by Film School | Jun 14, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #194 Some Like It Hot (1959) Well, nobody’s perfect! Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon are a special kind of magic, and in ’59 those two were firing on all cylinders. Lemmon and Tony Curtis are hard-luck musicians on the run from the mob, posing...
by Film School | Jun 7, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #192 The Grapes of Wrath (1940) We’ll go on forever, Pa, ‘cuz we’re the people! Steinbeck’s novel, based on his very real experiences embedded as a reporter amongst the dust bowlers and other migrant workers in the California...
by Film School | May 31, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #190 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) E.T. phone home! When Ira first watched this movie, he meant its distinction laid out in the back of the VHS cover as the “highest grossing” movie of all time meant that it was super disgusting and...
by Film School | May 24, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #188 To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Hold your head high and keep those fists down. This movie might as well be called “Best Dad Ever.” The book was Harper Lee’s love note to her father, and the film is the same for Gregory Peck....
by Film School | May 17, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #186 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) No, I will not yield! Jimmy Stew is at his wide-eyed, loquacious, man-of-the-people best here in this film that has a heart as big as the U.S. entire. It’s so earnestly idealistic about the potential of...
by Film School | May 10, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #184 High Noon (1952) Hi, Noon! Minutes after retirement into a happily married life, Sheriff Kane (Gary Cooper) has a crisis: his nemesis Frank Miller has been released from prison, and he’s on his way back to town for the purpose of taking it...
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