Cinemallennials

On today’s episode, I talked with Devin Araujo about the 1946 noir, The Big Sleep. Produced and directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, starring the equally as legendary Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who previously enchanted the word over in 1944’s To Have and Have Not, causing a massive call for the two stars and future Hollywood power couple to share the screen again.

Private eye, Philip Marlowe (played by Bogey) is hired by aging millionaire general Sternwood to investigate the disappearance of Sean Regan, an ex-IRA officer and bootlegger that the general had hired to dig into his youngest daughter, Carmen’s gambling debts as the man looking for them, pornographer and rare book salesman, Geiger is on the prowl. Marlowe takes the job and tails Geiger home to find a drugged Carmen and a murdered Geiger. Marlowe takes Carmen home and recruits the help of Carmen’s older sister, Vivian, but he soon finds out that she’s no angel either. So sit back, relax, and don’t throw yourself at the first person you’re attracted to.

You can purchase The Big Sleep here

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

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On today’s episode, I talked with an old school friend of mine, Mike Bardzilowski who picked 1959’s North by Northwest starring Cary Grant, and New Jersey’s own, Eva Marie Saint. While our generation generally knows Alfred Hitchcock’s horror pictures like Psycho, and The Birds at this point in Hitchcock’s career he was known as the master of suspense, from his intrigue-based melodramas and psychological thrillers filled with heavy metaphors and themes. He was on one of the most prolific runs ever for a director in Hollywood, he made Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much (his own remake), and Vertigo in 1958. Hitchcock wanted to take a break from that kind of filmmaking to make something fun. He had an idea for a master spy mistaken identity story, and always wanted to make a chase scene on the top of Mount Rushmore, but he and writer Ernest Lehman needed to fill in the rest and that’s how North by Northwest was born

North by Northwest follows the story of Roger O. Thornhill, or ROT for short, a fast and loose-lipped ad-man that accidentally ends up being kidnapped by a group of spies that think he’s someone else, he luckily escapes their grasp, but not for too long as he is soon set up for the murder of a UN official, leading to a life of dodging both US authorities and communist agent until he runs into Eve Kendall, an elegant blonde that might have more to her than meets the eye. So sit back, relax, and… DUCK!

You can purchase North by Northwest here

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with my cousin, Kelly, the executive editor on We are Bookish who also has a master’s degree in screenwriting, and you can tell by what she says in the show. Kelly picked 1950’s All About Eve, the first Best Picture winner we are talking about on the show. Written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, who adapted the script from a short story called The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is a film that personifies theater by presenting the people who run them, play in them, and who obsessively consume it and the vicious cycle of it all. All About Eve due to its elegant and sharp-witted writing is often to be the greatest screenplay ever written, this is also due to the many interpretations people glean from the film, whether it be how women treat each other, how age plays a factor in acting, what does it mean to be successful as a woman and comments on sexuality making its appeal to be inherently intriguing to audiences ever since it was released in 1950.

All About Eve is well, all about Eve, played by Anne Baxter in the sense of her relationship to Margot Channing, played by Bette Davis. Eve is obsessed with Margo and goes to see every show the actress is in, and one night she is invited to meet her matinee idol and tells Margo the tragic story of her life. Margo pities Eve and hires her, and even shelters her in her own home, her social circles, and professional career that is until Eve starts to pull on some of Margo’s established threads. So sit back, relax and fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy night. 

You can purchase All About Eve here.

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with James Lamdin Founder and Director of Vintage and Pre-owned watches at Analog/Shift, a vintage and pre-owned watch boutique located in New York City, if our main character Robert was a New Yorker instead of a Brit, he’d be well acquainted with James who picked Frank Capra’s 1937 epic, Lost Horizon.

Based on the 1933 novel of the same name written by James Hilton, Lost Horizon follows the story of Robert Conway, a war hero, author, and soon-to-be British foreign secretary who is fed up with a world that is progressively getting more and more aggressive and greedy by the second. After rescuing 90 white people like the film’s title storybook opening actually says, Conway his brother George, and three other refugees are unknowingly hijacked and are brought crashing down to a remote mountain range where they encounter a secret valley called Shangri-La where peace and prosperity reigns, for some, for others, they see it as a jail cell. So it back, relax, and spread peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

You can purchase Lost Horizon here 

Check out the amazing collection Analog/Shift has for all of your favorite watch geeks.

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with Christian Palacios, an old soccer and AP World history classmate and he picked a film that is steeped in both world and film history, and that film is, Citizen Kane.

At the age of 16, Welles gets his acting debut using the gift of the gab in Dublin in 1931, fast 1935 he makes his radio debut, on CBS, a year later he establishes himself as a director with The Voodoo Macbeth, which featured an all-black cast adaptation of the accursed play. In 1937 he established Mercury Theatre and opened with a powerful anti-fascist adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, titled Caesar: Death of a Dictator and at the age of 23 he shocked the world over with War of the Worlds. All of these achievements led up to what is known as the greatest film contract ever written, one in which said he would provide two films to RKO Pictures both with complete creative control that means producing, cowriting, acting, and editing an unheard of and mocked notion at the time, especially for a new film director. He teamed up with writer Herman Mankiewicz, and Directory of Photography, Greg Tolland, one man had a vendetta the other, wanted to break new ground and that greatest of all-time contract, combined with two of Hollywood’s best behind the scenes men, they soon resulted in arguably the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane follows a reporter on assignment to find out the meaning of the last word of the greatest media mogul in the 20th century, Charles Foster Kane, Rosebud. Our reporter visits both surviving and deceased mentors, partners, friends, and an ex-wife to figure out the placement of the last piece to the jigsaw that was Charles Foster Kane’s life. So sit back, relax, and watch out for any screaming cockatoos.

