Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project

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Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project

TLDR; Father/Daughter team watch and review all movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting back in 1927.Welcome to Shea Cinema, The Best Picture Project! Join host Sara Shea and her father, William Shea, as they watch and explore every film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Sara and Dad are recreating a project Sara assigned to her high school Film Studies students, which includes contextual historical research, discussing their personal responses to each film, what makes these films important, why these films need to be understood in context, and, finally, did the winner deserve the Oscar? So grab your popcorn, pull up a chair, sit back and relax, and let's begin Shea Cinema.

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  1. EPISODI 1

    S6E1: 6th Academy Awards, 1934

    Welcome to our Season 6 Premiere! We took a two-month break, and we never want to be away for that long again! (Please scroll to the bottom for chapter timestamps.)Sara and Dad cover the 6th Academy Awards ceremony. This is the longest eligibility period to date: honoring the best in films released in the United States between August 1, 1932 and December 31, 1933. We discuss the context of these films being made during the pre-code era, and what the implications are for filmmaking moving forw...

    1 h 39 min
  2. S6E2: White Zombie, 1932 BONUS EPISODE!

    EPISODI 2

    S6E2: White Zombie, 1932 BONUS EPISODE!

    Welcome to our first film review of the season! We are kicking off with a special BONUS EPISODE! And what better super surprise than the very first zombie story ever told on celluloid! This obscure movie stars Bela Lugosi fresh off his success as Dracula, and offers up a zombie origin unfamiliar to the average movie-lover (we’ve got Haitian voodoo and mind-control to contend with).We explore its historical context, cultural significance, and the evolution of zombie films. Of course, we discus...

    1 h 41 min
  3. S6E3: The Most Dangerous Game, 1932 BONUS EPISODE!

    EPISODI 3

    S6E3: The Most Dangerous Game, 1932 BONUS EPISODE!

    This is our 50th episode!For our second review of the season, we have another bonus episode! We are covering The Most Dangerous Game, based on a 1924 short story by Richard Connell. This film was made by the same crew who made King Kong, even filming on the same sets, and using several of the same actors. We also welcome guest (and family member) Jerry Shea, a retired English teacher who used the short story and movie in his classroom.Our history timeline includes some fun baseball ...

    1 h 26 min
  4. S6E4: Smilin' Through, 1932

    EPISODI 4

    S6E4: Smilin' Through, 1932

    We are finally diving into our standard nomination reviews! This time we are covering Smilin' Through, starring Norma Shearer and Fredric March. This fascinating film has love triangles, murder, intrigue, tragedy, revenge...and GHOSTS. (And some neat camera tricks and flashbacks and double-roles.) Is it just an old-timey Hallmark movie, or is it something more?The historical timeline has some scientific revelations! And while we have top song of the day, we also have an extra song at the end....

    1 h 54 min
  5. S6E5: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, 1932 (feat. Kieran B)

    EPISODI 5

    S6E5: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, 1932 (feat. Kieran B)

    For our second regular nomination review of the season, we are excited to welcome Kieran B. from Best Picture Cast as our first official guest host! Kieran, Dad and Sara take a deep dive into this classic Warner Brothers prison flick, making connections to Les Misérables, Ben Hur, The Shawshank Redemption (of course), and even Stranger Things.As a special treat, our history timeline includes a game-by-game look at the 1932 World Series, which features some surprises of its own.Please leave us...

    2 h 45 min
  6. S5E7: Arrowsmith, 1931

    EPISODI 7

    S5E7: Arrowsmith, 1931

    In our fifth regular film review of the season, we cover director John Ford's Arrowsmith, adapted from Sinclair Lewis's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. No, this is not the origin story of a 20th Century rock band, but it is the story of a young doctor who is determined to follow the scientific method no matter the cost. The story also has some unsettling implications for us now in the 21st century, as it grapples with an outbreak of plague and the uncertainty of using an untested vaccine. The f...

    1 h 51 min
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TLDR; Father/Daughter team watch and review all movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting back in 1927.Welcome to Shea Cinema, The Best Picture Project! Join host Sara Shea and her father, William Shea, as they watch and explore every film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Sara and Dad are recreating a project Sara assigned to her high school Film Studies students, which includes contextual historical research, discussing their personal responses to each film, what makes these films important, why these films need to be understood in context, and, finally, did the winner deserve the Oscar? So grab your popcorn, pull up a chair, sit back and relax, and let's begin Shea Cinema.

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