by Film School | Sep 13, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #220 City Lights (1931) Tomorrow the birds will sing! Chaplin takes on life in the city! The Tramp makes a rich friend who only recognizes him when he’s drunk, falls in love with a young woman on hard times, and generally causes havoc everywhere...
by Film School | Sep 6, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #218 The Searchers (1956) That’ll be the day… Widely considered to be one of–if not THE–best westerns ever made, we’re watching the John Ford, John Wayne classic this week. After a brutal attack on his family’s farm,...
by Film School | Aug 30, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #006 The Return of the Jedi (1983) It’s a trap! Sequels are hard. Endings are harder. It was probably an impossible task to out-do the magic trick Empire pulled when it outdid Star Wars, but Jedi still manages to hold its own. The visuals are top...
by Film School | Aug 16, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #212 Star Wars (1977) May the Force be with you! You know the AFI list is getting real when Star Wars shows up. For the Gen X and Millennial generations, there’s no bigger film that this. It’s the most popular, the most influential, the most...
by Film School | Aug 9, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #210 Psycho (1960) A boy’s best friend is his mother. In the period between 1954 to 1960, Hitchcock made every single one of the four of his films that appear on the AFI’s Top 100 list. Psycho, the last of those four films, might be the best...
by Film School | Aug 2, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #208 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Good morning, Dave . . . It’s hard to overstate just how influential this film is, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, a touchstone of the 60s psychadelic movement, and arguably the best–or at least...
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