There's Sometimes a Buggy

By the popular demand of four listeners (two of whom we don't know personally), as a special Xmas expedition, Dave and Elise tackle a movie that's in the theatres for the first time since INTERSTELLAR. And it's a movie that's been compared to INTERSTELLAR, but we don't think so. We hated that fucking thing. But we don't hate Denis Villeneuve's ARRIVAL (2016), which managed to be philosophical without having any guys fighting on desolate planets in space suits. Although by all means, if that's what you like. Also, there's stuff about time in it, which is what we're all here for. So we hope that you find this pleasant holiday listening. Enjoy!

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37       Arrival (2016)

No mailbag this episode as this is what passes for an "Express! In theaters now!" show in our sluggish corner of the time stream! We'll get to all of your missives next month!        

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Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Finally, the long-promised amnesia episode! If you haven't forgotten. (BOOM! Amnesia joke right away.) Elise and Dave look at Canadian cult film Archangel (1990) (the one not with Daniel Craig in it) by Guy Maddin and one of its sources, another amnesiac soldier film, Mervyn LeRoy's classical Hollywood melodrama Random Harvest (1942). We make our case for why amnesia movies in general, and these two in particular, ought to be thought about in a time travel narrative context. Elise, who used to be married to Guy, tries to explain the thought processes behind some of the scenes in Archangel, but Dave arguably does a better job.

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Random Harvest (1942)

1:44:37 Archangel (1990)

3:04:51 Mailbag!

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We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Returning to you after the most re-recordings since our PRIMER episode plus technical difficulties with the computer, Dave and Elise take on a movie that gets better when you think about it, TRIANGLE (2009) and one that gets worse with thought, TIME LAPSE (2014). Elise gets excited about fan theories about Triangle; Dave is unimpressed. But Elise and Dave agree, re: TIME LAPSE, that you shouldn't make a character-based movie and then forget to include any human beings.

Episode Related Links:

Triangle Movie Logic Explained

Paradox (Time Travel Podcast) episode on Time Lapse

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Triangle (2009)

1:31:18 Time Lapse (2014)

3:02:07 MORE Triangle!

3:34:15 Mailbag!

We've got a time-Tumblr! Please do check it out and interact with us there!

Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Dave and Elise examine an unlikely cinematic duo, Our Town (1940), Sam Wood's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's experimental Pulitzer-winning play about turn-of-the-19th-century American small town life, death, time, and family, and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Charlie Kaufman's experimental movie about a theatre director in a small American city (Philip Seymour Hoffman), death, time, and family. Well, I guess it doesn't sound all that unlikely when you put it like that. Although we've once again gone off the beaten path of strict time travel, that produces some of our favourite episodes, and this is one, so we hope you'll like it too.

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Our Town (1940)

1:56:47 Synecdoche, New York (2008)

3:39:41 Mailbag!

We've got a time-Tumblr! Please do check it out and interact with us there!

Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Elise and Dave try to philosophically and narratively untangle two precog movies more-or-less based on Philip K. Dick tales, Minority Report (2002) directed by Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, and Next (2007), starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Lee Tamahori. We discuss how Minority Report has been politically castrated (i.e. de-Dicked) for the sake of Spielberg feel-goodism, and debate how much of a bitch Julianne Moore really is in Next. Elise marvels at Nick Cage's "sad dad" seduction moves, but decides he's her favourite action star ever. Note: apologies for the long break, everyone, Dave had to recover from our one-block move! The next podcast will take place from an air- conditioned location.

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Minority Report (2002)

1:54 Next (2007)

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Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

It's an episode of complicated plots. Dave and Elise struggle to understand the plot and world of Toni Dove's visually and formally inventive sci-fi noir SPECTROPIA (2006), and admire the plot of John Dahl's forgotten UNFORGETTABLE (1996). Elise explains why Ray Liotta is androgynous. Dave defends John Dahl's directorial distinctiveness. Anti-capitalist 1930s toasters anachronistically quote DETOUR (1945).

Episode-related Links:

Time Travel: The Quintessential List!

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Spectropia (2006)

0:53:00 Unforgettable (1996)

2:53:00 Mailbag

We've got a time-Tumblr! Please do check it out and interact with us there!

Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms).

