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 Youtube! [https://www.youtube.com/@oneweekoneyear] You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1952 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtoJHqn7J9fm2JNSviBC5jjd&si=axO6Lrycj_wV_TgE] Norman McLaren sound on film video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:34 - The News of the Year! 00:07:05 - Duck and Cover 00:16:40 - Neighbours 00:32:36 - High Noon 00:52:31 - Limelight 01:05:26 - Ikiru 01:32:13 - The Greatest Show on Earth 01:53:34 - Bwana Devil 02:09:31 - This is Cinerama 02:27:12 - Favorites and Outro See 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! [https://www.youtube.com/@oneweekoneyear] You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1951 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtoCxNv3H1oyktbxGGgqrIl0&si=xAy23XckJCSGwZtq] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:08 - The News of the Year 00:04:23 - Day of the Fight 00:10:21 A Streetcar Named Desire 00:33:40 - The Day the Earth Stood Still 01:02:41 - Ace in the Hole 01:20:42 - Alice in Wonderland 01:33:50 - The African Queen 01:49:15 - An American in Paris 02:07:03 - Favorites and Outro See 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! [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpdDX1v_OQshSldA4Sy78A] You can check out our other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1950 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1Wtr7ygz4E7dQ28Bj49LeC2Sf&si=MKJVew18pFb09a-B] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:18 - News of the Year 00:06:58 - Cinderella 00:23:02 - Sunset Blvd 00:50:51 - All About Eve 01:12:54 - Rashomon 01:35:15 - Harvey 01:56:19 - Orpheus 02:33:28 - Outro See 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! [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpdDX1v_OQshSldA4Sy78A] You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1949 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtqipbzfdgWY6v_lcaORGLfS] 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 Outro See you next year!