#217: Believe It Or Not, Pt. 1 - Gaslight (1944)

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Leigh Whannell’s new take on THE INVISIBLE MAN comes with a modern twist, one based in a dynamic — a husband pushing his wife toward mental illness for personal gain — that was entrenched in the pop-cultural lexicon thanks in large part to George Cukor’s 1944 film GASLIGHT, starring Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose husband mounts a disinformation campaign against her for insidious purposes. In this half of our gaslighting double feature, we dig into how the film’s direction, design, and fine-tuned performances open up what could have been a very set-bound adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, and how Cukor’s reputation as a “woman’s director” connects an otherwise varied filmography. Plus, Tasha responds to some pushback against her critiques of PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE in Feedback. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about GASLIGHT, THE INVISIBLE MAN, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro Music: Dixie Chicks, “Gaslighter” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.1	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:21.7	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:28.5	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:36.2	Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:42.8	I'm Tasha Robinson here with Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias.
0:45.9	Our producer Genevuevukoski just doesn't seem to be around. I mean, we haven't seen her in a while, but it's weird. We can still hear her breathing.
0:55.0	It probably doesn't mean anything. Anyway, on our next two episodes, we're discussing the defective
1:00.2	detective, a new Terry Gilliam film that's been 40 years in the making. The script, written by the
1:05.0	author of the Fisher King, dates back to the 1980s when the two men collaborated in a story about
1:09.5	a private eye trying to track
1:11.1	down a girl who seems to have disappeared into a fantasy world. With his film, The Man Who Killed
1:15.5	Don Quixote finally completed, Gilliam turned to another of his lost projects and brought it back
1:20.1	into production, again starring Adam Driver in the lead role...
1:23.3	Well, Tasha, wait, what? We figured this was a good opportunity to pair the film with Gilliam's classic Brazil,
1:29.2	which is also about a man who disappears into a fantasy world, although in a different kind of way.
1:33.7	Brazil is one of my all-time favorite films.
1:35.2	Tasha, Tasha, Tasha, hold up.
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