Why B-Movies never won Oscars | HOW TO SEE B-Movies with Dave Kehr

[@erikramaekers63]

Detour,He Walked by Night,Ride Lonesome,The Hitch-Hiker,Stranger on the Third Floor.Some of the best movies i have ever seen.

[@searchlike]

This made my day. Dave Kehr making videos regularly is great news.

[@chaidle]

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Everything about this video is amazing. Please do more! I could watch this for days.

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Glad you enjoyed it! More episodes are on the way!

[@Oranguice81]

I Love This!!! It reminds me of what Turner had accomplished, and now a lot of those restored are either Hard to find and/or priced inextricably high... Keep up the Good Work Dave!!!

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Check out a preview of next week's episode with Dave exploring Westerns. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWanhaKvlL-SgpY

[@irelanunez]

I'm delighted with the program choice and the wise comments by Curator Dave Kehr, huge critic and film lover whose sensitivity and sense of humor are making a fantastic contribution/revolution to the task of film conservation and dissemination. Republic movies on Peruvian late late TV warmed my insomniac nights as a teenager in Lima. I used to watch them almost in guilt, with a very low sound, so as to prevent my parents, who slept in the same room, getting awake and send me to my bedroom immediately. I'm glad that they have been restored and made available to be fully enjoyed again.

[@davenewton9652]

It is amazing how much you manage to cover in only 12 minutes - a quick overview of the history, style and techniques, the relevance of some of their restrictions as applicable to amateur/independent film makers today, restoration, and more. And you have a good voice for the narration. Having watched a couple of your pieces I've bookmarked the series to dive into further, because this is the sort of series to keep a pen & pad handy to jot down all the things that will lead down a rabbit hole of google & youtube searches that eat up significant parts of several evenings. Many thanks.

[@nn9]

Really great! Congrats and more please. Dave Kerr has a great voice and a good sense of humor for it. And he obviously knows his stuff. The editing is wonderful.

[@thegreatmonster]

My thoughts: Yep. More of these. PLEASE.

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Here's a preview of next week's episode with Dave exploring the Western! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWanhaKvlL-SgpY

[@joebloggs8636]

I have been a movie buff since o was a kid..i am 67 now and still love the classics..this is great stuff..tailor made for a guy like me..thanks!

[@ktjp1978]

Wonderful! Perfect length, loved Dave’s voiceover. Insightful and interesting commentary. Fantastic and can’t wait for more in the series.

[@davidphilipleasure]

This was lovely. Looked all over the internet for some kind of information about B films. The conversational tone added with the useful information was very needed. I also enjoyed seeing David Kehr talking at the end of the video. Nice little bow to tie on top. Thank you very much, very helpful. We need more videos like this.

[@johnscanlan9335]

I think this is a fantastic tutorial on an important segment of American film history that virtually no one has studied. I suggest that you expand on this topic by looking at the whole sub-genre of the shorts/serials that nobody under 60 years old even knows about. These ultra cheap films provided excellent very entry level work experiences for the star struck American young adults who came from all over the country to Hollywood with no acting skills or experiences and gave them a chance to get their first professional film work!

[@goodboybuddy1]

Thanks. There is something direct and innocent about these movies that I always found charming and, of course, a little humorous. My Dad was a fan of B westerns way back in the day. He rode his horse into a small town to see them. Cool.

[@GlenHallstrom]

That's great, Dave. I adore B movies. I play a lot of Role-Playing Games and I'm always looking for adventure ideas. I'm also fortunate to be a film buff and B films are a wonderful source of inspiration. Recently I've gotten a lot of the old Mill Creek 50/100/200 movie sets with a lot of B's in the mix. These modest movies are fantastic for ideas and just a lot of fun. It's great to find those diamond-in-the-rough B films.

[@charcasc7462]

Very much enjoyed the films I saw last month as part of MOMA's Republic Pictures retrospective and looking forward to part 2 in August.

[@bradfordrick1]

The commentary was very pleasant and sincere, and expert, of course. The film vignettes were of appropriate length, the pacing was great. But the best was the unexpectedly interesting topic. This series, so far, is one of the best things on the tubes for a film lover.

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rileybartolomeo7559]

Love Dave Kehr's video essays ! We definitely need some newer episodes for 2021 ! Maybe subjects he couldn't get to with the prior season.

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Beautiful job -- well paced, well delivered text, luscious footage... I was fortunate enough to catch some of these at MoMA last year, and which I'd've been able to catch more. I got a much better understanding of Republic thanks to these series, which I had always held to be a little dull compared to its more 'termite' Poverty Row cousins. Wish there was a way to get some of these on DVD...

[@bucksdiaryfan]

B movies essentially filled the role of television shows before television existed. Its no surprise old 30s B movie westerns came back big as television series in the 1950s (eg Hopalong Cassidy)

[@janhpostma]

This was excellent. Impressive to see the rationale behind the choices on the screen - what was not done as well as what was done and the influence of the economics behind it all.

[@superarrowcollarman]

Really enjoyed that! The restored films look amazing!

