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!
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The Devil's Backbone
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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What Is Genre? (Cutting Room Floor #233)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #3)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #2)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The Criterion Closet (Cutting Room Floor #232)
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #1)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Up Next On Film School: Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive!
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Sideways
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Game
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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High Anxiety
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The Essential Hitchcock (Cutting Room Floor #231)
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May 26, 2025 |
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Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #53)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Navigating Transition Periods (Cutting Room Floor #230)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #52)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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If You Ain't Napping, It Ain't Happening (Cutting Room Floor #229)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #51)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Is It Okay To Compromise? (Cutting Room Floor #228)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #50)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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How To Make Sense Of David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #227)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #49)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Writing Evil (Cutting Room Floor #226)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #48)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Level Up! (Cutting Room Floor #225)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Psycho Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #47)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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2025 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #224)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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2024 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #223)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Elf
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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The Family Man
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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North By Northwest Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #46)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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The Power Of Finished (Cutting Room Floor #222)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Vertigo Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #45)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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DVD Extras (Cutting Room Floor #221)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #44)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Strangeness (Cutting Room Floor #220)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #43)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Ghostbusters II
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Poltergeist
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Ghostbusters
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Getting Older (Cutting Room Floor #219)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #42)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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How Many Drafts? (Cutting Room Floor #218)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #41)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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How Much Of Greatness Is Up To The Muse? (Cutting Room Floor #217)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Rear Window Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #40)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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How To Use Feedback (Cutting Room Floor #216)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #39)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Rhetoric (Cutting Room Floor #215)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #38)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Alternate Endings (Cutting Room Floor #214)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #37)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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When to Kill a Character (Cutting Room Floor #213)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #36)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Antiheroes (Cutting Room Floor #212)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #35)
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Will Success Fix Me? (Cutting Room Floor #211)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Rope (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #34)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Why Is Your Process So Different From Mine? (Cutting Room Floor #210)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #33)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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All At Once vs. Slow & Steady (Cutting Room Floor #209)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #32)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Good Habits (Cutting Room Floor #208)
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #31)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Does It Get Any Easier? (Cutting Room Floor #207)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #30)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Advice For An Aspiring Writer (Cutting Room Floor #206)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #29)
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May 13, 2024 |
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A Good Kick In The Ass (Cutting Room Floor #205)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #28)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Remembering Greatness, Forgetting the Rest (Cutting Room Floor #204)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #27)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Commanding Intelligence (Cutting Room Floor #203)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #26)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The Wrong Direction (Cutting Room Floor #202)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #25)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The Elements of a Great Film (Cutting Room Floor #201)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #24)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Hitchcock's British Period Takeaways (Cutting Room Floor #200)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #23)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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White Lies (Cutting Room Floor #199)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #22)
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Good vs. Great (Cutting Room Floor #198)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #21)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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You Need A Shock-Proof Sh*t Detector (Cutting Room Floor #197)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #20)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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How To Create Great Side Characters (Cutting Room Floor #196)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #19)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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If You Could Travel Anywhere (Cutting Room Floor #195)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #18)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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What is a Framing Device? (Cutting Room Floor #194)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #17)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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How Personal Should Your Story Be? (Cutting Room Floor #193)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Waltzes From Vienna (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #16)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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What Makes A Great Hero? (Cutting Room Floor #192)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #15)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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What is the Best Time to Create? (Cutting Room Floor #191)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #14)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Sympathetic or Unsympathetic Villains? (Cutting Room Floor #190)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Skin Game (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #13)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Hitchcock's Silent Era Takeaways (Cutting Room Floor #189)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Mary (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #12)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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2024 Resolutions Goals & Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #188)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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2023 Retrospective Year In Review (Cutting Room Floor #187)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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A Muppet Christmas Carol
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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White Christmas
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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You Are You What You Watch (Cutting Room Floor #186)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #11)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Lynch vs. Hitchcock: Similarities & Differences (Cutting Room Floor #185)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Juno and the Paycock (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #10)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Blackmail (Silent Version) (Cutting Room Floor #184)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #9)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Aliens
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The Ring
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Alien
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Ringu
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Editing, Rewrites, and Killing Your Darlings (Cutting Room Floor #183)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #8)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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You Finished - Handling What Comes Next (Cutting Room Floor #182)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Champagne (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #7)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Comfort Food (Cutting Room Floor #181)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #6)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Getting Super Personal (Without Being A D*ck) (Cutting Room Floor #180)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #5)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Bad Habits And How To Break Them (Cutting Room Floor #179)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #4)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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How To Do Research (And Love It) (Cutting Room Floor #178)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #3)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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When Things Go Well...And Poorly (Cutting Room Floor #177)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #2)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Pluto TV (Cutting Room Floor #176)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Pleasure Garden (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #1)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Up Next On Film School: Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive!
