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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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) 28 January 2023 - 2 comments

Roger and Nick discuss the end of the world, in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012).

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Casablanca (1942) 31 December 2022 - 2 comments

Roger, Nick and Jon discuss Casablanca (1942).

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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) 04 June 2022

Roger and Nick discuss Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).

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Mary Reilly (1996) 21 May 2022 - 1 comment

Roger and Nick discuss the much-derided Mary Reilly (1996).

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