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A phenomena I’ve encountered while going through the films on the AFI list is encountering some movies I had watched at some earlier point in time, didn’t like, and had decided I would never see again…
One of the coolest things about movies about making movies is that they inevitably become meta. They comment on the world, while also, by necessity, living up to the same message that they’re spreading…
Are you an artist who’s too creative to work in the mainstream? Is your work considered too unconventional? Good news…
So many movies begin with the word “American,” from American Beauty to American Psycho to American Gun to American Hustle…
Breaking Bad, one of the best and most popular shows of all time, spawned the spinoff, Better Call Saul…one of the best and most popular shows of all time.…
For a great example of creativity vs creative bankruptcy, watch Star Wars episode 5, and then watch episode 9. I’ll wait. Or you can just continue reading too because I’ll extrapolate…
Part of Hitchcock’s greatness is that he’s both a artistically gifted filmmaker and a very entertaining one. He creates work with deep messages that also happens to be fun every minute along the way.…
When I had covered Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, it made me realize the value that silent films have to offer.
They work within a constraint (no spoken dialogue), and with that constraint, filmmakers have to pull off a very pure trick.…
34 years ago, a movie happened that was unlike any other movie in so many ways, and it’s actually pretty amazing that it exists…
On the topic of television and manipulation, nothing quite demonstrates how our attitudes have changed from the 1950’s to today more than watching the movie Quiz Show.…
The last film, The Grapes of Wrath, came from a novel that’s fame overshadows the movie, despite the movie still making the AFI list. This one, instead, led to a TV series that also overshadows the movie.…
Many of the movies on this AFI top 100 list are based off of books. Funny enough, some of them are much more remembered for the movie they inspired, like The Godfather and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.…
Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted that certain genres of movies exist. We have seen so many mockumentaries, slasher films, Adam Sandler movies, that it’s easy to forget that they had to start from somewhere.…
I think it’s safe to say that we all have movie blind spots. In the last AFI article, I had talked about how I had watched The Apartment for the first time.…
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Not that long ago I looked at another musical, The Sound of Music. The one I’m looking at this week is from around the same time period…