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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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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Big year for hard-boiled noir! Murder! Betrayal! Halloween! This episode we get into gaslamps as symbols of both love and lies, sinister insurance schemes, lonely detectives, boat escapades and serial killer old ladies!

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The world may be at war but the movies bravely carry on! This week we're joined by film programmer Ambriehl Turrentine to discuss the Citizen Kane of the cartoon canon, Alfred Hitchcock's favorite of his own films, and a groundbreaking musical comedy! Plus, we get into some WW2 propaganda cartoons, avant-garde mirror faces, extreme Britishness, Judo throws, and the original Dark Universe! 

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