by Film School | Aug 12, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #419 Strangers on a Train (1951) You do my murder, and I do yours… We might best know Patricia Highsmith from The Talented Mr. Ripley, but Strangers on a Train was her shocking debut novel, and folks: it slaps even as a movie, and ESPECIALLY in...
by Film School | Aug 8, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #418 When to Kill a Character Off with their head! Sometimes, a character has to die. But, when are those times? When is it right for the audience or the reader to kill a character? Are there rules, or at least guidelines, around when to bump somebody...
by Film School | Aug 5, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #417 Stage Fright (1950) Go or don’t go, it’s all the same. I thought you loved me… Hitchcock teams up with legend of the silent era Marlene Dietrich as a stage actress who’s murdered her husband and enlisted her lover’s...
by Film School | Jul 29, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #415 Under Capricorn (1949) In seventeen-hundred and seventy, Captain Cook discovered Australia… Hitchcock tries his hand at the high-brow romantic drama of a young man falling in love with a once-glorious woman now living in exile and the bottle....
by Film School | Jul 8, 2024 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #414 Will Success Fix Me? Bestseller. Top of the Box Office. Hit TV show. Oscar. Millions…success will fix everything, right? I mean, it’s literally what we’re chasing so hard, the tippy top of our dreams, how could it possibly NOT fix...
by Film School | Jul 1, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #413 Rope (1948) Murder can be an art, too… So, Hitchcock is doing some THINGS. He’s out on his own away from Selznick for the first time in Hollywood, and he’s come out with a big swing: can we shoot a movie with no cuts? All one...
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