One Week, One 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 Youtub...

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...

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://...

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...

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 soc...

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...

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 ca...

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://l...

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 o...

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!  Yo...

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...

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...

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....

It's time once again to reminisce and recap the last 10 years of movies! In this casual wrap-up episode, we talk about two movies that concern filmmaking in the 30s ( The Aviator, Gods and Monsters ) and we each count down our top 10s of the decade!   Here's our Letterboxd list of our 30s Top 10s: https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-top-10s-of-the-1930s/ And here's our list...

Finishing out the 1930s with two of the most popular movies ever made! One is a romanticized fantasy about a place that never existed, the other is The Wizard of Oz! We're joined by video essayist/writer/former US history teacher Nats Can Fly! Be sure to check out her YouTube channel here .  Also, we talk about a quintessential John Ford western, Frank Capra's most Capra-esque film to date, a...

Closing in on the end of the 1930s and Hollywood is firing off wacky comedies and technicolor extravaganzas! We also cover some Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts, Eisenstein's first talkie, and a very French proto-noir crime drama!  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...

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. You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube ! You can check out our Instag...

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!...

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 etym...

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!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube ! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter , and other social m...

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 You can watch along with our...

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!  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 an...

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! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter , and other social...

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!   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 1930...