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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 You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y 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!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y 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.  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y 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!   You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1950 Films Discussed playlist right here! 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!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y 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! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1948 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1947 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1946 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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. You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y 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!

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! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1944 Films Discussed playlist right here! Sarah's youtube channel See you next year!

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!  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 1943 Films Discussed playlist right here!

1942 was a bad year for humans but a good year for Hollywood! This episode, we discuss John Ford's striking documentation of WWII, Orson Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane, the origins of the jump scare, witchy comedy, the meaning of life through the lens of talking animals, Lubitsch spy/showbiz satire, and a little movie called Casablanca. You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1942 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

The Big Daddy of movies, Citizen Kane! We get into the most celebrated film of all time, as well as peeping werewolves, proto-Brooks/Zucker Bros comedy, formative film noir, Hays Code horniness, nostalgic coal mines, and jewel stealing robots!  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 1941 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

The start of a new decade brings with it a cavalcade of great movies! Foundational animation, anti-Nazi comedy, screwball banter, and moody dramas all just knocking it outta the park. Its almost like the 1940s was a good decade for movies! You can watch along with our video version of the episode on Youtube or check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y   See you next year!