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The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features the Best Film pick from both the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Directed and co-written by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick and William Alland, Citizen Kane is widely considered the greatest film ever made.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/05/02/archives/orson-welless-controversial-citizen-kane-proves-a-sensational-film.html), C.A. Lejeune in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/1941/oct/12/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm), and Mae Tinee in the Chicago Tribune.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features Jason's personal pick, George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story was adapted from the hit Broadway play by Philip Barry.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1940/12/27/archives/the-screen-a-splendid-cast-adorns-the-screen-version-of-the.html), Mae Tinee in the Chicago Tribune, and Virginia Wright in the Los Angeles Daily News.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at

We're kicking off our series on DC Onscreen with a look at the romance of Otto Preminger's 1962 Senate drama Advise & Consent! Join in as we discuss the movie's deployment of star Henry Fonda, the tension between Preminger's liberalism and Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning novel, and the real-life incidents that inspired the story. Plus: What stunt castings did Preminger want (and get) for the movie? How effective is its then-controversial depiction of gay people? And, most importantly, is Gene Tierney's Dolly Harrison the coolest woman we'll see in this series? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: D.C. Cab (1983) - available here via the Internet Archive!-----------------------------------------------------Key sources and links for this episode:Bosley Crowther's review of Advise & Consent (New York Times)"Hollywood's Biggest Washington Movie Goofs" (Washingtonian Magazine)"Otto Preminger, 1960-1979 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 7)" (You Must Remember This)"1961: Starring Martin Luther King, Jr. (And Henry Fonda)" (New York Times)"Just How Gay is the Right?" by Frank Rich (New York Times)"Allen Drury and the Washington Novel" (Hoover Institute)"Uniquely Nasty: The Blockbuster Novel that Haunted Gay Washington" (Yahoo News)"The 1959 Novel that Convinced a Young Barney Frank Not to Come Out" (Washington Post)"Trump Allies Pressure GOP Senators to Back Cabinet Picks - Or Else" (Washington Post)"The Week Trump Finally Broke the Senate" (Politico)"Takeaways from Doug Liman's Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary" (Washington Post)

Join hosts Jason and Paul for a discussion of William A. Wellman's 1948 spy thriller The Iron Curtain, starring Dana Andrews and Jean Tierney. Regarded as an anti-communist propaganda film, The Iron Curtain was the first major Hollywood studio production to engage directly with the Cold War. The story is based on the memoirs of the Russian spy Igor Gouzenko, who stole documents from the Soviet embasy in Ottawa, where he worked, and defected to Canada. This act of espionage led to the dismantling of a Soviet "atomic spy ring," and the arrests or numerous people both in Canada and the United States. At a time of relative peace post-WWII, the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther considered The Iron Curtain "a highly inflamatory film" and a dangerous provocation. "Hollywood fired its first shot in the 'cold war' against Russia yesterday," Crowther writtes in his review, "just when a faint hope was glimmering that maybe moderation in fact might be achieved.”  _____________________ We love to give book or film recommendations on the podcast, so here are ours for this episode:  Paul recommends the pro-Soviet Hollywood propaganda film Mission to Moscow (1943; dir. Michael Curtiz)  Jason recommends the 2000 book The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders  _____________________ Please subscribe to the podcast, and don't forget to leave a review! Follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonAChristian and Anthony at @tonyjballas (same handles on  BlueSky). Follow Paul on BlueSky at @ptklein.com. Paul writes about movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. Paul's handle on Letterboxd is https://letterboxd.com/ptklein/; Jason's is https://letterboxd.com/exilemagic/.  _____________________ Logo by Jason Christian  Theme music by DYAD (Charles Ballas and Jeremy Averitt).  Please drop us a line anytime at coldwarcinemapod@gmail.com. Happy listening!      

The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features our animation pick, Disney's Dumbo. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and starring the voices of Edward Brophy, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards and Herman Bing, Dumbo was Disney's fourth animated feature film.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/24/archives/walt-disneys-cartoon-dumbo-a-fanciful-delight-opens-at-the-broadway.html), Time, and Cecelia Ager in PM.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comSubscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to...

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features Josh's personal pick, Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels. Written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, Sullivan's Travels was one of two Sturges films released in 1941.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/29/archives/comic-tour-in-sullivans-travels-on-the-paramounts-screen-a-yank-on.html), Variety, and André Bazin in L'Écran Français.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comSubscribe on Patreon to support the show...

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features the year's biggest flop, William Dieterle's All That Money Can Buy. Directed by William Dieterle and starring James Craig, Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Anne Shirley and Simone Simon, All That Money Can Buy was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, based on his short story “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” and later rereleased under that title.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/17/archives/all-that-money-can-buy-a-new-england-legend-at-the-music-hall-texas.html), Herbert Cohn in the Brooklyn Eagle, and Virginia Wright in the Los Angeles Daily News.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of...

