Episode 88: 1945 with Jill Blake
A podcast about the great movies.
Film historian, podcaster, and CineJourneys co-founder Jill Blake joins us to walk through the post-war euphoria and darkness of 1945, including I Know Where I’m Going, Brief Encounter, and Leave Her to Heaven.
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I Know Where I’m Going is is streaming on Amazon Prime, the Criterion Channel, Tubi, PlutoTV, and several other services. Mildred Pierce is available for digital rental or purchase, and recently got a gorgeous 4K from Criterion.
Brief Encounter is streaming on Amazon Prime, Max, the Criterion Channel, PlutoTV, and several other services. Dead of Night is streaming on Kanopy and Plex, or you can pick up that KL Studio Classics Blu-ray Jill mentioned.
And Leave Her to Heaven is available on the Criterion Channel and Plex, for digital rental or purchase, or on Blu-ray from Criterion.
You can follow Jill on Blusky and Instagram, and you can check out CineJourneys here (or follow them on Letterboxd here.) You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). And he just announced the publication date for the James Gandolfini biography we’ve mentioned on the show - you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop. You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
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