One Week, One Year

One Week, One Year

A film projectionist and filmmaker go through every year in film history in order, one year at a time and 5+ films per year, from 1895 to present! Through our horrifically meticulous process, we are able to simulate the experience of someone seeing it for the first time in the year it came out. What new perspectives can be gleaned from seeing every classic in its original context? Listen to find out!

Episodes

August 7, 2025 125 mins

Hollywood bounces back from the war years with a great crop of pictures! Bogie & Bacall reteam for one of the great noirs, Hitchcock does cool spy stuff, Rita Hayworth hair flips her way into history, William Wyler and Frank Capra channel their post war angst, and France produces a dreamy, spooky fairytale! 

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The war is over! Movies can go back to being the most important thing in the world! This episode we cover documentaries as evidence in the Nuremburg trials, post-fascist Italian neo-realism,  noir drama, and non-linear storytelling! An "Oops, All Features" episode.

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Big year for hard-boiled noir! Murder! Betrayal! Halloween! This episode we get into gaslamps as symbols of both love and lies, sinister insurance schemes, lonely detectives, boat escapades and serial killer old ladies!

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The world may be at war but the movies bravely carry on! This week we're joined by film programmer Ambriehl Turrentine to discuss the Citizen Kane of the cartoon canon, Alfred Hitchcock's favorite of his own films, and a groundbreaking musical comedy! Plus, we get into some WW2 propaganda cartoons, avant-garde mirror faces, extreme Britishness, Judo throws, and the original Dark Universe! 

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January 21, 2025 178 mins

1942 was a bad year for humans but a good year for Hollywood! This episode, we discuss John Ford's striking documentation of WWII, Orson Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane, the origins of the jump scare, witchy comedy, the meaning of life through the lens of talking animals, Lubitsch spy/showbiz satire, and a little movie called Casablanca.

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The Big Daddy of movies, Citizen Kane! We get into the most celebrated film of all time, as well as peeping werewolves, proto-Brooks/Zucker Bros comedy, formative film noir, Hays Code horniness, nostalgic coal mines, and jewel stealing robots! 

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September 5, 2024 195 mins

The start of a new decade brings with it a cavalcade of great movies! Foundational animation, anti-Nazi comedy, screwball banter, and moody dramas all just knocking it outta the park. Its almost like the 1940s was a good decade for movies!

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See you next year!

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August 25, 2024 127 mins

It's time once again to reminisce and recap the last 10 years of movies! In this casual wrap-up episode, we talk about two movies that concern filmmaking in the 30s (The Aviator, Gods and Monsters) and we each count down our top 10s of the decade!

 

Here's our Letterboxd list of our 30s Top 10s: https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-top-10s-of-the-1930s/

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Finishing out the 1930s with two of the most popular movies ever made! One is a romanticized fantasy about a place that never existed, the other is The Wizard of Oz!

We're joined by video essayist/writer/former US history teacher Nats Can Fly! Be sure to check out her YouTube channel here

Also, we talk about a quintessential John Ford western, Frank Capra's most Capra-esque film to date, and a really sad Kenji Mizuguchi Kabu...

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Closing in on the end of the 1930s and Hollywood is firing off wacky comedies and technicolor extravaganzas! We also cover some Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts, Eisenstein's first talkie, and a very French proto-noir crime drama! 

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April 19, 2024 181 mins

1937 brings us the advent of (American, cell animated) feature length animation and 3-strip technicolor catches on! Stars are born! Songs are sung! Opera and cinema join forces! Monocles are worn! Join us, along with our guest, opera singer Alan Briones, as we discuss an exciting bevy of films.

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March 5, 2024 153 mins

This episode we're talking about reefer (madness), so you don't want no part of this shit! No shorts this time so we get right into it with the aforementioned anti-drug "movie", Humphrey Bogart making a big splash, Fritz Lang turning his critical eye towards the USA, Frank Capra's feel-goodery, a nightmarish look into the future, and Charlie Chaplin's final film as The Tramp! All of that and more!

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January 18, 2024 179 mins

Buckle up! This episode we are covering an infamous Nazi docu-ganda film, another iconic Frankenstein movie, a Rogers/Astaire tap dancing extravaganza, Marx Bros embracing their roles as birthday party clowns, Hitchcock leaning into comedy, and a swashbuckling pirate picture! Also, Micky Mouse in color, Porky Pig's first appearance, and a brief interlude about the Hays Code!

Article about the etymology of "Nazi"

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December 21, 2023 103 mins

The last year of the Pre-Code era! This episode we talk about the Three Stooges, a steamy wig movie, a proto-French New Wave drama, the quintessential romantic comedy, a proto-Shane Black Christmas detective movie, and Peter Lorre's English language debut! 

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November 30, 2023 168 mins

1933 was a year full of big and wild movies! Popeye! Marx Bros! Busby Berkeley musicals! Throuple rom-coms! Psychic supervillains! An invisible man and KING KONG! Pre-code Hollywood is putting out some of the most daring films made so far, and we're gonna talk about 'em!

Documentary explaining pinscreen animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3DSFv4vAg&t=608s

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November 3, 2023 127 mins

We're keeping it spooky (mostly) this episode! Vampires! Mummies! Pervy Trees! Circus justice! Also, original Scarface, a chill Ozu film, and the Best Movie Title of All Time! 

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September 15, 2023 154 mins

Iconic voices abound in this episode jam packed with classics! Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang both direct their best(?!) movies, Warner Bros. releases two quintessential gangster pictures, and Universal gets dark with two of the most famous horror movies ever made!

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September 1, 2023 142 mins

We kick off the 1930s with some European avant-garde films, more Marx Bros, tuxedo wearing cabaret singers, and both somber and bro-y WW1 epics!

 

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1930 Films Discussed playlist right here!

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August 20, 2023 113 mins

Time to review the last 10 years of movies! And what a 10 years they were! We also discuss a few newer films/tv about the era (Episode 13 of the docuseries Hollywood, Singin' In The Rain and Babylon!) and list each of our top 10 films of the 1920s!

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August 4, 2023 129 mins

Were talkies a mistake? Join us as we talk about the last of the silent era and the rocky start of the sound era, and possibly the worst Best Picture winner of all time! But also some cool shorts and the frenetic and creative Man With a Movie Camera!

 

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