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One Week, One Year
by Cris Elie and Glen Covell
A film projectionist and filmmaker go through every year in film history in order, one year at a time and 5+ films per year, from 1895 to present! Through our horrifically meticulous process, we are able to simulate the experience of someone seeing it for the first time in the year it came out. What new perspectives can be gleaned from seeing every classic in its original context? Listen to find out!
Episodes
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1953 - Wax House, Baby!
Why did Cinemascope stick and 3-D wane? Did Dr. Seuss write an under-sung musical? Is Ed Wood truly the worst director? Which sad Japanese drama won our hearts? Was Andy Warhol the Scary Movie of the fine arts? The answers to all these questions and more in 1953 - Wax House, Baby! Here is the...
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1952 - Confronting Death IN 3-D!
Film explodes off the screen in a whole new dimension! This episode we discuss the beginning of the 1950s 3-D boom, Oscar winning anti-war experimental film, cold war paranoia cartoons, the widest of widescreen, iconic old west showdowns, DeMille circus propaganda, and meditations on mortality…
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1951 - Peacenik From Space
The 1950s properly arrive with UFO movies and loud method acting! This episode we cover Stanley Kubrick's debut documentary short, Marlon Brando ushering in a whole new type of actor, Klaatu's plan for world peace, Billy Wilder's cynical take on exploitative news, a Disney animated movie that is...
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1950 - BPD Sugar Mama
New decade! We begin our journey through the films of the 1950s with a classic Disney animated fairytale, a tale of Hollywood darkness, Broadway rivalry, Kurosawa multi-perspective mystery, an invisible rabbit, and French existential dreams of the afterlife! You can watch along with our video...
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1940s Decade in Review
Another decade in the can! In this casual wrap-up episode, we each count down our top 10s of the 1940s! Here's our Letterboxd list of our 40s Top 10s: https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-top-10s-of-the-1940s/ And here's our list of every movie covered on the show so far!...
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1949 - Post-war Baseball
Ringing in 2026 by closing out the 1940s! This episode we discuss iconic Looney Tunes, acidic Ealing comedy, Orson Welles dunking on cukoo clocks, crime & baseball in postwar Japan, feminist gun violence, and THE Miss Turnstiles! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on...
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1948 - The Grizzling of the Soul (with Trace Thurman)
Murder! Dancing! Treasure! Bicycles! This week we're joined by Trace Thurman to discuss a Hitchcock experimental thriller, plus we talk about comedy monster mashes, transcendent technicolor ballet, Italian neo-realist velocipede theft, and the origins of the "prospector who dances a jig"…
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1947 - Chekhov's Cliff
The 1940s continue with the first appearance of Tweety Bird, Kenneth Anger's provocative sailor short, a trifecta of Film Noir thrillers, a Christmas courtroom classic, and a lush technicolor nun drama! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out…
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1946 - We Ballin
Hollywood bounces back from the war years with a great crop of pictures! Bogie & Bacall reteam for one of the great noirs, Hitchcock does cool spy stuff, Rita Hayworth hair flips her way into history, William Wyler and Frank Capra channel their post war angst, and France produces a dreamy, spooky...
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1945 - Staring Into The Abyss
The war is over! Movies can go back to being the most important thing in the world! This episode we cover documentaries as evidence in the Nuremburg trials, post-fascist Italian neo-realism, noir drama, and non-linear storytelling! An "Oops, All Features" episode. You can watch along with our…
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1944 - Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss (with Sarah Pepe)
Big year for hard-boiled noir! Murder! Betrayal! Halloween! This episode we get into gaslamps as symbols of both love and lies, sinister insurance schemes, lonely detectives, boat escapades and serial killer old ladies! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube!…
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1943 - Yeeting Momma (with Ambriehl Turrentine)
The world may be at war but the movies bravely carry on! This week we're joined by film programmer Ambriehl Turrentine to discuss the Citizen Kane of the cartoon canon, Alfred Hitchcock's favorite of his own films, and a groundbreaking musical comedy! Plus, we get into some WW2 propaganda…
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1942 - TCM Pilled
1942 was a bad year for humans but a good year for Hollywood! This episode, we discuss John Ford's striking documentation of WWII, Orson Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane, the origins of the jump scare, witchy comedy, the meaning of life through the lens of talking animals, Lubitsch spy/showbiz...
