Bob's elder daughter jumped at the chance to rebut what she viewed as the vile slander of a beloved (by her) Christmas film The Holiday. (And talk about Christmas movies in general.) Since she visited Bob for the holidays, they sat down and chewed the fat about Christmas cinema. Enjoy a bonus very specialer episode! Though, to be sure, beware the ever-lurking SPOILERS!

00:10 Intro

02:03 The Holiday

11:38 Elf

14:33 Bob is trying, and failing, to think of Rocky Horror Picture Show

16:31 Swingers

19:45 The Muppet Christmas Carol

27:45 Klaus

32:51 Die Hard

33:44 Bob should be (and is) ashamed. He got this twisted with Lethal Weapon which Black wrote. He did not write Die Hard, but there it is. We'll blame this on an exccess of "Christmas Cheer" in his eggnog. He's gonna do something similar (though perhaps not as bad) a few seconds later when he says Black was responsible for Iron Man 2, when it was Iron Man 3.

35:07 It's a Wonderful Life

37:42 Christmas in Connecticut

39:50 Holiday Inn and White Christmas

40:05 Bob's half-right, it opens on Christmas Eve and ends on New Year's

49:29 Miracle on 34th Street

53:20 Wrapping up

Back after a longer interlude since the last time we tried to record we had catastrophic technical problems. After Bob's daughter complained to him that she can't listen to most episodes since they spoil movies she hasn't seen. So, this time around, a very special episode that only contains movies which she has already seen.

If you're interested in having your tastes pandered to, reach out. Who knows?

00:10 Introduction

03:15 Three new movies for Mark

08:07 Bob's theme idea that he shoehorned in

09:26 Knives Out

23:10 The Holiday

36:51 The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

43:55 The Lost City

50:56 La La Land

58:19 Wrapping Up

Trying something new again this episode; Bob and Mark discuss some soundtracks. What kind of musical expertise and knowledge do they bring to the topic? Almost nothing. Is it a list of their favorites? Not necessarily. You might like it anyway. Fewer spoilers than usual, though we disdain caution around such things as always.

00:00 Intro and disclaimer

03:57 First soundtrack

In the Mood for Love (soundtrack)

11:25 Source for theme

Yumeji

16:39 Second soundtrack

Perfect Days (soundtrack)

21:34 The word Bob is failing to remember is "komorebi"

24:51 Third soundtrack

A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack)

25:11 It's been a couple years since we talked about this film

Kubrick/Hitchcock episode

31:50 The greatest piece of music ever written (in Bob's opinion)

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 4th Movement (This is not the best rendition of it, but it's okay. ~ Bob)

33:26 Music that didn't make the soundtrack

Wendy Carlos additional music (It was at this point in the edit that Bob discovered that Wendy Carlos was born Walter Carlos. Thus the original album title in the link.)

37:20 Fourth soundtrack

Sparrow (soundtrack)

41:00 Clip from the film

Stairs

42:11 Region B disc

Aussie Blu-Ray

44:18 Winding down and wrapping up

44:58 Film scores

Every Frame a Painting

This time around Bob and Mark lean right into the pretentiousness and discuss the French cinema they enjoy. (For the title we decided to go for the middle choice of "films;" seems midway between "cinema" and "movies.") We do less spoiling than usual, but you should still beware. The dreaded SPOILER may rear its head at any moment in our podcast.

00:00 Intro

03:45 Le Samourai

07:01 Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

11:26 Disorder (Maryland)

18:39 Au Revoir, Les Enfants

24:28 My Dinner With Andre

26:59 Three Colors: White

33:41 L'Argent

39:04 Wasabi

43:15 Le Cercle Rouge

46:50 Army of Shadows

51:43 Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

55:21 Odds and Ends

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), Gankutsuou, The Count of Monte Cristo (Depardieu), Amélie, The Red Turtle, A Prophet

1:02:12 Wrapping up

This episode we catch up to 1985 and evaluate the 5 films from 1984 nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. It's been a while since the last episode, but to make up for it, it's a bit longer than usual? Anyway, this will be the last decade in series that we look at for now since we've already done an episode on the Best Picture nominees from 1995, 2005, and 2015. As always, beware of the fearsome spoiler that lurks throughout, and enjoy!

00:00 Introduction

04:27 A Soldier's Story

18:25 Places in the Heart

27:40 A Passage to India

45:39 The Killing Fields

54:26 Interlude about ranking nominees by vote totals (Bob was right in his gut reaction: voting results are not made publicly available)

55:51 Amadeus

01:09:45 Films from this year featured in other episodes of our podcast: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III, The Terminator, Dune, Blood Simple

01:14:40 Random odds and ends to conclude

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So...there were some challenges with this one. We do apologize for the slow release pace, but in this case the audio required a lot of work to tune up. We're talking Best Picture for the 47th Academy Awards (films from 1974). SPOILERS abound, as always.

00:00 Intro

00:57 A good year?

03:21 The Conversation

12:25 Gene Hackman interlude

13:35 (Yes, yes; we were thinking of A Few Good Men)

18:14 The Godfather Part II

34:53 Chinatown

48:53 Lenny

55:07 The Towering Inferno

1:02:34 Digression about film rights and availability of old films

1:08:00 Quick review of other notable films from 1974

1:12:40 Our picks for Best Picture

1:14:13 (We are moving ahead a decade)

It's been a little while, but we've jumped another 10 years closer to the present with an episode on the best films of 1964. Unfortunately for filmgoers it was a bit of a fallow year, but it does make for some good conversation. We mostly talk about the 5 Best Picture nominees, but a few more films come in for a mention in passing.

As ever, we SPOIL the endings, middles...everything really about these movies without regard for what you might not have seen, so be warned. Watch the films first if you don't want to know how they end.

00:10 Intro to the podcast/topic

00:56 (Absolutely we did not get caught up to the current year)

03:34 Mary Poppins

18:03 Becket

29:55 My Fair Lady

31:12 Bob remembers correctly about Shaw and the Greek origin!

38:15 The superior original ending

43:53 Dr. Strangelove

45:51 The prior episode where we talked about Dr. Strangelove

46:25 Bob might be misremembering Hayden's late-life problems

52:00 Zorba the Greek

57:21 Bob gets on his high horse a bit

01:01:57 Picking our winner

01:05:18 Next episode plans and conclusion

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Bob finally gets busy and edits this episode wrapping up the past calendar year. It's a bit out of date, but then most of the episodes are too since we're almost always looking at films from years earlier. Not too many spoilers this time round, but be wary; one never knows when they may strike!

00:10 Intro

04:53 Favorites watched for the podcast

07:27 Movies from 2024

17:53 Bob and Indian cinema

20:25 Rowdy. Rowdy Rathore. (trailer)

21:57 How Bob sees films; film volume

25:09 First time watches not from 2024

34:48 Bob and Mark argue a bit about Free Solo

39:58 It's over!

Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode