I migliori Vintage Sand podcast (2024)

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Vintage Sand Episode 54: Director's Cut: Joseph Losey 1:30:46

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Elegant. That was the adjective used by Team Vintage Sand’s own Michael Edmund to describe why the films of Joseph Losey are so important to him, and why he has been such a huge fan of Losey’s for nearly all of his film-going life. Losey’s was a name that seemed to keep popping up in a wide variety of contexts over the course of the podcast, so, af…

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Vintage Sand Episode 53: Hidden Gems, Volume IV 1:22:19

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For the fourth time in the history of the podcast, Team Vintage Sand returns to one of its most popular formats, the Hidden Gems episode. As we did previously in episodes 11, 30, and 40, Michael, John and I each choose one film to discuss that we feel has been unjustly neglected and overlooked by the huddled masses yearning to see anything besides …

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Vintage Sand Episode 52: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Films of 1974 1:26:11

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The end of 1974 saw the implosion of the Director’s Company, founded just a year earlier by three of Hollywood’s hottest directors: Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, and William Friedkin. Funded by Paramount, the idea was that within a certain budget, these directors would make whatever they wanted, have final cut on their work, and split the pro…

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Vintage Sand Episode 51B: Alternate Oscars: The 1960's Edition 1:22:06

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Our Alternate Oscars episodes, based on Danny Peary’s fantastic 1992 book of the same name, have always been among our most popular. Over the course of the podcast, we’ve covered the 1930’s, 1950’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and the 2000’s. Comparing what films actually won Best Picture to what we believe should have won is always a fun challenge, an…

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Vintage Sand Episode 51A: Alternate Oscars: 1960's Edition, Volume I 56:37

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Our Alternate Oscars episodes, based on Danny Peary’s fantastic 1992 book of the same name, have always been among our most popular. Over the course of the podcast, we’ve covered the 1930’s, 1950’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and the 2000’s. Comparing what films actually won Best Picture to what we believe should have won is always a fun challenge, an…

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Vintage Sand Episode 50: Of Bombs and Bombshells - 2023 in Film 1:28:40

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It began six years ago, in the before time, with three film nerds who have been friends for four decades. Through the years, whenever we hung out together, we would inevitably end up talking for hours about film. So, we wondered aloud, why not make it official? Thus was born, in the spring of 2018, Vintage Sand, your film history podcast. One pande…

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Vintage Sand Episode 49: "Killers of the Flower Moon": It's Just the Way This Is Going 1:31:04

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When a director of Martin Scorsese’s stature releases a new movie, it’s time to drop everything else and discuss. When last we did this, with "The irishman", our thoughts on that film were mixed; it was a summation of some of the themes and ideas that have characterized Scorsese’s work, and it also contained certain thematic elements of his “spirit…

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Vintage Sand Episode 48: "The Union Forever!" 1:34:56

1y ago1:34:56

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As of our taping of this episode, Hollywood is still under the shadow of the labor problems which have arisen periodically since the beginnings of the industry. After all, remember that the formation of the Academy and the establishment of the Oscars were in many ways the studio moguls’ attempts to crush the burgeoning union movements. Periodically…

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Vintage Sand Episode 47: "Dead Reckoning" 1:28:59

1y ago1:28:59

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Combine the fact that we are preparing for the run of episodes in the fall that will culminate in our 50th episode in November and that summer has kept the old gang apart for a couple of months, we could not in good conscience let go the passing of some figures both major and minor figures in the history of film whom we have lost since last we conv…

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Vintage Sand Episode 46: "The House that Jack Built": Warner Brothers at 100 1:40:37

1+ y ago1:40:37

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It is one of the great wonders of American business that the same handful of companies have run the movies in Hollywood, almost since the beginning. After all, how many American industries of 2023 feature a power structure that would be familiar to someone from the late 1920’s? Yes, there were mergers then, like the ones that created MGM, Universal…

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Vintage Sand Episode 45: Mapping the Metaverse: 2022 in Film 1:26:26

1+ y ago1:26:26

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2022 was definitely the everything bagel of movie years. No less an authority than Stephen Spielberg anointed Tom Cruise as the savior of movies this summer, which made sense given the success of "Top Gun: Maverick". Then came the fall, and excellent movies were released…and no one showed up. And even when they did, as with the $2.2 billion dollar …

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Vintage Sand Episode 44: "Asa Nisi Masa:" 8 1/2 at Sixty 1:23:25

1+ y ago1:23:25

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“Asa Nisi Masa:” 8 ½ at SixtyIt is an intriguing coincidence that perhaps the two greatest films ever made about the creative breakthroughs and heartbreaks involved in making a film are both celebrating major anniversaries in 2023. First, Federico Fellini’s raucous, post-modern celebration of his own creative process, "8 ½" turns sixty. It’s import…

