May Special Subject – Jacques Becker Sampler - ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE (1947); RENDEZ-VOUS DE JUILLET (1949); CASQUE D'OR (1952) and TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954)

Join your hosts as they race the clock to adumbrate the myriad merits of French Golden Age Master, Jacques Becker! We key in on the director's ingenious use of diverse genres to drop diegetic depth charges into the abyss of gendered subjectivity at midcentury. From the nerve-wracking rom-complications of Antoine et Antoinette to the Bert n' Ernie gangster pyjama party of Touchez pas au grisbi, no four films have ever done a better (or more rapturously entertaining) job of laying bare the unbecoming banality of being under Patriarchy.   Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:    ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE (1947) [dir. Jacques Becker] 0h 36m 27s:    RENDEZ-VOUS DE JUILLET (1949) [dir. Jacques Becker] 0h 56m 15s:    CASQUE D'OR (1952) [dir. Jacques Becker] 1h 21m 51s:    TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954) [dir. Jacques Becker]   +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's new 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!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!