by Film School | Feb 17, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #095 The Deer Hunter (1978) Russian Roulette. Historical inaccuracies aside, it’s director Michael Cimino’s central metaphor for the Vietnam War. It’s also the pillar around which he builds this epic tale of three normal, blue-collar...
by Film School | Feb 10, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #093 M*A*S*H (1970) Don’t let him kiss you Hawkeye! Robert Altman’s episodic tour through the absurdity of war stars Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, and Donald Sutherland as army surgeons who skip seamlessly from elbow-deep blood and guts to...
by Film School | Feb 3, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #091 North by Northwest (1959) Cary Grant stars in (one of) his iconic roles as Roger Thornhill, the very normal, very dapper bachelor thrown into a very abnormal, dangerous game of spies and assassins and femme fatales all because of mistaken identity....
by Film School | Jan 27, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #089 Jaws (1975) You’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...
by Film School | Jan 20, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #087 Rocky (1975) Yo, Adrian! Stallone takes the turn that made him a star in one of the most successful examples of the “Performance” Genre in all of history. Rocky is a bum. He roughs people up for the mob. But he has a dream: to earn...
by Film School | Jan 13, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #085 The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin makes 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 around, the gags...
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