by Film School | Jan 29, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #373 Rich and Strange (1931) I want some of the good things of life… Hitch definitely tries something a little different with this one: it’s a comedy drama this time–not nearly the silly farces he’s tried to this point on the...
by Film School | Jan 25, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #372 Sympathetic or Unsympathetic Villains There’s much ado these days about making your villain’s point of view a sympathetic one. After all, everyone is the hero of their own narrative. But…what about all those villains who are just,...
by Film School | Jan 22, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #371 The Skin Game (1931) What’s gentility worth if it can’t stand fire? This film is about the revolution in “Industrial Revolution.” An old school landowning family finds their idyllic country world being invaded by a...
by Film School | Jan 18, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #370 Hitchcock’s Silent Era Not everyone is aware that Hitchcock actually started making movies all the way back in Britain’s 1920s silent era. Now that we’ve watched all of those films (that are available, anyway), we take a look back...
by Film School | Jan 15, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #369 Mary (1931) Das ist kein Theaterstück, das ist das Leben. The 1930s were a wild era in film. The industry was exploding; there was a ton of money to be made, especially in foreign markets…if you could figure out a way to get your movie into...
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