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First Aired May, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about ‘On the Waterfront,’ the 1954 film starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, directed by the controversial director Elia Kazan. Kazan had named names before the House Unamerican Activities Committee in Congress. On the Waterfront is a film that grapples with labor issues and organized crime

First Aired April, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman. Director Robert Eggers presents a unique, personal vision in his highly imaginative filmmaking

First Aired March, 2024 Charles Laughton was one of the great character actors in both British and American movies. On this episode, David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about his roles in films like Witness for the Prosecution, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mutiny on the Bounty, Hobson's Choice, This Land is Mine, and the one film he directed, The Night of the Hunter

First Aired March, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss the Italian Neo-Realism movement that occurred after the end of World War II. It was a school of filmmaking that influenced movie makers around the world

First Aired February, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about movies that changed cinema. They look at six movies that range from classic Hollywood to the French New Wave and some contemporary examples. The movies they discuss are: Breathless, Citizen Kane, Psycho, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Jaws and Marvel's Iron Man

First Aired January, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss Man on Wire, the Academy Award-winning documentary about Phillip Petit, who walked a high-wire between the World Trad Center buildings in 1974. Directed by James Marsh, it’s presented as a heist film

First Aired January, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about The Conversation. Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, the film that was ahead of its time looking at privacy and surveillance

First Aired December, 2023 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb is one of the greatest American cold war movies. David Hast talks with Scott Vander Werf talk about the Stanley Kubrick classic, as well as several other movies directed by Kubrick

First Aired November, 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss the Spike Lee classic, Do the Right Thing. Released in 1989 it stars Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito and Rosie Perez

First Aired October 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about the seminal hard-boiled detective film The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. They also discuss other movies directed by Howard Hawks, including, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire, Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, The Thing from Another World, Red River, and Rio Bravo