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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David Lynch Deep Dive: A Look Back (Cutting Room Floor #175)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Inland Empire (David Lynch Deep Dive #10)
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May 29, 2023 |
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Can You Outgrow A Project? (Cutting Room Floor #174)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch Deep Dive #9)
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Hardest Criticism to Handle (Cutting Room Floor #173)
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May 08, 2023 |
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The Straight Story (David Lynch Deep Dive #8)
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May 01, 2023 |
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How To Schedule Creativity (Cutting Room Floor #172)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Lost Highway (David Lynch Deep Dive #7)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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What Makes A Good Short? (Cutting Room Floor #171)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch Deep Dive #6)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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How Long Should It Take To Write A Story? (Cutting Room Floor #170)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Wild At Heart (David Lynch Deep Dive #5)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Bonafides: What Is An Expert? (Cutting Room Floor #169)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch Deep Dive #4)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Villains & Antiheroes: Redeemable vs. Irredeemable (Cutting Room Floor #168)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Dune (David Lynch Deep Dive #3)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Going Indie Pros and Cons (Cutting Room Floor #167)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Elephant Man (David Lynch Deep Dive #2)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Where Do Your Ideas Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #166)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Eraserhead (David Lynch Deep Dive #1)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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2023 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #165)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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2022 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #164)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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A Christmas Story
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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How To Stay Motivated Revisited (Cutting Room Floor #163)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Scrooged
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Up Next On Film School!
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Sophomore Slump (Cutting Room Floor #162)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Paranormal Activity
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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You And Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #161)
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Halloween II
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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How To Finish (Revisited) (Cutting Room Floor #160)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Descent
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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How Important Are Ideas? (Cutting Room Floor #159)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Halloween
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Physical Self Care (Cutting Room Floor #158)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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When Harry Met Sally
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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When A Character Turns Out Amazingly (Cutting Room Floor #157)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Cosmos
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Planning vs. Execution (Cutting Room Floor #156)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Solaris
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The Difference Between Amateur And Professional (Cutting Room Floor #155)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Victoria
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Danger of Not Writing What You Know (Cutting Room Floor #154)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Hereditary
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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When You're Just Not Feeling It: What To Do (Cutting Room Floor #153)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Upstream Color
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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The Time Money Quality Triangle (Cutting Room Floor #152)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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The Thing
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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How To Fail Better (Cutting Room Floor #151)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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The Lighthouse
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Pantsing vs. Plotting (Cutting Room Floor #150)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Akira
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Ego (Cutting Room Floor #149)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Memento
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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What to Cut and What to Keep (Cutting Room Floor #148)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Forbidden Planet
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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How Important Is Community? (Cutting Room Floor #147)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Chekhov's Gun (Cutting Room Floor #146)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Amélie
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Difference Between Ambition & Impatience (Cutting Room Floor #145)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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I Lost My Body
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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What is the (Real) Magic Place? (Cutting Room Floor #144)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Cinema Paradiso
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May 31, 2022 |
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What Is Writer's Block? (Cutting Room Floor #143)
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May 26, 2022 |
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The Vast Of Night
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May 23, 2022 |
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How to Identify Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3 (Cutting Room Floor #142)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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May 17, 2022 |
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How To Schedule Breaks (Cutting Room Floor #141)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Pusher 3
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May 09, 2022 |
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How To Write Good Dialogue (Cutting Room Floor #140)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Pusher II