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Vintage Sand Episode 43: Thoughts on the "Sight and Sound" 2022 Poll 1:14:34

2y ago1:14:34

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It is indeed the episode a decade in the making! Here, in Episode 43, Team Vintage Sand puts in its collective two cents on the newly released Sight and Sound decennial poll of the greatest films of all time. It is a list referred to by no less an authority than Roger Ebert as “the best damned film list of them all.” But this time, was it a “woke” …

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Vintage Sand Episode 42: Alternate Oscars - 1990's Edition 1:33:35

2y ago1:33:35

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In Episode 42, Team Vintage Sand returns yet again to the source of some of our most popular episodes: Danny Peary’s hard-to-find 1993 classic "Alternative Oscars". In the past, we have used Peary’s model to approach the Best Picture Academy Awards from the 1930’s, the 1950’s, the 1970’s, the 1980’s and the 2000’s. For this episode, we hop in the W…

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Vintage Sand Episode 41: Gala Premieres--Our Favorite First Films by Great Directors 1:43:48

2y ago1:43:48

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Team Vintage Sand returns to the airwaves with our October episode, a neat bookend to Episode 31 wherein we explored our favorite final films by great directors. Here we present Episode 41--Gala Premieres: Our Favorite First Films by Great Directors. To begin, we decided to establish some parameters to spare you, our tenacious audience, any pointle…

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Vintage Sand Episode 40: Hidden Gems, Volume III` 1:21:00

2y ago1:21:00

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Don’t call it a comeback! After a long (for us)summer break estivating in all the world’s glamour spots, Team Vintage Sand returns with Episode 40, the third in our Hidden Gems series. Those of you playing along at home will recall that in Episodes 11 and 30, we each chose one film to discuss that we thought had been unjustly overlooked by time and…

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Vintage Sand Episode 39: Director's Cut: Chloe Zhao 1:09:27

2+ y ago1:09:27

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Episode 39 finds your intrepid Team Vintage Sand doing a deep dive into the work of one of our most promising young filmmakers, 2020 Best Director Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao. Although she has only done four feature films to this point, she has already established a distinctive painterly and brilliant visual style, and, as no less an authority than Fra…

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Vintage Sand Episode 38: 2021 and the "End of Movies" 1:26:04

2+ y ago1:26:04

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In a “New York Times” article published last month, Ross Douthat expounded on the provocative idea that the movies, as in studio films produced in Hollywood, were “over.” He was not arguing that Hollywood would ever stop producing movies for the big screen, nor that the notion of seeing a movie in a dark theater with strangers all around would ever…

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Vintage Sand Episode 37: A Pocket History of the Hollywood Musical 1:29:42

2+ y ago1:29:42

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In a first for the ever-intrepid Team Vintage Sand, we devote an entire episode to the exploration of the history of a single genre. Thus we present Episode 37: A Pocket History of the Hollywood Musical. From its clunky beginnings at the dawn of sound through the unexpected brilliance of Spielberg’s "West Side Story" remake last year, we take a dee…

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Vintage Sand Episode 36: We Shall Not Look Upon Their Like Again 56:13

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As we are preparing for our first attempt at a genre episode (that would be Episode 37, our brief guide to the Hollywood musical coming in February) we could not let go the passing of some major and minor figures of film history since our last recording session in early December. Therefore, our shorter-than-usual Episode 36 will function as an exte…

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Vintage Sand Episode 35: Alternate Oscars: 1930's Edition 1:29:35

3y ago1:29:35

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In Episode 35, Team Vintage Sand returns to the source of some of our most popular episodes: Danny Peary’s hard-to-find 1993 classic "Alternate Oscars". In the past, we have approached the Academy Awards from the 1950’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and the 2000’s. For this episode, we use the Way-Back Machine to explore the first full decade in which the awards…

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Vintage Sand Episode 34B: No Small Parts II 1:04:31

3y ago1:04:31

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As promised, we finish this round of our study of great screen performances with this two-part episode that highlights what are, in our opinion, the best overlooked and underloved performances by supporting actresses over the years.Recall that in our last episode, we put down our usual auteurist lens in favor of a focus on actors, perhaps a filmmak…

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Vintage Sand Episode 34A - No Small Parts II 56:44

3y ago56:44

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As promised, we finish this round of our study of great screen performances with this two-part episode that highlights what are, in our opinion, the best overlooked and underloved performances by supporting actresses over the years. Recall that in our last episode, we put down our usual auteurist lens in favor of a focus on actors, perhaps a filmma…

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Vintage Sand Episode 33B 58:27

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Our promised conclusion to Episode 33, No Small Parts: Our Favorite Overlooked and Underloved Performances by Supporting Actors.Di Vintage Sand

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Vintage Sand Episode 33A: No Small Parts 53:56

