Bart & Jenna explore a series of band movies, from some notable British boy bands all the way to their American TV cousins. For such a decade-specific genre, it’s an episode full of high highs and low lows.
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Bart & Jenna dive into the beautiful, surreal and unfairly banned films of Sergei Parajanov and Yuri Ilyenko.
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Bart & Jenna navigate through the many sequels and bootlegs of Sergio Corbucci's Django.
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Bart & Jenna watch six films in hopes of adding them to their Top Ten of the year 1961 – from some top commedia all'italiana choices, to struggling Parisian artists and refections on violence.
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Bart & Jenna use Susan Sontag’s article as a sounding board to dissect Bergman’s filmmaking and explore the depths of Persona, as well as muse on whether or not cinema must have a “point.”
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Bart and Jenna take a look at documentaries in 1969 – examining just how far the genre had progressed in ten years
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Bart & Jenna are joined by Christopher J. Lee, professor of African studies, to discuss two anti-colonialist masterpieces of African cinema: The Battle of Algiers and Black Girl.
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Bart & Jenna talk Doris Day – one of the era’s biggest box office draws for bedroom adventures in which our main lady narrowly escapes certain fornication.
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Bart & Jenna notice a parallel between Fellini's body of work in the 60s and the self-immolating ambitiousness of the decade itself.
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Bart & Jenna are joined by Carlo Vanstiphout to talk all things kaiju in the 1960s – from Godzilla to Mothra, Frankenstein to Baragon, Gamera to Guiron and more
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Bart & Jenna watch six films in hopes of adding them to their Top Ten of the year 1960 – from the most arthouse of arthouse choices, to some deeply cynical satires.
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Bart & Jenna sidestep Bootleg Bond by focusing on a revival film franchise that never would have existed if not for ‘60s Bond Mania: Fu Manchu films.
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Bart & Jenna travel to Venus to get a better look at some choice sci-fi films from behind the iron curtain – including Ikarie XB 1, Silent Star, and more.
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Bart & Jenna cover Robert Wise’s two Best Picture-winning musicals, along with several other notable films from the 1960s – a couple of which are a highly prized by film lovers.
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Bart & Jenna dive into a positive who’s who of Egyptian cinema – including young Omar Sharif and Soad Hosny, multiple Naguib Mahfouz adaptations, and even two films that broke through to the Western world: the Muslim Crusade epic Saladin and the internationally celebrated The Night Counting The Years.
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In this episode, Bart & Jenna take the opportunity to dig a little deeper into the war and cinematic “Golden Age” that time forgot. Watching three American films about the Korean War side-by-side with three films from South Korea.
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For their last Kiss Marry Kill, Jenna chooses three English-language comedies while Bart chooses three foreign firsts, all for the year 1969.
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Tony Perkins ran away from Hollywood and ended up having one of the strangest careers of any major star of the 60s. Fortunately that makes him a treasure trove of the sort of lost treasures Bart & Jenna love.
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Bart & Jenna go to Italy to scout out Agent 077 – the ever forgettable Eurospy with the ever changing name and face.
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Bart & Jenna brave the early films of Francis Ford Coppola, from nudie flicks and genre cash-ins, to a couple of fascinating failures and one genuinely great film.
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