Dare Daniel & Canon Fodder Podcasts

This week, Daniel and Corky are In a Lonely Place, a fine enough place to visit but you wouldn’t want to have an existential crisis there. The jaded and cynical flipside to the lovingly ecstatic portrait of Hollywood mythmaking offered by Singin’ in the Rain, Nicholas Ray’s is a bleak yet sensual film noir that refuses to indulge in any cliched genre trappings. But will your hosts join the coalition of the Lonely in Canon-izing the film, or have they got egg on their Place?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #211 (tied)

U.S. premiere: Aug. 1950

IMDB synopsis: “A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.”

Theatrical trailer for In a Lonely Place

“Squeeze harder.”

Road rage

The Headless Woman (2008; Dir.: Lucrecia Martel)

IMDB synopsis: “After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.”

Our review of The Headless Woman comes out on September 24!

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Daniel “The Royal Rascal” Barnes and Corky “The Dancing Cavalier” McDonnell gotta review  the iconic Singin’ in the Rain. But will this rainbow program put your hosts in a buttercup mood, or will they succumb to the dolors of winter?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #10

World premiere: March 27, 1952

IMDB synopsis: “A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.”

Re-release trailer for Singin’ in the Rain

“Singin'” in full

“Good Mornin'”

“Moses Supposes”

In a Lonely Place (1950; Dir.: Nicholas Ray)

IMDB synopsis: “A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.”

Our review of In a Lonely Place comes out on September 10!

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Your hosts are in the mood for a sumptuously beautiful yet melancholy and mysterious masterpiece. Hong Kong legend Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love would seem to fit the bill, but will your hosts love it enough to make the canon roar?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #5

Cannes Film Festival premiere: May 20, 2000

IMDB synopsis: “Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.”

Theatrical trailer for In the Mood for Love

Passing on the steps

In good hands

Reflections

Singin’ in the Rain (1952; Dir.: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)

IMDB synopsis: “A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.”

Our review of Singin’ in the Rain comes out on August 27!

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On this episode, your hosts Wanda, Wanda who, who-oo-ooh, who, who wrote the book of love. Probably not Barbara Loden, who struck the mother Loden of bleakly pathetic romances with her groundbreaking and brilliant 1970 film Wanda. But will Corky and Daniel succumb to their Wanda-lust, or is their something wrong with their Wanda-vision?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #48 (tied)

Venice Film Festival premiere: Sept. 1, 1970

IMDB synopsis: “Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.”

Theatrical trailer for Wanda (1970)

Wanda wanders

Holy Land U.S.A. sequence

Barbara Loden promotes the film on The Dick Cavett Show

In the Mood for Love (2000; Dir.: Wong Kar-Wai)

IMDB synopsis: “Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.”

Our review of In the Mood for Love comes out on August 13!

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Homesick Belgo-philes Daniel and Corky anxiously await News from Home. But does Akerman’s film have the mussels to keep your hosts from waffling?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #52

French theatrical premiere: June 8, 1977

IMDB synopsis: “Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman’s life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.”

Austin Film Society trailer for News from Home

“Your loving mother.”

New York at night

“Which is right?”

Wanda (1970; Dir.: Barbara Loden)

IMDB synopsis: “Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.”

Our review of Wanda comes out on July 30!

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Aging cinephile Daniel and Corky face off against Sam Peckinpah’s violently apocalyptic western classic. But did the film drive your hosts wild, or did it get their panties in a bunch?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #136 (tied)

U.S. premiere: June 18, 1969

IMDB synopsis: “An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West is disappearing around them.”

Original theatrical trailer for The Wild Bunch

“If they move, kill’em!”

Blowing the bridge

“Let’s go.”

News from Home (1976; Dir.: Chantal Akerman)

IMDB synopsis: “Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman’s life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.”

Our review of News from Home comes out on July 16!

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On this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky drive through the streets of Sacramento looking for someone to help them unlock the secrets of Abbas Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or winner. But will your hosts cherish their Taste of Cherry or decide that it’s the pits?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 (tied)

World premiere: May 16, 1997 (Cannes Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.”

Original theatrical trailer for Taste of Cherry

“A mulberry saved my life.”

Taste of twilight

The Wild Bunch (1969; Dir.: Sam Peckinpah)

IMDB synopsis: “An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West is disappearing around them.”

Our review of The Wild Bunch comes out on July 2!

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On this week’s episode, old battle axes Daniel and Corky trade war stories with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. But does this decades-spanning intimate epic from The Archers hit its target or miss the mark?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #196 (tied)

UK theatrical debut: June 10, 1943

IMDB synopsis: “From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.”

Trailer for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

“And this, sir, is the truth.”

Introduction by Martin Scorsese

Taste of Cherry (1997; Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami)

IMDB synopsis: “An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.”

Our review of Taste of Cherry comes out on June 18!

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Daniel and Corky revisit Danish dandy Carl Dreyer with this review of his 1928 silent masterpiece. But do your hosts have a passion for Joan of Arc, or are they passin’ on Joan of Arc?

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #21 (tied)

Danish theatrical debut: April 21, 1928

IMDB synopsis:“In 1431, Jeanne d’Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.”

Trailer for The Passion of Joan of Arc

“Has God made you promises?”

The worm in the skull

The entire film for free on YouTube

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Dir.: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

IMDB synopsis: “From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.”

Our review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp comes out on June 4!

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On a temperate day on separate streets in various sections of Sacramento, Corky and Daniel’s agreement about the brilliance of Do the Right Thing smolders and builds until it explodes into canon fire.

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #24

U.S. theatrical debut: June 30, 1989

IMDB synopsis: “On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.”

Theatrical trailer for Do the Right Thing

Love vs. Hate

Boycott Sal’s!

Destroying Sal’s

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)

IMDB synopsis: “In 1431, Jeanne d’Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.”

Our review of The Passion of Joan of Arc comes out on May 21!

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