by Film School | May 23, 2019 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #024 What Is Genre? Genre. It’s the absolute #1 MOST IMPORTANT THING you can ever decide for your story. It informs eevveerrryyyything else. So…what IS genre, then? And WHY is it the most important thing for storytelling? Josh and Ira go...
by Film School | May 20, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #023 A Night At The Opera (1935) You can’t’a fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause! The Marx Brothers kick off their tenure of pictures at MGM with this zany musical comedy that features such classic scenes as the Stateroom Cabin, and...
by Film School | May 16, 2019 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
EPISODE #022 Inspiration: Where does it come from, and how to keep it? This week, Josh and Ira discuss the tools and techniques they use to find new ideas, and how they keep their inspiration going during the day-to-day grind. Where do you get your best ideas?!...
by Film School | May 13, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #021 Platoon (1986) Tom Berenger IS reality, folks. At least he is in Oliver Stone’s intense, over the top, disturbing take on Vietnam which was released in 1986. The 80s, man; where more was more and the cocaine and steroids were flowing. The...
by Film School | May 9, 2019 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #020 Comparisonitis and Balancing Ambition vs Contentment We’ve all been there: how can that person have done that thing we can’t do? And, at such an early age?! Comparing ourselves to others can be so toxic…but then again, how can we...
by Film School | May 6, 2019 | AFI's Top 100 Films, Episodes
Episode #019 12 Angry Men (1956) Jury duty: it’s the nightmare for every working man and woman in America. But, what if it’s also the pillar of our entire justice system? Henry Fonda offers a gripping story centered around the latter, and stars as...
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