Ep# 62 - Ukrainian National Cinema in the 60s
Ep# 62 - Ukrainian National Cinema in the 60s

Bart & Jenna talk about Ukranian cinema from Dovzhenko Studio and its search for a national cinema in the 1960s.

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PodcastGrateful GuysChasing Two Hares, Viktor Ivanov, Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Song of the Forest, Viktor Ivchenko, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Volodymyr Sydorchuk, Pyotr Vesklyarov, The Enchanted Desna, Yuliya Solntseva, Evgeniy Samoylov, Vladimir Goncharov, Evgeniy Bondarenko, The Stone Cross, Leonid Osyka, Borislav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk, Conscience, Vladimir Denisenko, Boris Ivchenko, Annychka, Lyubov Rumyantseva, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Grigore Grigoriu, Alexander Dovzhenko Comment
Ep #61 - Andrew Sarris's 60s Pick: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ep #61 - Andrew Sarris's 60s Pick: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Bart & Jenna discuss Andrew Sarris’ career and his unique voice in the world of film criticism before they get lost in a tangle of wildly differing opinions on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

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PodcastGrateful GuysInterview, Andrew Sarris, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray, John Carradine, Woody Strode, Lee Van CleefComment
Ep# 60 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1968
Ep# 60 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1968

Bart & Jenna play Kiss, Marry, Kill with the year 1968 – including in depth discussions on the pitfalls of 60s masculinity, the triumphs of 60s feminism, and getting super high in front of your parents. Or, well, Peter Sellers’ parents.

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PodcastGrateful GuysKiss Marry Kill, 1968, A Day Off, Lee Man-hee, Shin Seong-il, Ji Yun-seong, Kim Sun-cheol, The Girls, Mai Zetterling, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, The Swimmer, Frank Perry, Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, Bill Greaves, William Greaves, The Girl on a Motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton, I Love You Alice B Toklas, Hy Averback, Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Paul MazurskyComment
Ep# 59 - King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table in the 60s
Ep# 59 - King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table in the 60s

Bart & Jenna dive headfirst into a world of myth, magic, legend and a whole lot of jousting with an episode dedicated to Arthurian legend – from Camelot to Disney to Harryhausen rip-offs.

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PodcastGrateful GuysKing Arthur, Lerner and Loewe, Camelot, The Magic Sword, Bert I Gordon, Basil Rathbone, Gary Lockwood, Estelle Winwood, Lancelot and Guinevere, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, Siege of the Saxons, Nathan Juran, Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Ronald Howard, The Sword in the Stone, Disney, Wolfgang Reitherman, Willy McBean and his Magic Machine, Arthur Rankin Jr, Larry D Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Alfie Scopp, James Doohan, Joshua Logan, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Gary MarshallComment
Ep# 58 - Stan Brakhage in the 60s
Ep# 58 - Stan Brakhage in the 60s

Bart & Jenna challenge themselves to sit down to watch over five hours of silent experimental film from the most influential experimental filmmaker of his century: Stan Brakhage.

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PodcastGrateful GuysStan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage, Experimental Film, Kenneth Anger, Dog Star Man, Experimental film, Mr Tompkins Inside Himself, The Dead, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular, birth, Blue Moses, Sartre's Nausea, Mothlight, Pasht, Songs 1 - 14, Two Creeley McClure, Fire of Waters, 23rd Psalm Branch, Scenes From Under Childhood, Eye Myth, Love Making Comments
Ep# 56 - British Spy Films in the 60s
Ep# 56 - British Spy Films in the 60s

Bart & Jenna take a dutch-angled romp through a series of nihilistic, anti-Bond spy films and find there’s plenty of drama to be found in a more realistic portrayal of spy work.

