by Film School | Nov 9, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #146 King Kong (1933) Long live the king! Almost 100 years old, and Kong still BRINGS THE NOISE. It’s rather astonishing how much of this movie still delivers the thrills today that it did so long ago. The imagery is iconic. The action...
by Film School | Nov 2, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #144 Bonnie & Clyde (1967) We rob banks! It was the rallying cry of the counter-culture movement in the 1960s, and the star vehicle that brought us Warren Beatty. Based on the all-too-true story of the Barrow gang and their bloody exploits, this...
by Film School | Oct 26, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #142 Midnight Cowboy (1969) Hey, I’m walkin here! Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman star in this gritty portrait of the hustler life on the streets of late-60s, peak urban-decay New York . . . and it’s surprisingly SWEET and full of heart....
by Film School | Oct 19, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #140 The Philadelphia Story (1940) You’re the golden girl, Tracey! . . . like Bea Arthur! Katherine Hepburn bounces between other legends Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart in this classic romantic comedy. But, does it hold up to modern ideals? Is it a...
by Film School | Oct 12, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #138 Shane (1953) You’re a low-down Yankee liar! This week, it’s the film that just might be THE prototypical western, the template for so much that followed: the lone gunslinger who rides into town and tries to go straight. In this case,...
by Film School | Oct 5, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #136 It Happened One Night (1934) Thanks, professor! Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert star in the film that put Frank Capra on the map. It incidentally put Columbia Pictures, Gable and Colbert, and the “road trip” / “screwball...
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