I don’t usually make note of individual podcast episodes here. There has to be some compelling reason for me to do so.
In this case: “The comedies of Preston Sturges“, from “Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast”.
I actually have several reasons for this one:
- I’m very interested in Preston Sturges. I have not seen “Sullivan’s Travels” or “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek”, but I very much want to see both. “Miracle” got a really good write-up in Joe Bob Briggs’s Profoundly Erotic, but there doesn’t seem to be a blu-ray, and the DVDs are expensive. Criterion needs to do an edition of that, since they’ve already done “Sullivan’s Travels” (affiliate link). (At some point, Lawrence and I plan a Saturday night double bill of “The Freshman” and “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock”.)
- Joel McCrea, who we have seen recently elsewhere, and who I would like to see more of. He seems like a truly interesting gentleman.
- Veronica Lake is always in order.
- As I’ve said before, Anthony Esolen is a writer I greatly admire. (I found this while searching for an essay he wrote on the films of John Ford. Edited to add: finally found that essay, and added a link.)
Anyway, I commend this to the attention of the movie buffs in my audience.