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The Greta Eskridge Podcast
Greta's 100 Favorite Things for the 100th Episode

The Greta Eskridge Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2026 46:22 Transcription Available


 Episode 100 10 Favorite (current) Worship Songs 1. My Testimony by Elevation Worship 2. Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me by City Alight 3. Scars by I Am They 4. I Thank God by Maverick City Music 5. Goodness of God by CeCe Winans 6. Sing Wherever I Go by We the Kingdom 7. Thank You Jesus for the Blood by Charity Gayle 8. What an Awesome God by Phil Wickham 9. Bless God by Brooke Ligertwood 10. Jesus Lifted Me by Cain  10 Favorite Bible Verses 1. “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10 2. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” II Corinthians 1:3-4 3. “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis 5:20 4. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 5. “I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart. I will tell of all your wonders. I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.” Psalm 9: 1-2 6. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Act 4:12 7. “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12 8. “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,” Joel 2:25 9. “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4: 6-7 10. “Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel.” Ephesians 6:19 10 Favorite Treats 1. Milka chocolate bars 2. Iced lattes 3. Manzanilla green olives from Trader Joe's (yes, specifically these) 4. Homemade popcorn 5. Coffee ice cream 6. Roasted and salted macadamia nuts  7. Kettle cooked potato chips 8. Kouign-amann pastries 9. Chips and salsa 10. Italian Confetti Almonds from Trader Joe's (yes, specifically these) 10 Favorite Books 1. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn 2. Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri 3. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom 5. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 7. Persuasion Jane Austen 8. The Chronicles of Narnia (the whole series) C. S. Lewis 9. Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery 10. God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew 10 Favorite Movies 1. It's a Wonderful Life 2. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 3. Napoleon Dynamite + Nacho Libre (cannot pick one and they are a pair to me) 4. My Fair Lady 5. Sleepless In Seattle 6. Little Women (1994 version) 7. Sense and Sensibility 8. That Thing You Do 9. To Kill a Mockingbird 10. Up  10 Favorite Places I've Visited 1. Cinque Terre, Italy 2. The Cotswolds, England 3. Big Sur, CA 4. Murren, Switzerland 5. Meteora, Greece 6. Olympic National Park, WA 7. Annecy, France 8. Hyderabad and Secunderabad, India 9. Reykjavik, Iceland 10. Glacier National Park, MT  10 Favorite Coffee Shops  1. Scout Coffee, San Luis Obispo, CA 2. Honest Coffee, Franklin, Tenn 3. Orange Inn, Laguna Beach, CA 4. Certified Kitchen and Bakery, Boise, ID 5. Merchant, Long Beach, CA 6. Giovanni Cova & C, Milan, Italy 7. Jo's Coffee, Austin, TX 8. Barista Parlor, Nashville, TN 9. Hooray Coffee, Redlands, CA 10. Sant' Eustachio Il Caffee', Rome, Italy  10 Favorite Things That Were Also Really Hard 1. Natural childbirth 2. Writing books 3. Being a public high school teacher 4. Becoming a speaker 5. Sharing the most vulnerable parts of our marriage story publicly 6. Running a half marathon 7. Fighting porn 8. Parenting teens and young adults 9. Home schooling 10. Becoming a podcaster  10 Favorite Things from Nature 1. Giant Sequoia trees 2. Cardinals 3. Sea otters 4. California Poppies 5. Coast Live Oak trees 6. Moss 7. Tidepools 8. Red Tailed Hawks 9. Wild Mustard 10. Dolphins  10 Favorite Adventures 1. My Christian walk 2. Being married to Aaron 3. Becoming a mom 4. Spending 2 summers in my teens in India with my dad 5. Summering in Scotland with 25 teens + Aaron when we were newlyweds 6. Becoming an author 7. Family road trip from California to Minnesota 8. Home schooling our kids 9. Backpacking through Europe as a young married couple 10. Family trip to Italy  10 Misc Favorite Things: 1. The color yellow 2. My Blundstone boots 3. My Nugget ice maker 4. Wearing brand new socks 5. Watching travel shows with Aaron (especially Stanley Tucci, Rick Steves and Travel Man) 6. Colorful bags from Orla Keily 7. My collection of Yearly bangles that Aaron started for me 8. Red shoes 9. Stickers – especially travel and encouraging words 10. My collection of Ronnie Kappos jewelry that Aaron started for meThe Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Rewatching Oscar
How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Rewatching Oscar

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 74:04


In 1941, there were a couple of classic films that were released and are currently revered by critics and cinephiles alike.  But the Academy decided to choose a drama about a family in a mining town in Welsh town, focusing on a young boy and his perspective of the events that unfold around him.  This film, directed by John Ford, is a moving story and visually striking.  However, was it deserving of the five Oscars it won, including the Best Picture prize?Listen to film critic Jack Ferdman's take on it as he analyzes everything about How Green Was My Valley, as well as many other films from that year, and hear which film he gives his Rewatch Oscar of 1941.Download, listen, and share ALL Rewatching  Oscar episodes.SUBSCRIBE and FOLLOW Rewatching Oscar:Website: https://rewatchingoscar.buzzsprout.comApple Podcasts/iTunesSpotifyGoogle PodcastsiHeart RadioPodchaserPodcast AddictTuneInAlexaAmazon Overcasts Podcast Addict Player FMRSS Feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1815964.rssWebsite: https://rewatchingoscar.buzzsprout.comSocial Media Links: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSkyShare your thoughts and suggestions with us through:Facebook Messenger or email us atjack@rewatchingoscar.com or jackferdman@gmail.comMusic by TurpacShow Producer: Jack FerdmanPodcast Logo Design: Jack FerdmanMovie (audio) trailer courtesy of MovieClips Classic TrailersMovie (audio) clips courtesy of YouTubeSupport us by downloading, sharing, and giving us a 5-star Rating.  It helps our podcast continue to reach many people and make it available to share more episodes with everyone.Send us a text

Awesome Movie Year
How Green Was My Valley (1941 Best Picture)

Awesome Movie Year

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 61:14


The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. Directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Philip Dunne and starring Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Sara Allgood and Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/29/archives/a-beautiful-and-affecting-film-achievement-is-how-green-was-my.html), James Agee in Time (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,801343,00.html), and The London Times (https://www.thetimes.com/tto/archive/article/1942-04-24/6/7.html).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...

The David Knight Show
Wed Episode #1960: Fluoridation Rebellion, a Measly Media Panic, BigPoultry's Pandemic Profits, Rural Secession

The David Knight Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 189:20


2:00 Utah's Fluoride Ban: No One is Swallowing the Fluoridation Lies AnymoreWill Trump's EPA acquiesce to court decisions banning fluoridation or continue to fight?  Either way, state and local governments are drowning in the demands of their constituents to stop “mass medication without consent”. Did you hear about the poisoning of 200 people in just one Utah community in 2019?  Here's the story 37:10 Secession Fever Ignites America America's on the brink of a secession explosion! From California's Trump-hating rebels in 2017 to 33 Illinois counties begging to join Indiana in 2025, the cry for self-governance is shaking the nation! Mainstream media and think tanks are buzzing as 12 states fuel fiery movements, echoing the Civil War when West Virginia defied Virginia's exit. Newsweek spills the tea: rural conservatives, fed up with urban overlords like Chicago, are ready to boltYet secession sparks fear because of Lincoln's reaction to it. Murray Rothbard and others weigh in on the “Lost Cause” and “Just War” that still apply.  Forget the slavery excuse; the South was already ditching it, just like Britain did—peacefully—under William Wilberforce, who ended slavery cheaper than the North spent on bullets!1:08:24 Heartbreaking Fall of a Godly Village: A Tale for Our TimeNearly a century after it was made, this isn't just a movie—it's a screaming wake-up call for a civilization that's kicked God to the curb and lost its soul!  "How Green Was My Valley," the Oscar-winning classic that outshone “Citizen Kane”, paints a nostalgic portrait of a coal-mining village brimming with faith, family, and song—only to reveal a devastating truth about what has happened not just to this village but to Western Civilization AI Revolution: Alien Chips, Skin-Job Robot Clone of the Human Body, and Techno-Tyranny Take Over!"A strange, but functional, chip designed by AI has experts scratching their heads.  The creepy "MIND of Pepe" AI Agent snags $5M in presale cash.And, are there signs that AI hype “canary has died”?Technocrats Want a Machiavellian DictatorA look at the political and governing philosophy that inspires JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others — an open embrace of machiavellian authoritarianism by “elites”. Measles Death Reported - A Measly “Pandemic”Measly, adjective, (1) infected with measles (2) meager, contemptibly small in quantity, absurdly insufficientClaims that 124 people have measles out of 32 MILLION in TX and that one person has now died.  Yet both the purported number cases are meager and the evidence of their claims are absurdly insufficient to warrant the media hysteria How BigPoultry Profits from “Pandemic” CullingBeyond the higher prices, beyond the advantage BigPoultry has over small farms, there's another huge immediate financial incentive for them to push the pandemic.  The same people that have been caught fraudulently labelling their eggs “organic” when disease & death have been rampant due to the non-organic squalor that's the foundation of factory chickensIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

