Film School

By Ira Heinichen, Joshua McClenney

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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!

Episode Date
Commanding Intelligence (Cutting Room Floor #203)
Apr 25, 2024
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #26)
Apr 22, 2024
The Wrong Direction (Cutting Room Floor #202)
Apr 18, 2024
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #25)
Apr 15, 2024
The Elements of a Great Film (Cutting Room Floor #201)
Apr 11, 2024
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #24)
Apr 08, 2024
Hitchcock's British Period Takeaways (Cutting Room Floor #200)
Apr 04, 2024
Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #23)
Apr 01, 2024
White Lies (Cutting Room Floor #199)
Mar 28, 2024
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #22)
Mar 25, 2024
Good vs. Great (Cutting Room Floor #198)
Mar 21, 2024
Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #21)
Mar 18, 2024
You Need A Shock-Proof Sh*t Detector (Cutting Room Floor #197)
Mar 14, 2024
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #20)
Mar 11, 2024
How To Create Great Side Characters (Cutting Room Floor #196)
Mar 07, 2024
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #19)
Mar 04, 2024
If You Could Travel Anywhere (Cutting Room Floor #195)
Feb 29, 2024
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #18)
Feb 26, 2024
What is a Framing Device? (Cutting Room Floor #194)
Feb 22, 2024
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #17)
Feb 19, 2024
How Personal Should Your Story Be? (Cutting Room Floor #193)
Feb 15, 2024
Waltzes From Vienna (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #16)
Feb 12, 2024
What Makes A Great Hero? (Cutting Room Floor #192)
Feb 08, 2024
Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #15)
Feb 05, 2024
What is the Best Time to Create? (Cutting Room Floor #191)
Feb 01, 2024
Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #14)
Jan 29, 2024
Sympathetic or Unsympathetic Villains? (Cutting Room Floor #190)
Jan 25, 2024
The Skin Game (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #13)
Jan 22, 2024
Hitchcock's Silent Era Takeaways (Cutting Room Floor #189)
Jan 18, 2024
Mary (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #12)
Jan 15, 2024
2024 Resolutions Goals & Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #188)
Jan 08, 2024
2023 Retrospective Year In Review (Cutting Room Floor #187)
Dec 28, 2023
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Dec 23, 2023
White Christmas
Dec 18, 2023
You Are You What You Watch (Cutting Room Floor #186)
Dec 11, 2023
Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #11)
Dec 04, 2023
Lynch vs. Hitchcock: Similarities & Differences (Cutting Room Floor #185)
Nov 27, 2023
Juno and the Paycock (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #10)
Nov 21, 2023
Blackmail (Silent Version) (Cutting Room Floor #184)
Nov 13, 2023
Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #9)
Nov 06, 2023
Aliens
Oct 30, 2023
The Ring
Oct 23, 2023
Alien
Oct 17, 2023
Ringu
Oct 09, 2023
Editing, Rewrites, and Killing Your Darlings (Cutting Room Floor #183)
Oct 05, 2023
The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #8)
Oct 02, 2023
You Finished - Handling What Comes Next (Cutting Room Floor #182)
Sep 18, 2023
Champagne (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #7)
Sep 15, 2023
Comfort Food (Cutting Room Floor #181)
Sep 04, 2023
Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #6)
Aug 31, 2023
Getting Super Personal (Without Being A D*ck) (Cutting Room Floor #180)
Aug 21, 2023
The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #5)
Aug 14, 2023
Bad Habits And How To Break Them (Cutting Room Floor #179)
Aug 07, 2023
Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #4)
Jul 31, 2023
How To Do Research (And Love It) (Cutting Room Floor #178)
Jul 24, 2023
The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #3)
Jul 17, 2023
When Things Go Well...And Poorly (Cutting Room Floor #177)
Jul 10, 2023
The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #2)
Jul 03, 2023
Pluto TV (Cutting Room Floor #176)
Jun 26, 2023
The Pleasure Garden (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #1)
Jun 19, 2023
Up Next On Film School: Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive!
Jun 12, 2023
David Lynch Deep Dive: A Look Back (Cutting Room Floor #175)
Jun 05, 2023
Inland Empire (David Lynch Deep Dive #10)
May 29, 2023
Can You Outgrow A Project? (Cutting Room Floor #174)
May 22, 2023
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch Deep Dive #9)
May 15, 2023
The Hardest Criticism to Handle (Cutting Room Floor #173)
May 08, 2023
The Straight Story (David Lynch Deep Dive #8)
May 01, 2023
How To Schedule Creativity (Cutting Room Floor #172)
Apr 24, 2023
Lost Highway (David Lynch Deep Dive #7)
Apr 17, 2023
What Makes A Good Short? (Cutting Room Floor #171)
Apr 10, 2023
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch Deep Dive #6)
Apr 03, 2023
How Long Should It Take To Write A Story? (Cutting Room Floor #170)
Mar 27, 2023
Wild At Heart (David Lynch Deep Dive #5)
Mar 20, 2023
Bonafides: What Is An Expert? (Cutting Room Floor #169)
Mar 13, 2023
Blue Velvet (David Lynch Deep Dive #4)
Mar 06, 2023
Villains & Antiheroes: Redeemable vs. Irredeemable (Cutting Room Floor #168)
Feb 27, 2023
Dune (David Lynch Deep Dive #3)
Feb 20, 2023
Going Indie Pros and Cons (Cutting Room Floor #167)
Feb 15, 2023
The Elephant Man (David Lynch Deep Dive #2)
Feb 06, 2023
Where Do Your Ideas Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #166)
Jan 30, 2023
Eraserhead (David Lynch Deep Dive #1)
Jan 23, 2023
2023 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #165)
Jan 16, 2023
2022 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #164)
Dec 29, 2022
A Christmas Story
Dec 25, 2022
How To Stay Motivated Revisited (Cutting Room Floor #163)
Dec 23, 2022
Scrooged
Dec 23, 2022
Up Next On Film School!
Nov 21, 2022
The Sophomore Slump (Cutting Room Floor #162)
Nov 03, 2022
Paranormal Activity
Oct 31, 2022
You And Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #161)
Oct 30, 2022
Halloween II
Oct 29, 2022
How To Finish (Revisited) (Cutting Room Floor #160)
Oct 27, 2022
The Descent
Oct 26, 2022
How Important Are Ideas? (Cutting Room Floor #159)
Oct 26, 2022
Halloween
Oct 24, 2022
Physical Self Care (Cutting Room Floor #158)
Oct 20, 2022
When Harry Met Sally
Oct 17, 2022
When A Character Turns Out Amazingly (Cutting Room Floor #157)
Oct 05, 2022
Cosmos
Oct 03, 2022
Planning vs. Execution (Cutting Room Floor #156)
Sep 15, 2022
Solaris
Sep 13, 2022
The Difference Between Amateur And Professional (Cutting Room Floor #155)
Aug 26, 2022
Victoria
Aug 22, 2022
The Danger of Not Writing What You Know (Cutting Room Floor #154)
Aug 12, 2022
Hereditary
Aug 09, 2022
When You're Just Not Feeling It: What To Do (Cutting Room Floor #153)
Aug 04, 2022
Upstream Color
Aug 01, 2022
The Time Money Quality Triangle (Cutting Room Floor #152)
Jul 28, 2022
The Thing
Jul 25, 2022
How To Fail Better (Cutting Room Floor #151)
Jul 22, 2022
The Lighthouse
Jul 20, 2022
Pantsing vs. Plotting (Cutting Room Floor #150)
Jul 14, 2022
Akira
Jul 11, 2022
Ego (Cutting Room Floor #149)
Jul 07, 2022
Memento
Jul 04, 2022
What to Cut and What to Keep (Cutting Room Floor #148)
Jun 30, 2022
Forbidden Planet
Jun 27, 2022
How Important Is Community? (Cutting Room Floor #147)
Jun 24, 2022
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Jun 20, 2022
Chekhov's Gun (Cutting Room Floor #146)
Jun 16, 2022
Amélie
Jun 13, 2022
The Difference Between Ambition & Impatience (Cutting Room Floor #145)
Jun 09, 2022
I Lost My Body
Jun 06, 2022
What is the (Real) Magic Place? (Cutting Room Floor #144)
Jun 02, 2022
Cinema Paradiso
May 31, 2022
What Is Writer's Block? (Cutting Room Floor #143)
May 26, 2022
The Vast Of Night
May 23, 2022
How to Identify Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3 (Cutting Room Floor #142)
May 19, 2022
Beasts of the Southern Wild
May 17, 2022
How To Schedule Breaks (Cutting Room Floor #141)
May 12, 2022
Pusher 3
May 09, 2022
How To Write Good Dialogue (Cutting Room Floor #140)
May 05, 2022
Pusher II
May 02, 2022
How to Create and Keep a Schedule (Cutting Room Floor #139)
Apr 28, 2022
Pusher
Apr 25, 2022
How to Start Again (Cutting Room Floor #138)
Apr 21, 2022
My Cousin Vinny
Apr 18, 2022
Can You Want It Too Much? (Cutting Room Floor #137)
Apr 14, 2022
Man Bites Dog
Apr 11, 2022
You Gotta See This! (What's Next on Film School)
Mar 28, 2022
Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #10)
Mar 21, 2022
The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #9)
Mar 14, 2022
The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #8)
Mar 07, 2022
Jaws (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #7)
Feb 28, 2022
Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #6)
Feb 21, 2022
Citizen Kane (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #5)
Feb 14, 2022
The Gold Rush (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #4)
Feb 07, 2022
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #3)
Jan 31, 2022
Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #2)
Jan 24, 2022
Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #1)
Jan 17, 2022
The AFI Top 100 Starter Pack: 10 Films To Whet Your Appetite
Jan 10, 2022
2022 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #136)
Jan 03, 2022
Christmas Vacation
Dec 13, 2021
2021 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #135)
Dec 09, 2021
Love Actually
Dec 06, 2021
The AFI's Top 100 Films: A Look Back (Cutting Room Floor #134)
Dec 02, 2021
Citizen Kane (AFI's Top 100 Films #1)
Nov 29, 2021
Takeaways from the Podcast Thus Far (Cutting Room Floor #133)
Nov 25, 2021
The Godfather Part II (AFI Top 100 Films #32)
Nov 22, 2021
Infodump: Friend or Foe? (Cutting Room Floor #132)
Nov 18, 2021
The Godfather (AFI Top 100 FIlms #2)
Nov 15, 2021
Write What You Know (Cutting Room Floor #131)
Nov 11, 2021
Casablanca (AFI Top 100 Films #3)
Nov 08, 2021
Plot Holes vs Mystery and Intrigue (Cutting Room Floor #130)
Nov 04, 2021
Raging Bull (AFI Top 100 Films #4)
Nov 01, 2021
When and How to Celebrate (Cutting Room Floor #129)
Oct 28, 2021
Singin' in the Rain (AFI Top 100 Films #5)
Oct 25, 2021
The Limits of Story Structure (Cutting Room Floor #128)
Oct 21, 2021
Gone With The Wind (AFI Top 100 Films #6)
Oct 18, 2021
MacGuffin: What It Is and How To Use It (Cutting Room Floor #127)
Oct 14, 2021
Lawrence of Arabia (AFI Top 100 Films #7)
Oct 11, 2021
Art is Messy (The Evangelion Rant) (Cutting Room Floor #126)
Oct 07, 2021
Schindler's List (AFI Top 100 Films #8)
Oct 04, 2021
Tips To Hook Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #125)
Sep 30, 2021
Vertigo (AFI Top 100 Films #9)
Sep 27, 2021
Story Grid's 6 Core Questions (Cutting Room Floor #124)
Sep 23, 2021
The Wizard of Oz (AFI Top 100 Films #10)
Sep 20, 2021
How to Keep it Fun (Cutting Room Floor #123)
Sep 16, 2021
City Lights (AFI Top 100 Films #11)
Sep 13, 2021
Write to Market (Cutting Room Floor #122)
Sep 09, 2021
The Searchers (AFI Top 100 Films #12)
Sep 07, 2021
How to Beat Resistance at its Worst (Cutting Room Floor #121)
Sep 02, 2021
Return of the Jedi
Aug 30, 2021
What Movie Scenes Live Rent-Free in Your Head? (Cutting Room Floor #120)
Aug 26, 2021
The Empire Strikes Back
Aug 23, 2021
Success: How Much Control Do We Really Have Over It? (Cutting Room Floor #119)
Aug 19, 2021
Star Wars (AFI Top 100 Films #13)
Aug 16, 2021
How Do You Learn Best? (Cutting Room Floor #118)
Aug 12, 2021
Psycho (AFI Top 100 Films #14)
Aug 09, 2021
Bad Habits (Cutting Room Floor #117)
