by Film School | Apr 14, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #455 Frenzy (1972) Don’t forget: Bob’s your uncle… It’s Hitchcock’s penultimate film! Second-to-last! And first film in the wild 70s, an era where the R-rating became a thing, and a new frontier opened up in cinema that...
by Film School | Mar 17, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #454 If You Ain’t Napping, It Ain’t Happening Do you take naps? If you don’t, why is that? And if you do, do you feel guilty about it? Or are they a regular part of your routine (at least when life allows it)? We discuss our stance on...
by Film School | Mar 10, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #453 Topaz (1969) Does the word “topaz” mean anything to you? The Cold War rages on in the world, and Hitchcock delivers a political/spy thriller centered on the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, apparently even based on real events. Is...
by Film School | Mar 3, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #452 Is It Okay To Compromise? When making art like writing or telling a story, when do you compromise? Or DO you compromise? The word is so loaded with negative connotation, but its definition is so slippery, maybe even personal. So…what’s...
by Film School | Feb 24, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #451 Torn Curtain (1966) How would you like to live behind what you call the Iron Curtain…? It’s the height of the cold war. Hitch swaps his nationless networks of mysterious criminals for a far more real-world one: East Germany and the...
by Film School | Feb 17, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #450 How To Understand David Lynch “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.” David Lynch pushed the boundaries of...
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