The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast.

My name is Brian Sauer.

I am joined as always by the delightful Elricane.

Yeah, man.

This is, we're going back about just under 30 years, about 25 years before we existed.

Yeah, yeah, we're continuing our cult movie series.

Uh, we have done cult movies of the 2000s, the 90s, the 80s, the 70s, the 60s, and

now the 1950s.

And we're deciding to sort of dial it down a little bit with the cult

movie series moving forward. We usually do 10 films. In this case, we're going to do five

films each. Well, I think it's because the 50s produced so many other lists for us. Like,

you know, if we hit noir lists or crime lists or westerns.

50s sci-fi, yeah, whatever it's going to be, I feel like we don't want to overly go to

the trough in just one episode.

So five feels right, five because, and it'll be interesting to see where you go in that giant

pool.

I found it far less daunting doing this way.

Otherwise, it feels like a project that takes about the full year, like when you're working on one of these. I really did take that. Like for 60s, I would like, you know, go to all the

kind of dark corners of stuff you haven't seen. So this felt a lot more fluid in that way, I think.

Yeah. No, I agree with you. Absolutely. And as you said, we have covered a lot of 50s stuff, and I'm not even counting,

well, I guess some of these are under the noir banner,

but I mean, some of the 50s things that I would have highlighted,

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