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PodcastGrateful GuysBootleg Bond, Ring of Spies, The Ipcress File, Robert Tronson, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, Sidney J Furie, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Martin Ritt, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, The Quiller Memorandum, Michael Anderson, George Segal, Senta Berger, Alec Guinness, Harold Pinter, The Deadly Affair, Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Max von Sydow, A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia FaComment
Ep# 55 - Mexican Horror Films in the 60s
Ep# 55 - Mexican Horror Films in the 60s

Bart & Jenna brave the unknown and journey to the land of Mexican Horror films to peek through their fingers at vampires, werewolves, ghosts and murderers – all of whom speak Spanish!

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PodcastGrateful GuysHorror, Skeleton of Mrs Morales, Rogelio A Gonzalez, Arturo de Cordova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Santo vs the Vampire Women, Samson vs the Vampire Women, Alfonso Corona Blake, Santo, Lorena Velazquez, Maria Duval, La Loba, Rafael Baledon, Kitty de Hoyos, Joaquin Cordero, Pedro Paramo, Carlos Velo, John Gavin, Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Pilar Pellicer, The Scapular, Servando Gonzalez, Enrique Lizalde, Enrique Aguilar, Carlos Cardan, The Book of Stone, Carlos Enrique Taboada, Marga Lopez, Norma Lazareno, The BrainiacComment
Ep #54 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1967
Ep #54 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1967

Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1967 and stumble upon an intriguing pattern. Including discussion on Peppermint Frappe, Herostratus, PlayTime, The Sorcerers, How I Won The War and I’ll Never Forget What's'isname.

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PodcastGrateful GuysKiss Marry Kill, 1967, Peppermint Frappe, Carlos Saura, Geraldine Chaplin, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Alfredo Mayo, Herostratus, Don Levy, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens, PlayTime, Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, The Sorcerers, Michael Reeves, Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, How I Won The War, Richard Lester, Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, I'll Never Forget Whatsisname, Michael Winner, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White, Helen MirrenComment
Ep# 53 - Joanne Woodward in the 60s
Ep# 53 - Joanne Woodward in the 60s

In this episode, Bart and Jenna trace Joanne Woodward's 1960s films alongside that of her more famous husband and decide that hers are the ones they really wanted to talk about.

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PodcastGrateful GuysJoanne Woodward, Paul Newman, From The Terrace, Mark Robson, Ina Balin, Paris Blues, Martin Ritt, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, A New Kind of Love, Melville Shavelson, Thelma Ritter, Maurice Chevalier, Eva Gabor, The Stripper, Frankin J Schaffner, Richard Beymer, Carol Lynley, Signpost to Murder, George Englund, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Henry Fonda, Fielder Cook, Jason Robards, A Fine Madness, Irvin Kershner, Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Rachel Rachel, James Olson, Estelle Parsons, Winning, James Goldstone, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas Comment
Ep# 52 - Sapphic Cinema in the 60s
Ep# 52 - Sapphic Cinema in the 60s

Bart & Jenna open their minds and hearts and experiment with a global variety of films that explore the highs and lows of sapphic love.

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PodcastGrateful GuysThe Children's Hour, William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Manji, Yasuzo Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Kyoko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, The Cats, Kattorna, Henning Carlsen, Eva Dahlbeck, Gio Petre, Monica Nielsen, The Fox, D H Lawrence, Mark Rydell, Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, Keir Dullea, Les Biches, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran, The Killing of Sister George, Robert Aldrich, Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Le Altre, Alessandro Fallay, Erna Schurer, Monica Strebel, Raul LovecchioComment
Ep #50 - The Soviet Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Rou in the 60s
Ep #50 - The Soviet Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Rou in the 60s

Bart & Jenna dive into the magical 1960s films of Aleksandr Rou – a mystical, technicolor world of amazing costumes, practical effects and live bears… aka Soviet fairy tales.

