Cinema Cemetery

As our Oscar Journey moves along, the first Bio-Pic arrives with 1936's  The Great Ziegfeld . Following the highly stylized retelling of Flo Ziegfeld's life, this three-hour epic follows the eponymous character from his early days as a showman to the biggest name on Broadway.    Will it be the Ziegfeld Follies, or a Folly to watch Ziegfeld? Find out on this week's Cinema Cemetery! M...

Dan and Special-Guest-Teresa take us through the nine Best Picture nominees from 2019 as we prepare for this week's Oscars!  Take a listen as they count down the films from "just happy to be there" to "excellent" to "worthy of a win"! Which film will make the cut for Cinema's Cemetary's eventual 92th episode?  Find out this Sunday...

Clark Cable returns for his second straight starring role in a Best Picture!  Mutiny on the Bounty follows the crew of the eponymous HMS Bounty off to the South Pacific to retrieve vital cargo for the New World.  While their veteran leader, Captain Bligh, may have a reputation for success on the sea, they soon learn his attitude toward discipline and power are more than the crew can stand. Does th...

Only three films have ever won the Oscar "Grand Slam" (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay)...and this week's entry is the first big winner!  Clark Gable (starring in his first of three Best Picture-winning films) stars along with Claudette Colbert as two strangers making their way across the country.  Equal parts comedy and romance,  It Happened One Night  might just...

The 1900s are here, and it is a time for change in Europe.  Calvacade follows two different families over the first three decades of the 20th century, for better or for worse.  Their stories intertwine with achievement (Louis Bleriot's flight over the English Channel), tragedy (the voyage of the Titanic) and war (both the Boer War and World War I).  Combining the class commentary of Downton A...

Cinema Cemetery heads indoors for Grand Hotel , a tale of five strangers seeking to make their lives right.  A poor stenographer, a dying man, a desperate thief, and a malicious magnate all race against the clock while a young Greta Garbo utters her famous line “I want to be alone” as she searches for meaning beyond her career.  All the while, the guests of hotel come and go…and life moves on Cine...

Back on track, Cinema Cemetery ventures into Cimarron country!  The Oklahoma lands have been opened for settling and its mad rush to stake one’s claim.  This film tells the tale of Yancey Cravat and his wife Sabra as they leave their comfortable Kansas lives to live on the frontier.  This film follows this family from the initial land rush of 1889 as the town grows from a single street to a “moder...

Breaking from the chronological routine, Dan and Kate jump at the chance to see a film as it was meant to be seen: Lawerence of Arabia is screened in theaters in all its 4K glory.  This film follows the story of T.E. Lawerence, a British mapmaker during World War I who is drawn to the desert in an attempt to recruit the Arab tribes in the British Empire's war against the Turks.  Along the way...

"You ain't heard nothin' yet!" With Al Jolson's prophetic words, films have entered the talkie era, including The Broadway Melody (1929) .  Revolutionary for its time, this picture presents multiple technical breakthroughs from full-scale musical numbers to a technicolor sequence now lost to history.  Does the Broadway Melody still ring true after all this time?  Find out...

The year is 1914 and the Iron Youth are off to war in defense of the Fatherland. These German boys, fresh from the classroom and with the hope of their mentors and family head out to "win the war within a month".  What they find is a new reality that completely upends the old world order.  All Quiet on the Western Front, an adaptation of Erich Remarque's novel vividly portrays the t...

Welcome to Cinema Cemetary where we lay to rest the best of the Best.  We begin our journey back In 1928 with the very first Best Picture Oscar winner Wings. This silent film, revolutionary for the time captures the triumph and terror of aerial dogfighting the first World War while following the human costs of this conflict.  While the film may not have aged as well as others, it will always stand...