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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Parody Hitler 2 29 March 2025

In part two of this double episode, Nick and Rger look at more parodies of Hitler on film, with Look Who's Back (2015) and Jojo Rabbit (2019).

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Tags: drama

  1. Posted by J Michael Cule at 12:28pm on 29 March 2025

    Did "He's Back Again" remind anyone of "It's That Man Again!"

    Ah, just me...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_That_Man_Again

    I know just what Roger means about the pain of watching childhood. (Though watching adolescence is worse.) Do I have a cold black heart too?

    Hitler wasn't any less ridiculous surrounded by the corpses of millions than he was standing in the dock after failing to conduct a coup against the Weimar Republic.

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