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!
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Backbone (2001) · Oct 13, 2025
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #3)
Castle in the Sky (1986) · Sep 1, 2025
The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki Deep Dive #1)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) · Jun 30, 2025
High Anxiety
High Anxiety (1977) · Jun 2, 2025
Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #53)
Family Plot (1976) · May 19, 2025
Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #51)
Topaz (1969) · Mar 10, 2025
Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #50)
Torn Curtain (1966) · Feb 24, 2025
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #48)
The Birds (1963) · Jan 20, 2025
Psycho Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #47)
Psycho (1960) · Jan 13, 2025
The Family Man
The Family Man (2000) · Dec 16, 2024
North By Northwest Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #46)
North by Northwest (1959) · Dec 9, 2024
Vertigo Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #45)
Vertigo (1958) · Nov 25, 2024
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #44)
The Wrong Man (1956) · Nov 11, 2024
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #43)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) · Nov 4, 2024
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II (1989) · Oct 28, 2024
Poltergeist
Poltergeist (1982) · Oct 14, 2024
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (1984) · Oct 7, 2024
The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #42)
The Trouble with Harry (1955) · Sep 30, 2024
Rear Window Revisited (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #40)
Rear Window (1954) · Sep 16, 2024
Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #39)
Dial M for Murder (1954) · Sep 9, 2024
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #38)
I Confess (1953) · Sep 2, 2024
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #37)
Strangers on a Train (1951) · Aug 12, 2024
Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #36)
Stage Fright (1950) · Aug 5, 2024
Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #35)
Under Capricorn (1949) · Jul 29, 2024
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #34)
Rope (1948) · Jul 1, 2024
The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #33)
The Paradine Case (1947) · Jun 24, 2024
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #32)
Notorious (1946) · Jun 10, 2024
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #31)
Spellbound (1945) · May 28, 2024
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #30)
Lifeboat (1944) · May 20, 2024
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #29)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) · May 13, 2024
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #28)
Saboteur (1942) · May 6, 2024
Remembering Greatness, Forgetting the Rest (Cutting Room Floor #204)
RoboDoc (2009) · May 2, 2024
Remembering Greatness, Forgetting the Rest (Cutting Room Floor #204)
The Terror (1963) · May 2, 2024
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #26)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) · Apr 22, 2024
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #25)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) · Apr 15, 2024
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #24)
Rebecca (1940) · Apr 8, 2024
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #22)
The Lady Vanishes (1938) · Mar 25, 2024
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #19)
Secret Agent (1936) · Mar 4, 2024
Waltzes From Vienna (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #16)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) · Feb 12, 2024
Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #15)
Number Seventeen (1932) · Feb 5, 2024
Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #14)
Rich and Strange (1931) · Jan 29, 2024
The Skin Game (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #13)
The Skin Game (1931) · Jan 22, 2024
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) · Dec 23, 2023
White Christmas
