{"podcast":{"title":"Awesome Movie Year","slug":"awesome-movie-year-868341","podcast_index_feed_id":868341,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/awesome-movie-year/","website_url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d1b9c842-e32c-4557-aa85-bed1396d6bfa/1489641635971105.jpeg","author":"Awesome Movie Year","episode_count":389,"summary":"Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T14:19:59.460602+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341"},"episode":{"title":"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 Bonus Episode)","slug":"willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971-bonus-episode","published_at":"2026-06-03T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971-bonus-episode","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341","url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971-bonus-episode","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/50382964-d336-4a99-a2c5-fb9397234681.mp3","summary":"This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum and Jack Albertson, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971), Howard Thompson in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/01/archives/chocolate-factory.html), and Tony Mastroianni in the Cleveland Press. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ 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/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music…","meta_description":"This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Directed by Mel Stuart an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3887,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971-bonus-episode/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971-bonus-episode.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}