This week is a special one-off episode (vepisode) where we're taking a look at both the 1996 film and 2022 HBO series Irma Vep with guest Jack Virnich! 

Heads up, its probably a good idea to watch both (especially the show) before listening. The discussion gets a bit heady and might not make a lot of sense if you haven't seen them. But you should see them anyway because they are good!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

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Time for another decade in review show! We talk about our takeaways from the last 10 years of film history, discuss some newer films about the era (Pearl, Nickelodeon, and Forgotten Silver) and go over our lists of the top 10 films of the 1910s!

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Cris's Top 10

Glen's Top 10

The end of the 1910s goes out with a wild crop of films! Felix the Cat debuts, Lev Kuleshov invents reality TV, DW Griffith demands to be taken seriously, Mary Pickford starts a child labor protest, Abel Gance makes questionable statements about WW1, and Ernst Lubitsch makes a sex robot comedy.

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1919 Films Discussed playlist right here!

-- One Week, One Reel --

Feline Follies

The Kuleshov Effect

-- Our Feature Presentation --

Broken Blossoms

Daddy Long Legs

J'Accuse

The Doll

See you next year!

Just like in 2020, going to the movies was a big bummer in 1918 because of a pandemic. But let's not focus on that because the movies were (mostly) fun! We look at some classic slapstick comedy shorts, early animation, stop-motion dinosaurs, ladies refusing to be told what to do, and Scandinavian trips to Mars! 

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1918 Films Discussed playlist right here!

-- One Week, One Reel --

Take A Chance

The Cook

A Dog's Life

Shoulder Arms

The Sinking of the Lusitania

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

I Don't Want To Be A Man

-- Our Feature Presentation --

The Outlaw and His Wife

Himmelskibet (A Trip To Mars)

Mickey

See you next year!

Time to get the ball rolling again with new episodes! We're gonna put them out as quick as we can, but maybe this whole "one week" thing was a terrible naming blunder on my account. Anyway, time for some Content! This year we've got one of the most famous Chaplin shorts, a DeMille/Pickford propaganda joint, and a movie about the troubles of showbiz. Sure to win best picture at how much quote unquote "Hollywood" is featured, despite it being New Jersey. On with the films!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1917 Films Discussed playlist right here!

--- One Week, One Reel ---

The Immigrant

The Butcher Boy

--- Our Feature Presentation ---

Straight Shooting

The Little American

A Man There Was

A Girl's Folly

See you next year!

WE HAVE RETURNED! This week: D.W. Griffith's attempt (maybe) to convince the world he wasn't a bigot, actually. Plus, a whole lotta' talk about the film serial "Les Vampires" which contains (checks notes) zero actual vampires. Take it up with Louis Feuillade, it was his call.

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1916 Films Discussed playlist right here! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1Wtp2mJz1acdNcxay6a--Rn4W

See you next year!

CW for this episode: Rape, suicide, and racial violence

Well if that content warning doesn’t tell you what you need to know, it’s time for the not all it’s cracked up to be and as racist and more than it’s cracked up to be, The Birth of a Nation. We’re excited to have done all the first hand research and leg work to tell you that it is not the revelation in filmic style and form that its reputation has it be. Regardless, there’s a lot to talk about with it, from the specifics of its heinous racial politics to the the things that it reveals about D.W. Griffith as a person. Plus we’ve got a stone cold classic Chaplin, a proto-noir, a well put together art film, and stop-motion dinosaurs!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1915 Films Discussed playlist right here!

--- One Week, One Reel ---

The Tramp

Pool Sharks

The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy

Two Knights of Vaudeville

--- The Serial Bowl ---

Les Vampires Episode 1: The Severed Head

Les Vampires Episode 2: The Ring that Kills

Les Vampires Episode 3: The Red Cryptogram

--- Our Feature Presentation ---

The Birth of a Nation

Hypocrites

The Cheat

See you next year!

It’s the beginning of Charlie Chaplin and the end of the world! (not related). That’s right, World War I is breaking out and everything is falling apart in Europe. As we hear in the news segment, the Italian Socialist Party thinks this is a bourgeois war and I would tend to agree. What exactly was the point of all this?? On the other hand Charlie Chaplin is just killing it right out of the gate, he’s a screen presence like nothing we’ve seen before. Something we have seen before in our film classes is Gertie the Dinosaur, which is a lesser McCay from a visual standpoint, but a formal and technical leap!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

--- The Serial Bowl ---

--- One Week, One Reel ---

--- Our Feature Presentation ---

Cris’ favorite: Fantômas vs. Fantômas

See you next year!

As we move through into new eras of film, time to move into new eras of the podcast! To wit, we're introducing our new format, broken up into serials, shorts, and a handful of features, plus we've got our first guest on the line, so welcome to Marco Rummo! In this episode we see our favorite adaptation of many of At the Telephone, with some really daring cinematography and deft direction by America's first female director, Lois Weber! We also delve into the first 3 episodes of Fantômas, a super good serialized crime thriller from our pal Louis Feuillade (I recommend the Kino restoration on Blu-ray!). Plus other stuff! Hey, podcast time!

You can catch up with what Marco is up to here:

https://twitter.com/fleetwoodmarco

https://www.instagram.com/fleetwoodmarco/

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1913 Films Discussed playlist right here!

--- The Serial Bowl ---

Fantômas Episodes 1-3 with Marco Rummo:

Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine

Juve vs. Fantômas

The Murderous Corpse

--- One Week, One Reel ---

Suspense

The Rosary

The Bangville Police

Matrimony’s Speed Limit

A House Divided

Edison Kinetophone Experiments

Gaumont Color Experiments

D.W. Griffith’s Newspaper Ad

The episode of Karina Longworth’s “You Must Remember This” on D.W. Griffith

--- Our Feature Presentation ---

Well folks, it's finally time to say goodbye to our boi, our main man, and the legend himself, Papa Georges Méliès. This year Pathé angles him out of house and home and soon he burns all his films he owns in a rebellious rage. :(

Meanwhile, feature films are getting started, including the earliest surviving American one, filmed in Westchestah! We also have the first narrative film with an all-Black cast, a fun one too! Listen along, folks! Also I hope you all appreciate my Joe's Apartment reference.

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!

You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1912 Films Discussed playlist right here!

--- Shipwreck Disasters and Shakespearian Features ---

Saved From the Titanic (lost, link to the wiki page)

In Nacht und Eis

The Obsession

Richard III

--- Glen’s Filmic Forbearers and The Beginning of Keystone ---

Jekyll and Hyde

The Curious Case of Jekyll and Hyde (2006, Dir. Glen Covell)

The Vox video, “Hollywood almost lost to this city”

At Coney Island

Mabel’s Adventures

--- Hello Dolly! (In and Out) ---

Andalusian Superstition

The Passer-By

The Cameraman’s Revenge

The other Vox film history video, “How stop-motion animation began”

--- Cute Kids and the Booming Studio Solax! ---

The Land Beyond the Sunset

The Detective’s Dog

Falling Leaves

Making an American Citizen

A Fool and His Money

Algie the Miner

The Sewer<