We're setting sail for love as we look at the romance of Leo McCarey's 1957 melodrama An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr! Join in as we discuss our favorite cinematic ships, singing dub star Marni Nixon, and an abundance of children's choirs. Plus: How did Nicky Ferrante get famous? How do we get AFI to update their ranked lists of movies? How is this movie thirty minutes longer than 1939's Love Affair, which allegedly uses the same script? And, most importantly, why can't they just be together??? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: Bull Durham (1988)-------------------------------------------------Key sources and links for this episode:Bosley Crowther's 1957 review in the New York TimesRetakes: Behind the Scenes of 500 Classic Movies by John Eastman (1989)An Affair to Remember in the AFI Catalog"They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That was Only the Beginning" (Curbed)

The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features our pick for a notable debut feature, John Huston's The Maltese Falcon. Written and directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon is the third adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/04/archives/the-maltese-falcon-a-fast-mysterythriller-with-quality-and-charm-at.html), Variety (http://variety.com/1941/film/reviews/the-maltese-falcon-2-1200413694/), and The Film Daily.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features the box-office champion, Howard Hawks' Sergeant York. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Margaret Wycherly and George Tobias, Sergeant York is based on the diaries of real-life World War I veteran Alvin York.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/03/archives/sergeant-york-a-sincere-biography-of-the-world-war-hero-makes-its-a.html), Time Magazine, and Herbert Cohn in the Brooklyn Eagle.Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/If you're a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at

We've been waiting for this episode, a 1947 RKO noir double bill with two of the all-time greats, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, in which Robert Mitchum's cool detective and Jane Greer's psychopathic moll work at cross purposes in their attempts to escape their shady pasts so that they can be free to love, and Robert Wise's Born to Kill, in which Claire Trevor's morally flexible social climber and Lawrence Tierney's paranoid psychopath just work at cross purposes. Elise agrees with Bosley Crowther that Born to Kill, one of her Top 10 favourite movies, "is not only morally disgusting but is an offense to a normal intellect," but will Dave be able to convince her that Out of the Past is "flawless"?    Time Codes: 0h 00m 30s:      BORN TO KILL [dir. Robert Wise] 1h 07m 09s:      OUT OF THE PAST [dir. Jacques Tourneur] 1h 35m 31s:      Listener Communiqué Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin   Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joe W. Finler                                 +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com   We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

In “It's A Wonderful Life,” BEULAH BONDI played the most loving mother to JAMES STEWART. Ma Bailey is the epitome of sweetness, kindness, and supportiveness so it's quite shocking when we meet the Ma Bailey who would have existed had George Bailey not been born. She's cold, bitter, and unkind. It gives Bondi the wonderful opportunity to play two versions of the same character, which she does flawlessly. So to celebrate Mother's Day, Nan and Steve are taking a page from Bondi's playbook as they discuss the good and bad mothers of classic cinema.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Moms in the Movies (2014), by Richard Corliss; Actresses of a Certain Character (2007), by Axel Nissen; Irene Dunne: First Lady of Hollywood (2006), by Wes D. Gehring; Shelley: Also Known as Shirley (1981), by Shelley Winters; Gene Tierney: Self Portrait (1979), by Gene Tierney and Mickey Herkowitz; “Mrs. Miniver: The film that Goebbels Feared,” February 9, 2015, by Fiona Macdonald, February 9, 2015, BBC.com;  "Greer Garson, 92, Actress, Dies; Won Oscar for 'Mrs. Miniver',” April 7, 1996, by Peter B. Flint, New York Times; “Stella Dallas,” August 6, 1937, New York Times Film Review; “Barbara Stanwyck, Actress, Dead at 82,” Jan. 22, 1990, by Peter B. Flint, New York Times; “1989 Kennedy Center Honors, Claudette Colbert,” Kennedy-Center.org; “Moving Story of War Against Japan: ‘Three Came Home',” by Bosley Crowther, Feb. 21, 1950, New York Times Film Review; “Queen of Diamonds: Angela Lansbury on ‘The Manchurian Candidate',” 2004; “Manchurian Candidate: Old Failure, Is Now A Hit,” by Aljean Harmetz, February 24, 1988, New York Times; “Jo Van Fleet,” by Dan Callahan, May 10, 2017, Film Comment;  “Pacific's largely forgotten Oscar winner made impact on screen,” March 3, 2024,  University of the Pacific; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com Movies Mentioned:  The Grapes of Wrath (1940), starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, and Charley Grapewin; The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Anthony Quinn, and William Eythe; Mrs. Miniver (1942), starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Henry Travers, and Richard Ney; Leave Her To Heaven (1945), starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Phillips, and Darryl Hickman; The Manchurian Candidate (1962), starring Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury; The Manchurian Candidate (2004), starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Live Schreiber, and Jeffrey Wight; Gaslight (1944), starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury; I Remember Mama (1948), starring Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Ellen Corby, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Barbara O'Neil; Stella Dallas (1937), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, John Boles, Barbara O'Neil, and Alan Hale; Stella (1990), starring Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, and Eileen Brennan; White Heat (1949), starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, Margaret Wycherly, Fred Clark, and John Archer; The Little Foxes (1941), starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge, Dan Duryea, and Richard Carlson; The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne DeCarlo, Martha Scott, John Derek, Debra Paget, Vincent Price, and John Carradine; Three Came Home (1950), starring Claudette Colbert. Sessue Hayakawa, and Patric Knowles;  A Patch of Blue (1965), starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, and Elizabeth Fraser; East of Eden (1955), starring James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, and Jo Van Fleet --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1939 features our foreign film pick, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. Directed and co-written by Jean Renoir and starring Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot and Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game was considered a failure until its restoration and rediscovery in the 1950s.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Variety (https://variety.com/1938/film/reviews/the-rules-of-the-game-2-1200411957/), Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1950/04/10/archives/the-screen-four-films-bow-over-weekend-golden-twenties-chronicle-of.html), and Virginia Graham in The Spectator (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/2nd-february-1951/14/cinema).Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1939 installment, featuring Jason's personal pick, Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings.

