Episode 63: San Francisco

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Episode 63: San Francisco

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Mar 17, 2019

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San Francisco starring Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracey, and Clark Gable, is nearly two and a half hours of muddled confusion. Is it an historical dramedy? A musical disaster film? Or just an historical disaster?

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Mar 17, 2019

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The Screen Test of Time is a podcast where Suzan Eraslan and David Daw set out to watch every movie ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, in order, from the first awards season to eventually the present day. Each week, they watch and review a different movie, and when they've watched everything nominated in a particular year, they tell you whether the Oscar went to the right one!

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Episode 36: The House of Rothschild: If you're looking for a master class in how well meaning racism is still racism, look no further than The House of Rothschild, a film that tries to indict anti-semitism while reinforcing anti-semitic stereotypes. by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 18: Bad Girl: Our hosts have learned not to judge a movie by its poster this week, but surely they should be able to infer something about it from its title? by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 33: Lady for a Day: Lady for a Day is an almost entirely delightful rags-to-sort-of-riches fairytale with a brilliant ensemble cast of at the time relative unknowns. by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 15: (Not) East Lynne: What do your long suffering hosts do when they still can't find a copy, no matter how grey market, of the 1931 version of East Lynne? by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 28: She Done Him Wrong: Clocking in at a mere 66 minutes, Mae West's She Done Him Wrong is the shortest movie ever nominated for Best Picture. Through some kind of manipulation of the space time continuum, however, it manages to have roughly five hours of musical numbers all stuffed in at the end. by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 41: One Night of Love: Grace Moore stars as a helpless aspiring prima donna who runs away to Italy to study with a famously cruel and abusive vocal coach, while consistently rejecting a genuinely good rich guy who just wants her to live her own life in this deeply misogynistic trash fire. by Screen Test of Time
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Episode 29: State Fair: In this week's episode, David posits the conspiracy theory that State Fair, remade half a dozen times in various media, is funded by the shadowy State Fair Lobby... but is his assertion as wild as it seems? by Screen Test of Time
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