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 […]
After last week’s delightful Freaks, a movie that seems to have been marketed and designed to be a story about monsters but actually ends up being a tale of a tight-knit group of friends dealing with hate-filled villains, how about we follow things up with a movie about another […]
We’re entering a brave new world here on Cinematic Century today, folks. Because today marks the first time in this series that we’ve discussed a talkie. Yeah, The Man Who Laughs has some experimental sound integrated into it, and the version of the Gold Rush that’s easiest to find was re-released […]
Oh, look! It’s time to talk about good old Charlie Chaplin again! We get to keep this streak of classic silent comedies going this week with the film that Charlie Chaplin claimed he hoped he’d be most remembered for. I don’t think that that’s necessarily been the […]
It’s time to take the Cinematic Century back to the world of the spooky. Oh, and Germany. Because the obvious pick for 1922 is the massively influential and less than legal horror classic from director F. W. Murnau, Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror. There were some other movies from […]
Congratulations everyone. We’ve made it through another year. It sure wasn’t easy, but we’ve done it. It’s been a tough year, folks, but I feel like there’s still some hope in the world right now. Things this year have been pretty terrible. I mean, we have literal […]
For most of my life musicals were probably the biggest genre of film that I had no interest in. I grew up watching classics like Wizard of Oz and all the classic Disney musicals, but other than that I generally held the genre in a pretty low regard. That probably […]
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