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The Cine-Files

308 It's a Wonderful Life Part 1

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This year The Cine-Files decided to revisit their favorite holiday film of all time, the Frank Capra Classic, It's a Wonderful Life. 

(I'm not crying, you're crying)

If you haven't seen this incredible film you can buy or stream it right here.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Steve.

0:02.0

Each year, the cinephiles puts out its annual listener survey, and one of the questions

0:06.1

we always ask is, what episode from our early catalog would you like us to redo in our

0:11.0

more in-depth format?

0:13.2

And each year, I hope that you will pick our very first holiday movie in one of my favorite

0:18.6

films of all time, Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.

0:23.2

And each year, that movie fails to garner enough votes for a redo.

0:27.9

Well, guess what?

0:29.4

This year, it wasn't even close.

0:31.8

And by that I mean, it's A Wonderful Life wasn't even close to the top pick, but guess

0:36.5

what?

0:37.5

We're doing it anyway.

0:39.0

You know why?

0:40.0

Because I love this movie, and I know John loves this movie, and in the hour and 14 minutes

0:44.2

we had to talk about it last time, we barely scratched the surface of behind-the-scenes stories,

0:49.6

filmmaking technique, amazing performances, and most importantly, to profound meaning that

0:54.6

film holds for both of us.

0:57.0

So if by some miracle you haven't seen this holiday classic, take a journey to cinephiles.net

1:02.0

where you can buy or stream, it's A Wonderful Life, along with every other movie we've

1:06.9

ever reviewed.

1:08.6

And if you happen to support the show at patreon.com slash The Cinephiles, right now you

1:13.7

could be listening to a very lively discussion of foreign markets and the pressures they

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