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May 02, 2022 |
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How to Create and Keep a Schedule (Cutting Room Floor #139)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Pusher
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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How to Start Again (Cutting Room Floor #138)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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My Cousin Vinny
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Can You Want It Too Much? (Cutting Room Floor #137)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Man Bites Dog
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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You Gotta See This! (What's Next on Film School)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #10)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #9)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #8)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Jaws (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #7)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #6)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Citizen Kane (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #5)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Gold Rush (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #4)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #3)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #2)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #1)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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The AFI Top 100 Starter Pack: 10 Films To Whet Your Appetite
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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2022 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #136)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Christmas Vacation
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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2021 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #135)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Love Actually
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The AFI's Top 100 Films: A Look Back (Cutting Room Floor #134)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Citizen Kane (AFI's Top 100 Films #1)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Takeaways from the Podcast Thus Far (Cutting Room Floor #133)
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The Godfather Part II (AFI Top 100 Films #32)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Infodump: Friend or Foe? (Cutting Room Floor #132)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Godfather (AFI Top 100 FIlms #2)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Write What You Know (Cutting Room Floor #131)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Casablanca (AFI Top 100 Films #3)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Plot Holes vs Mystery and Intrigue (Cutting Room Floor #130)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Raging Bull (AFI Top 100 Films #4)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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When and How to Celebrate (Cutting Room Floor #129)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Singin' in the Rain (AFI Top 100 Films #5)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The Limits of Story Structure (Cutting Room Floor #128)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Gone With The Wind (AFI Top 100 Films #6)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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MacGuffin: What It Is and How To Use It (Cutting Room Floor #127)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Lawrence of Arabia (AFI Top 100 Films #7)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Art is Messy (The Evangelion Rant) (Cutting Room Floor #126)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Schindler's List (AFI Top 100 Films #8)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Tips To Hook Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #125)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Vertigo (AFI Top 100 Films #9)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Story Grid's 6 Core Questions (Cutting Room Floor #124)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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The Wizard of Oz (AFI Top 100 Films #10)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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How to Keep it Fun (Cutting Room Floor #123)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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City Lights (AFI Top 100 Films #11)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Write to Market (Cutting Room Floor #122)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Searchers (AFI Top 100 Films #12)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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How to Beat Resistance at its Worst (Cutting Room Floor #121)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Return of the Jedi
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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What Movie Scenes Live Rent-Free in Your Head? (Cutting Room Floor #120)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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The Empire Strikes Back
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Success: How Much Control Do We Really Have Over It? (Cutting Room Floor #119)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Star Wars (AFI Top 100 Films #13)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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How Do You Learn Best? (Cutting Room Floor #118)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Psycho (AFI Top 100 Films #14)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Bad Habits (Cutting Room Floor #117)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (AFI Top 100 Films #15)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Thou Shalt Be Flexible (Cutting Room Floor #116)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Sunset Blvd (AFI Top 100 Films #16)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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What Is Your Storytelling Language? (Cutting Room Floor #115)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Films #17)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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How to Make Your Story Feel Real (Cutting Room Floor #114)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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The General (AFI Top 100 Films #18)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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How To Do Something New (Cutting Room Floor #113)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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On the Waterfront (AFI Top 100 Films #19)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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How To Use Backstory (Cutting Room Floor #112)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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It's a Wonderful Life (AFI Top 100 Films #20)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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How to Stay Motivated (Cutting Room Floor #111)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Chinatown (AFI Top 100 Films #21)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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The Trap of 'Just Write The Bad Version' (Cutting Room Floor #110)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Some Like It Hot (AFI Top 100 Films #22)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Quarantine Postmortem (Cutting Room Floor #109)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Grapes of Wrath (AFI Top 100 Films #23)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Advice for Starting Out (Cutting Room Floor #108)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (AFI Top 100 Films #24)
