Quarantining Infectious Ideas
How Movies Work, Science, Politics, The Business EndAndrew SherwoodErrol Morris, Steve Bannon, American Dharma, documentary, Breitbart, news, politics, The New Yorker Festival, censorship, free speech, The Fog of War, The Unknown Known, Slow Burn, Farai Chideya, Donald Rumsfeld, John McNamara, thought germs
The Curious Case of the Accosted Acosta
Tech Support, How Movies Work, PoliticsAndrew SherwoodDonald Trump, @realdonaldtrump, Politics, US Politics, Jim Acosta, CNN, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House, Deep Fakes, manipulated video, press conference, Midterm Elections
The Documentary That Flew Too Close To The Truth
Life Must Annihilate Itself
How Movies Work, ScienceAndrew Sherwood2001: A Space Odyssey, Annihilation, cancer, hard science fiction, Matt Zoller Seitz, mutant zombie bear, Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, science, science fiction, Sigmund Freud
Babylon Berlin
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood1920s, Achim von Boris, Alfred Hitchcock, Babylon Berlin, Cabaret, Cloud Atlas, David Bordwell, Fritz Lang, Game of Thrones, Henk Handloegten, Liv Lisa Fries, Lola Rennt, M, PTSD, Run Lola Run, Sense8, shell shock, Suspense, The Third Man, thriller, Tom Tykwer, Volker Bruch, Volker Kutscher, Weimar Republic, World War I, World War II
Hidden Fences
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood#oscarssowhite, Cold War, Dexter Thomas, Dorothy Vaughn, Hidden Figures, IBM, Janelle Monáe, John Glenn, Katherine G- Johnson, Kevin Costner, Kristin Dunst, Mary Jackson, Mission Control, NASA, Octavia Spencer, Oscars, space race, Taraji P- Henson, VICE
And Now, a Flagrant Disregard for Morals and Decency
How Movies Work, The Business EndAndrew SherwoodBarbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, crime doesn't pay, David Bordwell, Hays Code, Henry Fonda, Joseph Breen, Michael H- Bernstein, Motion Picture Production Code, Paul Walker, Preston Sturges, The Bicycle Thieves, The Fast and The Furious, The Lady Eve, Vin Diesel, Vittorio Di Sica
You Get What You Deserve
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood2001: A Space Odyssey, 3%, Bianca Comparato, coming of age, Divergent, João Miguel, Katniss Everdeen, Netflix, Panem, Pedro Aguilera, science fiction, The Hunger Games, The Process
Texting Revisited
How Movies Work, Tech SupportAndrew Sherwood160 Characters, Every Frame a Painting, indestructible, Know Your Meme, Nokia 3310, Slate, texting, Tony Zhou, Victoria Mapplebeck, Vimeo
It's Just... Television
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAnthony Hopkins, Breaking Bad, Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Bordwell, Game of Thrones, Intensified Continuity, Mad Men, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Nerdwriter, Paul Dano, Sidse Babbett Knudson, There Will Be Blood, Tim Smith, Westworld
The VVicked VVitch of Nevv England
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAnya Taylor-Joy, Black Phillip, Calvinism, Devil, feminism, God, Halloween, history, horror, Massachusetts, predestination, protestantism, Puritans, Ralph Ineson, The VVitch, The Witch
Consider the Source: Masada Part II
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodDavid Warner, history, Jewish Rebellion, Josephus, Judea, Masada, miniseries, Peter O'Toole, Rome, Sicarii, siege, suicide, Zealot
Battlefield 1
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAll Quiet on the Western Front, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Barbara Tuchman, Battlefield 1, D-Day, Erich Maria Remarque, Flyboys, Francois Truffaut, Gavrilo Princip, history, realism, Saving Private Ryan, The Guns of August, trench warfare, World War I, World War II
They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAnthony Quayle, Barbara Carerra, David Warner, Eleazar ben Ya'ir, Emmy Awards, history, Jerry Goldsmith, Jewish Revolt, Lawrence of Arabia, Lucius Flavius Silva, Masada, miniseries, Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Roman Empire, Rubrius Gallus, The Antagonists, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zealot
Theme and Variations
How Movies Work, MusicAndrew Sherwood300, Danny Elfman, Every Frame a Painting, Gesamtkunstwerk, Harry Potter, Howard Shore, John Williams, Lawrence of Arabia, lietmotif, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Maurice Jarre, Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle, Star Wars, temp score, Titus, Tony Zhou, Tyler Bates
Learning All The Wrong Lessons
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodBeduoin, coming of age, Great Arab Revolt, Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Naji Abu Nowar, nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Theeb, Wadi Rum, wolf, World War 1
Eat Your Heart Out, Dick Van Dyke
How Movies Work, MusicAndrew SherwoodBack to the Future, Dick Van Dyke, Garden State Theatre Organ Society, Johann Sebastian Bach, Music, one man band, pipe organ, steampunk, synthesizer, theatre organ, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
The Frontier Strikes Back
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAmon, Beyond, Captain Kirk, Captain Picard, Colonialism, conformity, Darmok, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Imperialism, J-J- Abrams, Krall, Legend of Korra, protagonist, Star Trek, The Federation, The Measure of a Man, The Next Generation, villains, Voyager
Abbas Kiarostami
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodA Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami, Bonus Entry, Cannes Film Festival, Close-Up, Dariush Mehrjui, Koker Trilogy, Life and Nothing More---, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Palme D'Or, Through The Olive Trees
Strangers on a Train Watching a Movie Together
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood1972 Olympics, Black September, Eric Bana, G-I- Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hays Code, Howard Hawks, Israel and Palestine, Munich, people watching, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, terrorism, violence