One Week, One Year
Cris Elie and Glen Covell
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A film projectionist and filmmaker go through every year in film history in order, one year at a time and 5+ films per year, from 1895 to present! Through our horrifically meticulous process, we are able to simulate the experience of someone seeing it for the first time in the year it came out. What new perspectives can be gleaned from seeing every classic in its original context? Listen to find out!
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1951 - Peacenik From Space
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…
1950 - BPD Sugar Mama
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…
1940s Decade in Review
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:…
1949 - Post-war Baseball
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…
1948 - The Grizzling of the Soul (with Trace Thurman)
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,…
1947 - Chekhov's Cliff
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…
1946 - We Ballin
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…
1945 - Staring Into The Abyss
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…
1944 - Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss (with Sarah Pepe)
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…
1943 - Yeeting Momma (with Ambriehl Turrentine)
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…
1942 - TCM Pilled
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…
1941 - He Was In The Amazon With His Bodyguard When He Was Researching Snakes Right Before He Fell In Love
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,…
1940 - Little Crawling Horrors
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…
1930s Decade in Review!
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)…
1939 - Proxy Witch Warfare (with Nats Can Fly)
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…
1938 - Jackass Presents: Quirky Grandpa
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…
1937 - IN COLOR! (with Alan Briones)
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!…
1936 - Industrial Nipple Twister
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…
1935 - Demonic Macy's Parade
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…
1934 - Crime Dentist
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…
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