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This episode, we watch the classic French film “La belle et la bete” (Beauty and the Beast). Jean Cocteau’s artistic rending of the classic French fairy tale is a clear influence of the adaptations that followed up to and including the well known Disney version. We talk a lot about the artistry of the film as well as the clear influences on other works. We also spend some time looking at the production filmed in post WWII France.
For our next episode, we will be watching Stagecoach!
| Beauty and the Beast (1946) | |
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Rating: 7.9/10 (27,888 votes) Director: Jean Cocteau, René Clément Writer: Jean Cocteau, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély Runtime: 93 min Rated: Not Rated Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Released: 23 Dec 1947 |
| Plot: A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her. | |
One episode later than promised, we watch the 1925/1929 version of The Phantom of the Opera! Why do we list two dates? You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out! Not only do we discuss this fine silent film, Tim also spends a not insignificant amount of time ranting about the 2004 musical. If you happened to like the 2004 musical, you may want to skip past that part of the podcast because he will destroy your dreams. Aside from Tim’s epic hatred of the musical, we do talk about some of the color processing involved in the film, Lon Chaney’s makeup, and a lot of other things that involve the film we actually watched.
We’ve been circling this one for a while. Having watched 
For this episode, we take a look at one of the most famous films out of the Hammer Horror studio – Horror of Dracula! We decided to watch the movie because Sir Christopher Lee was in 
Note: We apologize for the late posting of this episode. This episode, we return to the works of director Martin Scorsese to watch the film Hugo. Jena was unable to join us so we appointed stunt Jena Sean O’Laughlin to watch the film with us. Hugo is notable for being a film almost completely unlike any other film by Martin Scorsese. It starts out as a children’s movie and morphs into a love letter about film preservation. It is also visually amazing. We dissect all of this in our conversation after watching the film.
We’ve been watching a lot of recent movies lately so for this episode, we slid all the way back to the silent film era and comedy legend Harold Lloyd! Lloyd is the third of the great solo silent comedians. We’ve already taken a look at Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and, like most people, we’ve passed over Lloyd until now. 
In part two of our exploration of movies about Baseball, we watched 
With this episode, we embark on a two episode exploration of baseball movies. 
Having watched Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone tackle the same story, this episode considers John Broderick’s take on the same material. We know what you’re thinking: who is John Broderick? Exactly. Frequent guest Kelvin Hatle joins us for a sword and sandal retelling of Yojimbo that is, in almost every conceivable way, a complete disaster. 
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