The Hollywood Studios, Year-by-Year – Universal, 1931 – A House Divided and Waterloo Bridge

Universal, 1931: we discuss one of the greatest movies of the 30s, James Whale's WATERLOO BRIDGE, and William Wyler's Oedipal horror movie, A HOUSE DIVIDED. And in our Moviegoing in Toronto section: erotic pedagogy in Jacqueline Audry's OLIVIA (1951), Christian anarchism in Frank Capra's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938), and more Bresson. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:          A House Divided (dir: William Wyler) 0h 29m 57s:          Waterloo Bridge (dir. James Whale) 1h 03m 17s:          Winter cinemagoing: Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975; dir: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina)/  OLIVIA (1951; dir: Jacqueline Audry)/ YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938; dir: Frank Capra) / LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (1945), AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (1966), MOUCHETTE (1967) & PICKPOCKET (1959) – all dir: Robert Bresson.     +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise's latest published film piece "Making America Strange Again: Gangs of New York" in issue #80 Bright Wall/Dark Room* *And Read Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre