Episodes
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1937 brings us the advent of (American, cell animated) feature length animation and 3-strip technicolor catches on! Stars are born! Songs are sung! Opera and cinema join forces! Monocles are worn! Join us, along with our guest, opera singer Alan Briones, as we discuss an exciting bevy of films.
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Our Feature Presentation!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
A Star is Born
Maytime
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Grand Illusion
See you next year!
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This episode we're talking about reefer (madness), so you don't want no part of this shit! No shorts this time so we get right into it with the aforementioned anti-drug "movie", Humphrey Bogart making a big splash, Fritz Lang turning his critical eye towards the USA, Frank Capra's feel-goodery, a nightmarish look into the future, and Charlie Chaplin's final film as The Tramp! All of that and more!
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Our Feature Presentation!
Reefer Madness/Tell Your Children
The Petrified Forest
Fury
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Modern Times
Things to Come
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Buckle up! This episode we are covering an infamous Nazi docu-ganda film, another iconic Frankenstein movie, a Rogers/Astaire tap dancing extravaganza, Marx Bros embracing their roles as birthday party clowns, Hitchcock leaning into comedy, and a swashbuckling pirate picture! Also, Micky Mouse in color, Porky Pig's first appearance, and a brief interlude about the Hays Code!
Article about the etymology of "Nazi"
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One Week, One Reel
The Band Concert
I Haven't Got a Hat
Our Feature Presentation
Triumph of the Will
Bride of Frankenstein
Top Hat
A Night at the Opera
The 39 Steps
Captain Blood
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The last year of the Pre-Code era! This episode we talk about the Three Stooges, a steamy wig movie, a proto-French New Wave drama, the quintessential romantic comedy, a proto-Shane Black Christmas detective movie, and Peter Lorre's English language debut!
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One Week, One Reel
Woman Haters
Our Feature Presentation
The Scarlet Empress
L'Atalante
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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1933 was a year full of big and wild movies! Popeye! Marx Bros! Busby Berkeley musicals! Throuple rom-coms! Psychic supervillains! An invisible man and KING KONG! Pre-code Hollywood is putting out some of the most daring films made so far, and we're gonna talk about 'em!
Documentary explaining pinscreen animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3DSFv4vAg&t=608s
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One Week, One Reel
Popeye the Sailor
Night on the Bald Mountain
Our Feature Presentation
Duck Soup
The Gold Diggers of 1933
Design for Living
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Invisible Man
King Kong
See you next year!
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We're keeping it spooky (mostly) this episode! Vampires! Mummies! Pervy Trees! Circus justice! Also, original Scarface, a chill Ozu film, and the Best Movie Title of All Time!
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One Week, One Reel
Flowers and Trees
Our Feature Presentation
Vampyr
The Mummy
Freaks
I Was Born But...
Scarface
Merrily We Go to Hell
See You Next Year!
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Iconic voices abound in this episode jam packed with classics! Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang both direct their best(?!) movies, Warner Bros. releases two quintessential gangster pictures, and Universal gets dark with two of the most famous horror movies ever made!
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1931 Films Discussed playlist right here!
Our Feature Presentation
City Lights
M
Little Caesar
The Public Enemy
Dracula
Frankenstein
See You Next Year!
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We kick off the 1930s with some European avant-garde films, more Marx Bros, tuxedo wearing cabaret singers, and both somber and bro-y WW1 epics!
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:31 - The News of the Year
00:06:39 - Swing You Sinners!
00:13:41 - Dizzy Dishes
00:18:29 - Borderline
00:34:40 - L'Age D'Or
00:48:59 - Animal Crackers
01:02:29 - Morocco
01:17:53 - Hell's Angels
01:51:49 - All Quiet on the Western Font
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Time to review the last 10 years of movies! And what a 10 years they were! We also discuss a few newer films/tv about the era (Episode 13 of the docuseries Hollywood, Singin' In The Rain and Babylon!) and list each of our top 10 films of the 1920s!
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Were talkies a mistake? Join us as we talk about the last of the silent era and the rocky start of the sound era, and possibly the worst Best Picture winner of all time! But also some cool shorts and the frenetic and creative Man With a Movie Camera!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1MTCrCrLq4
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1929 Films Discussed playlist right here! (some are missing, copyright!)
06:12 - Skeleton Dance
13:15 - Un Chien Andalou
22:50 - Man With a Movie Camera
39:02 - Woman in the Moon
1:01:19 - Pandora's Box
1:15:12 - The Broadway Melody
1:38:05 - The Wild Party
1:49:56 - The Cocoanuts
2:04:40 - Final thoughts and Favorites
See you next year!