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May 31, 2021 |
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The Day Job vs The Art (Cutting Room Floor #107)
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May 27, 2021 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird (AFI Top 100 Films #25)
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May 24, 2021 |
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What Are You Working On Right Now? (Cutting Room Floor #106)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (AFI Top 100 Films #26)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Where Does Your Confidence Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #105)
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May 13, 2021 |
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High Noon (AFI Top 100 Films #27)
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May 10, 2021 |
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How to Outline (Cutting Room Floor #104)
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May 06, 2021 |
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All About Eve (AFI Top 100 Films #28)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Finding the Emotional Sweet Spot (Cutting Room Floor #103)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Double Indemnity (AFI Top 100 Films #29)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Balancing Curiosity with Routine (Cutting Room Floor #102)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Films #30)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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How to Manage Creative Energy (Cutting Room Floor #101)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Maltese Falcon (AFI Top 100 Films #31)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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What is Voice? (Cutting Room Floor #100)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (AFI Top 100 Films #33)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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How to Get to Done (Cutting Room Floor #099)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (AFI Top 100 Films #34)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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James Rollins' 7 Sympathy Builders for Characters (Cutting Room Floor #098)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Annie Hall (AFI Top 100 Films #35)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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How and When to Pivot (Cutting Room Floor #097)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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How to Write an Amazing Character (Cutting Room Floor #096)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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How to Pick the Right Story (Cutting Room Floor #095)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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How to Write a Perfect Crisis (Cutting Room Floor #094)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Hardest Part of Storytelling (Cutting Room Floor #093)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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How to Write a Great Ending (Cutting Room Floor #092)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Is it Okay for my Story to Change? (Cutting Room Floor #091)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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How to Write a Great Middle (Cutting Room Floor #090)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Art vs. Content (Cutting Room Floor #089)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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How to Write a Great Beginning (Cutting Room Floor #088)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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2021 Goals, Resolutions, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #087)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Home Alone
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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2020 Year in Review (Cutting Room Floor #086)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (AFI Top 100 Films #36)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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When You're Lying to Yourself (Cutting Room Floor #085)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Best Years of Our Lives (AFI Top 100 Films #37)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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How to Level Up (Cutting Room Floor #084)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (AFI Top 100 Films #38)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Drawing Inspiration From Where You Live (Cutting Room Floor #083)
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Dr. Strangelove (AFI Top 100 Films #39)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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The Dangers of Turning Pro (Cutting Room Floor #082)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The Sound of Music (AFI Top 100 Films #40)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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How to Fit in Writing when Life is Crazy (Cutting Room Floor #081)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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King Kong (AFI Top 100 Films #41)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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How to Get Back Up (Cutting Room Floor #080)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Bonnie & Clyde (AFI Top 100 Films #42)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Why You Need Breaks and How to Take Them (Cutting Room Floor #079)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Midnight Cowboy (AFI Top 100 Films #43)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Edit As You Go, Or Later? (Cutting Room Floor #078)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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The Philadelphia Story (AFI Top 100 Films #44)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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What Keeps You Showing Up? (Cutting Room Floor #077)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Shane (AFI Top 100 Films #45)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Why You NEED 'Film School' (Cutting Room Floor #076)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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It Happened One Night (AFI Top 100 Films #46)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Zen and the Art of Longevity (Cutting Room Floor #075)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (AFI Top 100 Films #47)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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The Rules Shall Set You Free (Cutting Room Floor #073)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Films #48)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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What Movie Pissed You Off? (Cutting Room Floor #073)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Intolerance (AFI Top 100 Films #049)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Best of the AFI's 51-100 (Cutting Room Floor #072)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Do I Have To Be Poor? (Cutting Room Floor #071)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Keys to Consistency (Cutting Room Floor #070)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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The Muse: Engineering Serendipity (Cutting Room Floor #069)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Villains: How to be Evil (Cutting Room Floor #068)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Writing is Rewriting (Cutting Room Floor #067)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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The First Draft (Cutting Room Floor #066)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Sellout (Cutting Room Floor #065)