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In the past, Team Vintage Sand has focused primarily on specific directors and movements in the history of film. Of course, we understand the fundamental paradox of the auteur theory (in that film is by its nature the most collaborative medium). But if we are making the case for film as art, then there needs to be an artist, and organizing the podc…

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Vintage Sand Episode 32: The Vintage Sand Guide to Our Favorite Film Books 1:09:53

3y ago1:09:53

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We know what you’re thinking. How can those Vintage Sand guys be so durned knowledgeable about film and yet still maintain their humility? Well, of course the three of us have seen way too many films over the years, but the truth is that so much of what has shaped our lives as filmgoers has come from reading some of the great books written about fi…

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Vintage Sand Episode 31: The Final Countdown: Our Favorite Last Films by Great Directors 1:30:25

3+ y ago1:30:25

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"7 Women". "Rio Lobo". "The Other Side of the Wind". "Family Plot". "Buddy Buddy". "Pocketful of Miracles". "A Countess from Hong Kong". Have you even heard of these films, let alone seen them? Yet they stand as the final works, respectively, of John Ford, Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and Charlie Chaplin. …

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Vintage Sand Episode 30: Hidden Gems, Volume II 1:05:20

3+ y ago1:05:20

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Back in the Before Time, we did a long-ago episode (#11, if you're playing along at home) where we each chose one film to discuss that we thought had been unjustly overlooked by time and the madding crowd. At the time, we promised/threatened to go down this path again and take you, loyal listeners, into some more dark and obscure corners of film hi…

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Vintage Sand Episode 29: Home Movies: The Best of 2020 1:28:35

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It was a year, and an Oscars ceremony, unlike any other in memory. That being said, there were definitely many films, both big and small, that we think will stand the test of time and which folks may still be watching 50 years from now. So join us for the ride as we explore some of 2020’s most memorable films, from Nomadland to Palm Springs and fro…

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Vintage Sand Episode 28: Everybody Knows the Score 1:23:59

3+ y ago1:23:59

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Welcome to Episode 28 of Vintage Sand, your Film History podcast. In this episode, Everybody Knows the Score, we explore some of the best soundtracks in the history of film. For our purposes this time out, we are focusing strictly on non-diagetic (“background”) music written for instruments and/or voice for a particular film. So we are not focusing…

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Vintage Sand Episode 27: Director's Cut: Bong Jun-ho 1:28:41

3+ y ago1:28:41

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Team Vintage Sand returns with Bong Jun-ho: Director’s Cut, our study of the director who, following last year’s Oscars, may now properly be called one of the world’s most important filmmakers. While "Parasite" brought him Oscars, a Palme d’Or and international fame, Bong has been making his brilliant, iconoclastic films for nearly two decades. As …

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Vintage Sand Episode 26: Alternate Oscars - 1970's Edition 1:39:17

4y ago1:39:17

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Once again, Team Vintage Sand returns to pay tribute to Danny Peary’s wonderful 1993 book "Alternate Oscars"; this time, our focus is the 1970’s, which many call the greatest decade in the history of American film. If this is so, it’s because for a brief shining moment, from "Easy Rider" to the birth of the tyranny of opening weekend grosses engend…

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Vintage Sand Episode 25: Election Day Special: Our Favorite American Political Films 1:52:53

4y ago1:52:53

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With the most important election of our lifetimes upon us, Team Vintage Sand celebrates its Silver episode by exploring our favorite political films Made in the USA. “Political film” is a very difficult term to define, and we try to examine the idea through a number of different lenses. After all, one might argue that in a sense, all films are poli…

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Vintage Sand Episode 24: Doing the Right Thing, Volume II 1:10:57

4y ago1:10:57

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In this episode, the second part of our exploration of African Americans in film, Team Vintage Sand shifts its focus to the people behind the camera. Remember that it was not until Gordon Parks directed his autobiographical "The Learning Tree" in 1969 that Hollywood released a major film by a black director. What followed in its wake was the mixed …

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Vintage Sand Episode 23 - Doing the Right Thing, Volume I 1:22:40

4y ago1:22:40

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Team Vintage Sand is composed of three middle-aged cisgender White males who happen to be old friends and happen to have a passion for Film. In spite of these boundaries of perspective, however, we could not let this moment of social activism and (hopefully)progress go unnoted. Because perhaps more than any other cultural institution, Hollywood's t…

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Vintage Sand Episode 22: Notes on Hitchcock's Villains 1:15:48

4+ y ago1:15:48

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For Episode 22, Team Vintage Sand returns to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, for the first time since Episode 5. In that one, we promised (or threatened) to devote a whole episode just to Hitchcock's villains, characters who often end up stealing the films they're in and are often more compelling than his heroes. Reaching all the way back to "The 39 …