The following book reviews contain a mental health study on personality disorder. The first is mummy's boy Norman; seconds out, round two is a private gentleman's club activity swirling out of control; after all, men will be men. We begin by exploring Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho”, the psychological thriller, by providing various perspectives and interpretations that can better enhance your exploration of the film's resilience and understanding of mental illness. Robert Bloch's Psycho, published in 1959 by Simon and Schuster, uses a real-life case of Ed Gein, the so-called “butcher of Plainfield”, a gruesome slaying in a small town in Wisconsin, as inspiration to write this novel.  Robert was genuinely able to tap into the minds of readers with Psycho.  Paramount Studio refused to finance the making of this film; Hitchcock made the movie with his own money in 1960, even mortgaging his house to do so. Then film critics like Bosley Crowther damned it with faint praise, writing that “Hitchcock is an old hand at frightening people. Pauline Kael, in 1978, complained about it as a borderline case of immorality because of the director's cheerful complicity with the killer, having had a sadistic glee during the shower scene.  Even though it was a flop with the critics, Hitchcock made a fortune from it, leaving him joyfully screaming to the bank.  However, he had an excellent rave review from Andrew Sarris, who called Hitchcock “the most daring avant-garde filmmaker in America today.” Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, continues to captivate audiences with its masterful storytelling and chilling portrayal of human nature and mental illness.  Psycho lands on the list of the greatest horror films ever made. The film centres around Marion Crane, a young woman who steals $40,000 worth of real-estate deposit money from her employer and drives from Phoenix to Fairvale, California, to start a new life with her lover Sam Loomis, only to find herself at the eerie Bates Motel by mistake.  Hitchcock uses the time for her to marinate in her feelings of guilt and shame and her total inability to mask it around strangers. As the plot unfolds, Marion's encounter with the timid Norman Bates, the motel's owner, reveals a disturbing glimpse into his fractured psyche. One of the most powerful aspects of “Psycho” is its exploration of dissociative identity disorder, commonly known as a multiple personality disorder.  Through Norman Bates' character, Hitchcock delves deep into the complexities of this mental illness, blurring the lines between reality and illusion. However, Norman Bates can also be seen as exhibiting characteristics of both psychopathy and dissociative identity disorder. Although it is suggested that Norman suffers from dissociative identity disorder, it is the psychopathic tendencies that become evident through his actions, such as his ability to manipulate others and his lack of empathy.  Learn more

EPISODE 15 - “Old Movies For A New Year” - 12/25/2023 There's something about New Year's Eve and assessing the past year that is bittersweet, yet cathartic. It's a time of self-evaluation, introspection, and assessment. In case you're looking for the perfect film to match the myriad of emotions you may be feeling as you reflect, regret, or seek revenge in anticipation of the new year ahead, we've got four that should get you in the mood for 2024. And NEVER forget…There's GOT to be a morning after!  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959 (2011), by Michael Keaney Disaster Movies: A Loud, Long, Explosive, Star-Studded Guide To Earthquakes, Floods, Meteors, Sinking Ships, Twisters, Viruses, Killer Bees, Nuclear Fall Out, and Alien Attacks in the Cinema (2006), by Glen Kay and Michael Rose The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane: American Films of the 1970s (2005), by Ron Hogan and Peter Bogdanovich Great Directors (1986), by Ted Sennett “The Ultimate New Years Eve Movie: Repeat Performance, 1947,” December 31, 2016, Classic Film Aficionados “Repeat Performance, starring Joan Leslie, Louis Hayward and Tom Conway, a Murder Study Being Shown At Rivoli,” July 2, 1047, by Bosley Crowther, The New York Times “The Moon's Our Home,” January 19, 2015, by R. Emmett Sweeney, mubi.com The Criterion Collection TCM.com IMDBPro.com Wikipedia.com --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Sam has returned! Join us as we partake of this lovely holiday confection featuring the timeless cinematic legends Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn. Released in 1957, it was their first film after a five year hiatus, their first film in color, and it is also their penultimate film. While it may not have enjoyed the gushing reviews when it was released like their earlier films, Desk Set has aged well and is a resounding favorite for filmgoers looking for that perfect interlude between Thanksgiving and the New Year. Witty dialogue and beautiful art direction adorn this piece, and there are some subtle and insightful observations and predictions of the rapidly changing landscapes of mid- twentieth century business through the impact of technological evolution. This episode we cap off our discussion with our own musings about AI with some interesting takes. Episode links: Quantum Computers, Explained with MKBHD https://youtu.be/e3fz3dqhN44?si=F54OaZVVzEnsOj8G ‘Desk Set' ; Murder and Mayhem in ‘Garment Jungle' by Bosley Crowther, NYT, 1957 The Screen: 'Desk Set'; Murder and Mayhem in 'Garment Jungle' https://www.nytimes.com/1957/05/16/archives/the-screen-desk-set-murder-and-mayhem-in-garment-jungle.html

