by Film School | Apr 26, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #180 Double Indemnity (1944) Not an accident. Not suicide. Murder. Billy Wilder is in peak form on this classic black & white noir starring Barbara Stanwyk as the femme fatale and the smooth-talking Fred MacMurray as her mark, a run-of-the-mill...
by Film School | Apr 22, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #179 Balancing Curiosity with Routine Routine is a haven for productivity, but it can turn into a rut. Curiosity can drive experimentation and growth, but it can lead to shiny-object syndrome…where’s the balance in between? How can they feed...
by Film School | Apr 19, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #178 Apocalypse Now (1979) War is hell. Based on the novella “Heart of Darkness,” Francis Ford Coppola is the real star of this ambitious, disturbing, madness-inducing look into the horrors of the Vietnam War. Starring Martin Sheen and a...
by Film School | Apr 15, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #177 How to Manage Creative Energy Creative energy: a finite resource. Our ability to get good creative work done is undeniably limited to how much energy we have in any given day. How much energy we have varies from day to day. Project to project,...
by Film School | Apr 12, 2021 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #176 The Maltese Falcon (1941) The stuff dreams are made of! Our first dyed and true NOIR has finally arrived here on the AFI’s list, and boy howdy is it a cracking good time. Femme fatales, druggings in drinks, secret shooters, an ancient...
by Film School | Apr 8, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #175 What is ‘Voice?’ A strong “voice.” We all want to be told that we have one in our writing. Every great writer has a “strong voice.” Okay . . . so, what even IS a “voice” in our writing? And, how do we...
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