Dave and Jeremy encounter the sublime, the ridiculous, and the achingly mundane as they unravel the interwoven passions of Millie, Pinky, and Willie, whose destinies tangle in Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN, a curious and beguiling exploration of shifting identities and wayside desperation.

Will Altman pull off a K-Mart-coded mashup of Ingmar Bergman and Sam Shepard? Did Olive Oyl and Stephen King’s Carrie once room together in an alternate timeline? Can a director really shoot half of a mid-career art film through a Lava Wave Motion Machine™ and then go on to make GOSFORD PARK?

Join Dave and Jeremy as they wade through the shallows and plunge into the deep end with the titular trio of Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule. Listen as they pluck at loose ends, trace the development of motifs, and pick out core influences in the Cool Whip fever dream that is 3 WOMEN.

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Dave and Jeremy dive deep into Dave’s pick, a domestic drama from director Yasujiro Ozu. In post-war Tokyo, 27 year old Noriko resists mounting pressure to marry and leave her widowed father’s home. Filled with moments of everyday tranquility, LATE SPRING evokes powerful emotions with unusual camera placement and subdued performances that gently advance the painful conflict faced by Noriko and her father.

Join Dave and Jeremy as they admire the effectiveness of Ozu’s style and puzzle over the tantalizing ambiguities that bring his characters and their fates to life. This episode's conversation touches on the critical responses to Ozu’s oeuvre, his recurring cast members, and the vision and craft with which this innovative director renders the turning points in this subtly devastating study of self and family. Cue up, hang out, and rewind as much as you like as Dave and Jeremy relish the warmth of LATE SPRING.

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Suffering in mink takes a human turn as Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis), the unwillingly sheltered adult child of Boston society matron Mrs. Henry Vale (played with iron menace by Gladys Cooper) embarks on a quest to establish a confident independence. Or is it an independent confidence? Aided by the wise and kindly Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) following a nervous breakdown, Charlotte has only to overcome her sense of obligation to the world and define her own happiness. Was there ever a more favorable portrayal of therapy? If so, this must predate them all–and it is all the more remarkable for the chauffeur-and-chandelier backdrop of its inhabitants.

Dave and Jeremy marvel at this lost world of fictional high society, and at how easily Bette Davis conveys the inner journey of a character who transcends that world, transformed by her willingness to “be interested in everything,” as Dr. Jacquith instructs her, while at the same time learning to say no when it counts. Could any other actress nail scene after scene with as much self-possession as Davis does when Charlotte resists pressure to return to her old, unhappy life? The love interest here is played by Paul Henreid, gentle instigator of our hero’s romantic agency, whose own self-determining arc mirrors Charlotte’s just enough to put her nuanced star turn in brilliant relief. Join Dave and Jeremy for a celebration of a late-blooming camellia in this episode where we set sail with Warner Brothers’ 1942 production of NOW, VOYAGER.

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