White Christmas (1954) · Dec 18, 2023
Blackmail (Silent Version) (Cutting Room Floor #184)
Blackmail (1929) · Nov 13, 2023
Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #9)
Blackmail (1929) · Nov 6, 2023
The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #8)
The Manxman (1929) · Oct 2, 2023
Champagne (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #7)
Champagne (1928) · Sep 15, 2023
The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #5)
The Farmer's Wife (1928) · Aug 14, 2023
The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #3)
The Ring (2002) · Jul 17, 2023
The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #2)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) · Jul 3, 2023
The Pleasure Garden (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #1)
The Pleasure Garden (1925) · Jun 19, 2023
Inland Empire (David Lynch Deep Dive #10)
Inland Empire (2006) · May 29, 2023
The Straight Story (David Lynch Deep Dive #8)
The Straight Story (1999) · May 1, 2023
Lost Highway (David Lynch Deep Dive #7)
Lost Highway (1997) · Apr 17, 2023
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch Deep Dive #6)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) · Apr 3, 2023
Wild At Heart (David Lynch Deep Dive #5)
Wild at Heart (1990) · Mar 20, 2023
Blue Velvet (David Lynch Deep Dive #4)
Blue Velvet (1986) · Mar 6, 2023
Dune (David Lynch Deep Dive #3)
Dune (1984) · Feb 20, 2023
The Elephant Man (David Lynch Deep Dive #2)
The Elephant Man (1980) · Feb 6, 2023
2023 Resolutions, Goals, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #165)
Resolutions (2023) · Jan 16, 2023
2022 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #164)
HINAKURI 2022 (2022) · Dec 29, 2022
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story (1983) · Dec 25, 2022
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity (2007) · Oct 31, 2022
Halloween II
Halloween II (1981) · Oct 29, 2022
The Descent
The Descent (2005) · Oct 26, 2022
Halloween
Halloween (1978) · Oct 24, 2022
When Harry Met Sally
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) · Oct 17, 2022
Hereditary
Hereditary (2018) · Aug 9, 2022
Upstream Color
Upstream Color (2013) · Aug 1, 2022
The Thing
The Thing (1982) · Jul 25, 2022
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse (2019) · Jul 20, 2022
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet (1956) · Jun 27, 2022
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) · Jun 20, 2022
I Lost My Body
I Lost My Body (2019) · Jun 6, 2022
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso (1988) · May 31, 2022
The Vast Of Night
The Vast of Night (2019) · May 23, 2022
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) · May 17, 2022
How to Create and Keep a Schedule (Cutting Room Floor #139)
The Seventh Seal (1957) · Apr 28, 2022
My Cousin Vinny
My Cousin Vinny (1992) · Apr 18, 2022
Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #10)
Swing Time (1936) · Mar 21, 2022
The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #9)
The Graduate (1967) · Mar 14, 2022
The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #8)
The Wild Bunch (1969) · Mar 7, 2022
Jaws (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #7)
Jaws (1975) · Feb 28, 2022
Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #6)
Apocalypse Now (1979) · Feb 21, 2022
Citizen Kane (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #5)
Citizen Kane (1941) · Feb 14, 2022
The Gold Rush (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #4)
The Gold Rush (1925) · Feb 7, 2022
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #3)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) · Jan 31, 2022
Goodfellas (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #2)
GoodFellas (1990) · Jan 24, 2022
Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Starter Pack #1)
Rear Window (1954) · Jan 17, 2022
Christmas Vacation
Christmas Vacation '91 (1991) · Dec 13, 2021
2021 Retrospective (Cutting Room Floor #135)
Office Sex 2021 (2021) · Dec 9, 2021
Citizen Kane (AFI's Top 100 Films #1)
Citizen Kane (1941) · Nov 29, 2021
The Godfather Part II (AFI Top 100 Films #32)