In the single year of 1925, Tin Pan Alley composer Ray Henderson wrote three — count ‘em, THREE — classics in the great American songbook: “Bye Bye Blackbird,” “Has Anybody Seen My Girl?” (“…Five foot two, eyes of blues…”) and “I'm Sitting on Top of the World.” Then in the next year, maybe just to show that he hadn't shot his wad, Ray wrote one of his most memorable tunes — “Birth of the Blues” — with catchy lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown.First the Song, Then the MovieThe song made the rounds — recorded in its debut year by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, used in Broadway revues — but its real claim to fame came 15 years later when it was used as the title song of one of America's beloved pre-World War II musicals.Released exactly one month before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Birth of the Blues was a joyous tribute to the roots of jazz in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Its story is loosely based on the adventures of The Original Dixieland Jass Band.A rollicking vehicle for Bing Crosby and Mary Martin, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, though most of the songs were not really new at all. Besides “Birth of the Blues,” the soundtrack included “St. Louis Blues,” “Georgia Camp Meeting,” “St. James Infirmary,” “Tiger Rag,” “Memphis Blues” and “Shine.”Genuine JazzAnd what a soundtrack it was! It featured many memorable minutes of music by trombonist Jack Teagarden and his orchestra, often with Bing at the mike, belting out the lyrics.The film was praised by the critics as a feel-good holiday treat in those first tremulous months of America's entry into the war. In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther didn't love the script, “but,” he added, “as a series of illustrated jam sessions and nifty presentations of songs and jokes, it is as pleasant an hour-and-a-half killer as the musically inclined could wish.”“Obviously,” he added, “this little picture is not the ultimate saga of early jazz. But it begins to perceive the possibilities. As the 'cats' say, it takes more than it leaves."A Schertzinger LegacyIncidentally, director Victor Schertzinger — who had been making movies since 1917 — also was a musician and a notable composer. He is hailed in jazz circles for his 1940s compositions of “Tangerine” and “I Remember You,” both of which were included in the final Schertzinger film, The Fleet's In.Schertzinger died at 53 from a heart attack in October 1941, less than two weeks before the release of his Birth of the Blues.Our Take on the Tune“Birth of the Blues” is one of a number of new tunes in our repertoire that we've got prepared for our latest gig at Sal's Speakeasy in Ashland, Ky., tomorrow night.Come out and party with us. We play from 6 to 9.Here's a take on the tune from a recent rehearsal in which you'll hear Jack and Charlie laying down the rhythm, leaving plenty of room for solos by Danny, Sam and Randy.Meanwhile….If you'd like more songs of this stripe, be sure to tune into the free Swing Channel on our music streaming service, Radio Floodango. Click here to give it a spin! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Our Fox 1944 episode features a prestige production, The Eve of St. Mark, based on a Maxwell Anderson play and directed by John Stahl, and a modest marital drama, In the Meantime, Darling, directed by Otto Preminger just before he makes a name for himself in noir with Laura. Between the two, the problems facing the men at the front and the women who love them are covered, as well as the kinds of moral dilemmas each might face. We discuss Preminger's handling of Jeanne Craine's character, and Bosley Crowther (back to being Nemesis of the Pod) inadvertently describes John Stahl's distinctive style/outlook. Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:      THE EVE OF ST. MARK [dir. John M. Stahl] 0h 33m 04s:      IN THE MEANTIME, DARLING [dir. Otto Preminger]       Studio Film Capsules provided by The Films of 20th Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon & Tony Thomas   Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler                                     +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com   We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!           

In our penultimate Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, another pair of films in which only one of McGuire's "mother roles" affords her a dramatic opportunity. Find out which is which, between Delmer Daves' Susan Slade (1961) and Disney's Summer Magic (1963). We also discuss stealth soap opera radicalism, compare Disney and Vincente Minnelli's approaches to femininity as a construct, and argue for the surprising distinctiveness of early 60s kewpie doll blonde heroines. As a bonus, Dave comes to the end of his patience with Bosley Crowther. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we attend a sold-out screening of Scorsese's After Hours, which we analyze as the ultimate scapegoat movie.  P.S. We forgot to read the Leonard Maltin capsule reviews this time! Sorry, Leonard - we'll never do it again!    Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:    SUSAN SLADE (1961) [dir. Delmer Daves] 0h 43m 38s:    SUMMER MAGIC (1963) [dir. James Neilson] 1h 03m 02s:    Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985) at The Revue Cinema (part of the acclaimed Neon Dreams series) 1h 13m 47s:    Listener Letter from Simon!   +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again” * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features our producer David Rosen's pick, 3D horror movie House of Wax. Directed by Andre de Toth from a screenplay by Crane Wilbur and starring Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni, Frank Lovejoy and Carolyn Jones, House of Wax is a remake of 1933 horror movie Mystery of the Wax Museum.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/archives/the-screen-in-review-house-of-wax-warners-3d-film-with-vincent.html), Jay Carmody in the Washington Evening Star, and Edwin Schallert in the Los Angeles Times.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring our future cult classic pick, Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda.

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the Venice International Film Festival co-winner, Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni. Directed and co-written by Federico Fellini and starring Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, and Riccardo Fellini, I Vitelloni shared the top prize at Venice in 1953 with five other movies.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Campbell Dixon in the Daily Telegraph, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1956/10/24/archives/the-screen-vitelloni-italian-drama-delves-into-social-problem.html), and K.W. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity.

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features Josh's personal pick, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Directed by Howard Hawks, adapted from Anita Loos' novel and stage musical, and starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid and Tommy Noonan, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was the seventh highest-grossing film of 1953.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/07/16/archives/the-screen-in-review-gentlemen-prefer-blondes-at-roxy-with-marilyn.html), William Brogdon in Variety (https://variety.com/1953/film/reviews/gentlemen-prefer-blondes-2-1200417560/), and Kate Cameron in the New York Daily News.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring our foreign film pick, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story.

The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features our documentary pick, Disney's The Living Desert. Directed by James Algar, The Living Desert won the Oscar for best documentary feature and was the first feature-length installment in Disney's True-Life Adventures series.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/11/10/archives/two-pictures-have-premieres-the-living-desert-a-disney.html), Richard L. Coe in The Washington Post, and George Bourke in The Miami Herald.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring Josh's personal pick, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. Directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based on the novel by Georges Arnaud, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and Peter van Eyck, The Wages of Fear won the top prizes at both Cannes and the Berlin Film Festival in 1953.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1955/02/17/archives/wages-of-fear-has-premiere-at-paris.html), Richard L. Coe in The Washington Post, and Philip K. Scheuer in the Los Angeles Times.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring our documentary pick, Disney's The Living Desert.

