S1E69 - It's an OK Life

A wonderful animation

Episode Notes

Kinda problematic, but really thoughtful work from 1980

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S1E68 - Monterey Pop

You've seen footage from this SO many times!

Episode Notes

Notes go here

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S1E67 - With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain

Entered the National Film Registry in 2017!

Episode Notes

More than 3,000 Americans signed up to ship out to Spain to fight Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, the training ground for the fascists itching to get to World War II! This film is an excellent document of the group whose number of survivors are now 0...

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S1E66 - A League of Their Own

I'm Not a Fan, but I get it...

Episode Notes

There are a lot of folks I love in this one, from David Strathairn and Lori Petty to Geena Davis and Madonna, but there's that old Gary Marshall making me annoyed at many turns!

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S1E65 - Hell's Hinges

The greatest silent Western ever made!

Episode Notes

William S. Hart's masterpiece, one of the finest silent westerns ever made and an excellent example of what you could do when you were a big time producer with a solid vision.

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S1E64 - The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

The greatest film Westinghouse ever produced

Episode Notes

A Robot! Wonderful technological marvels! A fair! Kids! It's a wonderful industrial film that was supporting the US powerhouse Westinghouse in 1939!

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S1E63 - Fake Fruit Factory

Chick Strand's masterpiece

Episode Notes

An amazing piece of avant garde cinema that takes itself exactly as seriously as every film should!

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S1E62 - Stop Making Sense

The Greatest Concert Film of all-time

Episode Notes

Johnathan Demme's minimalist masterpiece is the essence of the Talking Heads boiled down to a two hour film.

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S1E61 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

One part film, one part Hollywood employment stimulus package...

Episode Notes

A look at Stanley Kramer's exceptional screwball comedy.

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S1E60 - The 2019 National Film Registry

Boys Don't Cry! Gaslight! Platoon! Purple Rain! Zoot Suit!!!!!

Episode Notes

The 2019 National Film Registry was announced in Decemeber, but I'm only now able to talk about it! Women Directors are around! There's some classics that I thought were already on! And more

Complete List Amadeus 1984
Becky Sharp 1935
Before Stonewall 1984 Body and Soul 1925
Boys Don't Cry 1999
Clerks 1994 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island 1903 Employees Entrance 1933
Fog of War 2003
Gaslight 1944
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute 1937
Girlfriends 1978
I am Somebody 1970
Last Waltz, The 1978
My Name Is Oona 1969
A New Leaf 1971 Old Yeller 1957
Phenix City Story, The 1955 Platoon 1986 Purple Rain 1984
Real Women Have Curves 2002
She's Gotta Have it 1986
Sleeping Beauty 1959 Zoot Suit 1981

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