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1941 - He Was In The Amazon With His Bodyguard When He Was Researching Snakes Right Before He Fell In Love
The Big Daddy of movies, Citizen Kane! We get into the most celebrated film of all time, as well as peeping werewolves, proto-Brooks/Zucker Bros comedy, formative film noir, Hays Code horniness, nostalgic coal mines, and jewel stealing robots! You can watch along with our video version of the...
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1940 - Little Crawling Horrors
The start of a new decade brings with it a cavalcade of great movies! Foundational animation, anti-Nazi comedy, screwball banter, and moody dramas all just knocking it outta the park. Its almost like the 1940s was a good decade for movies! You can watch along with our video version of the episode...
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1930s Decade in Review!
It's time once again to reminisce and recap the last 10 years of movies! In this casual wrap-up episode, we talk about two movies that concern filmmaking in the 30s (The Aviator, Gods and Monsters) and we each count down our top 10s of the decade! Here's our Letterboxd list of our 30s Top 10s:...
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1939 - Proxy Witch Warfare (with Nats Can Fly)
Finishing out the 1930s with two of the most popular movies ever made! One is a romanticized fantasy about a place that never existed, the other is The Wizard of Oz! We're joined by video essayist/writer/former US history teacher Nats Can Fly! Be sure to check out her YouTube channel here. Also…
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1938 - Jackass Presents: Quirky Grandpa
Closing in on the end of the 1930s and Hollywood is firing off wacky comedies and technicolor extravaganzas! We also cover some Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts, Eisenstein's first talkie, and a very French proto-noir crime drama! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on...
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1937 - IN COLOR! (with Alan Briones)
1937 brings us the advent of (American, cell animated) feature length animation and 3-strip technicolor catches on! Stars are born! Songs are sung! Opera and cinema join forces! Monocles are worn! Join us, along with our guest, opera singer Alan Briones, as we discuss an exciting bevy of films.…
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1936 - Industrial Nipple Twister
This episode we're talking about reefer (madness), so you don't want no part of this shit! No shorts this time so we get right into it with the aforementioned anti-drug "movie", Humphrey Bogart making a big splash, Fritz Lang turning his critical eye towards the USA, Frank Capra's feel-goodery, a...
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1935 - Demonic Macy's Parade
Buckle up! This episode we are covering an infamous Nazi docu-ganda film, another iconic Frankenstein movie, a Rogers/Astaire tap dancing extravaganza, Marx Bros embracing their roles as birthday party clowns, Hitchcock leaning into comedy, and a swashbuckling pirate picture! Also, Micky Mouse in...
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1934 - Crime Dentist
The last year of the Pre-Code era! This episode we talk about the Three Stooges, a steamy wig movie, a proto-French New Wave drama, the quintessential romantic comedy, a proto-Shane Black Christmas detective movie, and Peter Lorre's English language debut! You can watch along with our video…
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1933 - Lubitsch Please!
1933 was a year full of big and wild movies! Popeye! Marx Bros! Busby Berkeley musicals! Throuple rom-coms! Psychic supervillains! An invisible man and KING KONG! Pre-code Hollywood is putting out some of the most daring films made so far, and we're gonna talk about 'em! Documentary explaining...
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1932 - Gooble Gobble
We're keeping it spooky (mostly) this episode! Vampires! Mummies! Pervy Trees! Circus justice! Also, original Scarface, a chill Ozu film, and the Best Movie Title of All Time! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and...
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1931 - Midnight Spaghetti
Iconic voices abound in this episode jam packed with classics! Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang both direct their best(?!) movies, Warner Bros. releases two quintessential gangster pictures, and Universal gets dark with two of the most famous horror movies ever made! You can watch along with our...