Continuing on with our “Tribute to Ian” series takes to 1962 and one of the biggest, grandest, & most monumental films of all time: David Lean's “Lawrence of Arabia. This week, Adam is joined by Kieran B. of the Best Picture Cast (also on our “Roman Holiday” episode) to discuss the magnificent production design/editing/cinematography/score, the absurdly negative review from Bosley Crowther, and how Gregory Peck is walking around with Peter O'Toole's Academy Award. Also, this week Kieran recommends “Million Dollar Baby” (currently on Netflix & HBO Max) and Adam recommends “Pig” (available to rent on most major platforms). 0:00 – Intros/History with Ian 6:00 – “Million Dollar Baby” 12:02 – “Pig” 16:58 –“Lawrence of Arabia” Stats/History/Lists 56:08 – “Lawrence of Arabia” Plot/Thoughts 2:00:12 – Final Thoughts

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the year's biggest flop, Dr. Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Directed by Roy Rowland from a concept and a screenplay co-written by Dr. Seuss and starring Tommy Rettig, Hans Conried, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T was such a disappointment to Dr. Seuss that he vowed never to work in Hollywood again.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/06/20/archives/the-screen-in-review-5000-fingers-of-dr-t-with-hayes-mary-healy.html), Roy Ringer in the Los Angeles Daily News, and Jay Carmody in The Washington Evening Star.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the highest-grossing film at the box office, Biblical epic The Robe. Directed by Henry Koster, based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas and starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons and Michael Rennie, The Robe was the first movie released in CinemaScope. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Abel Green in Variety, Richard L. Coe in the Washington Post, and Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/17/archives/the-screen-the-rose-shown-in-cemascope-movie-based-on-douglas-novel.html). Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show. Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed You can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod. You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen. Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire.

As we cross into 1950, the guys at 1001 by 1 are going to finally to chat about one of the most prolific directors of this era by discussing two of his film in consecutive episodes. That director is Billy Wilder and the first film we'll be discussing is “Sunset Blvd.”. During the episode, Adam ranks all five films nominated for Best Picture in 1950, Ian doesn't fall into his normal trap (we'll explain), and both guys have quite the hot take on the “Die Hard” franchise. And be on the lookout for the first film to be made by 1001 by 1 – the unauthorized biopic on New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther (sure to be a doozy). Also, this week Ian recommends “Stan and Ollie”(currently on Starz) and Adam recommends the entire Linklater “Before” trilogy – Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, (both available on HBO) & Before Midnight (currently available on Starz).

Starting our new critics series off right. The old grouch himself. A dilly of a podcast. YEEHOOOOO!

In this episode we discuss Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, its ground-breaking special effects, the future of the science fiction genre, and Kubrick's only Oscar win. We also discuss New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, the indelible impact he had on Hollywood, the film industry, and American culture, his classic and signature writing style, and some of the reviews that made him popular. -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thanktheacademypodcast Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thankacademypod Email us your thoughts: thanktheacademypod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thank-the-academy/support

Continuing on with our “Tribute to Ian” series takes to 1962 and one of the biggest, grandest, & most monumental films of all time: David Lean's “Lawrence of Arabia. This week, Adam is joined by Kieran B. of the Best Picture Cast (also on our “Roman Holiday” episode) to discuss the magnificent production design/editing/cinematography/score, the absurdly negative review from Bosley Crowther, and how Gregory Peck is walking around with Peter O'Toole's Academy Award. Also, this week Kieran recommends “Million Dollar Baby” (currently on Netflix & HBO Max) and Adam recommends “Pig” (available to rent on most major platforms).

Continuing on with our “Tribute to Ian” series takes to 1962 and one of the biggest, grandest, & most monumental films of all time: David Lean's “Lawrence of Arabia. This week, Adam is joined by Kieran B. of the Best Picture Cast (also on our “Roman Holiday” episode) to discuss the magnificent production design/editing/cinematography/score, the absurdly negative review from Bosley Crowther, and how Gregory Peck is walking around with Peter O'Toole's Academy Award. Also, this week Kieran recommends “Million Dollar Baby” (currently on Netflix & HBO Max) and Adam recommends “Pig” (available to rent on most major platforms).

Ben challenges us this week to put our word game hats on and try to pick films that had titles worth the most points by Scrabble rules. Ben won out with Network (14 points) over Liam's Charade (13). Both of them got that sweet, sweet 50 point bonus though. And the movies were damn good as well! Follow us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts Follow us on Letterboxd: Ben & Liam This week's music is Midnight from Copyright Free Cassette Moseley. (2002). Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star. Feminist Review, 71, 37–51. Fitzpatrick. (2001). Network: The Other Cold War. Film & History, 31(2), 33–39. Trier. (2006). Network: Still “Mad as Hell” After 30 Years. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50(3), 232–236. Bosley Crowther's Charade review from 1963 in the New York Times Vincent Canby's Network review from 1976 in the New York Times 49th Academy Awards on Wikipedia Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies on Mubi Recommendations for Charade: Clue (1985) Funny Face (1957) The films of Alfred Hitchcock Recommendations for Network: Black Mirror (2011-) specifically Fifteen Million Merits (2011) Quiz Show (1994) Wall Street (1987)

Surprise Noirvember ep! It's Tierney Time once again as we discuss John M. Stahl's Technicolor noir masterpiece Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Topics include monkeys and coconuts, Vincent Price club bangers, boat massacres of all kinds, and more Bosley Crowther bullshit. Show Notes & Sources: https://wp.me/pbeIfn-gj Theme Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io): "Dark Hallway (Distressed)" and "The Show Must Be Go"

