by Film School | Mar 12, 2020 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #102 The AFI’s Top 100-51: Behind The Numbers We’re HALFWAY THROUGH the list!!! Crazy. It’s flown by. This week, we do a deep dive into how we’ve rated the movies on this list thus far: how have the top 50 films fared? How do...
by Film School | Mar 9, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #101 The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) One ring to rule them all! Peter Jackson’s epic live-action series based on THE masterwork of fantasy, JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was ground-breaking. For decades, THE masterwork of fantasy was...
by Film School | Mar 5, 2020 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
Episode #100 What Is Your Deepest Darkest Fear? This can be a hard one to dig deep and engage with, but it’s a really important question. Fear affects us all, and it affects us the most when we don’t even know it’s there. It kills creativity,...
by Film School | Mar 2, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #099 West Side Story (1961) When you’re a jet, you’re a jet all the way! One of the definitive musicals of the 50s stage takes to the silver screen in the epic-ly scaled and shot masterpiece from Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The...
by Film School | Feb 27, 2020 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #098 Entitlement and the Fruits of our Labor The Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Hindu epic, tells us that we are entitled only to our WORK. We are not entitled to the FRUITS of our work. So…what does that mean? And *is* there wisdom in detaching...
by Film School | Feb 24, 2020 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #097 Taxi Driver (1976) You talkin to me? You talking to ME?! Martin Scorcese may have broke through with Mean Streets, but it was this classic DeNiro collab that cemented him as a cinematic force. And the same for DeNiro, who was becoming the biggest...
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