One Week, One 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! 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! 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!

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 social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1948 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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 1947 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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 can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1946 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1945 Films Discussed playlist right here! 00:04:20 - Nazi Concentration Camps 00:29:46 - Rome, Open City 00:48:20 - The Lost Weekend 01:06:42 - Mildred Pierce 01:25:23 - Brief Encounter See you next year!

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 opinions from our 1944 Films Discussed playlist right here! Sarah's youtube channel See you next year!

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! 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 1943 Films Discussed playlist right here!

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 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 1942 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1941 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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.ee/1w1y See you next year!

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 of every movie covered on the show so far! https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-films-discussed/ You can check out our socials and our YouTube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y

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, and a really sad Kenji Mizuguchi Kabuki 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.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1939 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1938 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!

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 Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1937 Films Discussed playlist right here! Our Feature Presentation! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs A Star is Born Maytime Make Way for Tomorrow The Grand Illusion See you next year!

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! 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 1936 Films Discussed playlist right here! Our Feature Presentation! Reefer Madness/Tell Your Children The Petrified Forest Fury Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Modern Times Things to Come See you next year!

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 etymology of "Nazi" 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 1935 Films Discussed playlist right here! One Week, One Reel The Band Concert I Haven't Got a Hat Our Feature Presentation Triumph of the Will Bride of Frankenstein Top Hat A Night at the Opera The 39 Steps Captain Blood See you next year!

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 media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1934 Films Discussed playlist right here! One Week, One Reel Woman Haters Our Feature Presentation The Scarlet Empress L'Atalante It Happened One Night The Thin Man The Man Who Knew Too Much See you next year!

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 video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://lnktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1933 Films Discussed playlist right here! One Week, One Reel Popeye the Sailor Night on the Bald Mountain Our Feature Presentation Duck Soup The Gold Diggers of 1933 Design for Living The Testament of Dr. Mabuse The Invisible Man King Kong See you next year!

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 and form your own opinions from our 1932 Films Discussed playlist right here! One Week, One Reel Flowers and Trees Our Feature Presentation Vampyr The Mummy Freaks I Was Born But... Scarface Merrily We Go to Hell See You Next Year!