The REAL David Knight Show
Wed Episode #1960: Fluoridation Rebellion, a Measly Media Panic, BigPoultry's Pandemic Profits, Rural Secession

The REAL David Knight Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 189:20


2:00 Utah's Fluoride Ban: No One is Swallowing the Fluoridation Lies AnymoreWill Trump's EPA acquiesce to court decisions banning fluoridation or continue to fight?  Either way, state and local governments are drowning in the demands of their constituents to stop “mass medication without consent”. Did you hear about the poisoning of 200 people in just one Utah community in 2019?  Here's the story 37:10 Secession Fever Ignites America America's on the brink of a secession explosion! From California's Trump-hating rebels in 2017 to 33 Illinois counties begging to join Indiana in 2025, the cry for self-governance is shaking the nation! Mainstream media and think tanks are buzzing as 12 states fuel fiery movements, echoing the Civil War when West Virginia defied Virginia's exit. Newsweek spills the tea: rural conservatives, fed up with urban overlords like Chicago, are ready to boltYet secession sparks fear because of Lincoln's reaction to it. Murray Rothbard and others weigh in on the “Lost Cause” and “Just War” that still apply.  Forget the slavery excuse; the South was already ditching it, just like Britain did—peacefully—under William Wilberforce, who ended slavery cheaper than the North spent on bullets!1:08:24 Heartbreaking Fall of a Godly Village: A Tale for Our TimeNearly a century after it was made, this isn't just a movie—it's a screaming wake-up call for a civilization that's kicked God to the curb and lost its soul!  "How Green Was My Valley," the Oscar-winning classic that outshone “Citizen Kane”, paints a nostalgic portrait of a coal-mining village brimming with faith, family, and song—only to reveal a devastating truth about what has happened not just to this village but to Western Civilization AI Revolution: Alien Chips, Skin-Job Robot Clone of the Human Body, and Techno-Tyranny Take Over!"A strange, but functional, chip designed by AI has experts scratching their heads.  The creepy "MIND of Pepe" AI Agent snags $5M in presale cash.And, are there signs that AI hype “canary has died”?Technocrats Want a Machiavellian DictatorA look at the political and governing philosophy that inspires JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others — an open embrace of machiavellian authoritarianism by “elites”. Measles Death Reported - A Measly “Pandemic”Measly, adjective, (1) infected with measles (2) meager, contemptibly small in quantity, absurdly insufficientClaims that 124 people have measles out of 32 MILLION in TX and that one person has now died.  Yet both the purported number cases are meager and the evidence of their claims are absurdly insufficient to warrant the media hysteria How BigPoultry Profits from “Pandemic” CullingBeyond the higher prices, beyond the advantage BigPoultry has over small farms, there's another huge immediate financial incentive for them to push the pandemic.  The same people that have been caught fraudulently labelling their eggs “organic” when disease & death have been rampant due to the non-organic squalor that's the foundation of factory chickensIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

From Beneath the Hollywood Sign
“MEMORABLE OSCAR SPEECHES OF THE GOLDEN ERA OF HOLLYWOOD” (076)

From Beneath the Hollywood Sign

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 45:11


EPISODE 76 - “MEMORABLE OSCAR SPEECHES OF THE GOLDEN ERA OF HOLLYWOOD” - 2/24/2025 Winning an Oscar is a dream for most people who work in Hollywood. But you can't just win the Oscar, you have to have a good speech once your name is called and you head to the podium. There have been some great ones — OLIVIA COLEMAN's funny and cheeky speech hit the right tone and who can forget JACK PALANCE's one-arm push-ups or CUBA GOODING's exuberance? There have also been some bad ones — don't we all still cringe a little at SALLY FIELDS' “You like me” speech? As we prepare to celebrate the 97th annual Academy Award ceremony, Steve and Nan look back on some of their favorite Oscar speeches and why they resonate. So put on your tux, don the gown and jewels, pop the champagne, and join us for a fun talk about … well, people talking.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: “Five Times The Oscars Made History,” January 20, 2017, www.nyfa.edu; “Hollywood History: How World War II Forced the Academy to Rethink the 1942 Oscars,” April 16, 2021, Entertainment Weekly; “Charlie Chaplin vs. America Explores the Accusations that Sent a Star Into Exile,” October 24, 2023, byTerry Gross, www.npr.com; “The Most Memorable Oscar Speeches in Oscar History,” March 6, 2024, by Shannon Carlin, www.time.com;   Wikipedia.com; TCM.com; IMDBPro.com; www.Oscars.org; Movies Mentioned:  Stella Dallas (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, & Alan Hale; Gone With The Wind (1939), starring Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Thomas Mitchell, & Barbara O'Neil; How Green Was My Valley (1941), starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, & Donald Crisp; Sergeant York (1941), starring Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, & Walter Brennan;  The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), staring Jean Arthur Robert Cummings, & Charle Coburn; Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, & Evelyn Keyes; Ball of Fire (1942), starring Barbara Stanwyck & Cary Cooper; Double Indemnity (1944), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Edward G Robinson; Key Largo (1948); starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, Claire Trevor, & Lionel Barrymore; All The King's Men (1948), starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, & Mercedes McCambridge; Pinky (1949), starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters, Ethel Barrymore, Nina Mae McKinney, & Wiliam Lundigan; Marty (1955); starring Ernest Borgnine. Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, & Esther Minciotti; The King and I (1956), starring Yul Brenner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, & Rex Thompson; Elmer Gantry (1960), starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, and Patti Page; West Side Story (1961), Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chikiris, & Russ Tamblyn; Lillies of the Field (1963), starring Sidney Poitier;  In the Heat of the Night (1967)l starring Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, & Lee Grant; The Producers (1967), starring Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder; Rosemary's Baby (1968), starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, & Charles Grodin; Faces (1968), starring Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, & John Farley;  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), staring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Cecily Tyson, Stacey Keach, & Percy Rodrigues; The Last Picture Show (1971), starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, & Eileen Brennan; Murder on the Orient Express (1974), starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, & Jacqueline Bisset; --------------------------------- 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

Vintage Sand
Vintage Sand Episode 57: Alternative Oscars: 1940's Edition, Part I

Vintage Sand

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 88:40


Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all ships at sea, and welcome to Episode 57 of Vintage Sand, our first of 2025. In this episode and the next one we return, for the penultimate time, to the source of some of our most popular episodes: Danny Peary's hard-to-find 1993 classic "Alternative Oscars". In the past, we have used Peary's model to approach every full decade in which the Academy has handed out Oscars except two: the 2010's, and the topic for this two-part episode, Alternate Oscars: The 1940's Edition. It's interesting that the 40's are considered to be the peak of Hollywood's Golden Age, yet many films that were beloved and honored back then have not well withstood the passage of time. The early part of the decade's most important development was the rise of the writer/director in Hollywood. Preston Sturges was the first, with his incredible run of films from 1940-1945, and he was followed quickly by the Billy Wilder/Charles Brackett team and, of course, that clever young fellow from the Mercury Theater. The 40's also marked the arrival of Hitchcock to these shores, and the rise to prominence of new directorial voices like Huston, Preminger, Zinnemann and Nicholas Ray. There were also many high points in the decade for well-established directors like Ford, Capra, Hawks, Lubitsch and Wyler. We have the incredible run of films between 1942 and 1946 made by Val Lewton's brilliant B-movie unit at RKO, and, of course, the birth of film noir, overseen predominantly by expats like Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Ulmer, Lewis and Siodmak. The latter half of the decade, which we will cover in Episode 58 in February, saw two major developments. The end of the war saw the return to strength of many European film industries as well as studio filmmaking in Japan. In France, in the wake of 1945's miraculous "Les Enfants du Paradis", directors as different as Cocteau, Clouzot and Bresson began or restarted their careers. This explosion of creativity was matched in the UK, with the arrival of Lean, Reed, and especially with the flowering of the Powell-Pressburger Archers team. Clearly, though, the most important such event was the rise of what today is called Italian Neo-Realism, as directors like Rossellini, De Sica, and to a lesser extent Visconti, created a brand new way to tell stories on film that is still influencing directors today. The second big change of the late 40's was really two changes in one: the landmark Paramount court case in 1948 that ended the vertical monopoly the studios had long held as owners of theater chains as well, and the mass arrival of television. Between 1948 and 1952, Hollywood lost nearly half of its audience, bringing down the curtain on that so-called “Golden Age” of Hollywood. In terms of the Oscars, the Academy made solid choices for Best Picture--they certainly picked better films than they did in the 1930's! These included enduring works like "The Best Years of Our Lives", "All the King's Men" and especially, "Casablanca". Who could argue with that? (Hint: us.) But there were plenty of head scratchers as well. Prestige choices like "How Green Was My Valley", "Mrs. Miniver" and Olivier's "Hamlet" look a little creaky these days. Hell, we might argue that "Rebecca" was not even Hitchcock's best film of 1940! And the less said about "Going My Way" and "Gentlemen's Agreement", the better. So kick back, round up the usual suspects, and help us make this podcast more important than the gas in that light…

Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)
Episode 401 - Donald Crisp

Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 73:07


Donald Crisp took home on Oscar for his powerful performance in How Green Was My Valley, but that was just one notch on his belt during a long Hollywood career that stretched from the silent era to the 1960s and included stints as actor, producer, and director. We'll hear him in "Banquo's Chair" - the story of a Scotland Yard inspector with an ingenious method to catch a killer (originally aired on CBS on June 1, 1943). Then, Crisp is a psychiatrist who tries to discover what haunts a railroad tycoon in "Case History of Edgar Lowndes" (originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1944). Plus, he recreates his Academy Award-winning role in The Screen Guild Theatre (originally aired on CBS on March 22, 1942).

Shinypodden
John Ford-podden: How Green was My Valley

Shinypodden

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 67:59


John Ford-podden är tillbaka! Vi har averkat fyra av de elva filmerna på listan. Veckans film How Green Was My Valley från 1941 är vår femte film. Kommentera avsnittet på Fripps Filmrevyer.

Oscar Wild
Oscar Rewind: John Ford (‘The Informer,' ‘The Grapes of Wrath,' & ‘The Quiet Man')

Oscar Wild

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 81:43


Sophia and Nick return for an historic episode to discuss the director with the most Oscar wins and the first to win consecutively: John Ford. Revered by many filmmakers throughout history and known for his Westerns, Ford blazed a trail that also showcased his Irish background, his actors- many of whom also won Oscars- and the fractured American Dream. They begin with a thorough history of his illustrious career before reviewing The Informer, the 1935 film for which he won his first Oscar. Even though he didn't win for Stagecoach four years later, he was successful the following year with The Grapes of Wrath (28:34). Steinbeck's classic novel created a perfect tapestry for his next directorial feat. (Check out their previous episode on How Green Was My Valley here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oscar-rewind-the-1941-oscars-how-green-was-my-valley/id1502773822?i=1000560735448).Lastly, enjoy their breakdown of The Quiet Man, which also earned him a Best Picture nomination, before they answer some creative listener questions (53:46). Would you have awarded him any other Director wins?Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @oscarwildpodFollow Sophia @sophia_cimFollow Nick @sauerkraut27Music: “The Greatest Adventure” by Jonathan AdamichMore content including updated nomination predictions @ oscarwild.squarespace.com

Stop! Let's Team-Up!
OPAL cITY CONFIDENTIAL: A STARMAN PODCAST -- OPAL CITY MEDIA CLUB 002 THE BLACK PIRATE (1926)

Stop! Let's Team-Up!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2024 11:02


Time for some popcorn and a pirate movie. Our Media Club topic this time is the 1926 pirate movie The Black Pirate starring Douglas Fairbanks.  An early 2 strip Technicolor film is a stunning example of the art of the silent era. A real joy to watch it out. It is availble to veiw on YouTube and Tubi.  Also check out: How Green Was My Valley directed by John Ford The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers directed by Richard Lester Master and Comander directed by Peter Weir #Starman #JackKnight #BlackPirate #JonValor #SheldonMoldoff #DouglasFairbanks #silentmovies #swashbuckler #pirates #Technicolor   

Instant Trivia
Episode 1219 - At the museum - Energy sources - British fictional characters - Explorers and travelers - I'd rather have

Instant Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2024 7:28


Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: At The Museum 1: The Ulster Museum in Belfast displays treasures from the Girona and 2 other ships that were part of this famed fleet. the Spanish Armada. 2: An Oregon science museum has the USS Blueback, one of these; in addition to its navy days, it was in "The Hunt For Red October". a submarine. 3: (Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Smithsonian.) Higher than normal counters helped accommodate the 6'2" height of this chef, who used this very kitchen not only privately, but also to achieve television fame--bon appetit !. Julia Child. 4: Here's an early work by this artist, from the Pittsburgh museum that's devoted to him. (Andy) Warhol. 5: This specialized London museum has some 160,000 images of specific people, including 89 of Henry VIII and 116 of Elizabeth I. National Portrait Gallery. Round 2. Category: Energy Sources 1: Used in reactors, this element's 239 isotope has a half-life of 24,360 years. plutonium. 2: It's the brand of battery that keeps going and going and going.... Energizer. 3: Today a barrel of crude oil yields about 19 gallons of it. gasoline. 4: It's harvested in blocks, dried and used for fuel in Ireland. peat. 5: Water power is hydropower; this is steam power produced from water heated naturally in the earth. geothermal power. Round 3. Category: British Fictional Characters 1: Disraeli created Vivian Grey; he created Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde. 2: He created Mrs. Flanders, also known as Moll. Daniel Defoe. 3: Griffin is the name of this H.G. Wells title character. the Invisible Man. 4: Richard Llewellyn novel with coal miner Gwilym Morgan and minister Mr. Gruffydd. How Green Was My Valley. 5: Self-described "singleton" whose bestselling "diary" was concocted by Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones. Round 4. Category: Explorers And Travelers 1: It's the passage sought but not found by Cartier, Frobisher and Franklin. Northwest Passage. 2: This Venetian traveler believed he found the kingdom of legendary King Prester John. Marco Polo. 3: In 1799 Alexander Von Humboldt set out to prove the Orinoco connects to this longer river. Amazon. 4: Vitus Bering was born in Denmark, but explored the Arctic for this European power. Russia. 5: 19th century world traveler Isabella Bird was the first female member of this British society founded in 1830. Royal Geographical Society. Round 5. Category: I'D Rather Have 1: Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president and hear about frontier life. Lincoln. 2: Instead of a fancy restaurant meal, I'd rather have a backyard cookout serving up grilled these, like brats and chorizos. sausages. 3: For a good guard dog, I'd pick from the AKC's list of them that includes the Doberman one of these, but not the miniature one. A Pinscher. 4: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone. Lawrence of Arabia. 5: Instead of a beer, I'd rather have this French wine that Food and Wine Mag calls "the world's most popular white". chardonnay. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

InSession Film Podcast
Episode 584: How Green Was My Valley

InSession Film Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 127:19


This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we continue our Best Picture Movie Series with the John Ford 1941 film HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY! We also talk about the box office to THE FALL GUY and the dumb CODA discourse from last week.  - Spider-Man 2 (0:40) - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (14:46) - The Fall Guy Box Office (26:42) - CODA Discourse (48:25) - RIP Bernard Hill (1:07:06) - How Green Was My Valley (1:16:00) *times may vary Visit https://insessionfilm.com for merch and more! Be sure to see Nikki Glaser's new upcoming special "Someday You'll Die" on Max starting May 11 at 10pm EST. Visit this episode's sponsor: https://koffeekult.com - Get 15% OFF with the code: ISF Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on your podcast app of choice! https://insessionfilm.com/subscribe

And The Winner Is........
1942-How Green Was My Valley?

And The Winner Is........

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 26:31


We look back to a war time winner, 1942 winner 'How Green Was My Valley?'

The List of Lists
March 7, 2024 - Oscar Best Picture Winners 1941 & 1942

The List of Lists

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2024 55:06


Helen and Gavin chat about The Greatest Night in Pop, Spaceman, and Dune: Part Two, and it's Week 7 of the list of Oscar Best Picture Winners from 1941 and 1942; Rebecca, and How Green Was My Valley.

