by Film School | Mar 21, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #258 Swing Time (1936) We decided to end the AFI Top 100 Starter Pack with some old school “class”… Old movies feel like Disneyland. This, and many, many epiphanies are brought to you by the black and white classic romance Swing...
by Film School | Mar 14, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #257 The Graduate (1967) Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me . . . aren’t you? It’s the movie that made Dustin Hoffman a star, and rightly so. He plays the naive, uptight and awkward Benjamin Braddock who masks a disenchanted with his parents’...
by Film School | Mar 7, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #256 The Wild Bunch (1969) If any of them move, kill ’em! It was our first Western on the AFI list, and it’s a bloody, gritty, corker of a bandit heist flick. It stars William Holden, whose star power was waning at the time, along with Ernest...
by Film School | Feb 28, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #255 Jaws (1975) We’re gonna need a bigger boat. Jaws: the genesis of the summer blockbuster, and the film that launched Steven Spielberg into the stratosphere. Dude was 26 when he made this move. TWENTY. SIX. And it defined an entire genre of films. We...
by Film School | Feb 21, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #254 Apocalypse Now (1979) War is hell. Any sample of the AFI Top 100 wouldn’t be complete without Francis Ford Coppola, and he is the real star of this ambitious, disturbing, madness-inducing look into the horrors of the Vietnam War based on the...
by Film School | Feb 14, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #253 Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles, by all accounts, was a Hollywood outsider. He knew nothing about filmmaking coming in to make Citizen Kane, and yet it’s on the tippy top of the AFI’s “best” list. So, how exactly did he do that? And why is...
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