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1930 - Pre-Code Thirst Traps
We kick off the 1930s with some European avant-garde films, more Marx Bros, tuxedo wearing cabaret singers, and both somber and bro-y WW1 epics! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here:...
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1920s Decade In Review!
Time to review the last 10 years of movies! And what a 10 years they were! We also discuss a few newer films/tv about the era (Episode 13 of the docuseries Hollywood, Singin' In The Rain and Babylon!) and list each of our top 10 films of the 1920s! You can check out our socials and our YouTube...
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1929: Miserable, Bitter, Awful People
Were talkies a mistake? Join us as we talk about the last of the silent era and the rocky start of the sound era, and possibly the worst Best Picture winner of all time! But also some cool shorts and the frenetic and creative Man With a Movie Camera! You can watch along with our video version of...
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1928 - Potato Peeling Punishment (with Cody Jackson)
Silent film is on its way out but we still got a few good years left! 1928 saw the introduction of a very famous rodent, two of Buster Keaton's best features, Chaplin joining the circus, the movie that inspired a Batman villain, the template for spy films, and we are joined by Cody Jackson to...
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1927 - Sexy Swamp Rendezvous
Its our longest episode so far because we are covering one of the great movie years! Robot dancing! Cartoon rabbits! Symphonies of great cities! London fog! Drunken pig chases! Airplane rivalries! Movies that, what's this, talk and sing?! All of these things and more in this monster sized…
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1926 - Train Crimes
We're back! (again!) This year we take a look at an eclectic mix of French and Japanese ominous experimental films, German mythological epics, and American train crime movies, including Buster Keaton's magnum opus The General! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on...
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1925 - Pathos for the Ape-Man
Big year of big movies! Sergei Eisenstein pushes narrative filmmaking forward in a big way with the thrilling Battleship Potemkin, Charlie Chaplin further refines his balance of comedy and drama, Lon Chaney terrifies as the Phantom of the Opera, and dinosaurs cause mayhem in The Lost World! You…
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1924 - We Live in a Society
Back in the "studio" for another episode! As we close in on the last 5 years of silent film, we're getting some true bangers. The hits keep coming! We've got the movie that was Cris's introduction to loving silent film, Sherlock Jr., and the action adventure masterpiece The Thief of Bagdad, a…
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1923 - On Location at the Kansas Silent Film Festival!
The first episode recorded in person! We went to Kansas to see a jam packed lineup of 1923 films, all with live score! In this episode we get to Harold Lloyd's magnum opus, Charlie Chaplin directing high drama, and Cecil B. DeMille building Egypt on the beach! Just a heads up, the audio for this...
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1922 - Himbo Vampire Hunter
1922 brings two more into the canon of mega-famous silent films! We've got a lot of new technology this year, from two-strip technicolor to sound on film. Our introductory mentions of Walt Disney and Lotte Reineger, and of course we needed to give you something spooky. You can watch along with…
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1921 - Death Wears a Big Hat
1921 was short on big movies, but we get into the ones which stood out. Avant Garde animation that's good to put on in the background at a party, Charlie Chaplin weaponizing cuteness, and European ruminations on death! Fun times! You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on...
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1920 - This Year, One Week
YIITS BEEN two weeks actually, but whatever. This episode we watch a pair of classic comedy shorts, a pair of classic German Expressionist horror films, a pair of classic American films about oppression, and also The Flapper, a movie about being naughty. You can watch along with our video version...
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The Irma Vepisode (with Jack Virnich)
This week is a special one-off episode (vepisode) where we're taking a look at both the 1996 film and 2022 HBO series Irma Vep with guest Jack Virnich! Heads up, its probably a good idea to watch both (especially the show) before listening. The discussion gets a bit heady and might not make a lot...
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1910s Decade in Review!