Top Docs:  Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers
Oscar Nominees Special with Clayton Davis

Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 34:23


Joining us for the third year in a row, Variety's Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis breaks down this year's Oscar races for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short and offers his predictions for who will be victorious at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10th. With the feature doc category taking on a very international flavor this year, what does Clayton think of how the process unfolded from the shortlist to the nominations? How might Netflix's late acquisition of “To Kill a Tiger” affect the outcome? In what is considered a very tight race, what might tip the balance?   With his encyclopedic knowledge of the Oscars (you'll even catch a reference to “How Green Was My Valley” in the pod) and his finger-on-the-pulse of the overall Awards season, Clayton takes us through each of the nominees and gives you his unique insights into the process.   Also, be sure to catch our “Top Docs” interviews with all of the Oscar-nominated directors in the documentary feature and shorts categories.   Clayton Davis is Variety's Senior Awards Editor. He is also one of the hosts of the "Variety Awards Circuit Podcast" and the video web series, "The Take." He's been an awards, film and television analyst and critic for more than 15 years and has co-hosted the Oscars Pre-Show on ABC. Clayton is also co-founder and president of the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association and is a board member of the Critics Choice Association.   The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix.   Follow: @ByClaytonDavis on Instagram and twitter @topdocspod on Instagram and twitter   Oscar Nominees: Features: 20 Days in Mariupol Bobi Wine:  The People's President Eternal Memory Four Daughters To Kill a Tiger   Shorts: The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock The Last Repair Shop Island In Between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma)   Other recent documentaries discussed: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie American Symphony Beyond Utopia Apolonia, Apolonia Dick Johnson is Dead Every Body Little Richard: I am Everything Flea

Countdown with Keith Olbermann
TRUMP THREATENS HALEY AFTER HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE WIN - 1.24.24

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 57:25 Transcription Available


SERIES 2 EPISODE 111: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has never been truer to himself than after his solid but unspectacular victory over Nikki Haley in New Hampshire last night. His toadies like Marjorie Taylor Greene were whining within 10 minutes of the closing of the polls that the tally had been rigged against him. And he overshadowed his own victory by getting up and sweating through an angry, petty, vindictive "victory" speech in which he once again resorted to stochastic threats against Haley, this time promising he could reveal enough about her to get her investigated by "them." President Biden, meanwhile, won a non-primary primary in which he wasn't even on the Beauty Pageant Ballot, and he still got about 67% of the votes. And new polling in Pennsylvania - showing him up +8 over Trump there - was probably yesterday's REAL biggest presidential race story. Meanwhile it's Day 9 of Trump's Dementia Crisis. Not only are other Republicans noticing he's making less sense and seeming less present every day, but Trump is now blithering his way through teleprompter speeches and making sound effects on camera - all of which can be neatly folded into Biden Campaign Commercials. And while Jamie Combover's impeachment theater may be coming to the end of its run, there's a sudden revival of the Matt Gaetz Ethics Investigation in Congress. Plus why the President needs to federalize the Texas National Guard and arrest Governor Greg Abbott - today. B-Block (21:00) IN SPORTS: Baseball's Hall of Fame elects new members - one too few, or two too many? Beltre was a lock but I have deep doubts about Helton and Mauer. And look out, another MLB team will be forced to wear those horrific City Connect Uniforms. (25:57) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: How do the Oscars folks do this every year? You nominate Ken but not Barbie? You nominate Barbie for best picture but not its director? This is a tradition that dates back to "How Green Was My Valley" winning best picture in 1941 instead of say, Citizen Kane or The Maltese Falcon. One weird trick that connects Lenin and Benny Hill. And farewell to the greatest radio newscaster of all-time, Charles Osgood. (35:15) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Eric Adams plays Musical Chairs with actual chairs. Oklahoma's immoral School Superintendent gives a job to the immoral LibsOfTikTok witch. And Tiffany Cross finally breaks her silence on who knifed her in the back at MSNBC. The answer? Joey Scars himself. Joe Scarborough. C-BLOCK (43:40) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Since we're already in Trash-MSNBC-Mode, let me tell you again of the story of how Lawrence O'Donnell, kindly filling in for me in 2010 while my Dad was dying, used the opportunity to try to get me fired, or try to get all my producers to leave with him for his new show. Scarborough is always the worst - but O'Donnell is close.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capital Games
How Green Was My Valley, dir. John Ford

Capital Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 10:28


On this episode of I Am The Wiz, Wiz reviews the 1941 family drama How Green Was My Valley starring Walter Pidgeon, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Sara Allgood and Roddy McDowall, directed by John Ford

CINEMA SUNDAY
EPISODE 46: How Green Was My Valley

CINEMA SUNDAY

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 26:35


A young boy comes of age in a family of hard working coal miners, and is forced to learn a lot of harsh lessons along the way. Join me as I discuss the 1941 Oscar winner for best picture: How Green Was My Valley

In Camera Review
In Camera Review #14: Mank

In Camera Review

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 58:39


Our 14th episode covers the David Fincher's 'Mank' (2020) and the year 1942 when 'Citizen Kane' did not win Best Picture at the 14th Academy Awards.  Why did 'How Green Was My Valley' beat out not only 'Citizen Kane,' but also 'The Maltese Falcon'?  Why has the story of 'Citizen Kane' endured over the years? And will 'Mank' win Best Picture in 2021? But before we tackle those questions, we look at Shia LeBeouf's on-screen success and his off-screen troubles, including a recent lawsuit filed against him. Is he done or can he make a comeback?  Follow us on Twitter @theICRpodcast Email us incamerareviewpodcast@gmail.com

Everyone Loved It But Me
What Makes a Book a Classic?

Everyone Loved It But Me

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 30:51


Lisa discusses what makes a classic in today's Book Bits episode. There's great debate about the definition of a pure classical novel. Lisa has discussed a number of classics on previous episodes, including Wuthering Heights, The Alchemist, Little House on the Prairie, A Christmas Carol and How Green Was My Valley.  Pan MacMillian states this description of a classic novel and talks about the ingredients in a classic.  Wikipedia also offers up a wide range of discussions about classic literature, delving into how authors have debated this topic for decades and centuries.  New York Times has written about how book publishers are editing and tweaking classical books such as Agatha Christie's books.  This article highlights the classics ‘we not so secretly hate.' For more information, find Lisa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and her website. *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a commission.

Everyone Loved It But Me
How Green Was My Valley

Everyone Loved It But Me

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 60:02


Lisa and Heather Lipe, owner of Woodchuck Arts, discuss How Green Was My Valley by Richard  Llewellyn.  There is great debate about the book because years after Llewellyn's death, it was discovered that he was not from Wales, according to this story titled, How phoney was my Welsh Valley Heather owns Woodchuck Arts, a web design and graphic design business. You can also find her on Instagram.  Books DiscussedThe Good Wife of Bath by Karen BrooksAnd There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon MeachamA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante For more information, find Lisa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and her website. *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a commission.

Pulse 94.1 FM
Week 515–Wisdom from the Abbey–Mother Hilda–How Green Was My Valley

Pulse 94.1 FM

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 2:46


Wisdom from the Abbey–Mother Hilda–How Green Was My Valley (Mother Hilda remembers old film of many years ago called How Green Was My Valley, the story of a mining family in Wales and the eventual demise of their way of life. Hard economic times result in the breakup of the family, with the older sons leaving Wales for jobs overseas. The youngest son, an 8-year-old, tries to comfort his father. Mother Hilda thinks it's a bit like that with God and us. In the middle of the horrors of this present world, it is our little works of goodness, our acts of kindness, our acts of consideration, our prayer have the power to console the heart of God. This week let's do thinks that will console the heart of God.)

Sibling Cinema
How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Sibling Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 54:08


We are back with the 1941 Best Picture, How Green Was My Valley. It's the only Best Picture winner directed by the great John Ford, beating some very stiff competition. But this lovely film holds its own we think. It ranks at number 46 on our Best Picture Countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court. *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different lists that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.