You can purchase Citizen Kane here.

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with Aubrey Rieder who chose 1941’s Sullivan’s Travels, the comedic romp that isn’t just a comedy. Written and directed by wildly ahead of his time, playwright Preston Sturges, and starring Joel McCrea and the gorgeously tough Veronica Lake  Sullivan’s Travels follows the story of John L. Sullivan a multimillionaire director of comedy films like Ants in your Plants of 1941, and Hey Hey In the Hayloft who plans to make O Brother Where Art Thou? an epic that follows the social miseries of the day.

When confronted about not having the life- experience of those miseries by his producers, Sullivan has a great idea that if he goes full method by dressing up and living amongst the downtrodden and the poor he’ll truly understand the subject of his film. That is until he arrives back in LA only hours later and discovers a down on her luck but practical actress and that’s where our rollicking adventure begins. 

So sit back relax, and don’t forget the doughnuts

You can purchase Sullivan's Travels here

(P.S. Check out David Cairns' video essay on the DVD, Blu-Ray, or The Criterion Channel and tell him (@dcairns on Twitter) that Cinemallennials sent you. 

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with my friend Mary Gallagher who picked the 1917 comedy short, The Immigrant starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, and Eric Campbell. Chaplin didn’t just star in The Immigrant, he also produced, wrote, directed, composed the music, and edited the film.

Charlie Chaplain was a comedic genius and is so influential if you’ve never heard his name or seen a film of his, you definitely know his look, the bowler hat, and the toothbrush mustache. Chaplin’s film career spanned 53 years beginning from 1914-1967 and is still impacting our culture today. If you know the song Smile, that's Chaplin, if you’ve seen the YouTube video called “The Greatest Speech Ever” that’s Chaplin, if you’ve seen The Joker, 9 of the films songs were composed by him. We will definitely be covering a lot of Chaplin’s greatest films in the future but for now, sit back, relax and see how Chaplin’s most famous character tramps his way to America.

You can watch The Immigrant here

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

On today’s episode, I talked with Alex Wilson, the man who designed the brilliant logo you see on your screen. Alex picked 1960’s Psycho considered to be the origin and the inspiration for almost every modern horror film with director Alfred Hitchcock’s original themes, roles, and camera techniques that eventually became horror hallmarks for decades to come.

Psycho follows the story of Marion Crane, a secretary at a real estate company in Phoenix Arizona who is hooking up with a California based pilot named Sam. When a moment to escape that life dull life and to be with her lover, presents itself, Marion takes it on the road. Instead of meeting Sam, she runs into trouble until she finds a backroad motel to shelter her from the storm, little does she know, an even bigger deluge is on the horizon.

As per Hitchcock’s tradition, we will not be discussing certain moments or reveals (as people probably know them without knowing them and plus we want people to discover them while watching Psycho on their own. Yes, I know it’s a 60-year-old film.  This tradition goes back to when the film was first brought to theaters, he was one of the first and only directors to mandate a no late policy as people at the time would just walk in and out of movies whenever they felt like it and would wait until the film was over to see what they missed. So, sit back relax and don’t be too close to the shower.

You can purchase Psycho here

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88

SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT! NETFLIX'S REBECCA EDITION

Today’s episode is a very special one as not only do we have our first returning guest with Heather Reed coming back on the show, but the film we are looking at, Rebecca was just remade, by Netflix starring Lily James and Armie Hammer and is now available for all of us to watch. So after you listen to the show watch the new version on Netflix and tell us what you thought!

Now I know I am bending my own rules a bit, but like I said, this is a very special occasion. Heather is the person that finally pressured me into not being intimidated by Hitchcock’s legacy of scares and thrills and to actually watch one and then two of his films over the next two days.

Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood picture and is the only film of his that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rebecca’s influence much like it’s titular character is often considered to be a shadow hanging over the new psychological thrillers director’s films like Villenueve, Fincher, and Ramsey.

Rebecca follows the story of the eventual second Mrs.deWinter, a young naïve woman who falls in love with the rich, sophisticated and vastly complicated Maxim de Winter whose deceased ex-wife, Rebecca haunts his and consequently her daily life even when they return to the vast ancestral deWinter estate, Manderley What follows is a tale of hidden truths, distrustful help in the form of the housekeeper, Mrs.Danvers, and a terrible secret that is held over the second Mrs. deWinter. So sit back, relax, and don’t take advice from a housekeeper that doesn’t blink.

After you listen to the show, check out the 1940 Rebecca we discussed, then check out Netflix's new Rebecca and let me know what you thought of them!

Cinemallennials is a podcast where myself and another millennial are introduced to a classic film for the very first time ranging from the birth of cinema to the 1960s. Myself and my guest will open your eyes to the vast landscape of classic film as we discuss the films' performers,  their performances, those behind the camera, and how they and their films still influence our world today.

Website: dlewmoviereview.com/

Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/dlewmoviereviews/

Twitter: twitter.com/dlewmoviereview

Instagram: @dlew88