Cinema Cemetery

Cinema Cemetery heads indoors for Grand Hotel, a tale of five strangers seeking to make their lives right.  A poor stenographer, a dying man, a desperate thief, and a malicious magnate all race against the clock while a young Greta Garbo utters her famous line “I want to be alone” as she searches for meaning beyond her career.  All the while, the guests of hotel come and go…and life moves on

Cinema Cemetery has booked a stay; welcome to Grand Hotel.

Music by Chaz Hearne


Current Rankings:

5. Lawerence of Arabia
25. All Quiet on the Western Front
60. Cimarron
70- Wings
91- The Broadway Melody 

Back on track, Cinema Cemetery ventures into Cimarron country!  The Oklahoma lands have been opened for settling and its mad rush to stake one’s claim.  This film tells the tale of Yancey Cravat and his wife Sabra as they leave their comfortable Kansas lives to live on the frontier.  This film follows this family from the initial land rush of 1889 as the town grows from a single street to a “modern” metropolis in 1929.  Does the film hold up nearly a century later?  Find out on this episode of Cinema Cemetery.

Music by Chaz Hearne

Current Rankings:

5. Lawerence of Arabia

25. All Quiet on the Western Front

70- Wings

91- The Broadway Melody 

Breaking from the chronological routine, Dan and Kate jump at the chance to see a film as it was meant to be seen: Lawerence of Arabia is screened in theaters in all its 4K glory.  This film follows the story of T.E. Lawerence, a British mapmaker during World War I who is drawn to the desert in an attempt to recruit the Arab tribes in the British Empire's war against the Turks.  Along the way, Lawerence must learn not only the politics of the hostile region, as well as how to survive the deadly climate, but also discover who Lawerence of Arabia truly is.

Hailed as one of the Top Ten films of All Times and voted Greatest Epic Film by the American Film Institute, Lawerence of Arabia is ready for its next challenge: a review by the Cinema Cemetary crew.

Special Guest Star: Teresa   

Music by Chaz Hearne

Current Rankings:

25. All Quiet on the Western Front

70- Wings

91- The Broadway Melody 

The year is 1914 and the Iron Youth are off to war in defense of the Fatherland. These German boys, fresh from the classroom and with the hope of their mentors and family head out to "win the war within a month".  What they find is a new reality that completely upends the old world order.  All Quiet on the Western Front, an adaptation of Erich Remarque's novel vividly portrays the truth of The Great War.  Despite its age, does this film still do justice to this pivotal event of the 20th century?  Find out on this week's episode of Cinema Cemetery!



Film Ranking So Far: This list will be updated in each episode.  Rankings will change as new episodes are compared to past entries.  As for the filming of this episode, there were 91 Best Picture Winners.

70- Wings

91- The Broadway Melody

"You ain't heard nothin' yet!" With Al Jolson's prophetic words, films have entered the talkie era, including The Broadway Melody (1929).  Revolutionary for its time, this picture presents multiple technical breakthroughs from full-scale musical numbers to a technicolor sequence now lost to history.  Does the Broadway Melody still ring true after all this time?  Find out on this episode of Cinema Cemetary.




Film Ranking So Far: This list will be updated in each episode.  Rankings will change as new episodes are compared to past entries.  As for the filming of this episode, there were 91 Best Picture Winners.

70- Wings 

Welcome to Cinema Cemetary where we lay to rest the best of the Best.  We begin our journey back In 1928 with the very first Best Picture Oscar winner Wings. This silent film, revolutionary for the time captures the triumph and terror of aerial dogfighting the first World War while following the human costs of this conflict.  While the film may not have aged as well as others, it will always stand as the First "Best" Picture.


Film Ranking: This list will be updated in each episode.  Rankings will change as new episodes are compared to past entries.  As for the filming of this episode, there were 91 Best Picture Winners.

??. Wings- TBD