by Film School | Jul 15, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #037 All The President’s Men (1976) It’s the story of how Richard Nixon’s presidency came to an infamous end: Watergate. Intrepid (god, I love the word ‘intrepid!’) reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein doggedly pursued...
by Film School | Jul 8, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #035 Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplin is on point this week with one of his most beloved appearances as the The Tramp. He can’t hold down a job for his life, he’s getting strapped into a homicidal auto-feeding machine, and he’s...
by Film School | Jul 1, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #034 The Wild Bunch (1969) If any of them move, kill ’em! Our first Western on the AFI list is a bloody, gritty, corker of a bandit heist flick. It stars William Holden, whose star power was waning at the time, along with Ernest Borgnine and his...
by Film School | Jun 24, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #032 The Apartment (1960) “That’s the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.” Jack Lemmon and Shirley McClain star in this absolute gem from writer/director Billy Wilder. One of the movies that defined the Romantic Comedy genre, it features two...
by Film School | Jun 17, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #030 Spartacus (1960) I’m Spartacus! No, I’m Spartacus! No…WE are SpartacALLofus! 🙂 We hit our second sword-and-sandal epic of the late 50s / early 60s. This one is directed by a very young Stanley Kubrick and stars Kirk Douglas and...
by Film School | Jun 10, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #028 Sunrise (1927) Considered by many the greatest film of the Silent Era, Sunrise is a German Expressionist poem of a marriage on the rocks. It brings the visuals, helter-skelter sets, melodramatic performances, a sweeping score, and symbolism galore....
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