Mensagens do Meeting Point
o Seu amor dura para sempre 27

Mensagens do Meeting Point

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 4:08


O Regresso do Povo de Deus Leitura bíblica Jeremias 52.1-34, 2 Reis 24.10-20, João 2.19-21. Ao crescer, a nossa família tinha duas tradições favoritas nas noites de sexta-feira: os tacos caseiros e os filmes. Era uma forma de celebrar o fim de uma semana de trabalho/escola com duas coisas que todos podíamos gostar, embora concordar com os ingredientes para os tacos fosse muito mais fácil do que concordar na escolha de um filme. Uma noite, escolhemos "How Green Was My Valley", com base no romance de 1939 de Richard Llewellyn. Tínhamos um contexto absolutamente nulo. Alerta de espanto: depois de passarmos duas horas imersos em conflito desolador, morte e amor frustrado numa aldeia mineira de carvão, respirámos um suspiro de alívio e pronunciámo-lo "a coisa mais deprimente que alguma vez tínhamos visto". O filme tornou-se mais tarde uma piada interna na nossa família. Sendo mais do tipo "Singin'in the Rain", sempre que um de nós sugerisse outra exibição do filme, gritaríamos do outro lado da sala: "Desde que não seja “How Green Was My Valley”, certo?". Quer a nossa crítica não profissional fosse ou não uma descrição justa e precisa da história, é assim que muito do livro de Jeremias se sente. É uma leitura grosseira. A queda de Jerusalém é o último relato do nosso estudo quaresmal antes de entrar na Semana Santa, e nela um exército cerca a cidade e as pessoas são massacradas à direita e à esquerda. No entanto, embora a destruição, o exílio e a morte sejam temas enfatizados, o livro termina com o rei Jeconias de Judá sendo libertado da prisão e restabelecido na presença do rei da Babilónia (Jeremias 52.31-33). Sim! Até que enfim! Depois de uma saga tão desoladora, terminamos com gestos de bondade e misericórdia. Mas será suficiente? Talvez seja um pequeno salto, mas poderíamos dizer que a conclusão de Jeremias prefigura o nosso conhecimento deste lado da cruz: que, justamente quando as coisas parecem mais escuras, a esperança está em movimento. Deus não abandonou o Seu plano de redenção. Embora Naboconodosor tenha queimado o templo do Senhor (Jeremias 52.13), Jeremias, o povo de Judá, Israel, e Babilónia, são apenas alguns actores chave numa longa linha de tempo da história. Lembre-se que Deus veio como Jesus e permitiu que o templo do Seu próprio corpo fosse destruído para que pudesse ser levantado e restaurado para a nossa salvação (João 2.19-21). Entrar na leitura de hoje com este conhecimento enquadra a história com esperança. Amigos, ao terminarmos a história de Jeremias, optemos por encontrar a esperança incomparável aninhada entre as páginas da sua conclusão. Porque, na realidade, trata-se apenas de uma conclusão temporária. A misericórdia não é esquecida. Jesus Cristo veio, e Ele está a vir novamente.

Frame to Frame
Episode 135 - How Green Was My Valley and Pride

Frame to Frame

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 58:14


Happy St David's Day to all as we celebrate the beautiful land of Cymru and discuss Welsh Mining Movies by looking at 1941's How Green Was My Valley and 2014's Pride. The timings for this week are:How Green Was My Valley (0:49)Pride (32:22) Next episode's theme will be inner city survival movies.Follow us on social media:Instagram: frametoframepodTwitter: frametoframepodLetterboxd: frametoframeFacebook: Frame to FrameEmail: frame.to.frame250@gmail.com Follow our network:Twitter: @we_madethisInstagram: @wemadethisnetworkFacebook: @wemadethisWebsite: www.wemadethisnetwork.com Gothamlicious by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5741-gothamliciousLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Leave us a review on Podchaser or Apple Podcasts!

Holmes Movies
Alternative Oscars - Episode 7 - 14th Academy Awards

Holmes Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 44:25


It's the Alternative Oscars! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognizing those who were cruelly overlooked. This time, we will be casting our eye back to…the 14th Academy Awards. Held February 26th 1942 at the Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The host was Bob Hope. Bob Hope hosted the Oscars a record 19 times, more than Billy Crystal. On this particular Oscar night, John Ford's How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture and Best Director over Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Check out the podcast on: https://linktr.ee/holmesmoviespod Follow us at @holmesmoviespod: https://twitter.com/holmesmoviespodFollow Adam Holmes at @NorthamptonDane: https://twitter.com/NorthamptonDaneFollow Anders Holmes at @fabricius91: https://twitter.com/fabricius91Also check us out on Letterboxd!Anders: https://letterboxd.com/AndersFHolmes/Adam: https://letterboxd.com/adamhfholmes/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SideTalks - The Official Sidewalk Podcast
#307 - Kevin Bacon's Butt. We've All Seen It Before

SideTalks - The Official Sidewalk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2023 23:53


Quick intro. Real quick one. What's This Shit?!?! - Battlefield. Baby. Enya. Soldier. Fighter. Man was once a baby. "Oh, one of the few?" What We're Watching: The Menu; Val; Christmas Swap; Jack Frost (Michael Keaton); The Fablemans; Aftersun; John Ford's How Green Was My Valley; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; "Oh no! I never even considered that as a possibility!" Hosted by your own personal cinematic Courtney Love & Olivia Rodrigo! Music by Splash '96 Recorded & Edited by Boutwell Studios

Secret Movie Club Podcast
SMC Pod #133: Celebrating John Ford, Our Director of 2022

Secret Movie Club Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2023 78:45


Secret Movie Club programmer and founder Craig Hammill is joined once more by SMC blog writer Patrick McElroy to start 2023 with a recap of our director of 2022, John Ford, maybe the most important American filmmaker of all time. Craig and Patrick love the old man and his films, which include classic westerns like The Searchers and Stagecoach as well as acclaimed dramas like The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley. Along with diving deep into his moviesj, Craig and Patrick also delve into Ford's Catholicism, his Irish heritage, his belief in America, and his incredible grasp of the art of cinema.   Check out Patrick at: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.mcelroy.3726 or his IG: @mcelroy.patrick

Movies to Watch Before the End of the World
Best Picture 1941: How Green Was My Valley - ”God Save Our Queen.”

Movies to Watch Before the End of the World

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 50:55


Mita and Nadeem watch the 1941 Best Picture winner "How Green Was My Valley" for the next movie review and discover the valley was never green after all...Dun Dun Dun!

According to Oscar
Chapter 7 - Propaganda Worth a Hundred Battleships

According to Oscar

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2022 31:15


This episode was written using the following references:Leaving Rosebud, Leaving the Valley: Vestiges of Childhood in Two Classic Films from 1941. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Ray Merlock. The Journal of American Culture, Volume 29 Number 3, September 2006Harris, M. (2014). Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (Reprint ed.). Edinburgh, Great Britain: Penguin Books.Herman, J. (1997). A Talent For Trouble: The Life Of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler. New York: Da Capo.Miller, G. (2013). William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director (Screen Classics) (1st ed.). Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky.Propaganda in Motion Pictures: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. Res.152, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of War Propaganda Disseminated by the Motion Picture Industry and of Any Monopoly in the Production, Distribution Or Exhibition of Motion Pictures; Sept.9-26, 1941Schatz, T., 1999. Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Academy Vs Audience
1941: Valleys, Green? (feat. Olav Rokne)

Academy Vs Audience

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 98:37


It's 1941: the valleys are green, the accent work is shoddy, and nobody's cast age-appropriate. Erin, Claire, Dan, and special guest Olav Rokne (co-runner of the Hugo Book Club blog) take on How Green Was My Valley, one of the more infamous Best Picture winners, to figure out if Film History gives it more hate than it deserves. Some find simple beauty, some find subtle anti-capitalist themes, Dan tells us which scene he could watch on a loop for two hours, all agree that casting choices make it impossible to judge time. Then we jump across the pond to another green valley to see where 1941 America's head was at vis-a-vis war in the propaganda biopic Sergeant York, the war movie that almost forgets to have a war in it. Is How Green over-hated? Is York over-praised? Listen and find out!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com

Once Upon a Time at the Oscars
1942 Oscar Ceremony Episode – Once Upon a Time at the Oscars

Once Upon a Time at the Oscars

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 64:18


Just a few months after the U.S. entered into World War II, the Academy tried to keep a bit of normalcy (in spite of their president's requests) by continuing with their ceremony. This year proved to be one of the most shocking years of all time. With heavy hitters such as Sergeant York, How Green Was My Valley, and of course Citizen Kane, this year was full of upsets. Join us to learn of all of the biggest! Up Next: A Place in the Sun (1951) directed by George Stevens Special thanks to Sean C. for being generous supporter of Once Upon a Time at the Oscars! You can find more info on the show as well as the full film list and watch order on our website: www.outaopodcast.com Or use our Letterboxd list! Support for Once Upon a Time at the Oscars is provided by our Patreon backers. For as little as $2 a month you can help support our show as well as receive fun benefits, including the chance to vote for what film you think deserves to win Best Picture every year! Subscribe to the show – Apple, Google, Spotify, Feed (Copy the url into the podcast app of your choice) If you like the show, please consider leaving a rating or review on iTunes or your podcast player of choice! Help us reach more listeners! You can stay up to date with the show by following us at: facebook.com/outaopodcast twitter.com/outaopodcast instagram.com/onceuponatimeattheoscars Once Upon a Time at the Oscars is the weekly podcast where we take on the gauntlet of watching every single film that was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards! Starting with the films of 1927, Kyle and Marilee break down these movies every week. Each episode is part review, part trivia, and part critique. This podcast is intended for anybody that loves movies. We have zero background in the film industry, we're just a film-loving couple that thought it'd be fun to go on this odyssey together, with all of you! Let us know what you thought of the film! You can send your thoughts and we'll read them on an upcoming ceremony episode: outaopodcast@gmail.com Thanks for tuning in! See you at the movies, Kyle and Marilee

Oscar Wild
Oscar Rewind: The 1941 Oscars (How Green Was My Valley)

