by Film School | Sep 28, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #134 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) HEY, STELLA!!!! Marlon Brando explodes onto the silver screen as the alcoholic, abusive, barbarian of a man, Stanley Kowalski in the seminal play from Tennessee Williams. This play, and then movie, put both of those...
by Film School | Sep 21, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #132 Rear Window (1954) Old pal Jimmy Stewart is front and center to a possible MURDER. He’s laid up with a broken leg with nothing to do, and there’s a neighbor acting shady as sh*t whose wife is suddenly nowhere to be seen…so does...
by Film School | Sep 14, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #130 Intolerance (1916) D. W. Griffith may have invented the “blockbuster” with Birth of a Nation, but it was this film with which he invented the epic. Intolerance is 3+ hours of sprawling story covering love, injustice, excess, five time...
by Film School | Mar 9, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #101 The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) One ring to rule them all! Peter Jackson’s epic live-action series based on THE masterwork of fantasy, JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was ground-breaking. For decades, THE masterwork of fantasy was...
by Film School | Mar 2, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #099 West Side Story (1961) When you’re a jet, you’re a jet all the way! One of the definitive musicals of the 50s stage takes to the silver screen in the epic-ly scaled and shot masterpiece from Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The...
by Film School | Feb 24, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #097 Taxi Driver (1976) You talkin to me? You talking to ME?! Martin Scorcese may have broke through with Mean Streets, but it was this classic DeNiro collab that cemented him as a cinematic force. And the same for DeNiro, who was becoming the biggest...
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