[@faren31]

This is stupendous. Thank you, Mr. Kehr and MOMA for these amazing videos.

[@dankshadows]

Fascinating and enjoyable. Thank you for these treasures.

[@vnzkee]

I loved this and this series. It's inspiring to see these films brought to life in context and what it meant to produce disposable works. I'd like to see a recap on the films of other countries that had b-grade films, like those of Seijun Suzuki for example.

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

Niiiice! Intelligent analysis of a genre easily forgotten.

[@mynameis999]

Wish there was a way to watch them where I am. Intrigued.

[@itsjudystube7439]

We are fortunate in the UK to have tv channels ,showing old films...Turner Classic Movies and Talking Pictures.

[@lorepietz6202]

I loved and enjoyed this. Please do more and your a great narrator.

[@anthonywest8137]

A fantastic and intriguing video. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video and learning about the history of B movies. Thank you for sharing.

[@bartsimpson83]

If you're an independent filmmaker or want to be, looking up BOTH types of B movie (these and the later cheapo sci fi and horror films) is actually a good idea because you can study how people like Roger Corman for instance were able to make something interesting for practically no money.

[@donnieheeler]

This was such a good video!

[@demodifyable]

I watched it beginning to end. Great work!

[@stevechism436]

Valley of the Zombies was the first horror film I ever saw..about 1953, on my granddad;s 13 inch B&W TV....Quite scary for a 7 year old. A zombie named Merks that robbed blood banks for food..

[@minkstole977]

i LOVE this series! dave is so knowledgeable, thank you!!! could we see something on david cronenberg?

[@lamecasuelas2]

WOW! Hellfire looks super interesting, you know. And decades before Shinichiro Watanabe or The Coen brothers

[@RaymondHng]

4:10 That is definitely a figure skating element, a spiral.

[@genethejean1906]

Brilliant! More, more, more!

[@joseargandona5062]

Certainly, many B movies back there could easily kick the ass of many so called "A" movies from todays.

[@joemarvelly6181]

This is brilliant. Instant subscribe

[@Quixoticscope]

You should do a story on new line cinema. They started out producing b- horror movies and ended up becoming a major studio with the lord of the rings franchise.

[@isabelaoliveira9270]

Really interesting essay 👍

[@cogniterra]

Loved this video--thanks, Dave!

[@josephgil8165]

Great work!

[@Hillers62]

At 3:00 ...Storm Over Lisbon is the same as The Asylum Studios movies...make a film loosely similar to a big movie, and release it at about the same time...BTW...sometimes the Asylum films are better than the original...yes, I'm a fan...

[@fleshgordon]

More of this please

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Here's a preview of next week's episode! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWanhaKvlL-SgpY

[@arthurharrison1345]

Wow, thanks for this gem!

[@ciesaro]

You never see any films by Republic anymore. BTW I was just thinking of the subject of if a B movie ever won an Oscar. Thanks Dave

[@juliaribeiro484]

This was GREAT. I want to be friends with Dave lol

[@nickoelng]

Great!! And your voice is amazing

[@allangoncalves9288]

Great content! Thnks for the effort

[@misaelpaintsstreetart1522]

cover the making of metropolis , i bet you can dig up some fun facts about that gem

[@neimeisterjs]

Trigger, Jr is underrated

[@davidrobot7818]

Moma/Dave , How can one find out if a movie still falls under copyright?

[@chaidle]

David Robot man, can you tell me where I can download those kinds of movies? I really need those kinds. Or something like guy maddin. And also what is the no.1 movie forum for those kinds like which is exceptional from well known indie movies

[@alessia200571]

where s the picture "les amants" of René Magritte? on the 5 floor? Thanks.

[@pearlshifer1776]

where can we see these films?

[@oobrocks]

Oscar now has the opposite problem: the last big budget film to win best picture is 2003's LOTR: ROTK. My guess is once Oscar voters realized Oscar increases box office, they Only want to promote smaller films. Oscar thinks "Spider-Man No Way Home got it's reward via money" It's also ptly y Oscar has lost so many viewers

[@richardburt9812]

John Alton!

[@stan_dinghere]

love shit like this. i hope paramount makes these movies somewhat accessible

[@mmdoom]

love this !

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

More!

[@LesleyGene]

Love it!

[@simeonfrohm]

fantastic!!

[@Bluebuthappy182]

Very interesting

[@Hillers62]

I think the Film Academy is very biased when it comes to nominees...I am still furious that "Smokey and the Bandit" was never nominated!!!!

[@lxDarkToothxl]

Casablanca was an incredible movie. A piece of art. What ever happened to good film making?

[@thecuss6817]

The highest rated film on IMDB never to be nominated for an Academy Award? "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" not even nominated as a foreign film, for original soundtrack, or for Wallach's performance.....

[@ageeblue752]

they are great movies to me..... how ignorant n envious they were about them at that time.............

[@UXASSAKY]

Boring. Very boring. Although Mr. Kehr's voice sounds very nice and accessible.