Continuing on with our “Tribute to Ian” series takes to 1962 and one of the biggest, grandest, & most monumental films of all time: David Lean's “Lawrence of Arabia. This week, Adam is joined by Kieran B. of the Best Picture Cast (also on our “Roman Holiday” episode) to discuss the magnificent production design/editing/cinematography/score, the absurdly negative review from Bosley Crowther, and how Gregory Peck is walking around with Peter O'Toole's Academy Award. Also, this week Kieran recommends “Million Dollar Baby” (currently on Netflix & HBO Max) and Adam recommends “Pig” (available to rent on most major platforms).Want to suggest a film for us to review on the show? You can support us at patreon.com/1001by1. You can listen to us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, & Google Play. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/1001by1. You can find us on Twitter at twitter.com/1001by1. You can send us an email at 1001by1@gmail.com. Intro/Outro music is “Bouncy Gypsy Beats” by John Bartmann.0:00 – Intros/History with Ian6:00 – “Million Dollar Baby”12:02 – “Pig”16:58 –“Lawrence of Arabia” Stats/History/Lists56:08 – “Lawrence of Arabia” Plot/Thoughts2:00:12 – Final Thoughts

What I learned from reading Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer by Bosley Crowther. Upgrade now to automatically unlock every full length episode. You will get access to 180 full-length episodes available nowhere else. A new episode is added every week. Learn the key insights from biographies on Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, John D. Rockefeller, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Enzo Ferrari, Dr. Suess, Estee Lauder, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Phil Knight, Joseph Pulitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Gates, P.T. Barnum, Edwin Land, Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, Thomas Edison, David Ogilvy, Ben Franklin, Howard Hughes, George Lucas, Levi Strauss, Walt Disney and so many more. Subscribe now by tapping this link.

We're traveling back to the Middle Ages (kinda?) with The Court Jester! Join us for a discussion of sign language, performance troops, court jesters, kidnapping of women, and more! Sources: Background: "Danny Kaye Arriving in 'The Court Jester'..." The Christian Science Monitor 29 February 1956, p.5 "Memo to my Husband from Sylvia (Mrs. Danny Kaye) Fine" Photoplay Jan-Jun 1955, p.57. "Comic Knighthood for Kaye" LIFE 30 January 1956, p.93-6. Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester ; https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291035/?ref_=tt_ov_dr https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659085/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1 Al Steen, "Review: The Court Jester," Motion Picture Daily 27 January 1956 p.1, 6. Bosley Crowther, "Burlesque With a Lance; Danny Kaye Is Starred as 'The Court Jester' Knighthood Movies Are Spoofed at Paramount," The New York Times 2 February 1956. Angela Lansbury talks about her career: https://youtu.be/QOma6cinvZ8 Hermine's Midgets: Classified Ad 8--No Title, Chicago Daily Tribune 8 March 1947, p. 15. "Burlesque: Old Howard," Daily Boston Globe, 11 January 1947, D7. "BURLESQUE: OLD HOWARD "Toyland"," Daily Boston Globe 30 December 1941, p.8; Display Ad 58--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 21 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 110--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 14 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 11--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 31 December 1941, p.5. "Hermine's Midgets to Play 9 M. & P. Suburban Theatres," Daily Boston Globe 10 April 1940, p.12. "Burlesque: GLOBE THEATRE Renee and Girls" Daily Boston Globe 13 January 1942, p. 17. Deborah Petersen, "Tiny Elves Big Hit at Area Mall," The Hartford Courant 22 November 1982, B2a. Bob Kowalchyk, "Family Fun in Adirondacks," The Hartford Courant 11 September 1977, p. 11F. Sunny Stalter-Pace, Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffman's Life in Vaudeville and Dance (Northwestern University Press, 2020) 9. Timothy G. Turner, ""We Midgets are People Like You!"" Los Angeles Times 19 May 1935, p.SM9. H.I. Phillips, "The Once Over: The Summer Vacationists' Relief Fund," Daily Boston Globe 4 August 1928, p.14. "FAMOUS DWARFS AT THE HARTFORD: Royal Lilliputians Heads Entertaining Bill First Three Days." The Hartford Courant 31 October 1915, p.17. "Union Collects $1,000 Salary Claim for Midgets," Variety 1 October 1947, p.43. "Keith's, Indpls." Variety 11 April 1945, p. 65. Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, "The dwarves of Auschwitz," The Guardian 23 March 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/23/the-dwarves-of-auschwitz . Bob Hermines Magazine of Midgets Robert (Hermine) Rebernigg, Flushing, NY, 1945. http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/vaudeville/wp-content/uploads/azu_ms421_b4_f10_004_w.pdf Kidnapping Elite Women: Caroline Dunn, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500, (Cambridge University Press, 2012). https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/CBO9781139061919 Kiera Lindsey, "'The Absolute Distress of Females': Irish Abduction and the British Newspapers, 1800 to 1850," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42:4 (2014): 625-44. Court Jesters: Beatrice K Otto, Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World. University of Chicago Press. Jean Fouquet, Portrait of the Ferrara Court Jester, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#/media/File:Jean_Fouquet-_Portrait_of_the_Ferrara_Court_Jester_Gonella.JPG Magda Romanska, "The History of the Court Jester," Available at http://blog.blo.org/the-history-of-court-jester-by-magda Sign Language: "The Origins of Cistercian Sign Language," https://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/the-origins-of-cistercian-sign-language/ "The Development of Education for Deaf People," https://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/the-development-of-education-for-deaf-people/ RJ Salter, "Only Half Healed," Selected Readings from the Proceedings of the 'Maladies, Miracles, and Medicine of the Middle Ages,' University of Reading. Marina Radic-Sestic, "The Beginnings of Education for Deaf Persons: Renaissance Europe," Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation (2012)

