by Film School | Jun 28, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #198 It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings! It’s become a Christmas classic, but it didn’t start out that way! This film is yet another example of a movie that found second life on television and...
by Film School | Jun 24, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #197 How to Stay Motivated It takes energy–a lot of it–to create. So, how in the heck do you maintain the kind of energy it takes to get stuff done? What keeps you motivated to put in the time and do the work? And once you’ve got some...
by Film School | Jun 21, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #196 Chinatown (1974) Trigger warning: this podcast discusses sexual assault. In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. As a result of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex...
by Film School | Jun 17, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #195 The Trap of ‘Just Write the Bad Version’ “Just write the bad version! Get it out of your head, then it’s real and you can actually start to fix it. A ‘vomit draft.’ It doesn’t matter if it’s good or...
by Film School | Jun 14, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #194 Some Like It Hot (1959) Well, nobody’s perfect! Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon are a special kind of magic, and in ’59 those two were firing on all cylinders. Lemmon and Tony Curtis are hard-luck musicians on the run from the mob, posing...
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