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Screen Test of Time

Suzan Eraslan and David Daw

The Screen Test of Time is a podcast where Suzan Eraslan and David Daw set out to watch every movie ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, in order, from the first awards season to eventually the present day. Each week, they watch and review a different movie, and when they"ve watched everything nominated in a particular year, they tell you whether the Oscar went to the right one!

tv & film film history

All Episodes

00:43:43

Episode 196: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

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2022/05/09

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing; Jennifer Jones in yellow-face is anything but.

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00:41:36

Episode 195: Mister Roberts

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2022/04/26

Mister Roberts was the last movie William Powell ever did, and he’s great in it. Unfortunately, he’s not in it very much. Henry Fonda, Jimmy Cagney, and Jack Lemmon all co-star in this US Navy dramedy that had three directors before all was said and done, and the way the tone ricochets all over the place like a pinball launched from a shotgun, it shows!

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00:31:46

Episode 194: Marty

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2022/04/18

Marty was a one act play that was probably pretty good… So good, in fact, that Hollywood thought it was a great idea to make it into a movie, add a bunch of extraneous stuff, make it nearly twice as long, and ruin it.

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00:35:03

Episode 193: The Country Girl

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2022/04/03

Bing Crosby plays an abusive, manipulative alcoholic stage actor trying to make a comeback, and Grace Kelly his long suffering, salt of the earth wife, and yet it’s William Holden as the show’s director who is the least believable character in The Country Girl.

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00:48:24

Episode 192: On the Waterfront

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2022/03/28

In which Elia Kazan uses Marlon Brando to try to not only justify snitching on his friends and colleagues to the House Un-American Activities Committee, but convince his audience it was heroic. We’re not buying it.

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00:35:46

Episode 191: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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2022/03/18

Look, David and Suzan normally don’t side with musical theatre haters, but in the case of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, they’ll make an exception.

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00:36:47

Episode 190: The Caine Mutiny

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2022/03/09

The Caine Mutiny can’t make up its mind if it is an excellent film about the stigma of mental illness, especially in the military, or an embarrassingly boring romantic class dramedy. When Humphrey Bogart and José Ferrer are around, it’s the former and at its best.

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00:46:02

Episode 189: Three Coins in the Fountain

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2022/03/03

A picture postcard movie of Rome and Venice, Three Coins in the Fountain answers a question our hosts didn’t even know they had: can a movie devoid of stakes be good?

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00:27:17

Episode 188: The Robe

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2022/02/23

Richard Burton stars in what is quite literally Bible fanfiction that is almost so bad it’s good. Almost.

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00:36:45

Episode 187: Roman Holiday

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2022/02/17

Possibly the greatest casting of all time in any movie, ever. No one but Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck could have pulled this off. But wow, did they ever.

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00:28:01

Episode 186: From Here to Eternity

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2022/02/09

It’s got the most famous kissing scene of all time. It’s got at least 3 different plot lines. It’s got Hawaii, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It’s got Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Donna Read, Burt Lancaster, even Frank Sinatra! Surely the 1953 champion, From Here to Eternity, will easily withstand the screen test of time and hold its Best Picture crown in retrospect… or will it?

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00:53:47

Episode 185: Julius Caesar

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2022/02/03

Listen, we weren't so sure about Marlon Brando as Marc Anthony, either, but trust us, it works. Mostly. It mostly works.

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00:33:30

Episode 184: Shane

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2022/01/11

Despite its reputation as a classic, Shane leaves a lot to be desired as far as our hosts are concerned. Is it because the bad guys fought for the Union? Suzan and David discuss the weird failings of Westerns where the “good” guys fought for the Confederacy, with a detour remembering their confusing experiences learning Civil War history in Georgia and Tennessee schools.

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00:29:56

Episode 183: Moulin Rouge

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2021/12/23

There is a reason that the 2001 Moulin Rouge exists, and it’s because this one from 1952 wasn’t good enough to make the subject closed. Is there anything more egregious than a boring movie about Belle Époque Paris and its artists?

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00:25:50

Episode 182: Ivanhoe

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2021/12/16

The 1938 Robin Hood did all of this better.

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00:48:53

Episode 181: High Noon

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2021/12/08

Suzan is in heaven this week, because Hollywood has finally figured out how to make a good Western, and even David enjoyed High Noon. Gary Cooper stars as a deputy literally an hour from retirement who is called by a sense of duty to protect the town he’s about to leave, anyway, from a gang he put away before who are headed back to town on the 12:00 train. Cooper is a surprising choice for a Western (and was the fifth choice for the role), but he once you see it, you can’t imagine High Noon with

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00:31:43

Episode 180: The Quiet Man

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2021/12/01

The Quiet Man represents a profound shift in Best Picture nominees, but it’s not necessarily a positive one. As Hollywood gets better at film making, stories with pretty abhorrent morals are more easily nestled in well directed, beautifully shot movies… which isn’t a good thing.

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00:33:54

Episode 179: The Greatest Show on Earth

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2021/11/24

There is no question that Cecil B. DeMille was one of the greatest directors of all time, but giving him a pity Oscar for this nonsensical, barely acted, overstuffed story about a love triangle on the flying trapeze was not the best way to honor the guy.

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00:31:08

Episode 178: Decision Before Dawn

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2021/11/17

Maybe it was just too soon, historically, just a few years after the end of the war, to make a movie about how some Germans might have helped the US fight the Nazis in World War II. Or maybe Decision Before Dawn is just straight up boring.

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00:30:06

Episode 177: Quo Vadis

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2021/11/07

Okay, so maybe we took a 5 minute diversion to talk about the ludicrous sounding films listed in the filmographies of two of the stars of Quo Vadis, but listen, there just was not that much to say about this three hour long epic of incredible boredom.

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