As we cross into 1950, the guys at 1001 by 1 are going to finally to chat about one of the most prolific directors of this era by discussing two of his film in consecutive episodes. That director is Billy Wilder and the first film we’ll be discussing is “Sunset Blvd.”. During the episode, Adam ranks all five films nominated for Best Picture in 1950, Ian doesn’t fall into his normal trap (we’ll explain), and both guys have quite the hot take on the “Die Hard” franchise. And be on the lookout for the first film to be made by 1001 by 1 – the unauthorized biopic on New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther (sure to be a doozy). Also, this week Ian recommends “Stan and Ollie”(currently on Starz) and Adam recommends the entire Linklater “Before” trilogy – Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, (both available on HBO) & Before Midnight (currently available on Starz). Want to suggest a film for us to review on the show? You can support us at patreon.com/1001by1. You can listen to us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, & Google Play. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/1001by1. You can find us on Twitter at twitter.com/1001by1. You can send us an email at 1001by1@gmail.com. Intro/Outro music is “Bouncy Gypsy Beats” by John Bartmann.

Scott pays homage to CBS Sunday Morning with his ode to a tranquil Sunday morning. Tom makes a fateful bagel decision. And we name drop Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood, Bosley Crowther and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-saunders9/support

Why don’t you come and play a little bit of solitaire with us and we discuss John Frankenheimer’s political thriller, “The Manchurian Candidate”. This week, the guys at 1001 by 1 discuss Sinatra’s heavy influence over this film, how much they still enjoy Bosley Crowther, and just why in the hell was Janet Leigh in this movie. Also, this week Ian recommends “Thunder Road” (currently on Prime) and Adam recommends “The Insider”.

We assure you, this episode of 1001 by 1 is open and ready to be listened to: we are discussing Kevin Smith’s directorial debut “Clerks”. During the episode, Adam and Ian address many different topics including (but not limited to) David O. Russell being overrated, Purple Rain being in the National Film Registry, and what would Bosley Crowther have thought of this movie. The guys also discuss “Clerks” within Smith’s filmography: is it his best film or his most important film? Also, this week week both recommended films come from Kevin Smith. Ian recommends “Red State” and Adam recommends “Dogma”. You can support the show at patreon.com/1001by1. You can listen to us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, & Google Play. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/1001by1. You can find us on Twitter at twitter.com/1001by1. You can send us an email at 1001by1@gmail.com. Intro/Outro music is “Bouncy Gypsy Beats” by John Bartmann.

“You have to like submarine pictures to like ‘Run Silent, Run Deep,’ ” wrote "New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther when the film was released in 1958. Will the "Service on Celluloid" panelists agree?

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… To Be or Not to Be (1942) 9.13.18 Featuring: Austin, Maxx — Notes — “Shylock’s Revenge: The Doubly Vanished Jew in Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be” by Joel Rosenberg — A very engaging and informative essay in which Rosenberg contextualizes the film’s production and release, explore’s the film’s relationship to Shakespeare, and elaborates on Lubitsch’s unique ability to understand (and slyly implicate) American audiences. This would also probably work well as an introduction to Lubitsch’s filmmaking career and creative life. “Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not To Be: The Question of Simulation in Cinema” by Hassan Melehy — This article discusses how To Be or Not to Be engages with the representational techniques of propaganda (both Nazi and Allied) and explores how the “film image” can play a role in that process. Archived version of the oft-mentioned Bosley Crowther review. The Criterion Collection release of To Be or Not to Be is great and features a wonderful commentary track from film historian David Kalat. Clarification: Ernst Lubitsch didn’t leave for the US as a direct result of Hitler’s rise to prominence, as was the case for many other talented filmmakers in Hollywood in the 30s/40s. Lubitsch first arrived to work in Hollywood to work with Mary Pickford in 1922. (Apologies for the brief audio issues)

When proletarian Warner Brothers hightails it to the Ozarks, things can only go two ways: toward tragedy or rough mockery. Swing Your Lady offers a touch of the former (thanks primarily to genuine chemistry between unlikely screen lovers Louise Fazenda and Nat Pendleton), and a whole mess of the latter. There's not much Gipper in this one, but what there is, is choice - by now he's got his sharpie media character persona so well honed that he runs rings around wrestling promoters Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Allen Jenkins (none of whom, it must be owned, is playing at the brighter edge of their respective character ranges). The film offers wonderful opportunities for your hosts to digress upon such weighty matters as "Ozark face" minstrelsy; the eruption of "hillbilly" music upon the popular scene during the 1930s; the strange careers and love lives of The Weaver Brothers & Elviry; a lengthy disquisition upon the unique properties of "The Old Apple Tree" (a tragi-comic lynching ballad); a potted history of American wrestling (on and off the big screen), with a special focus on hirsute suitor Daniel Boone Savage; and an ode to future Blondie star Penny Singleton's sick terpsichore.  Along the way, you'll hear all of the features you've come to know and love, including AFI Film Catalog Subject Tags, Would You Bang Reagan?, and a date with Norbert "I Love Actresses!" Lusk (whose critical wisdom puts the callow carping of the Medved Brothers and Bosley Crowther to shame.)  Outro Music: "The Old Apple Tree" - performed by Artie Shaw & His Rhythm Makers (1938) Now is a time for choosing. Choose RED TIME FOR BONZO! Follow us at: Facebook Follow Romy on Twitter at @rahrahtempleton Follow Gareth on Twitter at @helenreddymades Follow David on Twitter at @milescoverdale   Intro Theme: "Driving Reagan" by Gareth Hedges 

