by Film School | Feb 8, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #376 What Makes A Great Hero? Who are the heroes that got under your skin, that live with you well past watching or reading the story, the heroes that changed you? Why? Why did they stick with you? And in thinking about/asking those questions, how can...
by Film School | Feb 5, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #375 Number Seventeen (1932) Ya don’t have to do nothin’ in this ‘ere house – ya stand still and things happen! Cutting to the chase here: this miiight be Hitchcock’s first truly terrible film. It’s a bit baffling how...
by Film School | Feb 1, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #374 What is the Best Time to Create? Do you have a time of day (or night) where you find that you’re the most creative? What about times that are consistently free? Or have the least number of distractions? Finding a reliable pocket of your day...
by Film School | Jan 29, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #373 Rich and Strange (1931) I want some of the good things of life… Hitch definitely tries something a little different with this one: it’s a comedy drama this time–not nearly the silly farces he’s tried to this point on the...
by Film School | Jan 25, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #372 Sympathetic or Unsympathetic Villains There’s much ado these days about making your villain’s point of view a sympathetic one. After all, everyone is the hero of their own narrative. But…what about all those villains who are just,...
by Film School | Jan 22, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #371 The Skin Game (1931) What’s gentility worth if it can’t stand fire? This film is about the revolution in “Industrial Revolution.” An old school landowning family finds their idyllic country world being invaded by a...
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