Ep# 63 - Zoë Rogan's 60s Pick - Bells Are Ringing
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Four generations collide when Bart and Jenna sit down for a conversation with budding film scholar and popular Letterboxd personality, Zoë Rogan, about Boomer movies. Using the final Arthur Freed-produced MGM musical, Bells Are Ringing, as a taking off point, the three classic Hollywood fanatics get to the bottom of what it is about older movies that makes them so much more appealing than current cinema.
In this episode, Bart and Jenna grill Zoë on her method for getting contemporary film fans interested in 20th-century movies. Then, while Zoë and Jenna bond over their shared Dean Martin obsession, Bart does his best to politely nod and smile.
The following film is discussed:
• Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr., Jean Stapleton, Ruth Storey, Dort Clark, Frank Gorshin, Ralph Roberts, Valerie Allen, Bernard West, Steve Peck, Gerry Mulligan
Also mentioned:
• It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed by Frank Capra
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming
Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
• Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by Orson Welles
Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Starring Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Directed by William Wyler
Starring Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
• Adam's Rib (1949)
Directed by George Cukor
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
• A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
• Born Yesterday (1950)
Directed by George Cukor
Starring Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
• Rashomon (1950)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori
• An American in Paris (1951)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
• The Marrying Kind (1952)
Directed by George Cukor
Starring Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
• Richard III (1955)
Directed by Laurence Olivier
Starring Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson
• The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Directed by Richard Quine
Starring Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas
• The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Starring Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta
• Pillow Talk (1959)
Directed by Michael Gordon
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
• The Apartment (1960)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
• Psycho (1960)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
• A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Cléo de 5 à 7
Directed by Agnès Varda
Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
• Contempt (1963)
Le mépris
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli
• “The Twilight Zone” - The Bard (1963)
Directed by David Butler
Starring Jack Weston, Burt Reynolds, Doro Merande
• Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston
• The Great Race (1965)
Directed by Blake Edwards
Starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
• The Cannonball Run (1981)
Directed by Hal Needham
Starring Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Bu san
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Starring Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura
