Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #27)

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Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #27)

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56 minutes

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Apr 29, 2024

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Released:

Apr 29, 2024

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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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Depression, Anxiety, and David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #001): Our first Cutting Room Floor episode! This one from the recording of Toy Story covers the trials of moving (we always have 50% more sh*t than we thought we did), the pains and inspirations of a love affair that falls apart, and the effects of... by Film School
44 min listen
Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 Films #100): Chariots, Revenge and Jesus, oh my! Josh and Ira kick off Film School with the first movie on AFI's Top 100 Films of all time with the sword and sandal epic Ben-Hur. Let's get this journey through cinema history started! by Film School
93 min listen
Blade Runner (AFI Top 100 Films #97): He's seen things us people wouldn't believe! Josh and Ira dive into one of the most influential SciFi films of all time and, amazingly enough, the first movie both of the boys have seen before. We've got opinions, oohhhh we've got opinions. Join us! by Film School
76 min listen
The Sixth Sense (AFI Top 100 Films #89): He sees dead people. ALL THE TIME! This week, the AFI Top 100 list brings us our first entry that could be classified as an out-and-out horror. It's M. Knight Shyamalan's classic "The Sixth Sense" starring Bruce Will and a mind-bendingly-good... by Film School
87 min listen
Pulp Fiction (AFI Top 100 Films #94): BIG. KAHUNA. BURGER. Pulp Fiction is one of the most iconic, impactful, most-quotable movies ever made. Like few other films in history, it inspired a generation of filmmakers and screenwriters. The boys break down Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece.... by Film School
94 min listen
Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Films #92): We're funny? FUNNY HOW?! Martin Scorsese is in the house, dropping what could arguably be considered the greatest mob/gangster movie ever made. Joe Pesci took home an Oscar for his role as Tommy, while Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Bracco and Ray Liotta... by Film School
72 min listen
What "Write Every Day" Really Means (Cutting Room Floor #002): “Write every day!” We’ve all heard the advice. How many of us have tried it and failed? How many of us are feeling shame RIGHT NOW because we have (or are currently) neglected the project we're working on? Ira and Josh have. But, dear... by Film School
22 min listen
Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Films #90): Old movies feel like Disneyland. This, and many, many epiphanies are brought to you by the black and white classic romance Swing Time with the lanky, debonaire Fred Astaire and the drop dead gorgeous smokeshow Ginger Rogers. It's all about... by Film School
74 min listen
Easy Rider (AFI Top 100 Films #84): 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 would have the world BELIEVE! It's all about dudes,... by Film School
65 min listen
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Films #98): Music is in the air! Vaudeville! Romance! Franklin Delano Roosevelt! It's the 1942 classic Yankee Doodle Dandy this time around, a movie neither Josh nor Ira had ever even HEARD of...so what put this movie on the map? Why is it on the list.... by Film School
74 min listen
The French Connection (AFI Top 100 Films #93): New York Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) chase a French heroin smuggler. And believe us, it's *a lot* of chasing! Can the Hack-man and the Roy-boy get the baddies? DOES this movie have a badass car chase scene?... by Film School
70 min listen
What Is Genre? (Cutting Room Floor #008): 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 over the 5-leaf clover of Genre... by Film School
33 min listen
How Blogging Every Day Changed My Life (Cutting Room Floor #003): Journaling, blogging, a diary; however you want to classify it, both Josh and Ira have found sitting down at the end of every day and taking a few minutes to write down their thoughts and feelings for the day. Is it for you? It might be! The boys... by Film School
44 min listen
Toy Story (AFI Top 100 Films #99): To Infinity, and beyond! Join Josh on his own personal journey to figure out if he's ever actually SEEN this movie, and Ira's dive into the Dark Night of the Soul. It's Toy Story time! by Film School
92 min listen
Cliffhangers! How To Keep Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #027): How do you write a pageturner or a movie that you can't turn off? Cliffhangers. Pure and simple. Cliffhangers keep the people coming back for more. So, how do we apply that idea to our stories? We use the wonderful article from Ruth Harris this week... by Film School
27 min listen
12 Angry Men (AFI Top 100 Films #87): 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 the lone man who stands between a... by Film School
75 min listen
Inspiration: Where does it come from, and how to keep it? (Cutting Room Floor #007): 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
28 min listen
The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 Films #95): The boys talk growing up as a small-town country bumpkin versus a city slicker, Sam the Lion, and about that empty feeling deep in the center of all of us. Why do we love it so much? And why is it that adults really actually have *nothing* figured... by Film School
85 min listen
Do The Right Thing (AFI Top 100 Films #96): Fight the Power! Film School smokes its first Spike Lee Joint, and it's jazzy, wacky, funny, and edgy AF. A very young Mr. Lee makes a statement with his masterpiece both behind the camera, and in front...and in the process, is cooler than we could... by Film School
93 min listen
How To Finish! (Cutting Room Floor #015): How many times have you started something and not finished? How many times do we ALL just jump out the gate on something creative and we have all that wonderful energy and enthusiasm, and then in what feels like the blink of an eye...it's been weeks,... by Film School
22 min listen
All The Stories We Tell: The Content Genres (Cutting Room Floor #012): We conclude our dive into the fundamental story types we tell by by going over the remaining external Content Genres of Horror, Crime, Western, Performance, Thriller, Society, and War, and the remaining two internal Content Genres of Status and... by Film School
75 min listen
Titanic (AFI Top 100 Films #83): 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 sequences ever put to film. But... by Film School
84 min listen
A Night At The Opera (AFI Top 100 Films #85): 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 the Contract Scene between Groucho and Chico. One... by Film School
57 min listen
Forrest Gump (AFI Top 100 Films #76): Life is like a box of chocolates, folks; you never know what you're gonna get. Tom Hanks plays the titular character in a film that defies traditional story structures and genre conventions. At the beating heart of this examination (and critique,... by Film School
88 min listen
What is an Action Story? (Cutting Room Floor #009): 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
59 min listen
The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Films #79): If any of them move, kill 'em! Our first Western on the AFI list is a bloody, gritty, corker of a bandit heist flick. It stars William Holden, whose star power was waning at the time, along with Ernest Borgnine and his iconic gap-toothed smile, and... by Film School
66 min listen
Spartacus (AFI Top 100 Films #81): 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 Laurence Olivier. Sweeping vistas.... by Film School
61 min listen
Bringing Up Baby (AFI Top 100 Films #88): Leopards, and loons, and lunatics, oh my! Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this truly, breathlessly fast "screwball" comedy. It's all pratfalls, bits, and vaudeville; an era and a style of comedy that we just don't have anymore, all in... by Film School
66 min listen
Sunrise (AFI Top 100 Films #82): 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. It's the first... by Film School
61 min listen
Sophie's Choice (AFI Top 100 Films #91): Meryl Streep is the eponymous Nazi death camp-survivor in Sophie's Choice. It's not a good choice; spoiler alert. It never is when Nazis are involved. If you want voice over, secrets, very young Kevin Kline's, and soaring muscial scores,... by Film School
70 min listen

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