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A podcast for casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies. Hosts Nick Hayden and Timothy Deal guide you through film history as they highlight one movie from each decade for the last century, exploring how each film sits in its time period, why it's…
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Episode 50 – Modern Times (1936) (opens the original)
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The year is 1936. The cinema world is filled with talkies. Sound has revolutionized the industry. But Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times revels in its almost-silent-film genius. The iconic Tramp tries to make an honest living for himself and his street urchin love in a world of machine-filled factories and hard-to-keep jobs, a gentle satire on a world not completely unlike our own modern times. What Modern Times offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: Charlie Chaplin,
Episode 49 – The Black Pirate (1926) (opens the original)
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The year is 1926. The movie industry is a year away from its first big sound film, but another major technological advance is also slowly approaching--COLOR! The Black Pirate is a vital early success of Technicolor, due in part to actor Douglas Fairbanks's swashbuckling athleticism. With its vibrant use of color and high adventure, The Black Pirate influenced many future pirate movies. What The Black Pirate offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch class movies: a successful use of
Episode 48 – Intolerance (1916) (opens the original)
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The year is 1916. It’s only been a decade since The Story of the Kelly Gang, but director D.W. Griffith has pushed the medium to new heights. With the same vision that created the cinematically groundbreaking (though racist) The Birth of a Nation (see episode 36), Griffith ushers audiences through four separate plotlines in what some have called the only “film fugue.” Intolerance sets out to tell “love’s struggle throughout the ages,” from present day troubles with crime and poverty to the downf
Episode 47 – The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Season 5 of Let's Finally Watch This, a podcast for casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies. We have another 12 exciting, decades-hopping episodes for you. First up, we're back in 1906, where moving pictures are still very much a technology in its infancy. This time we're in Australia, where the legend of Ned Kelly holds sway in the cultural imagination. Enter Charles Tait and his brothers, who produce what many consider the first dramatic, feature-length film,
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