Aug 05, 2021
2001: A Space Odyssey (AFI Top 100 Films #15)
Aug 02, 2021
Thou Shalt Be Flexible (Cutting Room Floor #116)
Jul 29, 2021
Sunset Blvd (AFI Top 100 Films #16)
Jul 26, 2021
What Is Your Storytelling Language? (Cutting Room Floor #115)
Jul 22, 2021
The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Films #17)
Jul 19, 2021
How to Make Your Story Feel Real (Cutting Room Floor #114)
Jul 15, 2021
The General (AFI Top 100 Films #18)
Jul 12, 2021
How To Do Something New (Cutting Room Floor #113)
Jul 08, 2021
On the Waterfront (AFI Top 100 Films #19)
Jul 05, 2021
How To Use Backstory (Cutting Room Floor #112)
Jul 01, 2021
It's a Wonderful Life (AFI Top 100 Films #20)
Jun 28, 2021
How to Stay Motivated (Cutting Room Floor #111)
Jun 24, 2021
Chinatown (AFI Top 100 Films #21)
Jun 21, 2021
The Trap of 'Just Write The Bad Version' (Cutting Room Floor #110)
Jun 17, 2021
Some Like It Hot (AFI Top 100 Films #22)
Jun 14, 2021
Quarantine Postmortem (Cutting Room Floor #109)
Jun 10, 2021
The Grapes of Wrath (AFI Top 100 Films #23)
Jun 07, 2021
Advice for Starting Out (Cutting Room Floor #108)
Jun 03, 2021
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (AFI Top 100 Films #24)
May 31, 2021
The Day Job vs The Art (Cutting Room Floor #107)
May 27, 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird (AFI Top 100 Films #25)
May 24, 2021
What Are You Working On Right Now? (Cutting Room Floor #106)
May 20, 2021
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (AFI Top 100 Films #26)
May 17, 2021
Where Does Your Confidence Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #105)
May 13, 2021
High Noon (AFI Top 100 Films #27)
May 10, 2021
How to Outline (Cutting Room Floor #104)
May 06, 2021
All About Eve (AFI Top 100 Films #28)
May 03, 2021
Finding the Emotional Sweet Spot (Cutting Room Floor #103)
Apr 29, 2021
Double Indemnity (AFI Top 100 Films #29)
Apr 26, 2021
Balancing Curiosity with Routine (Cutting Room Floor #102)
Apr 22, 2021
Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Films #30)
Apr 19, 2021
How to Manage Creative Energy (Cutting Room Floor #101)
Apr 15, 2021
The Maltese Falcon (AFI Top 100 Films #31)
Apr 12, 2021
What is Voice? (Cutting Room Floor #100)
Apr 08, 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (AFI Top 100 Films #33)
Apr 05, 2021
How to Get to Done (Cutting Room Floor #099)
Apr 01, 2021
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (AFI Top 100 Films #34)
Mar 29, 2021
James Rollins' 7 Sympathy Builders for Characters (Cutting Room Floor #098)
Mar 25, 2021
Annie Hall (AFI Top 100 Films #35)
Mar 22, 2021
How and When to Pivot (Cutting Room Floor #097)
Mar 18, 2021
How to Write an Amazing Character (Cutting Room Floor #096)
Mar 11, 2021
How to Pick the Right Story (Cutting Room Floor #095)
Mar 04, 2021
How to Write a Perfect Crisis (Cutting Room Floor #094)
Feb 25, 2021
The Hardest Part of Storytelling (Cutting Room Floor #093)
Feb 18, 2021
How to Write a Great Ending (Cutting Room Floor #092)
Feb 11, 2021
Is it Okay for my Story to Change? (Cutting Room Floor #091)
Feb 04, 2021
How to Write a Great Middle (Cutting Room Floor #090)
Jan 28, 2021
Art vs. Content (Cutting Room Floor #089)
Jan 21, 2021
How to Write a Great Beginning (Cutting Room Floor #088)
Jan 14, 2021
2021 Goals, Resolutions, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #087)
Jan 07, 2021
Home Alone
Dec 21, 2020
2020 Year in Review (Cutting Room Floor #086)
Dec 17, 2020
The Bridge on the River Kwai (AFI Top 100 Films #36)
Dec 14, 2020
When You're Lying to Yourself (Cutting Room Floor #085)
Dec 10, 2020
The Best Years of Our Lives (AFI Top 100 Films #37)
Dec 07, 2020