Oscar Wild

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2022 85:42


Join Nick and Sophia as they travel back 80 years, once again debating whether The Academy got it right at the 14th Academy Awards. This time, they discuss seven of the ten Best Picture nominees, including: Suspicion (5:33), The Maltese Falcon (16:20), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (29:18), The Little Foxes (36:20), Citizen Kane (46:27), Sergeant York (1:01:18), and the winner, How Green Was My Valley (1:08:41). They answer listener questions, ponder the meaning of Rosebud, and share other movies released in 1941 that they think deserve more attention. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @oscarwildpodFollow Nick @sauerkraut27Follow Sophia @sophia_cimMusic: “The Greatest Adventure” by Jonathan Adamich

You're Missing Out
How Green Was My Valley (1941) {and Jedi Power Battles} w/ Patrick Cotnoir

You're Missing Out

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 111:13


"Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!" George Lucas Talk Show producer Patrick Cotnoir returns to the show to make good on his promise to talk How Green Was My Valley, the John Ford drama now best remembered as "the film that beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture". We'll talk about how it's actually so much more, plus... "Deflect... defeat... destroy!" Yes, that's right. We also make good on our promise to devote a chunk of our How Green Was My Valley episode to the forgotten Playstation 1 video game Star Wars: Episode I- Jedi Power Battles. Hear talk of wonky AV cables, difficult missions, and a spirited debate on whether Ki-Adi Mundi is secretly in the game.Rent How Green Was My Valley hereHosts:Michael NataleTwitterInstagramLetterboxd Tom LorenzoTwitterInstagramLetterboxd Producer:Kyle LamparTwitterInstagram Guest:Patrick CotnoirTwitterThe George Lucas Talk Show Follow the Show:TwitterInstagramWebsite Music by Mike Natale

Filmfeber
#31 Påskespesial (The Northman, Possession m.m.)

Filmfeber

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 60:38


Vi er tilbake igjen med en liten påskeoppsummering om hva vi har sett siden sist. I panelet er som alltid Pål Gundersen, Tommy Larsson og Per-André Nielsen. Vil du sende inn spørsmål kan du enten gjøre det på instagram: Filmfeber eller mail: filmfeberpod@gmail.com. God lytting! 

The Quest for the Bestest
Episode 62: How Green Was My Valley (1941)

The Quest for the Bestest

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 52:18


It's the last episode before we take a side quest into the 2022 Best Picture Nominees, so join us as we investigate a film not from the recent past at all! John Ford takes us to Wales for a look at a mining village and the family at the center of it. How Green Was My Valley has some prestige power, but do we think it measures up? There's no spin this week as next time we'll be starting with the nominees, so get ready for a little surprise. You can find more of our content on YouTube and Twitter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Award Goes To With Patrick and Lauren
The Award Goes To: How Green Was My Valley

The Award Goes To With Patrick and Lauren

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2021 60:35


On this episode Patrick and Lauren welcome special guest Christina Perry of the Chain Theatre and the Usual Rejects to talk with them about the 1942 Best Picture Winner:How Green Was My ValleyStarring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, and Roddy McDowellIt tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch, where Llewellyn spent many summers visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel.Join us as we discuss how green  our valleys really were and fight over whether or not this was a good movie.  

Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Reimagined History: Monica Lewinsky, The Academy Museum, and Kim Kardashian

Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021 21:55


Probably every society goes through revisionist history. Usually this happens gradually, over time, as stories become myths which become legends. Truth or fiction, it doesn't really matter, does it? Even now, stories are being retold to serve various agendas. The story of the election in 2020 has become a dark and witchy fairy tale on the left and a religious persecution story on the right. Each side clings to the myth that helps them sleep better at night. Yes, there are monsters roaming the countryside but it's okay because we have MSNBC to protect us. Trump didn't really lose the election because superhumans do not lose. Trump is an omnipotent force two ways it seems. Devil or Diety. Take your pick. The truth is much less complicated but it is risky to abandon the myths because the myths define us. There probably isn't a single event that can't be told a different way, or from a different perspective. I often think about that one Quaker back in Salem who spent a year in jail to make sure the story of mass hysteria and hangings was told. The horrors of Salem are so much bigger and so much more terrifying that the kitschy way Salem is remembered as witch hats and broomsticks is misleading. These are stories of children being forced to condemn their parents as witches. Poor women and their babies dying in prison. A man being crushed to death because he would not confess. Hangings that were applauded by the townspeople in the town square. Fear does strange things to us humans. Collective fear is unmanageable. The Monica Lewinsky myth is being retold because in the post Me Too era even the die-hard Democrats have turned on the withering charmer. He isn't now an echo of JFK whose romps with women were part of his legend at a time when men were applauded for their James Bond-like sexual allure. I remember being at a party in the 90s and making the joke about the Lewinsky scandal, “when they were handing out b*******s in the Oval Office where was I?” It wasn't much of a joke. But people did laugh. I suspect every single person at that dinner party now believes Clinton Me Too'd Monica. Or Monica Me Too'd Clinton.We women who lived through these eras remember full well what things were like, and even as far back as the 1970s when it was not uncommon for 12 and 13 year-olds to lose their virginity and brag about it. Molestation was everywhere, hidden from view or barely noticed or addressed. Adulthood was cool, childhood wasn't. Not until the 1990s. Then those of us who grew up in the careless 70s began to notice that it was all bad, hardly any of it good. No seatbelts, smoking at 10, smoking pot, watching porno, rated-R movies. The parents who protected their kids tended to be Conservatives who still went to Church on Sundays. But kids of the Left? We were raised like weeds. Some of us made it, some didn't. Then in the 90s we all watched Oprah and went to therapy. Then we figured out that everything was bad. We vowed to raise our kids better. Monica was a kid of the 70s too who grew up in the 90s to think it was cool to chase a married guy with seismic charisma. She famously flashed him her thong to show interest. And back then, wearing a thong was kind of risque. Not like now when everyone wears them. Poor Monica thought he was in love with her and that he would treat her well. She didn't realize that when she became a problem she'd be tossed in the garbage. And trust me, as someone who knows all too well what it's like to get in the way of a man who is using you as a side piece, that doesn't feel good. To her credit, Monica doesn't entirely blame “Predator Bill” for the affair. But she does tell a big lie in the casting. Beanie Feldstein is no Monica Lewinsky. They want it to look like Bill Clinton cornered a wallflower who isn't used to male attention, and while that might have been how Monica saw herself, that isn't how the world saw her then or now. She was vivacious and pinup-like in her beauty. Beanie Feldstein is pretty in a different way. There is no polite way to talk about the differences between the two women - it is a matter of taste and the fact is, Monica was his taste and Beanie Feldstein would have been easier to resist. Although I suspect that if she flashed her thong at Bill he would have still gone for it. It isn't so much an insult to Beanie Feldstein as it is a distortion by Monica to edge ever so slightly to the person she wants the public to think she was, rather than the bubble-headed girl she actually was.You see, the Me Too movement depends on one simple fact - women are never to be held accountable ever for anything they do regarding sex. It is always the man's fault because men are predators and women are innocent. Always. To tell this story from the vantage point of now requires Monica be rewritten as Beanie Feldstein because that is the only way to see the power imbalance between the two. If they had cast someone more Monica-like, the show would have been accused of trying to blame the victim. They would say the show sexualized a child, even though Monica was in her early 20s. It's gross what Bill Clinton did, what Hillary Clinton did, and how all of us defended them for so long. To me, the worst thing he did was move her out of the White House when she became a problem. That is sexual harassment because he's punishing her for their affair when in fact, he was an equal participant. Why should she have to suffer? No, he should not have been impeached for it, and yes it was yet another in an ongoing string of attacks to bring down the Clintons. And the public back then did not care because being “good” was not the ultimate goal of the left like it is now. Goodness rules everything. Monica wants to be seen as good and so this story helps her do that. Bill Clinton also wants to be seen as good but there isn't much he can do about it now except keep apologizing and hiding from the press. But still, Monica was punished more or less and Bill Clinton wasn't. I guess punished might be too strong of a word - after all, Monica has relied on this story her entire life for both her work and her image. What bothered me most was the attention and time it took to chase the Clintons and the attention Bill Clinton had to pay to his impeachment instead of focusing on the job of the American people. After all, 9/11 would happen not too long after this. We need our elected officials with their eyes on the ball. That is their job. But the opposition party wanted the Clintons out because they had held onto power for so long because his charisma put him in power for two terms. I feel that way now about the four years Trump was in office and how badly we all handled COVID in his last year. We could have and should have worked together rather than continue to rip the country apart to make sure Trump left office. The truth is that the Democrats wasted time and energy chasing Trump, energy that could have been spent a different way. The Democrats are now in the same place the Republicans were back then - doing everything they can to destroy the other side to remain in power.The Lewinsky story will always be told only one way from now on. Those of us who lived through it will soon die off, and all that will be remembered is that Bill Clinton was not JFK but something closer to Harvey Weinstein. The Academy Museum is a Beautiful LieIt is indeed beautiful, what the Academy wants to be. They, like all of Hollywood, all of science, all of the medical-industrial complex, heck even Nike and the NFL have decided that their very existence is exemplary of “White Supremacy” and that their history, their achievements, their glory and everything the public loves about them is not a source of pride but a source of shame. White shame. Or, as we used to say in the 80s, white guilt. I didn't used to know what a “self-hating Jew” was back when I first heard the term. I was in my 20s and a Woody Allen fan. I would hear that phrase a lot back then, along with “white guilt.” Now I know what a “self-hating Jew” is. I know why they would be self-hating. I guess it's similar to being called an “Uncle Tom.” It's about moving beyond your own station, which is defined by your ethnicity, to join the ranks of the WASPs. Woody Allen was called a “self-hating Jew” because his movies were, for a time, about escaping his own history and his own heritage and remaking himself as someone of that privileged, white elite on the Upper East Side. Being Jewish in Hollywood was never all that popular when it came to whom they'd cast in movies, even if it was popular in who made those movies. The reason there were so few Jews in movies was probably baked-in anti-semitism throughout the country, but it was also because the country was mostly white and mostly Christian. The market decided what got made and justified its “white wall” when it came to the Oscars. We woke up from 2020 without the free market to remind us of what actually sells and what doesn't. 2020 was like a massive ship wreck that sends all of the debris floating to the surface, with everything seen in one big picture to be judged. Just as the Titanic had lower and upper classes, how the rich survived and the poor didn't, the ship wreck tells the tale. There was no market so there was no justification and suddenly the ruling class scattered in a panic, caught in the bright light, their entire past suddenly upended and floating on the surface.It did not go well. By the end of it, the Academy implemented an inclusion mandate to “instruct” production companies and creatives to make sure they hired BIPOC and women - at a time when there is some debate over what the word “woman” even means. My friends who crow at me about being a conservative apologist on abortion always say, “wait, you're defending the side that is robbing women of rights they've fought for over decades.” I always think, but don't say, “you mean birthing people?”The Golden Globes were cancelled when Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo were SHOCKED, shocked that racism was going on here, even though the HFPA nominated a black female director before the Academy ever did. Oh, wait, the Academy never has. The British Film Academy (BAFTA) took the voting rights away from its members entirely, opting instead for a select committee to hand-pick nominees to meet the diversity and inclusion standards 2020 demanded. In the end, they picked two white actors for the leads anyway who they went on to win Oscars. And we have the Academy museum, a beautiful building with some film memorabilia that is worth seeing, and a drop dead gorgeous Hayou Miyazaki exhibit, but it is most definitely a somber reflection to ease the pain of so many good people in the Academy who do not want to be seen as dirty rotten racists. That isn't really something any good liberal in this town would want to admit, but take it from someone who knows Oscar history inside and out and has been covering it for 20 years — this is the Oscar museum that would very much catch 2020 Hollywood in a time capsule but it is not Oscar history. Every part of it is like trying to head off any potential criticism that would become clickbait for the major newspapers and Twitter. The lesson of 2020: don't become someone's sanctimonious, self-righteous think piece that goes viral. They definitely subverted 90% of their actual history and cherry-picked what diversity they could find here and there to portray a reimagined version of the last 94 years. I know about the Academy's White Wall. I have been writing about it since 2001. I wrote about it so emphatically that I lost half my readership in 2011. For a long time I was known as the only person covering the Oscars who wrote from the POV of “diversity and inclusion.” I remember when no one used the word “inclusion” at all and then suddenly just using “diversity” was wrong. I pushed for movies by black directors to be recognized, and for black actors to be recognized. I did this every year because I thought it mattered. Walking through the museum you'd never know what their history was or why activists fought so hard for inclusion in the first place. Sacheen Littlefeather is now a point of pride for the Academy when it was a point of embarrassment way back when. To date, only one black female has won in Lead, Halle Berry in 2001, but she is featured at the Academy Museum. They have devoted an entire room to Spike Lee and walking through you might think Do the Right Thing was nominated for Best Picture. It was not. He has won a single Oscar for writing BlackKklansman. You also might think that Citizen Kane, featured prominently at the museum, won Best Picture. It did not. How Green Was My Valley did but it is nowhere to be seen. They have the gorgeous backdrop for North by Northwest hung on a wall. You might think Hitchcock won an Oscar for directing. He did not. Or that he was nominated for North by Northwest. He was not. They could not even show Mount Rushmore, however, without affixing a mea culpa:Then why use it at all? Why hang the backdrop to begin with if you are ashamed of it? And if you are ashamed of it, why not put up all of the things you are ashamed of? I guess because this way they can have their cake and eat it too. They can display the cool art as long as they slap down the whites for their bad bad dirty rotten behavior of the past. Gee, sounds fun, doesn't it?What you won't see are the icons the Oscars were actually made on, maybe because their histories are too problematic? The big studios aren't even represented a little bit. The major icons who won Oscars aren't there - no Marlon Brando, or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep? Where was Meryl? Did I see her there, icon that she is? I cannot recall. Steven Spielberg's Jaws was nominated for Best Picture, but not Director. He is a big donor and has quite a presence in the museum. There are bits and pieces of the empire that Hollywood once was but they have been sidelined in order to amplify the marginalized faces and voices who fought so long and hard to be seen in an industry that was driven by the market and a market that was driven by the white majority. That's the truth. But Hollywood does not want that to be the truth.That's why you're seeing so much awkward colorblind casting now. I just watched a movie that took place in the late 70s that was based on a memoir of a working-class white male who got into Yale and pined for the Westport girl who was simply out of his league. She slept with him but never really considered having a relationship with him and ends up marrying the right kind of man. This is based on a true story but they thought casting a black female in that role was “inclusive” — in fact, it throws the whole thing off because you're thinking about Yale and Westport and WASPS and the Great Gatsby and actual white supremacy and the white wall - and working-class New York who aren't exactly woke and weren't then. You can't just erase that history. That is what led to the activism now. Otherwise, there is no need for diversity and inclusion. But the point is to look good. That is what everyone in Hollywood and on the left wants more than anything. I felt a little funny walking around the museum, knowing everything I know about the Oscars. But it's very much in keeping with how I feel now, as a person from the left trying to make sense of what has become the left in 2021. I barely recognize it and they barely recognize me. The good people of the Left will love this museum. It is a monument to their new religion, after all, their utopia's screed writ large. This is who they will be going forward, and all they ever wanted to be looking backward. They are happy to have the heat of accountability taken off, even if it means sweeping everything under the carpet for a time. Maybe someday it will all be told, the good, the bad, and the ugly. But that day is not today. And that museum is not this one. Kim Kardashian is Finally Accepted It was a long hard road for Kim Kardashian. Hated for so long by a culture that just didn't know she was what it wanted. She hung on. Her family has built an empire worthy of the gilded age and is maybe the best example of America in decline. How many billions do they make in a year? Kim is vegan now, as is her sister Kortney and Kylie Jenner has announced her entire product line will be going vegan. They display their massive wealth - their many cars - their huge mansions - their luxurious vacations - their revolving door of men - their next generation ready to carry on in their high heeled footsteps. America's new aristocracy.Twitter and Reality TV might have birthed Trump, but Instagram and Reality TV birthed the Kardashians. There isn't any stopping any of them, especially since Kim is now part of the ruling class and an accepted member of the new woke elites who have gamed the system in order to indulge in their excess, guilt-free. Just signal your virtue and you'll be fine. I can't criticize Kim too much. After the 2016 election, the only thing I could do was watch Keeping up with the Kardashians. I watched the entire show, season by season because it was so empty-headed, so pointless, there would never be a single thing to trigger me in any direction. I could just lay there and stare at them under all that makeup, eating their Health Nut salads and blathering about this or that. But Kim has made it. She hosted SNL. She is now one of them. Like all of Hollywood, especially comedy, finding anything funny is not easy. They have sadly been sucked into the overly sensitive ideology of the new left where offending anyone is off the table. It's a win-win to bring on Kim, a subject often mocked by the likes of SNL. Now they can scramble for ratings somehow, some way. Their ratings were way down for their premiere so they are in desperate need of Gen-Z love. Kim's appearance boosted SNL's ratings from a 3.5 to a 3.8. They saw a similar boost when Elon Musk hosted, according to The Wrap. It's not hard to figure out why that might be. Hollywood overall is alienating people with its politics. Take out politics completely, or people whose identities are wrapped up in politics and maybe you can start to bring around the rest of the country. It's a trade-off. Success via the market or virtue without it. It's a beautiful thing, revisionist history. Gen-Z would never know, and will never know, just how hated the Kardashians once were. They'll never know why anyone would care whether there was Reality-TV or not. The Kardashians aren't doing anything major corporations haven't been doing for decades: selling beauty to women whose identities still depend on it. It's funny that in a time when gender is fluid and female sexuality is being purged from Hollywood action movies, the Kardashians wear their hyper-extended curves with such pride, caked in layers of makeup, stuffed full of fillers and implants - so female it's practically visible from outer space.How do those kids make sense of all of it? The cameras everywhere, the social media personas, the millions of likes on pictures of them, the massive birthday and Christmas displays of their lives for Instagram, the balloons, the flowers, the private jets, the makeup tutorials, the closets, the playhouses. Gobs and gobs of money and stuff. Kim can now tell her life's story with pride about all that she's accomplished in the time she's been in the spotlight. She's finally gotten back her old body from before she had kids. She's working on her law degree and freeing people from prison. The Academy, Kim, Monica have erased how others saw them and have reimagined a better story. Those stories have become legends and will one day be myths. No one ever has to know the truth. After all, isn't truth, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Get full access to Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone at sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

