The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2014 features the year’s biggest flop, Wally Pfister’s Transcendence. Directed by Wally Pfister from a screenplay by Jack Paglen and starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy and Morgan Freeman, Transcendence is longtime cinematographer Pfister’s first and only film as a director.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Chris Nashawaty in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2014/04/30/transcendence-movie/), Ty Burr in The Boston Globe (https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2014/04/17/transcendence-character-who-really-does-live-internet/dGB4KEUsnUxdoaUfcjU1PN/story.html), and Manohla Dargis in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/movies/johnny-depp-stars-in-transcendence.html).

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The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2014 features our pick for a notable debut feature, Riley Stearns’ Faults. Written and directed by Riley Stearns and starring Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis and Lance Reddick, Faults premiered at the 2014 South by Southwest film festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from John DeFore in The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/faults-sxsw-review-687561/), Keith Phipps in The Dissolve (https://thedissolve.com/reviews/1417-faults/), and Sheri Linden in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-faults-review-mary-elizabeth-winstead-20150306-story.html).

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The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2014 features the box-office champion, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Directed and co-written by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, Guardians of the Galaxy is the tenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Manohla Dargis in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/movies/chris-pratt-stars-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy.html), Scott Foundas in Variety (https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1201267373/), and Stephanie Zacharek in The Village Voice.

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This bonus episode for our retrospective 20th season looks back to the awesome movie year of 1967 with Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai. Written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier and Jacques Leroy, Le Samourai was the one movie that Josh, Jason and producer David Rosen all had as a possible pick in our movie draft for the season.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/13/archives/the-godson-no-relation-to-godfather-opens.html), Penelope Gilliatt in The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/07/15/idiot), and Kenneth Turan in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/09/29/samourai-an-austere-poem-of-crime/e032d06a-8b30-40c3-8899-3a78880050e3/).

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In this epilogue to our season on the awesome movie year of 1941, we talk about alternate movies we considered including in all of our different categories this season, and read suggestions from some listeners about their favorite 1941 movies.

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The fourteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features our audience choice poll winner, William Wyler’s The Little Foxes. Directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by Lillian Hellman (based on her play) and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Charles Dingle, Dan Duryea and Carl Benton Reid, The Little Foxes defeated two other Davis films in our 1941 audience choice poll.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/22/archives/the-little-foxes-full-of-evil-reaches-the-screen-of-the-music-hall.html) and Variety (https://variety.com/1940/film/reviews/the-little-foxes-2-1200413463/).

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The thirteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features our future cult classic pick, H.C. Potter’s Hellzapoppin’. Directed by H.C. Potter and starring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige and Mischa Auer, Hellzapoppin’ was based on Olsen and Johnson’s hit Broadway revue.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from T.S. in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/26/archives/hellzapoppin-makes-its-film-appearance-at-the-rivoli-youre-in-the.html), James Agee in Time (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,849764-2,00.html), and Variety.

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The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1941 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, Abbott and Costello in Hold That Ghost. Directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joan Davis, Richard Carlson and Evelyn Ankers, Hold That Ghost was Abbott and Costello’s third feature film of 1941.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Thomas M. Pryor in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/08/archives/at-the-capitol.html), William R. Weaver in the Motion Picture Herald, and Variety.

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If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.

You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/

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