Another decade in the can! In this casual wrap-up episode, we each count down our top 10s of the 1940s!  Here's our Letterboxd list of our 40s Top 10s: https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-top-10s-of-the-1940s/  And here's our list of every movie covered on the show so far! https://letterboxd.com/criselie/list/one-week-one-year-films-discussed/

1940s Decade in Review

Ringing in 2026 by closing out the 1940s! This episode we discuss iconic Looney Tunes, acidic Ealing comedy, Orson Welles dunking on cukoo clocks, crime & baseball in postwar Japan, feminist gun violence, and THE Miss Turnstiles! 

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpdDX1v_OQshSldA4Sy78A]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1949 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtqipbzfdgWY6v_lcaORGLfS]

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:02:24 - The News of the Year! 

00:03:22 - Fast and Furry-ous 

00:11:02 - Kind Hearts and Coronets 

00:28:15 - The Third Man 

00:58:23 - Stray Dog 

01:21:04 - Late Spring 

01:49:19 - Adam's Rib 

02:10:14 - On The Town 

02:33:10 - Favorites and Outro

See you next year!

1949 - Post-war Baseball

Murder! Dancing! Treasure! Bicycles! This week we're joined by Trace Thurman to discuss a Hitchcock experimental thriller, plus we talk about comedy monster mashes, transcendent technicolor ballet, Italian neo-realist velocipede theft, and the origins of the "prospector who dances a jig" character!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/yhgR9cZLuY0]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1948 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtqgieODMydukdYHf3eNLEHP&si=TLEaueWXVQwT8M6W]

See you next year!

1948 - The Grizzling of the Soul (with Trace Thurman)

The 1940s continue with the first appearance of Tweety Bird, Kenneth Anger's provocative sailor short, a trifecta of Film Noir thrillers, a Christmas courtroom classic, and a lush technicolor nun drama!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpdDX1v_OQshSldA4Sy78A]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1947 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtrC0bi2WnDqNttnL6kb2G7r]

See you next year!

1947 - Chekhov's Cliff

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! 

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/gvPW4oA4F1U]

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And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1946 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtrrpbFnYRcNN9RyDcpIM3UJ&si=uRuCwahdGKNDtEC-]

See you next year!



1946 - We Ballin

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.

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/UjVY31m143c]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1945 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtrtilwHg94Dv-O8PiflEf6T]

00:04:20 - Nazi Concentration Camps

00:29:46 - Rome, Open City

00:48:20 - The Lost Weekend

01:06:42 - Mildred Pierce

01:25:23 - Brief Encounter

See you next year!

1945 - Staring Into The Abyss

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!

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/JyCW95n2AMA]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1944 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1Wtqp-aRX9C7hZsiWzz3-Ni9q]

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See you next year!

1944 - Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss (with Sarah Pepe)

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! 

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://www.youtube.com/@oneweekoneyear9891/videos]

You can check out our Instagram, [https://www.instagram.com/oneweekoneyear/] Twitter [https://twitter.com/oneweekoneyear], and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1943 Films Discussed playlist [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtoracPfq6kv8m8M5wV6h1PN&si=vYVpdUGeCWU-tjjB] right here!

1943 - Yeeting Momma (with Ambriehl Turrentine)

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.

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/4o0of_4QTfc]

You can check out our social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1942 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1WtrGjzT92piVEZ4wWN8BRLrF]

See you next year!

1942 - TCM Pilled

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! 

You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on YouTube! [https://www.youtube.com/@oneweekoneyear9891]

You can check out our Instagram, [https://www.instagram.com/oneweekoneyear/] Twitter [https://twitter.com/oneweekoneyear], and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y

And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1941 Films Discussed playlist right here! [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjWmIpd1Wto6zKKojIGTnmbqlEh4ycyk&si=PI5WkX5BJHPF71iz]

See you next year!

1941 - He Was In The Amazon With His Bodyguard When He Was Researching Snakes Right Before He Fell In Love

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!

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