How to Level Up (Cutting Room Floor #084)
Dec 03, 2020
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (AFI Top 100 Films #38)
Nov 30, 2020
Drawing Inspiration From Where You Live (Cutting Room Floor #083)
Nov 26, 2020
Dr. Strangelove (AFI Top 100 Films #39)
Nov 23, 2020
The Dangers of Turning Pro (Cutting Room Floor #082)
Nov 19, 2020
The Sound of Music (AFI Top 100 Films #40)
Nov 16, 2020
How to Fit in Writing when Life is Crazy (Cutting Room Floor #081)
Nov 12, 2020
King Kong (AFI Top 100 Films #41)
Nov 09, 2020
How to Get Back Up (Cutting Room Floor #080)
Nov 05, 2020
Bonnie & Clyde (AFI Top 100 Films #42)
Nov 02, 2020
Why You Need Breaks and How to Take Them (Cutting Room Floor #079)
Oct 29, 2020
Midnight Cowboy (AFI Top 100 Films #43)
Oct 26, 2020
Edit As You Go, Or Later? (Cutting Room Floor #078)
Oct 22, 2020
The Philadelphia Story (AFI Top 100 Films #44)
Oct 19, 2020
What Keeps You Showing Up? (Cutting Room Floor #077)
Oct 15, 2020
Shane (AFI Top 100 Films #45)
Oct 12, 2020
Why You NEED 'Film School' (Cutting Room Floor #076)
Oct 08, 2020
It Happened One Night (AFI Top 100 Films #46)
Oct 05, 2020
Zen and the Art of Longevity (Cutting Room Floor #075)
Oct 01, 2020
A Streetcar Named Desire (AFI Top 100 Films #47)
Sep 28, 2020
The Rules Shall Set You Free (Cutting Room Floor #073)
Sep 24, 2020
Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Films #48)
Sep 21, 2020
What Movie Pissed You Off? (Cutting Room Floor #073)
Sep 17, 2020
Intolerance (AFI Top 100 Films #049)
Sep 14, 2020
Best of the AFI's 51-100 (Cutting Room Floor #072)
Sep 10, 2020
Do I Have To Be Poor? (Cutting Room Floor #071)
Sep 03, 2020
Keys to Consistency (Cutting Room Floor #070)
Aug 27, 2020
The Muse: Engineering Serendipity (Cutting Room Floor #069)
Aug 20, 2020
Villains: How to be Evil (Cutting Room Floor #068)
Aug 13, 2020
Writing is Rewriting (Cutting Room Floor #067)
Aug 06, 2020
The First Draft (Cutting Room Floor #066)
Jul 30, 2020
Sellout (Cutting Room Floor #065)
Jul 23, 2020
Have We Forgotten How To Make Movies? (Cutting Room Floor #064)
Jul 16, 2020
The Most Important Lesson (Cutting Room Floor #063)
Jul 09, 2020
How to Rewrite (Cutting Room Floor #062)
Jul 02, 2020
Where Are You Most-Improved? (Cutting Room Floor #061)
Jun 25, 2020
Do Less More Often (Cutting Room Floor #060)
Jun 18, 2020
The Beast Called Time (Cutting Room Floor #059)
Jun 11, 2020
Plot-Driven vs. Character-Driven (Cutting Room Floor #058)
Jun 04, 2020
One Project At A Time, Or Several? (Cutting Room Floor #057)
May 28, 2020
The Power of Starting Small (Cutting Room Floor #056)
May 21, 2020
Learning to Let Go (Cutting Room Floor #055)
May 14, 2020
The Masters Can Be Intimidating (Cutting Room Floor #054)
May 07, 2020
How To Stay Sharp (Cutting Room Floor #053)
Apr 30, 2020
A Good Death (Cutting Room Floor #052)
Apr 23, 2020
Abandon Ship: How Do You Know When To Step Away? (Cutting Room Floor #051)
Apr 16, 2020
The Best Movies For Quarantine (Cutting Room Floor #050)
Apr 09, 2020
How Do You Want To Be Remembered (Cutting Room Floor #048)
Mar 26, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Mar 23, 2020
Handling A Crisis (Cutting Room Floor #049)
Mar 19, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Mar 16, 2020
The AFI's Top 100-51: Behind the Numbers (Cutting Room Floor #047)
Mar 12, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (AFI Top 100 Films #50)
Mar 09, 2020
What is your Deepest Darkest Fear? (Cutting Room Floor #046)
Mar 05, 2020
West Side Story (AFI Top 100 Films #51)
Mar 02, 2020
Entitlement and the Fruits of our Labor (Cutting Room Floor #045)
Feb 27, 2020
Taxi Driver (AFI Top 100 Films #52)
