If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can do. Hello and Hello and welcome once again to the Cinephiles, where this week we are jumping into a very, very important film where we'll explore its themes, its history, its filmmaking, and the influence it has on us today. And there is a lot of influence from this film. My name is Steve Morris. I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. Hello, everyone. My name is John Roka. I'm a writer-producer, host, and voiceover artist down here in San Diego, California. and really excited, everyone. My name is John Roker. I'm a writer-producer host and voiceover artist down here in San Diego, California, and really excited, Steve, for us to be walking into the world of El Frank Baum with the Wizard of Oz on the same weekend that the sequel to Wicked, Wicked for Good, is out in theater. So our timing, which is not always on point.

Our timing seems to be on point this time around.

Look, when you're doing movies that are all old films, like timing isn't always the first

thing that pops into our minds. Plus our episodes end up being, well, we thought it was going

to be two parts. It ended up being three parts. So timing gets thrown out all the time.

This one in particular, this is one we've been talking about doing this movie since literally the very beginning of the cinephiles. It's come up multiple times. We've discussed it multiple times. We've kind of said, oh yeah, we should get to that soon. And it really was finally our advisory board, who in several meetings said, no, you need to do the Wizard of Oz. And of course, the only

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Absolutely.

And this movie, I've got to say everyone, you know, we always try to do movies that are interesting, fascinating films to discuss.

We've discussed big films and small films, independent films, big action films, comedy, old films, new films.

But every once in a while, we end up going to what are the great films.

Yes.

The most important films in the history of cinema.

And I think The Wizard of Oz 100% qualifies. It's listed as number six on the AFI top 100 list.

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