One Week, One Year

Why did Cinemascope stick and 3-D wane? Did Dr. Seuss write an under-sung musical? Is Ed Wood truly the worst director? Which sad Japanese drama won our hearts? Was Andy Warhol the Scary Movie of the fine arts? The answers to all these questions and more in 1953 - Wax House, Baby! 

Here is the Important If True segment that reveals the Wax House, Baby ruse, starting at 12:28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJLa2mSJpA4

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1953 Films Discussed playlist right here!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:033 - The News of the Year!

00:07:59 - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century

00:13:18 - Duck Amuck

00:18:23 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

00:32:58 - Glen or Glenda

00:53:59 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

01:04:54 - Roman Holiday

01:14:36 - Tokyo Story

01:32:37 - Ugetsu

01:48:55 - House of Wax

02:10:37 - The Robe

02:46:04 - Favorites and Outro

See you next year!

Film explodes off the screen in a whole new dimension! This episode we discuss the beginning of the 1950s 3-D boom, Oscar winning anti-war experimental film, cold war paranoia cartoons, the widest of widescreen, iconic old west showdowns, DeMille circus propaganda, and meditations on mortality from Chaplin and Kurosawa! 

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1952 Films Discussed playlist right here!

Norman McLaren sound on film video

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:34 - The News of the Year!

00:07:05 - Duck and Cover

00:16:40 - Neighbours

00:32:36 - High Noon

00:52:31 - Limelight

01:05:26 - Ikiru

01:32:13 - The Greatest Show on Earth

01:53:34 - Bwana Devil

02:09:31 - This is Cinerama

02:27:12 - Favorites and Outro

See you next year!

The 1950s properly arrive with UFO movies and loud method acting! This episode we cover Stanley Kubrick's debut documentary short, Marlon Brando ushering in a whole new type of actor, Klaatu's plan for world peace, Billy Wilder's cynical take on exploitative news, a Disney animated movie that is NOT about drugs, Humphrey Bogart belt acting, and the romantic ideal of dancing in Paris. 

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1951 Films Discussed playlist right here!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:08 - The News of the Year

00:04:23 - Day of the Fight

00:10:21 A Streetcar Named Desire

00:33:40 - The Day the Earth Stood Still

01:02:41 - Ace in the Hole

01:20:42 - Alice in Wonderland

01:33:50 - The African Queen

01:49:15 - An American in Paris

02:07:03 - Favorites and Outro

See you next year!

New decade! We begin our journey through the films of the 1950s with a classic Disney animated fairytale, a tale of Hollywood darkness, Broadway rivalry, Kurosawa multi-perspective mystery, an invisible rabbit, and French existential dreams of the afterlife!  

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:18 - News of the Year

00:06:58 - Cinderella

00:23:02 - Sunset Blvd

00:50:51 - All About Eve

01:12:54 - Rashomon

01:35:15 - Harvey

01:56:19 - Orpheus

02:33:28 - Outro

See you next year!

Another decade in the can! In this casual wrap-up episode, we each count down our top 10s of the 1940s!  Here's our Letterboxd list of our 40s Top 10s: https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-top-10s-of-the-1940s/  And here's our list of every movie covered on the show so far! https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-films-discussed/

Ringing in 2026 by closing out the 1940s! This episode we discuss iconic Looney Tunes, acidic Ealing comedy, Orson Welles dunking on cukoo clocks, crime & baseball in postwar Japan, feminist gun violence, and THE Miss Turnstiles! 

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1949 Films Discussed playlist right here!

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:02:24 - The News of the Year! 

00:03:22 - Fast and Furry-ous 

00:11:02 - Kind Hearts and Coronets 

00:28:15 - The Third Man 

00:58:23 - Stray Dog 

01:21:04 - Late Spring 

01:49:19 - Adam's Rib 

02:10:14 - On The Town 

02:33:10 - Favorites and Outro

See you next year!

Murder! Dancing! Treasure! Bicycles! This week we're joined by Trace Thurman to discuss a Hitchcock experimental thriller, plus we talk about comedy monster mashes, transcendent technicolor ballet, Italian neo-realist velocipede theft, and the origins of the "prospector who dances a jig" character!

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The 1940s continue with the first appearance of Tweety Bird, Kenneth Anger's provocative sailor short, a trifecta of Film Noir thrillers, a Christmas courtroom classic, and a lush technicolor nun drama!

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Hollywood bounces back from the war years with a great crop of pictures! Bogie & Bacall reteam for one of the great noirs, Hitchcock does cool spy stuff, Rita Hayworth hair flips her way into history, William Wyler and Frank Capra channel their post war angst, and France produces a dreamy, spooky fairytale! 

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The war is over! Movies can go back to being the most important thing in the world! This episode we cover documentaries as evidence in the Nuremburg trials, post-fascist Italian neo-realism,  noir drama, and non-linear storytelling! An "Oops, All Features" episode.

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1945 Films Discussed playlist right here!

00:04:20 - Nazi Concentration Camps

00:29:46 - Rome, Open City

00:48:20 - The Lost Weekend

01:06:42 - Mildred Pierce

01:25:23 - Brief Encounter

See you next year!