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!