The Time-Space Continuum (Revised)
What does Alain Resnais have in common with Wile E. Coyote? I dunno but it was fun to talk about both of them
There are few things I like more than a journey like the latest conversation on the podcast. Over the course of a little more than an hour, my guest, Carlos Valladares, talks through the directors and films he’s been keeping up with, putting Looney Tunes right alongside Alain Resnais. Think of it as a tour through the different ways in which directors can travel through time. Maybe you’ll come away with at least one movie you’ll want to track down, but I’ve also added the usual list of picks below.
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NEW PODCAST NOTES
Episode 28: Resnais, Looney Tunes, Joan Micklin Silver, and a secret film, with Carlos Valladares
Films/topics discussed: Jerry Schatzberg (Scarecrow, 1973; Honeysuckle Rose, 1980; Sweet Revenge, 1976); Alain Resnais and Je t’aime, Je t’aime (and Christopher Nolan?); Looney Tunes and Chuck Jones (High Note, 1960); Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, 1975; Bernice Bobs Her Hair, 1976; Between the Lines, 1977), Shelley Duvall profile, Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery; Kevin Jerome Everson (Park Lanes, 2015; Tonsler Park, 2017), Lav Diaz; Bill Gunn’s Stop! (1970).
Carlos Valladares is a critic and graduate student at Yale University jointly in History of Art and Film & Media Studies. Recently he wrote about Bill Gunn and Jerry Schatzberg in the Gagosian Quarterly and Joan Micklin Silver in n+1.
This episode is also available on iTunes.
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THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Idiocracy (HBO MAX)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Criterion)
The Tall Target (Criterion)
Eyes Wide Shut (Hulu)
The Joycean Society (Projectr)
World of Wong Kar Wai (Criterion)
THE END
Here I might end with a song.
ABOUT ME
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw newsletter and podcast (one of Sight & Sound’s Top Ten Film Podcasts). This is my way of staying in touch and sharing what I’ve been up to. By way of introduction, I’m a writer and an editor. I’ve worked as the editor-in-chief of Film Comment, where I assigned and edited both web and print, hosted its podcast and talks and screenings, programmed Film Comment Selects, learned from brilliant writers, and wrote a lot myself. Besides Film Comment, my features, interviews, and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Sight & Sound, and dearly departed publications such as The Village Voice, Stop Smiling, The New York Sun, and The L Magazine.
I miss going out to the movies, especially repertory cinemas, and milling about and chatting, and so the natural response is to inflict a podcast on friends and strangers alike.
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