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...
by Film School | Feb 7, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #252 The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin makes an entry on the Starter Pack, and his *second* appearance on The List as the hapless Klondike Gold Rush prospector…and he does not disappoint. We weren’t too hot on Chaplin’s previous film Modern Times. This time...
by Film School | Jan 31, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #251 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) James Cagney is a song and dance man! Music is in the air. Vaudeville. Romance. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It’s the 1942 classic Yankee Doodle Dandy this time around, a movie neither Josh nor Ira had ever even HEARD of…so...
by Film School | Jan 24, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #250 Goodfellas (1990) I’m funny? FUNNY HOW?! Martin Scorsese is in the house, dropping what could arguably be considered the greatest mob/gangster movie ever made. Joe Pesci took home an Oscar for his role as Tommy, while Robert DeNiro, Lorraine...
by Film School | Jan 17, 2022 | AFI's Top 100 Starter Pack, Episodes
Episode #249 Rear Window (1954) We kick off the starter pack with a Hitchcock classic: 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...
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