99 Years 100 Films: Recent Episodes
99 Years 100 Films
A monthly look at every movie ever to win the "Best Picture" Academy AwardSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/99-years-100-films.
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Trey and Blaine take a look at a classic Olympics movie.
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Trey and Blaine discuss a film about divorce, with tangents into Star Trek: The Motion Picture and others along the way.
For the record, the made-for-TV detective spoof Trey was talking about but was unable to name is Murder Can Hurt You!
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Trey and Blaine talk about a movie that examines PTSD before the term "PTSD" was part of the common vernacular.
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Trey and Blaine discuss Woody Allen's class, starring Diane Keaton.
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Paul Spataro of Is It Jaws? joins us once again to discuss what is arguably Hollywood's best boxing movie.
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Paul Spataro of Is It Jaws? joins Trey and Blaine once again to discuss the movie that defeated Jaws at the Academy Awards.
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Trey and Blaine are joined by Jon M. Wilson to discuss something incredibly rare: the sequel that wins Best Picture.
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Trey and Blaine discuss the classic heist movie starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
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Trey and Blaine look at one of the best remembered movies of the entire podcast series.
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Trey and Blaine discuss the movie that named a friend chicken chain.
Please note: this was recorded prior to the recently discovered editing of digital copies of the film, which is why those changes are not discussed.
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Trey and Blaine discuss the home of George C. Scott's best known performance.
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Trey and Blaine look at the first and only X-rated movie to take home the top Oscar prize.
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Trey and Blaine talk about a musical adaptation of Oliver Twist in a year with several omissions on the ballot.
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Trey and Blaine take a look at a murder mystery with some powerhouse performances.
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The story of Sir Thomas Moore.
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Trey and Blaine discuss Robert Wise's latest award winner.
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Trey and Blaine discuss the next film adaptation from the Broadway team that also brought us Gigi.
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Trey and Blaine look at Albert Finney in an adaptation of an 18th Century sex farce.
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Trey and Blaine discuss Peter O'Toole's breakout performance.
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Paul Spataro returns to discuss a classic musical.
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Paul Spataro returns to discuss a classic musical.
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Professional film critic, podcaster, and writer Will Pfeifer joins Trey and Blaine to discuss this film with Billy Wilder directing Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, and more.
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Trey and Blaine take a look at Charlton Heston's biblical epic. No, the other one.
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Vincent Minelli directs Leslie Caron and Louis Jordan in this adaptation of a stage musical.
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Alec Guinness leads the cast adapted from the Pierre Boulle novel.
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The Jules Verne classic is adapted to film, and the marketing may be the most innovative element of it.
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Trey and Blaine are joined by Jon M. Wilson, host of Superman In Crisis and more, to discuss the first real "art house" film, starring Ernest Borgnine.
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Trey and Blaine look at a realistic crime film.
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Trey and Blaine talk about the film marketed as romance, but which turns out to have a whole lot more going on.
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The Patreon is going on pause. Listen to learn why.
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Hollywood goes to the circus!
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Gene Kelly stars in a movie with incredibly well produced dance numbers and incredibly dated sexual politics.
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This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation first aired on November 23, 1954.
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An ambitious young actress finds herself a mentor and insinuates herself deeply into that mentor's life.
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The winner of the 1949 releases is about how the political systems of the United States can lead to the corruption of good, honest people. Clearly, it is a work of unrestrained fantasy.
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Laurence Olivier produced Shakespeare's Hamlet for audiences in 1948, with an all-star cast along for the ride and himself as lead actor, adaptation writer, and director.
Also, Trey promised to point people towards this episode of the Fire and Water podcast discussing The Treasure of Sierra Madre.
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This is the second Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Gentleman's Agreement, originally aired on March 15, 1955.
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Gentleman's Agreement was adapted to Lux Radio Theatre twice. This is the version from September 20, 1948.
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The biggest award in the 1948 Academy Awards ceremony went home with a movie about antisemitism.
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The July Patreon announcement.
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William Wyler directs this veteran-focused film.
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Ray Milland gives a powerful performance as a struggling alcoholic.
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The winner of "Best Picture" in the 1945 was Going My Way. Does it deserve the honour?
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Our monthly Patreon shout-out: April 2021
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Lux Radio Theater's presentation of the 1943 Best Picture winner, starring Alan Ladd and Hedy Lamarr. Original airdate: January 24, 1944.
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The sole winner in the 1944 ceremony was Casablanca, which is certainly one of the most famous films of the decade.
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Original airdate: December 6, 1943
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Our next film is set in wartime England.
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Original airdate: September 21, 1942
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Trey and Blaine are joined by Rob Kelly of the Fire and Water Podcast Network to discuss the movie that beat Citizen Kane for the highest honour in the film industry.
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The second Lux Radio Theater adaptation of "Rebecca" brings back Laurence Olivier in the role, along with Vivien Leigh.
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The first of two radio adaptations of "Rebecca".
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Alfred Hitchcock makes his first American film, and it goes on to win Best Picture.
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Trey and Blaine are joined by Paul Spataro, host of Is It Jaws? for a crossover episode that appears in both podcast feeds this weekend.
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Frank Capra's next win is also a strong film with a truly stellar cast.
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Lux Radio Theatre produced a radio adaptation of The Life of Emile Zola, starring Paul Muni in a 58 minute adaptation of the film. We grabbed a copy from the fine people at OldTimeRadioDownloads.com, which we are happy to bring to you today.
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Paul Muni turns in another wonderful performance. Why don't more people know that name?
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Another true story.
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Based on a true story.
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Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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Originally broadcast December 28, 1936
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The first to manage the "clean sweep" of all major awards.
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Another sweeping generational epic.
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The first star-studded cast film.
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The first in a series of sweeping family epics to win the top award.
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A World War I film told from the perspective of the Germans.
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The second year launches the musical genre.
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The first two winners of the top Academy Award hit in the same year! Note that, at the time of this recording, we didn't know that Trey would be coming along for the entire series.
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A trailer for the podcast
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