Posts in 1957
Episode 209: Gigi

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Split score alert! David and Suzan both hate and love the same things about Gigi, most of which boils down to Maurice Chevalier (the former) and everything else (the latter), but that doesn’t mean they weigh each equally. Ernst Lubitsch may be dead at this point in film history, but his influence is alive and kicking in old Maurice.

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1958 (Won)

Additional audio from Gigi (1958)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment
Episode 208: Witness for the Prosecution

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The final film of 1957, Witness for the Prosecution has it all: Murder! Intrigue! Humor! Marlene Dietrich! So it’s more than appropriate that this episode has it all: The cast of Westworld! The Sonic the Hedgehog, Pikachu, and Spider-Man films of the last few years! A first ever for the Screen Test of Time end of year choice! Enjoy this Thanksgiving Day release stuffed full of way too many things.

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1957 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment
Episode 207: Peyton Place

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The Hayes Code relaxed restrictions on certain issues related to sex the year before Peyton Place was released, and the filmmakers took that ball and ran with it. A melodrama that would go on to be a television soap opera, every plot point is as over-the-top and ridiculous as it possibly can be.

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1957 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Peyton Place (1957)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment
Episode 206: Sayonara

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Sometimes, our hosts' predictions from the previous week turn out to be wrong. It's rare that it's in this way, though... Sayonara stars Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka in a romantic drama about American soldiers falling in love with Japanese women in post-WWII Japan. Yes, it’s still problematic, but not in the way Suzan and David were anticipating.

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1957 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Sayonara (1957)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment
Episode 205: The Bridge on the River Kwai

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The winner of the 1957 nominees,The Bridge on the River Kwai stars Alec Guiness, in what David calls “the role he was born to play” (please don’t get mad at us, Star Wars fans…), and William Holden (also arguably in the role he was born to play). It’s long, and ambitious, and cost a lot of money to make, which hasn’t necessarily been the mark of a movie that stands the Screen Test of Time. Will this one be more of the same, or will your hosts finally enjoy a big, bold, and expensive movie?

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1957 (Won)

Additional audio from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment
Episode 204: 12 Angry Men

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The curse of great poster, bad movie is well and truly over! (Well, at least so-bad-it’s-great poster…) Henry Ford leads a phenomenal cast of, well, twelve angry men in this tense, bottle episode of a movie, and meditation on the potential failings and virtues of trial by jury.

 

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1957 (Nominated)

Additional audio from 12 Angry Men (1957)

(Explicit language, as always)

1957Suzan EraslanComment