1944 Best Picture Nominee: Gaslight (George Cukor) – Awards Don’t Matter



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Trigger Warning: This episode discusses instances of abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting.

We arrive at one of the films that Andrew was anticipating the most when coming to discussion Best Picture winners and nominees: George Cukor’s thriller Gaslight. Starring Ingrid Bergman in one of her Oscar winning roles, alongside Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and Oscar nominee Angela Lansbury, this thriller is a film that coined a phrase that has become synonymous with a horrifying act of bruality that people enact on one another.

Co-hosts Dave and Andrew discuss the intensity of this powerful, enduring classic, while also discussing the morality of Joseph Cotten’s heroic character, exploring the ‘one perfect shot’ aspect of the film, and theorising what kind of impact Gaslight might have had on the film industry if it won Best Picture. And then they wrap up deciding how to pronounce Dune.

Clips featured in this episode: A Wife’s Revenge Scene // Gaslight trailer // Bloodthirsty Bessie Scene // You Think I’m Insane Scene

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Adelaide Film Festival Critics Round Up Discussion The Curb

Welcome to a special Adelaide Film Festival round up discussion featuring myself, Virat Nehru, and Nadine Whitney. While we have known each other for years, the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival was our first opportunity to meet up in person, watch some films, and do what film critics do best: talk about them afterwards.The following discussion sees us traipse along a path of the highs and the lows of the Adelaide Film Festival, with each critic highlighting some of their favourite films for the festival, and some of the films that have left them wanting. Films discussed in the following episode include: The Correspondent, Emilia Perez, Lesbian Space Princess, Make It Look Real, Good One, The Wolves Always Come at Night, Anora, All We Imagine as Light, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, No Other Land, and more. There are few experiences which leave a mark on you and change how you experience the world, and yet, for me, the Adelaide Film Festival was one such experience. This is partly because of the festival itself, which provided such a wide array of cinematic, theatrical, and critical experiences that kept poking, prodding, and provoking immense thoughts, excitement, and bolstered my passion for cinema and the arts, but it's also partly because of the connection I have had with the following people you'll hear. Meeting my long time collaborator and friend Nadine was as wonderful as I'd hoped it would be, and getting to meet Virat, another person whose work I admire immensely was equally exciting. I hope you enjoy listening to the following discussion as much as I did recording it.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Andrew F Peirce

Andrew is passionate about Australian film and culture. He is the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, and the author of two books on Australian film, The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition, and Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.

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