When proletarian Warner Brothers hightails it to the Ozarks, things can only go two ways: toward tragedy or rough mockery. Swing Your Lady offers a touch of the former (thanks primarily to genuine chemistry between unlikely screen lovers Louise Fazenda and Nat Pendleton), and a whole mess of the latter. There's not much Gipper in this one, but what there is, is choice - by now he's got his sharpie media character persona so well honed that he runs rings around wrestling promoters Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Allen Jenkins (none of whom, it must be owned, is playing at the brighter edge of their respective character ranges). The film offers wonderful opportunities for your hosts to digress upon such weighty matters as "Ozark face" minstrelsy; the eruption of "hillbilly" music upon the popular scene during the 1930s; the strange careers and love lives of The Weaver Brothers & Elviry; a lengthy disquisition upon the unique properties of "The Old Apple Tree" (a tragi-comic lynching ballad); a potted history of American wrestling (on and off the big screen), with a special focus on hirsute suitor Daniel Boone Savage; and an ode to future Blondie star Penny Singleton's sick terpsichore.  Along the way, you'll hear all of the features you've come to know and love, including AFI Film Catalog Subject Tags, Would You Bang Reagan?, and a date with Norbert "I Love Actresses!" Lusk (whose critical wisdom puts the callow carping of the Medved Brothers and Bosley Crowther to shame.)  Outro Music: "The Old Apple Tree" - performed by Artie Shaw & His Rhythm Makers (1938) Now is a time for choosing. Choose RED TIME FOR BONZO! Follow us at: Facebook Follow Romy on Twitter at @rahrahtempleton Follow Gareth on Twitter at @helenreddymades Follow David on Twitter at @milescoverdale   Intro Theme:   "Driving Reagan" by Gareth Hedges 

This week Renan and Bill welcome back season 2 guest Mark Netter to talk about what might just be the original mindfuck movie: 1961's French-language LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, directed by Alain Resnais in collaboration with novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. If you've never seen Marienbad, worry not, there is nothing we can say about it that will ruin this movie. Even after multiple viewings and a long discussion, we still don't know what it means—but that doesn't stop your hosts from trying! Also discussed: how Bill and Renan failed Marienbad on first viewing; how WWII and the Nazi occupation influenced the filmmakers; what major philosophical rabbit holes the movie opens up; how Resnais staged things to disorient the viewer; what that matchstick game is all about; how it was received in Paris and New York upon release; what Kubrick and Lynch and the Nolans—and even Blur—borrowed from it; plus, the "cameo" by none other than Alfred Hitchcock. Film links: Marienbad at IMDB Marienbad at Wikipedia Ebert on Marienbad Criterion on Marienbad Mark Harris on Marienbad AV Club on Marienbad Senses of Cinema on Marienbad NYT, 1961: "Paris Still Stirred..." ($) NYT, 1961: "L'Affaire 'Marienbad'" ($) NYT, 1961: "Director of Enigmas" ($) NYT, 1962: Bosley Crowther review Pauline Kael's negative review ($) More Kael trashing Marienbad WSJ on Marienbad's 50th anniv. "Minotaur" theory of Marienbad Essay on Descartes and Marienbad Night and Fog at Wikipedia Nim game on Wikipedia Movies inspired by Marienbad Blur's "To The End" music video 1987 Calvin Klein Obsession TV ad LAST YEAR AT THE OVERLOOK Guest links: Mark Netter on Twitter Nightmare Code trailer Nightmare Code on the web Nightmare Code on IMDb Nightmare Code on iTunes Nightmare Code on Amazon Nightmare Code on Facebook Show links: Rate us on iTunes!  Friend us on Facebook! Reblog us on Tumblr! Follow us on Twitter! Email us at void@enterthevoid.fm!

This week Renan and Bill welcome back season 2 guest Mark Netter to talk about what might just be the original mindfuck movie: 1961's French-language LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, directed by Alain Resnais in collaboration with novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. If you've never seen Marienbad, worry not, there is nothing we can say about it that will ruin this movie. Even after multiple viewings and a long discussion, we still don't know what it means—but that doesn't stop your hosts from trying! Also discussed: how Bill and Renan failed Marienbad on first viewing; how WWII and the Nazi occupation influenced the filmmakers; what major philosophical rabbit holes the movie opens up; how Resnais staged things to disorient the viewer; what that matchstick game is all about; how it was received in Paris and New York upon release; what Kubrick and Lynch and the Nolans—and even Blur—borrowed from it; plus, the "cameo" by none other than Alfred Hitchcock. Film links: Marienbad at IMDB Marienbad at Wikipedia Ebert on Marienbad Criterion on Marienbad Mark Harris on Marienbad AV Club on Marienbad Senses of Cinema on Marienbad NYT, 1961: "Paris Still Stirred..." ($) NYT, 1961: "L'Affaire 'Marienbad'" ($) NYT, 1961: "Director of Enigmas" ($) NYT, 1962: Bosley Crowther review Pauline Kael's negative review ($) More Kael trashing Marienbad WSJ on Marienbad's 50th anniv. "Minotaur" theory of Marienbad Essay on Descartes and Marienbad Night and Fog at Wikipedia Nim game on Wikipedia Movies inspired by Marienbad Blur's "To The End" music video 1987 Calvin Klein Obsession TV ad LAST YEAR AT THE OVERLOOK Guest links: Mark Netter on Twitter Nightmare Code trailer Nightmare Code on the web Nightmare Code on IMDb Nightmare Code on iTunes Nightmare Code on Amazon Nightmare Code on Facebook Show links: Rate us on iTunes!  Friend us on Facebook! Reblog us on Tumblr! Follow us on Twitter! Email us at void@enterthevoid.fm!