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Have We Forgotten How To Make Movies? (Cutting Room Floor #064)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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The Most Important Lesson (Cutting Room Floor #063)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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How to Rewrite (Cutting Room Floor #062)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Where Are You Most-Improved? (Cutting Room Floor #061)
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Do Less More Often (Cutting Room Floor #060)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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The Beast Called Time (Cutting Room Floor #059)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Plot-Driven vs. Character-Driven (Cutting Room Floor #058)
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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One Project At A Time, Or Several? (Cutting Room Floor #057)
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May 28, 2020 |
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The Power of Starting Small (Cutting Room Floor #056)
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May 21, 2020 |
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Learning to Let Go (Cutting Room Floor #055)
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May 14, 2020 |
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The Masters Can Be Intimidating (Cutting Room Floor #054)
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May 07, 2020 |
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How To Stay Sharp (Cutting Room Floor #053)
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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A Good Death (Cutting Room Floor #052)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Abandon Ship: How Do You Know When To Step Away? (Cutting Room Floor #051)
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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The Best Movies For Quarantine (Cutting Room Floor #050)
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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How Do You Want To Be Remembered (Cutting Room Floor #048)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Handling A Crisis (Cutting Room Floor #049)
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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The AFI's Top 100-51: Behind the Numbers (Cutting Room Floor #047)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (AFI Top 100 Films #50)
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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What is your Deepest Darkest Fear? (Cutting Room Floor #046)
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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West Side Story (AFI Top 100 Films #51)
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Entitlement and the Fruits of our Labor (Cutting Room Floor #045)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Taxi Driver (AFI Top 100 Films #52)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Boundaries in Writing and Life (Cutting Room Floor #044)
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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The Deer Hunter (AFI Top 100 Films #53)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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How To Have A Great Writing Day (Cutting Room Floor #043)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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M*A*S*H (AFI Top 100 Films #54)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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How close do you get to your characters? (Cutting Room Floor #042)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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North By Northwest (AFI Top 100 Films #55)
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Movie Theatre Snacks: What's Your Go-To? (Cutting Room Floor #041)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jaws (AFI Top 100 Films #56)
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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What Would You Tell Your 24-year-old Self? (Cutting Room Floor #040)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Rocky (AFI Top 100 Films #57)
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Cutting Room Floor #039)
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The Gold Rush (AFI Top 100 Films #58)
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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2020 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #038)
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Nashville (AFI Top 100 Films #59)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Die Hard
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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2019 Year In Review (Cutting Room Floor #037)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Duck Soup (AFI Top 100 FIlms #60)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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How to Social Media (Cutting Room Floor #036)
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Sullivan's Travels (AFI's Top 100 Films #61)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Where Do Stories Come From? (Cutting Room Floor #035)
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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American Graffiti (AFI's Top 100 Films #62)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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What is the Dream? (Cutting Room Floor #034)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Cabaret (AFI Top 100 Films #63)
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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The Joy is the Thing (Cutting Room Floor #033)
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Network (AFI's Top 100 Films #64)
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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How To Quit (Cutting Room Floor #032)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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The African Queen (AFI Top 100 Films #65)
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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What Does 'Show Don't Tell' Really Mean? (Cutting Room Floor #031)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Quality vs Quantity: How Do I Improve the Fastest? (Cutting Room Floor #030)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Gear Talk: Filmmaker and Author Edition (Cutting Room Floor #029)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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How Do You Handle Feedback? (Cutting Room Floor #028)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (AFI Top 100 Films #66)
