Sit back, press play, launch a voyage through movie history. This page contains every entry in "32 Days of Movies," a video clip series serving as an audiovisual guide to 370 films. As I noted in my introduction, this series is not meant to be canonical, nor a list of favorites. Instead, it uses my DVD collection to look at different movies and different eras in cinema history.
You can explore the series two ways: by film (at Cinema in Pictures) or by chapter, here on this page. Every chapter is made up of individual clips from very different movies, drawn together out of the contingencies of my own collection; nonetheless, taken together, they do tell a story.
Chapter 1
"Dance of the Silents" • 1912 - 1926
Chapter 2
"Jazz Age Visions" • 1926 - 1929
Chapter 3
"Talking, Singing, Dancing Pictures" •
1929 - 1934
Chapter 4
"The Golden Ages" • 1935 - 1937
Chapter 5
"Hooray for Hollywood!" • 1938 - 1940
Chapter 6
"Storm Clouds Gather" • 1940 - 1942
Chapter 7
"Dreaming in Wartime" • 1943 - 1946
Chapter 8
"Noir and Naturalism" • 1946 - 1949
Chapter 9
"A Violent Release" • 1949 - 1952
Chapter 10
"The Restless Fifties" • 1952 - 1955
Chapter 11
"An International Era" • 1955 - 1957
Chapter 12 "The Wide View" • 1957 - 1959
Chapter 13
"Sixties Rising" • 1959 - 1962
Chapter 14
"Runaway Cinema" • 1962 - 1963
Chapter 15
"Tuning In" • 1963 - 1964
Chapter 16
"That Total Film" • 1964 - 1966
Chapter 17
"There's Something Happening Here..." •
1966 - 1968
Chapter 18 "Shadow of '68" • 1968 - 1969
Chapter 19
"To Become Immortal, and Then, To Die." • 1969 - 1970
Chapter 20
"Dispersed into the Seventies" • 1970 - 1972
Chapter 21
"Welcome to the Arthouse" • 1972 - 1974
Chapter 22
"Pray For Us Sinners" •
1974 - 1976
Chapter 23
"'Neath the Marquee Moon" •
1976 - 1980
Chapter 24
"Searching For Answers" •
1980 - 1983
Chapter 25 "The Weird Eighties" • 1984 - 1986
Chapter 26
"New Age" • 1987 - 1990
Chapter 27
"A Dark Dawn" • 1990 - 1993
Chapter 28 "Pulp and Popcorn" • 1993 - 1995
Chapter 29 "Living in the Nineties" • 1995 - 1999
Chapter 30
"The Millennial Mood"
• 1999 - 2002
Chapter 31
"Reality Cinema" • 2002 - 2006
Chapter 32 "Falling into the Future" • 2006 - 2009
