by Film School | Mar 3, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #452 Is It Okay To Compromise? When making art like writing or telling a story, when do you compromise? Or DO you compromise? The word is so loaded with negative connotation, but its definition is so slippery, maybe even personal. So…what’s...
by Film School | Feb 24, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #451 Torn Curtain (1966) How would you like to live behind what you call the Iron Curtain…? It’s the height of the cold war. Hitch swaps his nationless networks of mysterious criminals for a far more real-world one: East Germany and the...
by Film School | Feb 17, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #450 How To Understand David Lynch “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.” David Lynch pushed the boundaries of...
by Film School | Feb 10, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #449 Marnie (1964) You, Freud. Me, Jane? Alfred takes on sex, lies, and money missing from the big safe at work. It’s half trippy para-psychology Spellbound, part neo-noirish femme fatale Vertigo, this time with a returning Tippi Hedron as the...
by Film School | Jan 23, 2025 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #448 Writing Evil The Darkness is out there. Everyone can feel evil working in the shadows of the real world, however figurative or literal you want to attribute it. So, naturally, evil plays a big part in our stories; it behooves us storytellers to...
by Film School | Jan 20, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #447 The Birds (1963) It’s the end of the world! Hitch backs up the classic Psycho with another horror film, but this time it’s nature itself that’s out for humanity rather than one of our own. What would happen if all the birds in the...
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