When I was first compiling the list that would eventually become this Cinematic Century project there were a handful of years that were shockingly difficult to come to a consensus on. For the most part things weren’t too hard, there would be a few films that I […]
What a surprise! Yet another week here of the Cinematic Century and yet another Charlie Chaplin flick to discuss. I’m very on brand here. Charlie Chaplin was just a wonderful creator, and he had an almost ridiculous skill at making films that are so perfectly up my […]
We have two pretty big firsts to discuss today here on this Cinematic Century project. The more important of the two is that we’ll be discussing the first Western here today with one of my all-time favorite Western films in history. Hell, it’s high up there on […]
So far during this project the films that I’ve chosen to highlight haven’t really been that hard of a choice. Every now and then I have a year where there’s some strong contenders, but there’s one outlier that was pretty obviously going to be my candidate for favorite […]
Seven weeks ago we had a pretty momentous installment of Cinematic Century when All Quiet on the Western Front introduced us to the wonderful world of sound with the first talkie to be featured on this project. And today we’ll be adding another first for this project with the […]
Well, well, well, look what we have here. Despite the fact that by 1936 the talkies had entirely supplanted the silents as the dominant form of cinema, good old Charlie Chaplin was still hanging on. Chaplin was convinced that the talkies were a fad, and remained obstinate […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another week through my Cinematic Century. We’re getting into 1935 this week, and that means it’s time for things to get sort of spooky. But, not entirely so. We’re talking about a Universal Monster Movie today, the only one that made it […]