Feb 24, 2020
Boundaries in Writing and Life (Cutting Room Floor #044)
Feb 20, 2020
The Deer Hunter (AFI Top 100 Films #53)
Feb 17, 2020
How To Have A Great Writing Day (Cutting Room Floor #043)
Feb 13, 2020
M*A*S*H (AFI Top 100 Films #54)
Feb 10, 2020
How close do you get to your characters? (Cutting Room Floor #042)
Feb 06, 2020
North By Northwest (AFI Top 100 Films #55)
Feb 03, 2020
Movie Theatre Snacks: What's Your Go-To? (Cutting Room Floor #041)
Jan 30, 2020
Jaws (AFI Top 100 Films #56)
Jan 27, 2020
What Would You Tell Your 24-year-old Self? (Cutting Room Floor #040)
Jan 23, 2020
Rocky (AFI Top 100 Films #57)
Jan 20, 2020
The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Cutting Room Floor #039)
Jan 16, 2020
The Gold Rush (AFI Top 100 Films #58)
Jan 13, 2020
2020 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #038)
Jan 09, 2020
Nashville (AFI Top 100 Films #59)
Jan 06, 2020
Die Hard
Dec 16, 2019
2019 Year In Review (Cutting Room Floor #037)
Dec 12, 2019
Duck Soup (AFI Top 100 FIlms #60)
Dec 09, 2019
How to Social Media (Cutting Room Floor #036)
Dec 05, 2019
Sullivan's Travels (AFI's Top 100 Films #61)
Dec 02, 2019
Where Do Stories Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #035)
Nov 28, 2019
American Graffiti (AFI's Top 100 Films #62)
Nov 25, 2019
What is the Dream? (Cutting Room Floor #034)
Nov 21, 2019
Cabaret (AFI Top 100 Films #63)
Nov 18, 2019
The Joy is the Thing (Cutting Room Floor #033)
Nov 14, 2019
Network (AFI's Top 100 Films #64)
Nov 11, 2019
How To Quit (Cutting Room Floor #032)
Nov 07, 2019
The African Queen (AFI Top 100 Films #65)
Nov 04, 2019
What Does 'Show Don't Tell' Really Mean? (Cutting Room Floor #031)
Oct 31, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Oct 28, 2019
Quality vs Quantity: How Do I Improve the Fastest? (Cutting Room Floor #030)
Oct 24, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Oct 21, 2019
Gear Talk: Filmmaker and Author Edition (Cutting Room Floor #029)
Oct 17, 2019
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
Oct 14, 2019
How Do You Handle Feedback? (Cutting Room Floor #028)
Oct 10, 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark (AFI Top 100 Films #66)
Oct 07, 2019
Cliffhangers! How To Keep Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #027)
Oct 03, 2019
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (AFI Top 100 Films #67)
Sep 30, 2019
Imposter Syndrome: How Do You Deal With It? (Cutting Room Floor #026)
Sep 26, 2019
Unforgiven (AFI Top 100 Films #68)
Sep 23, 2019
The Gap Between Taste And Skill According To Ira Glass (Cutting Room Floor #025)
Sep 19, 2019
Tootsie (AFI Top 100 Films #69)
Sep 16, 2019
Don't Sleep On Outside Validation (Cutting Room Floor #024)
Sep 12, 2019
A Clockwork Orange (AFI Top 100 Films #70)
Sep 09, 2019
How Can Meditation Help My Writing? (Cutting Room Floor #023)
Sep 05, 2019
Saving Private Ryan (AFI Top 100 Films #71)
Sep 02, 2019
Numbers, Updates, and Changes? (Cutting Room Floor #022)
Aug 29, 2019
The Shawshank Redemption (AFI Top 100 Films #72)
Aug 26, 2019
Has the AFI's Top 100 Improved Your Storytelling? (Cutting Room Floor #021)
Aug 22, 2019
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (AFI's Top 100 Films #73)
Aug 19, 2019
How Do I Start A Writing Routine? (Cutting Room Floor #020)
Aug 15, 2019
The Silence of the Lambs (AFI Top 100 Films #74)
Aug 12, 2019
How Do We Balance Creativity and the Day Job? (Cutting Room Floor #019)
Aug 08, 2019
In The Heat Of The Night (AFI Top 100 Films #75)
Aug 05, 2019
What Is An Elevator Pitch? (Cutting Room Floor #018)
Aug 01, 2019
What is a Love Story? (Cutting Room Floor #010)
Jul 29, 2019
The Apartment LIVE!
