Top 10 Films of the 1930s
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11/23/23 • 98 min
Welcome to our 26th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1930s.
To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will be going back and looking at each decade of cinema and listing their 10 favourite films of each decade.
This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1930s.
During the 1930s, sound films, talkies, dominated cinema and were a phenomenon. Silent films were very much a thing of the past. The 30s was the golden age of Hollywood and 1939 is considered one of the best years of cinema. The studio system was at its highest and The Hays Code was in full affect. Musicals, monster horror films, swashbuckling epics and even westerns were very popular. Escapist cinema at its best. It was also the decade of The Great Depression, the rise of fascist political movements and Europe was still dealing with the fallout of World War One. Where will films like The Lady Vanishes, 42nd Street, Stagecoach, La Grande Illusion and The Women land on their lists? Listen here to find out.
We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. On the next and last Top 10 episode, it's going to be about the 1920s and each of their 10 favourite films from that period. So stay tuned for that.
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Welcome to our 26th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1930s.
To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will be going back and looking at each decade of cinema and listing their 10 favourite films of each decade.
This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1930s.
During the 1930s, sound films, talkies, dominated cinema and were a phenomenon. Silent films were very much a thing of the past. The 30s was the golden age of Hollywood and 1939 is considered one of the best years of cinema. The studio system was at its highest and The Hays Code was in full affect. Musicals, monster horror films, swashbuckling epics and even westerns were very popular. Escapist cinema at its best. It was also the decade of The Great Depression, the rise of fascist political movements and Europe was still dealing with the fallout of World War One. Where will films like The Lady Vanishes, 42nd Street, Stagecoach, La Grande Illusion and The Women land on their lists? Listen here to find out.
We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. On the next and last Top 10 episode, it's going to be about the 1920s and each of their 10 favourite films from that period. So stay tuned for that.
Follow us on our Twitter page to stay tuned about updates.
Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we have been recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic:
Follow Anders on twitter.
Follow Adam on twitter.
Also check us out on Letterboxd!
Here is Anders's full list on Letterboxd of his favourite films of the 1930s!
Read recent film reviews by Anders Holmes here:
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 110 - 1930s Horror Special
Welcome to our 1930s Horror Special!
It is October and that spooky time of the year where horror fans sit down to watch nothing but scary movies over this glorious month. Anders & Adam Holmes meet over Zoom and talk about 1930s horror aka Pre-Code Horror. Films like Dracula, Island of Lost Souls, Vampyr, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man and The Bride Of Frankenstein.
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Here is an oldie but a goodie: Our episode on James Whale's horror classic Frankenstein and it's great sequel The Bride of Frankenstein.
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The Movies And Me - Episode 1 - Callum Burn
Welcome to the first episode of The Movies And Me, a new podcast project of ours where each episode we sit down and talk with a filmmaker or someone who works in the film industry about their newest and latest film project or just a big cinephile in general who just lives for movies. We also ask about and discuss their four favourite films that have inspired them to go out and have a career in film or just at the very least inspire them.
On this first episode, Anders and Adam Holmes sit down with a bonafide and talented filmmaker Callum Burn, Anders's old Met Film School friend, and talk about his new feature film Battle Over Britain. A low budget Second World War film about a group of exhausted Spitfire pilots fighting to the last man/pilot during the Battle Of Britain. A film that Anders worked on last year as a sound recordist and boom operator.
Since finishing film school ten years ago, Callum and his father Andrew Burn have started their own independent production company Tin Hat Productions and already have two feature films under their belt, Lancaster Skies and Spitfire Over Berlin, and with plenty more in development. We talk about Battle Over Britain, the limitations and process of making a big scale film on a small budget and the four (or five films) that have inspired Callum to aspire to be a director.
The film premiere's in select UK cinemas on December 1st.
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Battle Over Britain is available on DVD & Blu-Ray next year on January 29th, you can pre-order the film now on Amazon.
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Be sure to check out the film when it is available and we hope you enjoy the episode.
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