For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release decade. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.
We kick off our People Hunting People series with the film that’s the first to take on the famous short story by Richard Connell – it’s Irving Pichel’s and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1932 adaptation The Most Dangerous Game.
We wrap up our series on 1940 Academy Award Best Picture nominees with a conversation about William Wyler’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance, ‘Wuthering Heights.’ How does it compare to the novel? Do Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier work as Cathy and Heathcliff? Is it something that works for us? Tune in!
We continue our journey through all the films nominated for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards, today with Lewis Milestone’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men.’ It’s a strong film and provides for a fantastic conversation. Tune in!
We continue our exploration of 1939 films nominated for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards. In today’s episode, we discuss Leo McCarey’s ‘Love Affair’ with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Where does the film stand in comparison to its remakes? How are Dunne and Boyer as a pair? How iconic is that ending? Tune in!
We’re kicking off our 13th season of the show looking at various awards categories over the decades, starting with 1940 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Today, we discuss Edmund Goulding’s 1939 Bette Davis melodrama ‘Dark Victory.’ In the scope of disease films, how does it hold up? Tune in!
We continue our time with Nick and Nora Charles, this time with the 1939 film ‘Another Thin Man,’ the third in the Thin Man series. Now, they have a baby and they’re back in New York! What do we think of the story? The characters? The mystery? The comedy? The drinking? Tune in!
We return to the world of Nick and Norah Charles as we jump back into the ‘Thin Man’ series. We covered the first film as part of our ‘Black-and-White Cinematography of James Wong Howe’ series. Now, we’re finishing the series, starting with the 1936 film ‘After the Thin Man.’ It’s a pure delight. Tune in!
We continue our Journalists series with a film that’s a bit more journalist adjacent – Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 film ‘Merrily We Go to Hell.’ What do we think of Frederic March and Sylvia Sidney? How about their modern marriage? And how did the Hays Code figure in to this movie? Tune in for more!
What is the grand illusion in The Grand Illusion? How does Jean Renoir’s realism work for this World War I film? Why is director/actor Erich von Stroheim so memorable as the director of the POW camp? And why is Dita Parlo so high in the credits? Tune in to this week’s show to get answers to these questions and more!
How does Errol Flynn compare to Douglas Fairbanks? Does this version of Robin Hood hold up as one of the best still? How did they do those arrow-in-the-chest stunts? Tune in to this week’s show to get these answers and more!