One Week, One Year

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! You can check out our socials and our YouTube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y

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!   You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1MTCrCrLq4   You can check ou...

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 stil...

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

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 !  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://...

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

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 cinem...

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.  You can watch along with our v...

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

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!  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://link...

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 ! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter , and other social med...

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! Y...

Time for another decade in review show! We talk about our takeaways from the last 10 years of film history, discuss some newer films about the era ( Pearl , Nickelodeon , and Forgotten Silver ) and go over our lists of the top 10 films of the 1910s! You can check out our socials and our YouTube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y Cris's Top 10 Glen's Top 10    

The end of the 1910s goes out with a wild crop of films! Felix the Cat debuts, Lev Kuleshov invents reality TV, DW Griffith demands to be taken seriously, Mary Pickford starts a child labor protest, Abel Gance makes questionable statements about WW1, and Ernst Lubitsch makes a sex robot comedy. You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube ! You can check out our Instag...

Just like in 2020, going to the movies was a big bummer in 1918 because of a pandemic. But let's not focus on that because the movies were (mostly) fun! We look at some classic slapstick comedy shorts, early animation, stop-motion dinosaurs, ladies refusing to be told what to do, and Scandinavian trips to Mars!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube ! You c...

Time to get the ball rolling again with new episodes! We're gonna put them out as quick as we can, but maybe this whole "one week" thing was a terrible naming blunder on my account. Anyway, time for some Content! This year we've got one of the most famous Chaplin shorts, a DeMille/Pickford propaganda joint, and a movie about the troubles of showbiz. Sure to win best picture at how much quote unquo...

WE HAVE RETURNED! This week: D.W. Griffith's attempt (maybe) to convince the world he wasn't a bigot, actually. Plus, a whole lotta' talk about the film serial "Les Vampires" which contains (checks notes) zero actual vampires. Take it up with Louis Feuillade, it was his call. You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter , and o...

CW for this episode: Rape, suicide, and racial violence Well if that content warning doesn’t tell you what you need to know, it’s time for the not all it’s cracked up to be and as racist and more than it’s cracked up to be, The Birth of a Nation. We’re excited to have done all the first hand research and leg work to tell you that it is not the revelation in filmic style and form that its reputatio...

It’s the beginning of Charlie Chaplin and the end of the world! (not related). That’s right, World War I is breaking out and everything is falling apart in Europe. As we hear in the news segment, the Italian Socialist Party thinks this is a bourgeois war and I would tend to agree. What exactly was the point of all this?? On the other hand Charlie Chaplin is just killing it right out of the gate, h...

As we move through into new eras of film, time to move into new eras of the podcast! To wit, we're introducing our new format, broken up into serials, shorts, and a handful of features, plus we've got our first guest on the line, so welcome to Marco Rummo! In this episode we see our favorite adaptation of many of At the Telephone, with some really daring cinematography and deft direction by Americ...

Well folks, it's finally time to say goodbye to our boi, our main man, and the legend himself, Papa Georges Méliès. This year Pathé angles him out of house and home and soon he burns all his films he owns in a rebellious rage. :( Meanwhile, feature films are getting started, including the earliest surviving American one, filmed in Westchestah! We also have the first narrative film with an all-Blac...

Lots of movies this time! Also what do you think of the alternate title A Morally Bankrupt Giving Tree? D.W. Griffith creates a lot of fodder for shady episode titles. We've got our introduction of Winsor McCay, some grand scale Italian and Russian historicals and mythologicals, and some steampunk that can take the place of the lost Aerial Anarchists! Listen along!   You can watch along with...

Well now DW Griffith is beginning to "show his power level" as modern day people of his ilk call it, beginning his fascination with the Civil War. We also have some startlingly mature camera work in the Max Linder films and confident, emotionally complex, and deep storytelling in the Danish debut of Asta Nielsen, The Abyss! (unrelated to James Cameron).   You can watch along with our video ve...

Time for a decade in review show! Thought it would be about time to check in on the developments and trends over the course of the first 10 years of the 20th century! A bit of a looser, hangout episode with a juicy Top 10 at the end that you can spoil if you scroll down! We also talk about two movies about this era of film! Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) and Hugo (2011). S...

Legacies begin and end! D.W. Griffith commences his second whirlwind year in filmmaking and begins developing his style. After a weak 1908 Georges Méliès has a paltry 1909, and he only has a handful of films left before his last. Segundo de Chomón continues producing amazing work, cementing his spot as a worthy successor to Méliès. Thanks for listening all the way though the first decade of the 20...