Cinema Cemetery
The dearly departed Best Pictures from Cinema's past return as Dan and Kate journey from 1927 to the present exploring the "best" each year had to offer. Explore both the timeless and aimless winners from the past as we lay to rest the best of the best. Will any film be worthy enough to stand the test of time?Intro music by Chaz Hearne ("My Own Way")Artwork by Andres Perez
Episodes
86 episodes
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 82: The Hurt Locker (2009)
In today's episode, we don our bomb disposal suits and venture into the intense and gritty terrain of Kathryn Bigelow's masterful war drama – "The Hurt Locker."Released in 2008, "The Hurt Locker" takes us deep into the h...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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25:31
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 81- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
“Any specific reason?” “Just…because. It is written”. Following the story of a “slum dog” turned nearly millionaire, this movie follows Jamal through a difficult childhood as he serendipitously uses his past in order to complet...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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32:48
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 80- No Country For Old Men (2007)
"The coin don't got no say""This coin got here the same way I did"Set in the desert in 1980, No Country For Old Men follows a drug deal gone wrong, a retiring sheriff, and man in the right (wrong) place at the right (w...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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31:08
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 79- The Departed (2006)
“We deal in deception here. What we do not deal in is self-deception”. Welcome to the Irish mob in Boston of the early 2000s. As Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) goes undercover to infiltrate the villainous Frank Costello’s (Nicholson) gang, he has to...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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27:57
Cinema Cemetery: Bonus Episode 5- It's a Wonderful Life! (1946)
"Oh why don't you stop annoying people!" With such memorable quotes like that, what else could it be but It's A Wonderful Life! Kate and Dan revisit the old Christmas Classic to find out just what makes this movie tick...
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Episode 5
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35:00
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Cinema Cemetery: Episode 78- Crash (2005)
“Sometimes we feel like we just need to crash into each other in order to feel something”. This opening line from the 2005 Best Picture winner starts off an episodic look at race relations in the early 21st century Los Angeles. With a sta...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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29:14
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 77- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
“Anyone can lose one fight.” “Always protect yourself.” “Well, you’ve got me” All simple but effective pieces of advice from Frankie (Clint Eastwood) to Maggie (Hillary Swank) as this over-the-hill trainer helps an past-her-prime boxer in the m...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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33:57
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 76- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
“There never was much hope. Just a fool's hope.” “But it is not this day.” “White shores…a far green country, under a swift sunrise”. As Sauron’s army encroaches on the cities of men, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf, along with their...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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56:46
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 75- Chicago (2002)
"...And All That Jazz!" Set in the fast paced of nightlife of 1920s Chicago, this musical follows two aspiring showgirls turned criminals as they murder their lovers in a fit of rage. A show about dreams, wrongs, crimes, and spectacle, Ch...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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27:58
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 73 and 74- Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001)
It's been a long break but Cinema Cemetery is back! Join us this time for a Russell Crowe double-feature as we start the 2000s with a look at Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. Two films of completely different styles and diverse legacies, w...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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48:34
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 72- American Beauty (1999)
“My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead.” These opening lines set the stage for American Beauty, a turn-of-the-20th-century pi...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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35:52
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 71- Shakespeare In Love (1998)
“It always works out?” “Why?” “I don’t know; it’s a mystery.” A play-within-a-play, or rather a play-beyond-a-play, Shakespeare in Love tells the fictional tale of the writing of another fictional tale as a young, upstart Shakespeare s...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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31:37
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 70- Titanic (1997)
“I’m king of the world!” “Jack, I’m flying!” “A real man makes his own luck” “I’ll never let go Jack” “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets”. You know the quotes. You’ve heard about the event, now it’s time to take a look at t...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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45:16
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Cinema Cemetery: Episode 69- The English Patient (1996)
“New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.” Set at both the beginning and end of the Second World War, The English Patient tells the tale of the eponymous Count Almaszy, burn vict...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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34:53
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 68- Braveheart (1995)
“Fight and you may die. Run and you will live…at least for a little while. They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!” These iconic words by William Wallace lead off a Scottish resistance against a long-standing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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31:21
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 67- Forest Gump (1994)
“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”. With this classic line, we meet Forest Gump, the man who “truly” wrote the second half of the 20th century and influenced many of the great movers...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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33:25
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 66- Schindler's List (1993)
“It is written that whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” Schindler’s List tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi opportunist who originally sought to use the German occupation of Krakow for profit who became a...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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34:26
Cinema Cemetery: Bonus Episode 4- Rope (1948)
"I've always thought it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.""Out of character for him to be murdered too."Rope tells the story of two friends, Brandon and Phillip, who set out to put ...
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Episode 4
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32:28
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 65- Unforgiven (1992)
"I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls At one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned." Unforgiven, the Clint Eastwood anti-Western from 1992 tells th...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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28:19
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 64- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
“Did you kill him?” “No, but best thing for him really; his therapy was going nowhere”. 1991’s Silence of the Lambs tells the tale of FBI trainee Clarice Starling called him to interview Hannibal Lecter in hopes of catching a lead to a...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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39:32
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 62 and 63- Driving Miss Daisy and Dances With Wolves (1989-1990)
Welcome to a special Cinema Cinemetery Double Episode as we close out the 1980s and begin the 1990s with Driving Miss Daisy and Dances With Wolves. Here we'll be exploring two films which couldn't be more different; one e...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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49:19
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 61- Rain Man (1988)
“I don’t have my books, I’m going to be bookless”. 1988’s Rain Man tells the story of Charlie Babbit, a quasi-successful businessman looking to continue his string of high-risk, high-reward deals. When his estranged father ...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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25:07
Cinema Cemetery Episode 60: The Last Emperor (1987)
“The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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29:04
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 59- Platoon (1986)
“Looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.” Set in the thick of the Vietnam War, Platoon tells the tale of naive enlisted soldier Chris Taylor as he realizes the horrors of war both beyond,...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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30:01
