir. Whit Stillman]

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