Time for another decade in review show! We talk about our takeaways from the last 10 years of film history, discuss some newer films about the era (Pearl, Nickelodeon, and Forgotten Silver) and go over our lists of the top 10 films of the 1910s! You can check out our socials and our YouTube…
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1919 - Prune Strike
The end of the 1910s goes out with a wild crop of films! Felix the Cat debuts, Lev Kuleshov invents reality TV, DW Griffith demands to be taken seriously, Mary Pickford starts a child labor protest, Abel Gance makes questionable statements about WW1, and Ernst Lubitsch makes a sex robot comedy.…
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1918 - Drinkin' & Cussin'
Just like in 2020, going to the movies was a big bummer in 1918 because of a pandemic. But let's not focus on that because the movies were (mostly) fun! We look at some classic slapstick comedy shorts, early animation, stop-motion dinosaurs, ladies refusing to be told what to do, and Scandinavian...
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1917 - Lilly-Livered Legume Lickers
Time to get the ball rolling again with new episodes! We're gonna put them out as quick as we can, but maybe this whole "one week" thing was a terrible naming blunder on my account. Anyway, time for some Content! This year we've got one of the most famous Chaplin shorts, a DeMille/Pickford...
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1916 - VAMPIRES WITH TEETH SHARPER THAN NEW BARBED WIRE
WE HAVE RETURNED! This week: D.W. Griffith's attempt (maybe) to convince the world he wasn't a bigot, actually. Plus, a whole lotta' talk about the film serial "Les Vampires" which contains (checks notes) zero actual vampires. Take it up with Louis Feuillade, it was his call. You can watch along...
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1915 - Birth of Nation and Other, Less Horrible Things (With Marcus Williams)
CW for this episode: Rape, suicide, and racial violence Well if that content warning doesn’t tell you what you need to know, it’s time for the not all it’s cracked up to be and as racist and more than it’s cracked up to be, The Birth of a Nation. We’re excited to have done all the first hand...
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1914 - War Were Declared (With Marco Rummo)
It’s the beginning of Charlie Chaplin and the end of the world! (not related). That’s right, World War I is breaking out and everything is falling apart in Europe. As we hear in the news segment, the Italian Socialist Party thinks this is a bourgeois war and I would tend to agree. What exactly…
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1913 - Fantôm of the Foot-Handed Vaudeville House (With Marco Rummo)
As we move through into new eras of film, time to move into new eras of the podcast! To wit, we're introducing our new format, broken up into serials, shorts, and a handful of features, plus we've got our first guest on the line, so welcome to Marco Rummo! In this episode we see our favorite...
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1912 - Sex, Bugs, and the Conquest of the Pole
Well folks, it's finally time to say goodbye to our boi, our main man, and the legend himself, Papa Georges Méliès. This year Pathé angles him out of house and home and soon he burns all his films he owns in a rebellious rage. :( Meanwhile, feature films are getting started, including the…
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1911 - Cucks of the Old West
Lots of movies this time! Also what do you think of the alternate title A Morally Bankrupt Giving Tree? D.W. Griffith creates a lot of fodder for shady episode titles. We've got our introduction of Winsor McCay, some grand scale Italian and Russian historicals and mythologicals, and some…
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1910 - Decrepit Old Simps
Well now DW Griffith is beginning to "show his power level" as modern day people of his ilk call it, beginning his fascination with the Civil War. We also have some startlingly mature camera work in the Max Linder films and confident, emotionally complex, and deep storytelling in the Danish debut...
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1900s Decade in Review!
Time for a decade in review show! Thought it would be about time to check in on the developments and trends over the course of the first 10 years of the 20th century! A bit of a looser, hangout episode with a juicy Top 10 at the end that you can spoil if you scroll down! We also talk about two...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A film projectionist and filmmaker go through every year in film history in order, one year at a time and 5+ films per year, from 1895 to present! Through our horrifically meticulous process, we are able to simulate the experience of someone seeing it for the first time in the year it came out. What new perspectives can be gleaned from seeing every classic in its original context? Listen to find out!
HOSTED BY
Cris Elie and Glen Covell
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A film projectionist and filmmaker go through every year in film history in order, one year at a time and 5+ films per year, from 1895 to present! Through our horrifically meticulous process, we are able to simulate the experience of someone seeing it for the first time in the year it came out....
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