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Cliffhangers! How To Keep Your Audience (Cutting Room Floor #027)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (AFI Top 100 Films #67)
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Imposter Syndrome: How Do You Deal With It? (Cutting Room Floor #026)
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Unforgiven (AFI Top 100 Films #68)
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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The Gap Between Taste And Skill According To Ira Glass (Cutting Room Floor #025)
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Tootsie (AFI Top 100 Films #69)
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Don't Sleep On Outside Validation (Cutting Room Floor #024)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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A Clockwork Orange (AFI Top 100 Films #70)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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How Can Meditation Help My Writing? (Cutting Room Floor #023)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Saving Private Ryan (AFI Top 100 Films #71)
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Numbers, Updates, and Changes? (Cutting Room Floor #022)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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The Shawshank Redemption (AFI Top 100 Films #72)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Has the AFI's Top 100 Improved Your Storytelling? (Cutting Room Floor #021)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (AFI's Top 100 Films #73)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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How Do I Start A Writing Routine? (Cutting Room Floor #020)
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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The Silence of the Lambs (AFI Top 100 Films #74)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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How Do We Balance Creativity and the Day Job? (Cutting Room Floor #019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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In The Heat Of The Night (AFI Top 100 Films #75)
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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What Is An Elevator Pitch? (Cutting Room Floor #018)
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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What is a Love Story? (Cutting Room Floor #010)
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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The Apartment LIVE!
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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What Movies Give You The Warm Fuzzies? (Cutting Room Floor #017)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Forrest Gump (AFI Top 100 Films #76)
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Sometimes it just takes a while to Click (Cutting Room Floor #016)
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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All The President's Men (AFI Top 100 Films #77)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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How To Finish! (Cutting Room Floor #015)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Modern Times (AFI Top 100 Films #78)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Films #79)
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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How do we apply Genre to our Writing? (Cutting Room Floor #013)
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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The Apartment (AFI Top 100 Films #80)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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All The Stories We Tell: The Content Genres (Cutting Room Floor #012)
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Spartacus (AFI Top 100 Films #81)
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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The Worldview Genre: A Hero's Journey (Cutting Room Floor #011)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Sunrise (AFI Top 100 Films #82)
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Titanic (AFI Top 100 Films #83)
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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What is an Action Story? (Cutting Room Floor #009)
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May 30, 2019 |
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Easy Rider (AFI Top 100 Films #84)
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May 27, 2019 |
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What Is Genre? (Cutting Room Floor #008)
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May 23, 2019 |
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A Night At The Opera (AFI Top 100 Films #85)
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May 20, 2019 |
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Inspiration: Where does it come from, and how to keep it? (Cutting Room Floor #007)
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May 16, 2019 |
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Platoon (AFI Top 100 Films #86)
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May 13, 2019 |
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Comparisonitis and Balancing Ambition vs Contentment (Cutting Room Floor #006)
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May 09, 2019 |
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12 Angry Men (AFI Top 100 Films #87)
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May 06, 2019 |
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The Genius of Audiobooks and Phillip K. Dick (Cutting Room Floor #005)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Bringing Up Baby (AFI Top 100 Films #88)
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Will Time Travel Ever Exist? (Cutting Room Floor #004)
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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The Sixth Sense (AFI Top 100 Films #89)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Films #90)
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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How Blogging Every Day Changed My Life (Cutting Room Floor #003)
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Sophie's Choice (AFI Top 100 Films #91)
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Films #92)
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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The French Connection (AFI Top 100 Films #93)
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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What "Write Every Day" Really Means (Cutting Room Floor #002)
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Pulp Fiction (AFI Top 100 Films #94)
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Depression, Anxiety, and David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #001)
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 Films #95)
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Do The Right Thing (AFI Top 100 Films #96)
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Blade Runner (AFI Top 100 Films #97)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Films #98)
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Toy Story (AFI Top 100 Films #99)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 Films #100)
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Jan 07, 2019 |