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Vintage Sand Episode 21: Alternate Oscars: The 1950's Edition 1:22:30

4+ y ago1:22:30

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Third time's the charm, as we turn once again to Danny Peary's peerless 1993 book, "Alternate Oscars". This go-round, Team Vintage Sand focuses on the 1950's, a decade with some questionable Best Picture choices (to put it politely). Still can't believe that "The Greatest Show on Earth" beat the unnominated "Singin' in the Rain"? Stunned that "Arou…

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Vintage Sand Episode 20: The Next Auteurs 48:28

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In the midst of the pandemic, many have turned to the art of the past, finding understandable comfort in nostalgia. Team Vintage Sand, in its usual charming and curmudgeonly way, has decided instead to look to the decade to come. In this episode, we discuss the directors that we think will become the next great voices in Film. Some obvious candidat…

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Vintage Sand Episode 19: The Best of the Teens, Part II 1:47:33

4+ y ago1:47:33

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Vintage Sand Episode 18: Top Ten of the Teens, Part I 1:28:34

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Vintage Sand Episode 17: The Irishman: It's What It Is 1:15:37

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Vintage Sand Episode 16: Reopening the Book on Eyes Wide Shut 1:12:38

5y ago1:12:38

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Join Team Vintage Sand as we commemorate the 20th anniversary of one of the most polarizing films ever created by a major filmmaker: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, his final work. Released to mixed reviews in 1999, the film has been undergoing a critical reappraisal in recent years. Hear the sparks fly as Michael (generally) likes the film, John…

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Vintage Sand Episode 15: End of Film, End of Cinema 1:35:58

5y ago1:35:58

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In a perfectly symmetrical bookend to Episode 6, this episode finds our intrepid heroes of Team Vintage Sand exploring our favorite movie endings of all time. Creating a perfect conclusion to a movie is an extremely challenging task; even our greatest filmmakers have occasionally found it to be problematic (rat crossing a balcony railing, anyone?).…

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Vintage Sand Episode 14: The Episode 14 Fists of McCluskey 1:09:11

5y ago1:09:11

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Love him, hate him or both, the arrival of a new film by Quentin Tarantino is an important event for anyone even remotely interested in film. In this episode, Team Vintage Sand takes a deep dive into Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, QT's love letter to the LA of his childhood. Can the brilliant performances by Brad Pitt and Leonardo Di Caprio overcom…

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Vintage Sand Episode 13: Alternate Oscars - 2000's Edition 1:28:57

5+ y ago1:28:57

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Turning once again to Danny Peary's amazing book "Alternate Oscars", Team Vintage Sand focuses on the 00's, a decade with some questionable Best Picture choices (to put it politely). Still can't believe that Crash and A Beautiful Mind won? Join us on our alternate history as we set things right and mete out justice in our usual cruel-but-fair Vinta…

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Vintage Sand Episode 12: Trainwreck, or What Happened to Film Comedy in the Teens? 1:18:49

5+ y ago1:18:49

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Whatever happened to Hollywood film comedies? Setting aside action comedies like the Deadpool films and Thor: Ragnarok, as well as animated comedy, why have there been so few great film comedies in the 2010's? We're talking films where the humor arises organically from dialogue, setups and punchlines, and situational as well as physical humor; you …

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Vintage Sand Episode 11: Hidden Gems, Volume 1 1:04:09

5+ y ago1:04:09

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What makes a film a classic? As with any art, the best answer is simply time. So many of the films we revere today were both critical and popular failures when they were released, and many successful films have likewise faded into obscurity. In this episode, each member of Team Vintage Sand champions a lost film that they feel merits a reappraisal.…

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Vintage Sand Episode 10: Film's Greatest One-Hit Wonders 1:28:46

5+ y ago1:28:46

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of some of the greatest albums of the rock era: Abbey Road, Let It Bleed and Tommy are but a very small sample. Yet in that year of Woodstock, what was the most popular song of the year? That’s right, trivia fans: “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies. That got us to thinking about one-hit wonders, who have a place of pr…

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Vintage Sand Episode 09: The Best of 2018 1:28:43

6y ago1:28:43

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For a while there, it looked as though 2018 might go down in history as one of the great years in film in recent memory. In the end, it was something of a split decision. The big, highly anticipated studio entries were mostly enjoyable but forgettable (think Ocean’s 8 or A Star Is Born). But it was a truly outstanding year for the small film, for t…

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Vintage Sand Episode 08: Alternate Oscars - 1980's Edition 1:07:38

6y ago1:07:38

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In 1993, the great film writer Danny Peary published a book called Alternate Oscars. In it, Peary realized the silent (or quite vocal) wish of every film fan by going through the Oscars year by year, listing who won and then arguing who should have won and why. To celebrate the silver anniversary of Peary’s book, the Vintage Sand team takes Peary’s…

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