Special Subject - Elise’s Family Freak-Outs – Part 1 - TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) and THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS (2001)

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Special Subject - Elise’s Family Freak-Outs – Part 1 - TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) and THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS (2001) With this episode we launch the first of Elise's three-part Special Subject,&nbsp;Family Freak-Outs. We start with some musings about how to define this micro-genre, what makes it different from a standard family melodrama and its relationship to horror, and then we move into our first two freak-outs, Charles Burnett's&nbsp;To Sleep with Anger&nbsp;(1990) and Wes Anderson's&nbsp;The Royal Tenebaums&nbsp;(2001). While the problems these families are dealing with in their very specific&nbsp;milieus of middle-class black South Central LA and upper-middle-class white fairy-tale Manhattan are very different, the capacity to freak out may be a universal feature of the family; and in these two movies, at least, freaking out can lead to healing. Then a quick Fear and Moviegoing in honour of Catherine O'Hara's passing, Christopher Guest's&nbsp;Best in Show. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Microgeneric Musing Re: Freak-Outs 0h 06m 03s:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) [dir. Charles Burnett] 0h 31m 50s:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001) [dir. Wes Anderson] 1h 03m 22s:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fear &amp; Moviegoing in Toronto: Christopher Guest’s Best in Show (2000) at the Carlton Cinema (Catherine O’Hara Tribute) +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of&nbsp;The Internet Archive) * Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again” * Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!&nbsp; Follow us on Twitter at&nbsp;@therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!&nbsp; There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film http://timetravel.libsyn.com/webpage <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/40555885/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/199901080