The Godfather Part II (1974) · Nov 22, 2021
The Godfather (AFI Top 100 FIlms #2)
The Godfather (1972) · Nov 15, 2021
Casablanca (AFI Top 100 Films #3)
Casablanca (1943) · Nov 8, 2021
Raging Bull (AFI Top 100 Films #4)
Raging Bull (1980) · Nov 1, 2021
Singin' in the Rain (AFI Top 100 Films #5)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) · Oct 25, 2021
Gone With The Wind (AFI Top 100 Films #6)
Gone with the Wind (1939) · Oct 18, 2021
Lawrence of Arabia (AFI Top 100 Films #7)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) · Oct 11, 2021
Schindler's List (AFI Top 100 Films #8)
Schindler's List (1993) · Oct 4, 2021
Vertigo (AFI Top 100 Films #9)
Vertigo (1958) · Sep 27, 2021
The Wizard of Oz (AFI Top 100 Films #10)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) · Sep 20, 2021
City Lights (AFI Top 100 Films #11)
City Lights (1931) · Sep 13, 2021
The Searchers (AFI Top 100 Films #12)
The Searchers (1956) · Sep 7, 2021
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi (1983) · Aug 30, 2021
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) · Aug 23, 2021
Star Wars (AFI Top 100 Films #13)
Star Wars (1977) · Aug 16, 2021
Psycho (AFI Top 100 Films #14)
Psycho (1960) · Aug 9, 2021
Bad Habits (Cutting Room Floor #117)
Bad Habits (2009) · Aug 5, 2021
2001: A Space Odyssey (AFI Top 100 Films #15)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · Aug 2, 2021
The Graduate (AFI Top 100 Films #17)
The Graduate (1967) · Jul 19, 2021
The General (AFI Top 100 Films #18)
The General (1926) · Jul 12, 2021
On the Waterfront (AFI Top 100 Films #19)
On the Waterfront (1954) · Jul 5, 2021
It's a Wonderful Life (AFI Top 100 Films #20)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) · Jun 28, 2021
Chinatown (AFI Top 100 Films #21)
Chinatown (1974) · Jun 21, 2021
The Grapes of Wrath (AFI Top 100 Films #23)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) · Jun 7, 2021
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (AFI Top 100 Films #24)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) · May 31, 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird (AFI Top 100 Films #25)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) · May 24, 2021
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (AFI Top 100 Films #26)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) · May 17, 2021
All About Eve (AFI Top 100 Films #28)
All About Eve (1950) · May 3, 2021
Double Indemnity (AFI Top 100 Films #29)
Double Indemnity (1944) · Apr 26, 2021
Apocalypse Now (AFI Top 100 Films #30)
Apocalypse Now (1979) · Apr 19, 2021
The Maltese Falcon (AFI Top 100 Films #31)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) · Apr 12, 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (AFI Top 100 Films #33)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) · Apr 5, 2021
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (AFI Top 100 Films #34)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) · Mar 29, 2021
Annie Hall (AFI Top 100 Films #35)
Annie Hall (1977) · Mar 22, 2021
2021 Goals, Resolutions, and Intentions (Cutting Room Floor #087)
Goals (2021) · Jan 7, 2021
The Bridge on the River Kwai (AFI Top 100 Films #36)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) · Dec 14, 2020
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (AFI Top 100 Films #38)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) · Nov 30, 2020
The Sound of Music (AFI Top 100 Films #40)
The Sound of Music (1965) · Nov 16, 2020
King Kong (AFI Top 100 Films #41)
King Kong (1933) · Nov 9, 2020
Midnight Cowboy (AFI Top 100 Films #43)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) · Oct 26, 2020
The Philadelphia Story (AFI Top 100 Films #44)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) · Oct 19, 2020
Shane (AFI Top 100 Films #45)
Shane (1953) · Oct 12, 2020
It Happened One Night (AFI Top 100 Films #46)
It Happened One Night (1934) · Oct 5, 2020
A Streetcar Named Desire (AFI Top 100 Films #47)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) · Sep 28, 2020
Rear Window (AFI Top 100 Films #48)
Rear Window (1954) · Sep 21, 2020
The Muse: Engineering Serendipity (Cutting Room Floor #069)
The Muse (1999) · Aug 20, 2020
