My guest for this month is Jessie Char, and she’s joined me to discuss the film I chose for her, the 1929 Pre-Code musical comedy The Love Parade. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.
Show notes:
- Ernst Lubitsch was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for this film
- Maurice Chevalier was a very, very French man
- The queen was played by the very talented Jeanette MacDonald
- The Listicle is an article format that allows for quick writing, often without much thought
- The song that Jessie describes as being an adult version of Once Upon a Dream from Sleeping Beauty is called Dream Lover
- The Hays Code made it impossible to make a film as irreverent about adult themes as this one
- The song where they’re signing goodbye to Paris is called Paris, Stay the Same
- Unlike, say, The Sixth Sense, this movie can’t really be spoiled
- It cannot be overstated, that this film has virtually nothing in common with the Larry Clark film Kids. Except in the way that it does
- The song about being common is called Let’s Be Common
- If only Maurice Chevalier could have had an iPad and the Internet
- Harrison Ford as Han Solo says and does some things that would come off as super creepy if done by almost anyone else
- Bill Hader could have done a phenomenal Maurice Chevalier impression on Saturday Night Live
- Lupino Lane, who plays Chevalier’s French servant, was in fact a very British man
- Perhaps this film isn’t a strong example of Second-wave feminism
- On the other hand, maybe it is an example of Third-wave feminism
- Maurice Chevalier was born in 1888, which means he’d be 127 today
- The iPhone 6S Plus shoots native 4K video, which is capable of fully reproducing the quality of 35MM film
- Jessie’s website is a website
This film is really only available as part of the Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals set from Criterion, which you can also buy from Amazon
