Ribbon of Memes

It's been over a century and a quarter since the first moving picture was committed to celluloid - the "ribbon of dreams", as Orson Welles mellifluously intoned.

And so, welcome, one and all, to Ribbon of Memes, a new podcast in which Roger Bell_West and Nick Marsh supply grateful listeners hot takes about films considered masterpieces by critics or filmgoers in general.

The rules: we choose one "masterpiece" from every year from the earliest days of cinema to our dreadful modern dystopia. Do we agree these films are classics? Are we entertained? Did we even understand what the film was trying to say? The questions are endless!*

We start in 1973 (for reasons explained in the first podcast) and progress vaguely chronologically (unless we think of another film that makes an interesting comparison to the one we have just seen, or are otherwise distracted by shiny new things).

Yes, that's right, we decided that what the world really needed was two more uninformed middle-aged white guys telling the world about media largely produced by similar people. Find out whether we were right or not herein!

*Actually, no, that's most of them.

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After Indy 12 August 2023

Roger and Nick watch a couple of films derided as ripoffs of Raiders of the Lost Ark: High Road to China (1983) and Romancing the Stone (1984).

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  1. Posted by Robert at 03:26pm on 19 August 2023

    At one point in college we did an underrated movie night and paired Romancing the Stone with Cutthroat Island to good effect.

  2. Posted by RogerBW at 09:25pm on 19 August 2023

    Hmm! That's one I've never seen, in large part because of its reputation. Perhaps I/we should give it a try.

  3. Posted by RogerBW at 09:25pm on 19 August 2023

    Hmm! That's one I've never seen, in large part because of its reputation. Perhaps I/we should give it a try.

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