Sellout (Cutting Room Floor #065)
Sellout (2022) · Jul 23, 2020
A Good Death (Cutting Room Floor #052)
A Good Death · Apr 23, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) · Mar 23, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) · Mar 16, 2020
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (AFI Top 100 Films #50)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) · Mar 9, 2020
West Side Story (AFI Top 100 Films #51)
West Side Story (1961) · Mar 2, 2020
The Deer Hunter (AFI Top 100 Films #53)
The Deer Hunter (1978) · Feb 17, 2020
M*A*S*H (AFI Top 100 Films #54)
M*A*S*H (1970) · Feb 10, 2020
North By Northwest (AFI Top 100 Films #55)
North by Northwest (1959) · Feb 3, 2020
Jaws (AFI Top 100 Films #56)
Jaws (1975) · Jan 27, 2020
Rocky (AFI Top 100 Films #57)
Rocky (1976) · Jan 20, 2020
Nashville (AFI Top 100 Films #59)
Nashville (1975) · Jan 6, 2020
Sullivan's Travels (AFI's Top 100 Films #61)
Sullivan's Travels (1941) · Dec 2, 2019
American Graffiti (AFI's Top 100 Films #62)
American Graffiti (1973) · Nov 25, 2019
Cabaret (AFI Top 100 Films #63)
Cabaret (1972) · Nov 18, 2019
Network (AFI's Top 100 Films #64)
Network (1976) · Nov 11, 2019
The African Queen (AFI Top 100 Films #65)
The African Queen (1952) · Nov 4, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) · Oct 28, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) · Oct 21, 2019
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) · Oct 14, 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark (AFI Top 100 Films #66)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) · Oct 7, 2019
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (AFI Top 100 Films #67)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) · Sep 30, 2019
Unforgiven (AFI Top 100 Films #68)
Unforgiven (1992) · Sep 23, 2019
Tootsie (AFI Top 100 Films #69)
Tootsie (1982) · Sep 16, 2019
A Clockwork Orange (AFI Top 100 Films #70)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) · Sep 9, 2019
Saving Private Ryan (AFI Top 100 Films #71)
Saving Private Ryan (1998) · Sep 2, 2019
The Shawshank Redemption (AFI Top 100 Films #72)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) · Aug 26, 2019
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (AFI's Top 100 Films #73)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) · Aug 19, 2019
The Silence of the Lambs (AFI Top 100 Films #74)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · Aug 12, 2019
In The Heat Of The Night (AFI Top 100 Films #75)
In the Heat of the Night (1967) · Aug 5, 2019
The Apartment LIVE!
The Apartment (1960) · Jul 29, 2019
Forrest Gump (AFI Top 100 Films #76)
Forrest Gump (1994) · Jul 22, 2019
All The President's Men (AFI Top 100 Films #77)
All the President's Men (1976) · Jul 15, 2019
Modern Times (AFI Top 100 Films #78)
Modern Times (1936) · Jul 8, 2019
The Wild Bunch (AFI Top 100 Films #79)
The Wild Bunch (1969) · Jul 1, 2019
The Apartment (AFI Top 100 Films #80)
The Apartment (1960) · Jun 24, 2019
Spartacus (AFI Top 100 Films #81)
Spartacus (1960) · Jun 17, 2019
Easy Rider (AFI Top 100 Films #84)
Easy Rider (1969) · May 27, 2019
A Night At The Opera (AFI Top 100 Films #85)
A Night at the Opera (1935) · May 20, 2019
Platoon (AFI Top 100 Films #86)
Platoon (1986) · May 13, 2019
12 Angry Men (AFI Top 100 Films #87)
12 Angry Men (1957) · May 6, 2019
Bringing Up Baby (AFI Top 100 Films #88)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) · Apr 29, 2019
The Sixth Sense (AFI Top 100 Films #89)
The Sixth Sense (1999) · Apr 15, 2019
Swing Time (AFI Top 100 Films #90)
Swing Time (1936) · Apr 8, 2019
Sophie's Choice (AFI Top 100 Films #91)
Sophie's Choice (1982) · Mar 25, 2019
The French Connection (AFI Top 100 Films #93)
The French Connection (1971) · Mar 11, 2019
Pulp Fiction (AFI Top 100 Films #94)
Pulp Fiction (1994) · Feb 25, 2019
The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 Films #95)
The Last Picture Show (1971) · Feb 11, 2019
Blade Runner (AFI Top 100 Films #97)
Blade Runner (1982) · Jan 28, 2019
Toy Story (AFI Top 100 Films #99)
Toy Story (1995) · Jan 14, 2019
Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 Films #100)
Ben-Hur (1959) · Jan 7, 2019