• S5E05.5 - Preston Sturges and Sullivan’s Travels [1941] with Tim Brayton

  • Jul 9 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
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S5E05.5 - Preston Sturges and Sullivan’s Travels [1941] with Tim Brayton

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  • Tim Brayton returns to discuss noted Lubitsch fan and disciple Preston Sturges and his 1941 meta-comedy SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS. We cover Sturges’ immense admiration of Lubitsch, the film’s immensely fascinating but perhaps frustrating relationship with its own status as a satire of its own form, Sturges’ political beliefs and moral compass, the value of communal viewings to comedic cinema, and much more.

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    We’re taking a little break! See you in a few weeks for the last eleven episodes of Season 5, the end of our story.

    WORKS CITED:

    Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges and The Lady Eve (The Current) by James Harvey

    Pursuits of Happiness: A Reading of the lady Eve by Stanley Cavell

    Fast Talk: Preston Sturges and the Speed of Sound by Joe McElhaney

    Preston Sturges: Success in the Movies by Manny Farber and W.S. Poster

    Christmas in July (Review) by Adrian Martin
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