Episode 43: Jaws 🦈
The LFTS team discusses how Brody, Hooper, and Quint make the perfect team, Jaws's grueling production process, and why constraints and delays on a movie can sometimes be a blessing in disguise. Spon...
19 Kesä 20201h 23min
Episode 42: Apocalypse Now 🚁
The LFTS team discusses Coppola's ambitious filmmaking, the merits of simplicity in story design, and the harrowing behind-the-scenes struggle to get the film made. Sponsor Use this link to get 2 fre...
5 Kesä 20201h 22min
Episode 41: Captain America: Civil War
The LFTS team debates whether the MCU movies are products or films, if Bucky is a real character or a plot point, and if Civil War successfully shifted the Infinity Saga into engaging long-form storyt...
29 Touko 20201h 22min
Episode 40: Inside Llewyn Davis
The LFTS team discusses Inside Llewyn Davis’s cyclical structure, the metaphorical meaning of the cat, and why the film’s music makes the themes and characters so compelling. Sponsor Use this link to...
8 Touko 20201h 7min
Episode 39: Sunset Boulevard
The LFTS team discusses the surprising similarities between Sunset Boulevard and Parasite, dissects some of the film’s complex symbols, and hails the long-enduring genius of Billy Wilder. Show Notes ...
1 Touko 20201h 9min
Episode 38: Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
The LFTS team chats with screenwriter and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna about how she approaches breaking a story, the appeal of skewering genre on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and why The Devil Wears Prada ...
24 Huhti 20201h 5min
Episode 37: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The LFTS team discusses the film's “hippie Western” characters and themes, the intriguing ambiguity in the three central characters’ relationships, and why the movie’s humor is so surprising and effec...
17 Huhti 20201h 9min
Episode 36: Jurassic Park 🦖
The LFTS team discusses our childlike obsession with dinosaurs, Jurassic Park's landmark visual effects and brilliant sound design, and how the characters represent two sides of a rich thematic debate...
10 Huhti 20201h 30min