Thank the Academy
14th Academy Awards: How Green Was My Valley

Thank the Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2021 78:36


In this episode we discuss the fourteenth Best Picture Winner, How Green Was My Valley, its contentious win over Citizen Kane, the Hollywood sister-feud between Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, and the animators' strike at Disney Studios! Other topics include: Dumbo, Walt Disney, Hollywood feuds, the importance of unions, film history, Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Maurice Seiderman, unions, Herman Mankiewicz, documentary features Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thanktheacademypodcast Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thankacademypod Email us your thoughts: thanktheacademypod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thank-the-academy/support

The Curb | Culture. Unity. Reviews. Banter.
1941 Academy Award Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley (John Ford) - Awards Don't Matter

The Curb | Culture. Unity. Reviews. Banter.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 60:34


We arrive at maybe the most notorious and contentious Best Picture winners... ever? John Ford's How Green Was My Valley which triumphed over the 'Best Film Ever', Orson Welles Citizen Kane. In a possibly strident, and yet no less passionate, defense of How Green Was My Valley, co-hosts Dave and Andrew discuss John Ford's enduring classic, encouraging modern viewers to embrace this film without the shackles of its Oscar glory. Somehow we even wrap in a comparison to Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Listen to Dave's Top 25 Films of All Time list on Talk Film Society here. Oh, and also make sure to watch The Little Foxes too. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow the hosts on social media at the links below: Andrew F Peirce – @TheCurbAU David Giannini – @Darnthatdave Awards Don't Matter – @AwardsDontPodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Awards Don't Matter
1941 Academy Award Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley (John Ford) - Awards Don't Matter

Awards Don't Matter

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 60:33


We arrive at maybe the most notorious and contentious Best Picture winners... ever? John Ford's How Green Was My Valley which triumphed over the 'Best Film Ever', Orson Welles Citizen Kane. In a possibly strident, and yet no less passionate, defense of How Green Was My Valley, co-hosts Dave and Andrew discuss John Ford's enduring classic, encouraging modern viewers to embrace this film without the shackles of its Oscar glory. Somehow we even wrap in a comparison to Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Listen to Dave's Top 25 Films of All Time list on Talk Film Society here. Oh, and also make sure to watch The Little Foxes too. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow the hosts on social media at the links below: Andrew F Peirce – @TheCurbAU David Giannini – @Darnthatdave Awards Don't Matter – @AwardsDontPod

Drinking Age Movies
Episode 15: Built (John) Ford Tough

Drinking Age Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2021 52:51


Today the Oscar Grouches return from the their holiday break and talk about 1941's Best Picture winner "How Green Was My Valley"

The Dead Pixel Podcast
Episode 02: Mike Pogorzelski

The Dead Pixel Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020


Michael Pogorzelski is the Director of the Academy Film Archive, whose collection now includes nearly 100,000 titles representing 214,000 items. Over 1,100 films have been preserved at the Academy Film Archive including features, documentaries, animated films, avant-garde and experimental films and home movies. Pogorzelski has preserved and restored over 50 films and recently co-supervised the digital restoration of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour(1945), Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950).

Prairie Fire!
Episode 12 - How Green Was My Valley

Prairie Fire!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 36:57


A short discussion on John Ford's 1941 film "How Green Was My Valley", noted for its depiction of labor organizing and its merit as a film.

Phi Phenonenon
Episode 24 – 'Big Wednesday'

Phi Phenonenon

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 68:57


Ted's pick this week turns a little bit contentious due not to the movie itself — we both liked it — but, unsurprisingly for an election year, because of the politics of Big Wednesday's outspoken and larger-than-life writer/director. On this episode we talk of the film's robust romanticism, Milius's accomplished screenwriting career, his love of literature and militarism, John Ford and how this movie aimed to be “How Green Was My Valley for surfing,” the questionable influence of violence and guns on film, and the role Milius's self-mythmaking led into his arguable blacklisting from studio filmmaking.

Green Screen
How Green Was My Valley

Green Screen

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2020 76:03


Our intrepid duo of hosts face off against an undeniable classic, the John Ford-directed family drama How Green Was My Valley, which beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture at the 1941 Academy Awards. It's a charming nostalgic story of a family of coal miners in Wales at the end of the 19th century seen through the eyes of a young boy (pre-pubescent Roddy McDowall) who watches his beloved green valley turn black and icky because coal mining generally sucks for the environment. Of course we don't actually see the green of the valley because the picture is shot in black and white, a decision ultimately made because Adolf Hitler just had to have Poland. The film touches on the hazards of fossil fuel extraction, the environmental cost of “progress,” and the relationship between environmental problems and labor strife.   How did Wales's coal fuel the rise of the British Empire? Was being endowed with generous coal deposits Britain's fortune or its curse? Can falling through thin ice and catching hypothermia really render you a paraplegic? How do you pronounce “Angharad”? Was Walter Pidgeon a beefcake in 1940 or more like a creepy old man? How did the guy who shot this picture win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography when his competition shot Citizen Kane? How do you get Malibu to look like Wales? Why do these miners always sing in such perfect harmony, and more importantly, why won't they stop? These are the burning questions on the table in this inappropriately age-paired and unexpectedly musical episode of Green Screen.   How Green Was My Valley on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/   How Green Was My Valley on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/how-green-was-my-valley/ Next Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Website for This Episode

A Podcast Directed By
S2E3 - John Ford - How Green Was My Valley and They Were Expendable

A Podcast Directed By

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2019 59:03


Let's just spoil this up front. Mike did not get his wish of John Ford not talking about poor people. We start with HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, aka the movie that cost CITIZEN KANE the Oscar. That aside, we talk about what works and what doesn't in this one, and we basically disagree on everything. The long and the short of it is that Mike isn't into the love story, but you have to listen to find out why.We then move on to one of Ford's war propaganda films, THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. We talk about how much Mike loves John Wayne's failure face and Dave defends Donna Reed (probably too much).Are either of these Ford's masterpiece? Watch and listen to find out!Rent How Green Was My Valley on AmazonRent They Were Expendable on AmazonThis episode also features Paul Ponte of The Screen Watcher's Guild as our John Ford expert. Make sure to follow him on Twitter!Follow us on TwitterLook at the pretty pictures on InstagramEmail us and tell us we're wrong at directedbypod@gmail.com

The Best Pictures Podcast
14th Academy Awards - How Green Was My Valley

The Best Pictures Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2018 69:13


We're back with our regularly scheduled programming, and this time, our host are taking on the 14th Academy Award winner: How Green Was My Valley. The disagreements start early on this film, which is proabbly most famous for beating out Citizen Kane for the award. Ian complains about a "preachy" message, while Maggie demands recognition for all the good shadows. We might have a split decision on our hands... Follow us on instagram and twitter @bestpicturespod or send us an email at bestpicturespodcast@gmail.com

The Envelope
The Envelope – Ep. #14 – How Green Was My Valley

The Envelope

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2018 36:09


On this episode, we discuss the fourteenth Best Picture Winner: “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY.” "How Green Was My Valley" follows Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, who witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons of the family demand improvements, while the father doesn't want to rock the boat. Meanwhile, Huw's eldest sister, Angharad, pines for the new village preacher, Mr. Gruffydd. Directed by John Ford, the film stars Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan, Donald Crisp as the father (Gwilym Morgan), Maureen O'Hara as Angharad Morgan, and Walter Pidgeon as Mr. Gruffydd Here on The Envelope, we discuss & review every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. We are a Cinema Squad Production, presented on the Cinema Squad Podcast Channel. You can reach anyone here at TheCinemaSquad.com – Just go there to email us, check our bios, and keep up with the latest episode.