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PodcastGrateful GuysAleksandr Rou, Alexander Rou, Maria the Wonderful Weaver, Maria-iskusnitsa, Cinderella, Khrustal'nyy bashmachok, Raisa Struchkova, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Nikolai Gogol, Russia, USSR, Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki, The Night Before Christmas, Aleksandr Khvylya, L Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov, Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal, Jack Frost, Natalya Sedykh, Morozko, Baba Yaga, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Georgy Millyar, Fire Water and Brass Pipes, Ogon voda i... mednye truby, Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair, Varvara-krasa dlinnaya kosa, Anatoly Kubatsky, Mikhail PugovkinComment
Ep# 49 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the 60s
Ep# 49 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the 60s

Bart & Jenna watch every Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie from the 1960s then discuss the television show's bootleg Bond origins and the subsequent U.N.C.L.E. mania that followed.

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PodcastGrateful GuysThe Man From UNCLE, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Bootleg Bond, Don Medford, Luciana Paluzzi, Pat Crowley, John Newland, Senta Berger, Leo G Carroll, Joseph Sargent, Dorothy Provine, Rip Torn, Yvonne Craig, One of Our Spies is Missing, E Darrell Hallenbeck, Vera Miles, Ann Elder, Bernard Fox, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Leticia Roman, Barry Shear, Kim Darby, Herbert Lom, Joan Crawford, Boris Sagal, Carol Lynley, Bradford Dillman, Lola Albright, Sutton Roley, Barry Sullivan, Eleanor Parker, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Blondell, To Trap a Spy, The Spy with My Face, One Spy Too Many, The Spy in the Green Hat, The Karate Killers, The Helicopter Spies, How To Steal the WorldComment
Ep# 48 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1966
Ep# 48 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1966

Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1966. Including discussion on How To Steal A Million, The Round-Up, Death of a Bureaucrat, Once Before I Die, The Swinger and Trans-Europ-Express.

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PodcastGrateful GuysKiss Marry Kill, Once Before I Die, John Derek, Ursula Andress, Richard Jaeckel, The Round-Up, Szegénylegények, Miklos Jancso, Janos Gorbe, Zoltan Latinovits, Tibor Moinar, How to Steal a Million, William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Death of a Bureaucrat, Tomas Guiterrez Alea, The Swinger, George Sidney, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Tran-Europ-Express, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Catherine Robbe-GrilletComment
Ep# 46 - Nancy Kwan in the 60s
Ep# 46 - Nancy Kwan in the 60s

Nancy Kwan had two major hits right in the beginning of the decade, and then what? Bart & Jenna investigate the bizarre twists and turns of Kwan’s ‘60s career and the pitfalls of being a Chinese actor in the dominantly white world of Hollywood.

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PodcastGrateful GuysNancy Kwan, The World of Suzie Wong, Richard Quine, William Holden, Sylvia Syms, Flower Drum Song, Henry Koster, Rodgers and Hammerstein, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Juanita Hall, James Hong, Patrick Adiarte, Benson Fong, The Main Attraction, Daniel Petrie, Pat Boone, Mai Zetterling, Tamahine, Philip Leacock, John Fraser, Dennis Price, The Wild Affair, John Krish, Terry-Thomas, Victor Spinetti, Nobody's Perfect, Doug McClure, James WhitmoreComment
Ep# 45 - Haskell Wexler in the 60s
Ep# 45 - Haskell Wexler in the 60s

Bart & Jenna dive into the work of Haskell Wexler – one of the true auteur cinematographers who got his start in the 1960s. Featuring a heated debate on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as iconic in wit as it is in visual flare, and Medium Cool – a hybrid film that incorporates almost every trick he learned from the decade.

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PodcastGrateful GuysHaskell Wexler, cinematographer, The Hoodlum Priest, Irvin Kershner, Don Murray, Keir Dullea, Cindi Wood, America America, Elia, Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Linda Marsh, The Best Man, Gore Vidal, Franklin J Schaffner, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ann Sothern, The Bus, documentary, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, In the Heat of the Night, Delbert Mann, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Medium Cool, Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, The Loved One, Angel Baby, The Thomas Crown Affair, Sandy DennisComment