by Film School | Jun 17, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #030 Spartacus (1960) I’m Spartacus! No, I’m Spartacus! No…WE are SpartacALLofus! 🙂 We hit our second sword-and-sandal epic of the late 50s / early 60s. This one is directed by a very young Stanley Kubrick and stars Kirk Douglas and...
by Film School | Jun 13, 2019 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #029 The Worldview Genre: A Hero’s Journey Our deep dive into the story content genres continues with what might be THE MOST important, ubiquitous internal genre in human history: the Worldview story. It’s the foundation of the Hero’s...
by Film School | Jun 10, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #028 Sunrise (1927) Considered by many the greatest film of the Silent Era, Sunrise is a German Expressionist poem of a marriage on the rocks. It brings the visuals, helter-skelter sets, melodramatic performances, a sweeping score, and symbolism galore....
by Film School | Jun 3, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #027 Titanic (1997) I’m the King of the World! This week, we dive into James Cameron’s epic-in-the-classic-movie-sense love story. It made both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet a star, and it features one of the most spectacular disaster...
by Film School | May 30, 2019 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #026 What is an Action Story? Josh and Ira take a deep dive into the Action Story Genre. What makes an Action Story? And how similar is it to the Hero’s Journey…or perhaps even the SAME THING? We go deep, this week on the Cutting Room Floor!...
by Film School | May 27, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #025 Easy Rider (1969) 1960s counterculture gets its definitive film in ’69’s “Easy Rider.” It was a breakout film for Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and written and directed by Dennis Hopper…at least that’s what Hopper...
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