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Silent film is on its way out but we still got a few good years left!
1928 saw the introduction of a very famous rodent, two of Buster Keaton's best features, Chaplin joining the circus, the movie that inspired a Batman villain, the template for spy films, and we are joined by Cody Jackson to discuss one of the final great silent dramas! Also, this is our first episode covering films that are still under copyright, so no playlist sadly!
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-- One Week, One Reel --
The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra
Steamboat Willie
-- Our Feature Presentation --
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Cameraman
The Circus
The Man Who Laughs
Spies
The Passion of Joan of Arc
See you next year!
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Its our longest episode so far because we are covering one of the great movie years!
Robot dancing! Cartoon rabbits! Symphonies of great cities! London fog! Drunken pig chases! Airplane rivalries! Movies that, what's this, talk and sing?!
All of these things and more in this monster sized episode!
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1927 Films Discussed playlist right here!
See you next year!
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We're back! (again!)
This year we take a look at an eclectic mix of French and Japanese ominous experimental films, German mythological epics, and American train crime movies, including Buster Keaton's magnum opus The General!
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1926 Films Discussed playlist right here!
--One Week, One Reel--
Ménilmontant
--Our Feature Presentation--
A Page of Madness
Faust
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The Flying Ace
Vox video about Jacksonville and Norman Studios
The General
See you next year!
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Big year of big movies! Sergei Eisenstein pushes narrative filmmaking forward in a big way with the thrilling Battleship Potemkin, Charlie Chaplin further refines his balance of comedy and drama, Lon Chaney terrifies as the Phantom of the Opera, and dinosaurs cause mayhem in The Lost World!
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See you next year!
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Back in the "studio" for another episode! As we close in on the last 5 years of silent film, we're getting some true bangers. The hits keep coming! We've got the movie that was Cris's introduction to loving silent film, Sherlock Jr., and the action adventure masterpiece The Thief of Bagdad, a movie that seems chemically engineered to be a Glen favorite. Plus Lon Chaney has a stunning turn as cinema's OG sad clown. Check it out!
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---Feature Presentation---
Greed
The Hands of Orlac
The Thief of Bagdad
Kino-Eye
Sherlock Jr.
The Last Laugh
He Who Gets Slapped
See you next year!
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The first episode recorded in person! We went to Kansas to see a jam packed lineup of 1923 films, all with live score! In this episode we get to Harold Lloyd's magnum opus, Charlie Chaplin directing high drama, and Cecil B. DeMille building Egypt on the beach! Just a heads up, the audio for this one is a bit lower quality, since we recorded most of it in a car.
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PART 1
The Covered Wagon
The Uncovered Wagon
Two Wagons, Both Covered
It's a Gift
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Luke's Movie Muddle
Get Out and Get Under
Safety Last!
PART 2
Miles of Smiles
Bell Boy 13
Little Old New York
The Pilgrim
A Woman of Paris
The Medicine Bottle
The Ten Commandments
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
See you next year!
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1922 brings two more into the canon of mega-famous silent films! We've got a lot of new technology this year, from two-strip technicolor to sound on film. Our introductory mentions of Walt Disney and Lotte Reineger, and of course we needed to give you something spooky.
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1922 Films Discussed playlist right here!
--- One Week, One Reel ---
Casey at the BatTechnology Connections - Sound on Film (2022)CopsEvery Frame a Painting - Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag (2015)
Nuts (2016)Disney CinderellaReineger Cinderella
--- Our Feature Presentation ---Foolish WivesThe Toll of the SeaNanook of the NorthNanook RevisitedDocumentary Now: Kunuk UncoveredHäxan
Nosferatu
Glen’s Favorite: NosferatuCris’s Favorite: Häxan
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1921 was short on big movies, but we get into the ones which stood out. Avant Garde animation that's good to put on in the background at a party, Charlie Chaplin weaponizing cuteness, and European ruminations on death! Fun times!
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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1921 Films Discussed playlist here!
-- One Week, One Reel --
Manhatta
Opus 1/Opus 2
Rhythmus 21
-- Our Feature Presentation --
The Kid
The Phantom Carriage
Destiny
See you next year!
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YIITS BEEN two weeks actually, but whatever. This episode we watch a pair of classic comedy shorts, a pair of classic German Expressionist horror films, a pair of classic American films about oppression, and also The Flapper, a movie about being naughty.
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 1920 Films Discussed playlist right here!
-- One Week, One Reel --
One Week
High and Dizzy
-- Our Feature Presentation --
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Golem
The Mark of Zorro
Within Our Gates
The Flapper
See you next year!
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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!
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