Jul 29, 2019
What Movies Give You The Warm Fuzzies? (Cutting Room Floor #017)
Jul 25, 2019
Forrest Gump (AFI Top 100 Films #76)
Jul 22, 2019
Sometimes it just takes a while to Click (Cutting Room Floor #016)
Jul 18, 2019
All The President's Men (AFI Top 100 Films #77)
Jul 15, 2019
How To Finish! (Cutting Room Floor #015)
Jul 11, 2019
Modern Times (AFI Top 100 Films #78)
Jul 08, 2019
The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Films #79)
Jul 01, 2019
How do we apply Genre to our Writing? (Cutting Room Floor #013)
Jun 27, 2019
The Apartment (AFI Top 100 Films #80)
Jun 24, 2019
All The Stories We Tell: The Content Genres (Cutting Room Floor #012)
Jun 20, 2019
Spartacus (AFI Top 100 Films #81)
Jun 17, 2019
The Worldview Genre: A Hero's Journey (Cutting Room Floor #011)
Jun 13, 2019
Sunrise (AFI Top 100 Films #82)
Jun 10, 2019
Titanic (AFI Top 100 Films #83)
Jun 03, 2019
What is an Action Story? (Cutting Room Floor #009)
May 30, 2019
Easy Rider (AFI Top 100 Films #84)
May 27, 2019
What Is Genre? (Cutting Room Floor #008)
May 23, 2019
A Night At The Opera (AFI Top 100 Films #85)
May 20, 2019
Inspiration: Where does it come from, and how to keep it? (Cutting Room Floor #007)
May 16, 2019
Platoon (AFI Top 100 Films #86)
May 13, 2019
Comparisonitis and Balancing Ambition vs Contentment (Cutting Room Floor #006)
May 09, 2019
12 Angry Men (AFI Top 100 Films #87)
May 06, 2019
The Genius of Audiobooks and Phillip K. Dick (Cutting Room Floor #005)
May 02, 2019
Bringing Up Baby (AFI Top 100 Films #88)
Apr 29, 2019
Will Time Travel Ever Exist? (Cutting Room Floor #004)
Apr 22, 2019
The Sixth Sense (AFI Top 100 Films #89)
Apr 15, 2019
Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Films #90)
Apr 08, 2019
How Blogging Every Day Changed My Life (Cutting Room Floor #003)
Apr 01, 2019
Sophie's Choice (AFI Top 100 Films #91)
Mar 25, 2019
Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Films #92)
Mar 18, 2019
The French Connection (AFI Top 100 Films #93)
Mar 11, 2019
What "Write Every Day" Really Means (Cutting Room Floor #002)
Mar 04, 2019
Pulp Fiction (AFI Top 100 Films #94)
Feb 25, 2019
Depression, Anxiety, and David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #001)
Feb 18, 2019
The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 Films #95)
Feb 11, 2019
Do The Right Thing (AFI Top 100 Films #96)
Feb 04, 2019
Blade Runner (AFI Top 100 Films #97)
Jan 28, 2019
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Films #98)
Jan 21, 2019
Toy Story (AFI Top 100 Films #99)
Jan 14, 2019
Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 Films #100)
Jan 07, 2019