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Episode 26 – It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s 1934. It Happened One Night, a film nobody thought would do particularly well, sneaks in just before the Hays Code is enforced. The movie, directed by Frank Capra,...
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Episode 25 – Sherlock Jr. (1924)
It’s 1924. Buster Keaton, one of the cinematic greats of this era, is at the height of his career. Called “The Great Stone Face” due to his distinctive stoical...
Episode 24 – Cabiria (1914)
It’s 1914. Out of Italy comes what many classify as the first film epic. In this silent film, the girl Cabiria survives an eruption from Etna, is kidnapped by...
Episode 23 – The Impossible Voyage (1904)
It’s 1904. French director Georges Méliès is at the height of his career, creating fantastic, creative movies in the early days of cinema. Like his earlier A Trip to...
Season 2 Wrap-up & Epilogue
It’s time to wrap up another season of Let’s Finally Watch This. We start by making a few corrections, filling in a few gaps in this season’s discussion of...
Episode 22 – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
It’s 2013. The top-grossing film of the year is Disney’s Frozen, but that’s not the only important fairy-tale based animated film released this year. In Japan, Studio Ghibli released...
Episode 21 – Elf (2003)
It’s 2003–and it’s the holidays. Many of our standard Christmas movies were released in the 1940s, but since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of Christmas movies, creating...
Episode 20 – Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
It’s 1993. Multiplexes have arrived, and there are plenty of movies to show—Jurassic Park, Tombstone, Schindler’s List, the original Super Mario Bros. movie…. Okay, not all are great, but...
Episode 19 – The Right Stuff (1983)
It’s 1983. The blockbuster age has started, and the top-grossing movie of the year is The Return of the Jedi. However, another pivotal space movie is also released this...
Episode 18 – The Sting (1973)
It’s 1973. We’re in the middle of the New Hollywood era, when movies tended to be more uncoventional and often darker. However, some movies are still all-around fun. The...