1940s Decade in Review

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=MJLa2mSJpA4You 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/1w1yAnd you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1953 Films Discussed playlist right here!00:00:00 - Intro00:04:033 - The News of the Year!00:07:59 - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century00:13:18 - Duck Amuck00:18:23 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T00:32:58 - Glen or Glenda00:53:59 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes01:04:54 - Roman Holiday01:14:36 - Tokyo Story01:32:37 - Ugetsu01:48:55 - House of Wax02:10:37 - The Robe02:46:04 - Favorites and OutroSee 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/1w1yAnd you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1952 Films Discussed playlist right here!Norman McLaren sound on film video00:00:00 - Intro00:03:34 - The News of the Year!00:07:05 - Duck and Cover00:16:40 - Neighbours00:32:36 - High Noon00:52:31 - Limelight01:05:26 - Ikiru01:32:13 - The Greatest Show on Earth01:53:34 - Bwana Devil02:09:31 - This is Cinerama02:27:12 - Favorites and OutroSee 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/1w1yAnd you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1951 Films Discussed playlist right here!00:00:00 - Intro00:03:08 - The News of the Year00:04:23 - Day of the Fight00:10:21 A Streetcar Named Desire00:33:40 - The Day the Earth Stood Still01:02:41 - Ace in the Hole01:20:42 - Alice in Wonderland01:33:50 - The African Queen01:49:15 - An American in Paris02:07:03 - Favorites and OutroSee 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/1w1yAnd you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1950 Films Discussed playlist right here!00:00:00 - Intro00:05:18 - News of the Year00:06:58 - Cinderella00:23:02 - Sunset Blvd00:50:51 - All About Eve01:12:54 - Rashomon01:35:15 - Harvey01:56:19 - Orpheus02:33:28 - OutroSee 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/1w1yAnd 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 OutroSee 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/1w1yAnd 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/1w1yAnd 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/1w1yAnd 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/1w1yAnd you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1945 Films Discussed playlist right here!00:04:20 - Nazi Concentration Camps00:29:46 - Rome, Open City00:48:20 - The Lost Weekend01:06:42 - Mildred Pierce01:25:23 - Brief EncounterSee you next year!