by Film School | Jul 19, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #204 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...
by Film School | Jul 15, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #203 How To Make Your Story Feel Real Truth is what we’re seeking in art. We’re not looking for structure, or technique, or skill, or three acts, or crises, or backstory, or any of the stuff we spend so much time talking about on podcasts...
by Film School | Jul 12, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #202 The General (1927) Buster Keaton brings the ACTION! Charlie Chaplin gets most of the attention from the physical comedy corner in silent film, but Buster Keaton was certainly a master in his own right. This film is almost 100 years old and it...
by Film School | Jul 8, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #201 How To Do Something New “Step outside your comfort zone.” “Do something new.” Okay…but how? HOW do you do something that you’ve never done before? Stepping outside the comfort zone is, by...
by Film School | Jul 5, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #200 On The Waterfront (1954) I coulda been a contender! Marlon Brando stars in, perhaps, his most iconic role as the washed-out boxer-turned-mob-tool Terry Malloy. He unwittingly plays a part in a murder, an old crush comes back to town, and things...
by Film School | Jul 1, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #199 How To Use Backstory It can be so easy to get lost in creating backstory/worldbuilding/brainstorming/etc. for our plot and characters…but where does the rubber actually meet the road where that kind of work shows up in our finished product?...
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