by Film School | Dec 13, 2021 | Episodes
Episode #246 Christmas Vacation (1989) The sh*tter was full! Chevy Chase takes a turn as every-dad Clark Griswold in a John Hughes CLASSIC holiday film. One of several, actually, if you throw in Home Alone; Hughes, apparently, does the holidays like no other....
by Film School | Dec 9, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #245 2021 Retrospective How was this past year? Josh and Ira take a look back over the past calendar year. While 2020 was full of external changes, challenges, and shake-ups for both podcast hosts, 2021 was an intense year personally. Both had some...
by Film School | Dec 6, 2021 | Episodes
Episode #244 Love Actually (2003) Love, actually, is all around. Ten separate stories of love, all told over the run-up to the holidays. It seems like such sprawling ensemble pieces rarely work, and yet this one does. Perhaps not as well as it used to, for...
by Film School | Dec 2, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #243 The AFI’s Top 100 Films We did it! We have watched every one of the AFI’s Top 100 (U.S.) Films. It took us three years, two moves, a new job and a global pandemic to do it, but it’s done. We’ve watched and broke down all of...
by Film School | Nov 29, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #242 Citizen Kane (1941) Rosebud . . . Orson Welles, by all accounts, was a Hollywood outsider. He knew nothing about filmmaking coming in to make Citizen Kane, and yet here it is on the tippy top of the AFI’s “best” list. So, how...
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