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Film School
A filmmaker and a writer tackle the AFI's Top 100 Films and beyond to educate themselves about movies and storytelling. Welcome to Film School!
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What Is Genre? (Cutting Room Floor #233)
When we talk about "genre" as it relates to movies, books, comics, etc. what do we mean? What IS "genre?" Josh and Ira break down how we use that term...
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #3)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #2)
"The earth knows it's wrong for us to survive..."
We're diving into Miyazaki's second feature film! The world is a wasteland called the "sea of...
The Criterion Closet (Cutting Room Floor #232)
Josh and Ira take a trip outdoors to visit the Criterion Closet when it visited Los Angeles. It was a hoot!
Up Next On Film School: Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive!
Josh announces our next project on Film School: we're diving deep into the Japanese anime master, Hayao Miyazaki!
The Game
Discovering the object of the game is the object of the game...
It's hard to follow up a classic thriller like Seven, but that's exactly what Da...
High Anxiety
I know what came over you: High Anxiety. You've still got it!
Well, it turns out we couldn't quite get ol' Hitch out of our system, and neither...
The Essential Hitchcock (Cutting Room Floor #231)
53 films. 50 years. 6 decades. After watching every single movie Alfred Hitchcock ever made (minus one, lost in time), Josh and Ira reflect back on th...
Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #53)
Leave your crystal balls out of this, George...
It's Hitchcock's final film. After 6 decades, 53 films, and 50 years, Alfred Hitchcock finally r...
Navigating Transition Periods (Cutting Room Floor #230)
When you're entering into a new chapter of life--any kind; moving, finishing a big project, marriage, divorce, kids, a breakthrough in therapy, new jo...
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #52)
Don't forget: Bob's your uncle...
It's Hitchcock's penultimate film! Second-to-last! And first film in the wild 70s, an era where the R-rating b...
If You Ain't Napping, It Ain't Happening (Cutting Room Floor #229)
Do you take naps? If you don't, why is that? And if you do, do you feel guilty about it? Or are they a regular part of your routine (at least when lif...
Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #51)
Does the word "topaz" mean anything to you?
The Cold War rages on in the world, and Hitchcock delivers a political/spy thriller centered on the...
Is It Okay To Compromise? (Cutting Room Floor #228)
When making art like writing or telling a story, when do you compromise? Or DO you compromise? The word is so loaded with negative connotation, but it...
Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #50)
How would you like to live behind what you call the Iron Curtain...?
It's the height of the cold war. Hitch swaps his nationless networks of mys...
How To Make Sense Of David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #227)
"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go dee...
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #49)
You, Freud. Me, Jane?
Alfred takes on sex, lies, and money missing from the big safe at work. It's half trippy para-psychology Spellbound, part...
Writing Evil (Cutting Room Floor #226)
The Darkness is out there. Everyone can feel evil working in the shadows of the real world, however figurative or literal you want to attribute it. So...
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #48)
It's the end of the world!
Hitch backs up the classic Psycho with another horror film, but this time it's nature itself that's out for humanity...
Level Up! (Cutting Room Floor #225)
Should I stay or should I go now? It takes SO MUCH EFFORT to reach a plateau--a new level--it can be absolutely daunting to consider doing it all over...
Psycho Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #47)
We all go a little mad sometimes...
Welcome to the birth (debatedly) of the slasher film! Hitch might not have been the absolute FIRST to dive i...
2025 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #224)
Happy New Year!!! With the holidays now in the rear view, our thoughts turn to the year ahead: 2025. What do you have planned for this coming year? Wh...
2024 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #223)
Another year gone! 2024, we hardly knew thee... What will you remember this year for? What's going to come to mind when you think of 2024? What were t...
Elf
Buddy the Elf--what’s your favorite color?
Will Ferrel brings us a modern holiday classic as the man who was raised by elves up in the North Pol...
The Family Man
I've seen what we could be like together...
Nicholas Cage has it all! The penthouse apartment, the eight-figure bank account, and all the solitu...
North By Northwest Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #46)
You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you...?
Might be Ira's favorite Hitchcock. It's the prototypical spy film, predates even...
The Power Of Finished (Cutting Room Floor #222)
Finishing something can make a lot of things suddenly become clear. There are revelations about our work that can literally only be gained by seeing s...
Vertigo Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #45)
You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing...
We're back to Vertigo! The last time we watched this one, it was late summer of 2021, deep in the A...
DVD Extras (Cutting Room Floor #221)
Josh calls DVD Extras his film school. The interviews, commentaries, documentaries, featurettes, and other bonus material has been as valuable in his...
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #44)
An innocent man has nothing to fear...
Alfred is doing something new this time: he's telling a true story, every word of it, top to bottom. Henr...
Strangeness (Cutting Room Floor #220)
Harold Bloom defined 'strangeness' as a mark of originality that is endemic and absolutely required for any work of literary art to be considered a ma...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #43)
A man... a statesman... is to be killed...
Hitchcock does his one and only remake! Twenty+ years earlier, back in his British period, he did thi...
Ghostbusters II
Let's suck in the guts, guys. We're the Ghostbusters...
Bustin' still makes us feel good! The boys are back and saving New York yet again from t...
Poltergeist
They're here...
This movie is the perfect horror film for beginners; Spooky 101, if you will. It's not super violent, super scary, or super dist...
Ghostbusters
Who you gonna call?
It's hard to understate just how large of an impression this movie made on the kids who grew up in the 1980s (and 90s). This...
Getting Older (Cutting Room Floor #219)
What's it liked to get older? As Josh and Ira dip their toes into 'middle age,' things start to change. You're not old yet, but you're not young anymo...
The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #42)
I think, Captain Wiles, we're tangled up in a murder...
Old Al is trying his hand again at a comedy. This time, its a country community with a d...
How Many Drafts? (Cutting Room Floor #218)
How many drafts is the right number of drafts??? Is it okay to write the thing once and then call it done? Or do we need to write and rewrite and edit...