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Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review comedy legend Preston Sturges’ legendary comedy about a comedy legend who just wants to impress film critics. Sullivan’s Travels exists as a meta-resolution of its own central conundrum, a nearly perfect synergy of madcap comedy, non-didactic social commentary and even a little sex in the form of Veronica Lake. But did Daniel and Corky go along for the Travels, or are they tripping?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 (tied)
World premiere: Dec. 29, 1941
IMDB synopsis: “Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.”
Trailer for Sullivan’s Travels
“How about a nice musical?”
“Who’s Lubitsch?”
Vampyr (1932; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
IMDB synopsis: “A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.”
Our review of Vampyr comes out on November 6!
The post Canon Fodder – Sullivan’s Travels appeared first on Dare Daniel Family of Podcasts.
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Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review comedy legend Preston Sturges’ legendary comedy about a comedy legend who just wants to impress film critics. Sullivan’s Travels exists as a meta-resolution of its own central conundrum, a nearly perfect synergy of madcap comedy, non-didactic social commentary and even a little sex in the form of Veronica Lake. But did Daniel and Corky go along for the Travels, or are they tripping?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 (tied)
World premiere: Dec. 29, 1941
IMDB synopsis: “Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.”
Trailer for Sullivan’s Travels
“How about a nice musical?”
“Who’s Lubitsch?”
Vampyr (1932; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
IMDB synopsis: “A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.”
Our review of Vampyr comes out on November 6!
The post Canon Fodder – Sullivan’s Travels appeared first on Dare Daniel Family of Podcasts.