Watch With Jen - S2: E51 - Gothic Cinema with Walter Chaw

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Dec 3, 2021 at 4:54 PM

If you're going to go gothic, the best person to bring along is undoubtedly victorian literature and romantic poetry scholar Walter Chaw.

A very good friend and the sharp yet humanistic critic whose work you can and should read at FilmFreakCentral, it's always an honor and a pleasure to talk about film, art, life, writing, sex, gender, and Hitchcock with Walter and today's discussion is no exception.

In this richly philosophical, inquisitively minded, film obsessives only two-hour episode, we take a look at five twentieth-century cinematic classics, including Rebecca, Jane Eyre (1943), My Name is Julia Ross, The Night of the Hunter, and The Innocents (1961). Going deeper into plenty of other movies as well (because this *is* Walter Chaw and me, after all), we went into so much detail here that this installment was recorded over two separate chats to bring you our very best insights. The perfect accompaniment to running across the moors or investigating a strange noise in a crumbling Cornwall estate on a dark and stormy night, we hope you enjoy this foray into films that are black, white, and gothic all over.

Referenced & Related:

Listen to the Watch With Jen Podcast on RSS, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Apple, & Pandora

Walter Chaw on Twitter

Walter Chaw on Letterboxd

FilmFreakCentral.net & on Patreon

Miracle Mile on Blu-ray & Walter Chaw's Miracle Mile paperback at MZS World Store

Walter's Last Episode: Writers on Film

Jen's Piece on Hitchcock's Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, & The Birds