by Film School | Feb 28, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #255 Jaws (1975) We’re gonna need a bigger boat. Jaws: the genesis of the summer blockbuster, and the film that launched Steven Spielberg into the stratosphere. Dude was 26 when he made this move. TWENTY. SIX. And it defined an entire genre of films. We...
by Film School | Feb 21, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #254 Apocalypse Now (1979) War is hell. Any sample of the AFI Top 100 wouldn’t be complete without Francis Ford Coppola, and he is the real star of this ambitious, disturbing, madness-inducing look into the horrors of the Vietnam War based on the...
by Film School | Feb 14, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #253 Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles, by all accounts, was a Hollywood outsider. He knew nothing about filmmaking coming in to make Citizen Kane, and yet it’s on the tippy top of the AFI’s “best” list. So, how exactly did he do that? And why is...
by Film School | Feb 7, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #252 The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin makes an entry on the Starter Pack, and his *second* appearance on The List as the hapless Klondike Gold Rush prospector…and he does not disappoint. We weren’t too hot on Chaplin’s previous film Modern Times. This time...
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