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Elise decides Alan Moore is the problem with Zack Snyder's WATCHMEN, defends BATMAN V SUPERMAN as "Romantic art." Dave shouts about Kant, explains how both Snyder and Moore get superheroes wrong, while inveighing against some guy named Alex Ross. And much, much more in this epic discussion of a couple of movies they didn't really like, that don't have much to do with time travel, for your mental delectation.

Episode-related Links:

Some of Dave's previous (written) ramblings about Watchmen (the comic) can be found here.

Article on Terry Gilliam's more time travel heavy ideas re: a Watchmen movie

Time (Travel) Table:

0:01:37 Watchmen (2009)

3:41:30 Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

4:34:30 Mailbag + closing the book on 11.22.63

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We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten (along with Debussy's music) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Outro Credits:

Bette Davis + lounge singer in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (1939)

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Elise Moore and David Fiore settle in for their final kick at the 11.22.63 can, with a discussion of the climactic episode 8 - "The Day in Question". The series finale is a mixed bag of praiseworthy camera work, interesting acting choices, and a fair number of self-defeating writing decisions (some of which have their roots in the novel, others of which can be blamed squarely on the people who are responsible for the strange ballad of Jake and Bill Turcotte). For the first time in forever, the duo get a chance to sink their teeth into the oft-soft pedalled time travel elements of the story - will they enjoy the meal? Dave fumes over political developments which are nearly as ludicrous as the 2016 Primaries; Elise promotes Elder Love; and together they begin to sketch out their ideas for a second podcast feed that will tackle pop culture in all of its non-time travel manifestations. Excelsior! And now that it's all over, please do check in and let us know how Hulu's adaptation of Stephen King's novel fared in your estimation.

Fellow (Time) Travelers:

11.22.63 Event Podcast with Christopher DeFilippis & Skipper Martin

The Time Travel Nexus

time2timetravel

Time Travel Trio 

Time (Travel) Table

1min 30 secs "The Day in Question"

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Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms). 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. And the book is now available for Kindle! Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, "Stay" 

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Dave and Elise could run away from all of this and settle in to become old people who wear matching sweaters, but instead they are valiantly forging on with their analysis of Hulu's adaptation of Stephen King's 11.22.63. We've reached the series' penultimate episode - lucky number 7 - and time appears to be running out for our heroes (both on screen and in the writers' room). Your hosts consider the possibility that some kind of Life on Mars style twist might yet be in the offing; stare in slack jawed amazement at the Passion of Bill Turcotte; and turn the show upside down in an effort to shake something resembling human psychology out of this narrative. Join us, won't you?  

Mentioned on the show this week:

"Life on Mars"

Fellow (Time) Travelers:

11.22.63 Event Podcast with Christopher DeFilippis & Skipper Martin

The Time Travel Nexus

time2timetravel

Time Travel Trio 

Time (Travel) Table

1min 30 secs "Soldier Boy"

 We've got a time-Tumblr! Please do check it out and interact with us there!

Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms). 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. And the book is now available for Kindle! Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, "Stay" 

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

Elise Moore and David Fiore turn an important corner this week in their coverage of Hulu's adaptation of Stephen King's 11.22.63. Episode Six features a lot of interesting moments with their favourite character of the series - the birthday boy himself, Lee Harvey Oswald. Along the way, Elise draws a startling comparison between Jake/Bill and Walt (White)/Jesse (Pinkman). The hosts disagree re: when Sadie ought to have begun thinking that her boyfriend is crazy, but they both agree she really should be convinced by now... They also take strong issue with the description of show-Sadie as a "New Woman". New compared to what? All in all, though, the show's strange choices are keeping them reasonably entertained. How about you?

Mentioned on the show this week:

Parker Posey as "Jackie-O" in The House of Yes

Fellow (Time) Travelers:

11.22.63 Event Podcast with Christopher DeFilippis & Skipper Martin

The Time Travel Nexus

time2timetravel

Time Travel Trio 

Time (Travel) Table

1min 30 secs "Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald"

 We've got a time-Tumblr! Please do check it out and interact with us there!

Don't forget, you can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or Twitter account (@TimeTravelFilms). 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. And the book is now available for Kindle! Please do let us know if you check it out.

Intro Credits:

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, "Stay" 

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure