World Cinema History

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory We celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Special Guest Erin Brown, an Independent Filmmaker (and self described history nerd) as she takes us through UK Cinema and The Second World War. See Erin's films here: https://youtube.com/@pizzahorseproductions?si=BrFu_Bjhudd30Y5s Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcineh...

June 6th: "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976) starring Michael Caine. June 13th: "The Hounds of the Baskervilles" (1959) Starring Peter Cushing. June 20th "A Taste of Honey" (1961) Directed by Tony Richardson. June 27th: "A Night to Remember" (1958) Starring Kenneth More. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple....

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory Technical difficulties screwed up our first discussion of Derek Jarman's portrait of the 16th Century artist Michaelangelo Caravaggio so we did it again. As we were recording history was being made in a NYC courthouse! Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://p...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory **Originally Recorded May 23rd, 2024** Remade in 2006 with Queen Latifah the 1950 original features Alec Guinness, Sid James, and Kay Walsh in a black Comedy from the pen of J.B. Priestly. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "I belong to a generation of men, most of whom aren't here any more. And we all did the same thing for the same reason no matter what we thought about politics. Now that's all over and done with and we're carrying on, the best we can, just as though nothing had happened. But as a matter of fact, several things happened, and one of 'em w...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead...The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" Shakespeare's history of The Battle of Agincourt, adapted by Laurence Olivier. With Yassi Soufi, Hy Bender, Matt Bradley-Tschirgi an...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory Join us on Spotify for a weekly look at the films of Great Britain from an American point of view. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1744483892  or Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4YkCJSJvngt...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "Well, there are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors. Follow the old road, and as you walk, think of them and of the old England. They climbed Chillingbourne Hill, just as you. They sweated and paused for breath just as you did today. And when you see the bluebells in the spring and the wild thyme, and the broom and th...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "War. War never changes." Amazon's "Fallout" discussion continues. On YouTube: https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=4DsReM_sKKWQ6JTt on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1744483892 or follow us on X (The Artist Formerly Known as Twitter): @etrommater Like, Subscribe and Comment. If you're on A...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "War. War never changes." Fallout, based on the popular video game series, is not UK Cinema. Johnathan Nolan is kinda British, but that's a stretch. We just liked the show and wanted to do a room on it and we did. On YouTube: https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=4DsReM_sKKWQ6JTt on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory “Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Shakespeare's Henry IV parts I and II telescoped through fat, jolly Falstaff, with a line or two from Henry V and Merry Wives of Windsor thrown in for good measure. Mark Redfield, Yasi Sofi and Eric Trommater lead a lively discussion. **Originally Re...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "I am not an animal. I am a human being!" **Originally Recorded April 18th, 2024**Producer Mel Brooks and director David Lynch team up to tell the story of John/ Joseph Merrick. With Eric Trommater and Sila Blume. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcas...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "You're a jumped up pantry boy who doesn't know his place!" Anthony Shaffer adapts his play in this twisty, misty, mystery. With Sila Blume and Hy Bender. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1744483892 ...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught." Boris Pasternak, adapted by Robert Bolt, with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Sir Alec Guinness. Guest Host Hy Bender is joined by Eric Trommater and Sila Blume. **Originally Recorded March 28th, 202...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discov...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me."The most popular of the so-called Kitchen-Sink Dramas adapts Alan Sillitoe's novel starring Albert Finney. With Yassi Soufi, Hy Bender, and Sila Blume. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, "Is it tame?" Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great."Social Realism, Kit...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory Martin Amis' novel is set aside for an experimental look at the Holocaust through the eyes of the family of Rudolph Höss. With Hy Bender, Sila Blume and Yassi Soufi. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "My lady! I am the son of a butler and a lady's maid. The happiest of all combinations. To me the most beautiful thing in the world is a haughty English aristocratic home with everyone kept in his place...any satisfaction I might derive out of being your equal would be ruined by the footman being equal to me." J.M. Berrie's play adapted...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "Sometimes God turns His back on His people and breaks wind. And the stench clouds the globe!" Musical? Black Comedy? Horror? We discuss Peter O'Toole and Alistair Sims in film that's all of this and more. With Hy Bender and Sila Blume. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podc...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory Truman Capote adapts Henry James. Starring Deborah Kerr and Michael Redgrave. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1744483892  or Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4YkCJSJvngtDMhey0CNsWj?si=i143kC...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory Mods vs Rockers in this adaptation of Pete Townshend's Rock Opera. With Hy Bender and Sila Blume. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cinema-history/id1744483892  or Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4YkCJSJvngtD...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory British Kitchen Sink Drama adapting John Osborne. Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice and his future wife Joan Plowright as his daughter. It's only weird if you think about it, so don't. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-c...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory "2001: A Space Odyssey" meets "Friday the 13th" as Alex Garland and Danny Boyle team up with Killian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Chris Evans, and Benedict Wong. With Hy Bender, Yassi Soufi, and Sila Blume. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/...

Help keep us ad free at: https://ko-fi.com/worldcinemahistory **Recorded January 18th, 2024**A bug on Clubhouse forces the UKCH gang over to X-Spaces to discuss Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam's Dystopian Black Comedy. With Yassi Soufi, Sila Blume, Hy Bender, Leonard Hockerts and Vernon Quixote. Check us out on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@worldcinehist?si=z8Yay0W0I-6APEZz ⁠⁠⁠  on Apple Podcas...