AFI Club: Citizen Kane, Can One Word Define A Man’s Life?
Citizen Kane is the quintessential story of a man who has it all except the one true thing.
Rachel Olshin
AFI Club: Casablanca, A Reflection On How Crises Affect Our Humanity
Casablanca is, at its core, about the ways people try to maintain their humanity when the world is falling apart.
AFI Club: Raging Bull, A Commentary On The Perils Of Hypermasculinity
Raging Bull, while ostensibly a movie about boxing, is really about the ways that men communicate emotions.
AFI Club: Singin’ In The Rain, A Glitzy Product Of The Blacklist Era
Singin’ In The Rain is is as much a product of the Hollywood Blacklist, as it is an homage to The Golden Age.
AFI Film Club: Schindler’s List Shaped How We Remember The Holocaust
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Award winning movie used an Aryan hero to tell the story of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
AFI Film Club: Vertigo Challenges Our Perception Of Reality
Alfred Hitchcock created a sense of unease in Vertigo by casting Jimmy Stewart, America’s golden child, as a man of questionable character.
AFI Film Club: Why The Wizard Of Oz Got Me Thinking About Sneakers
The first of the Wisdom Daily’s new series exploring themes from the American Film Institutes list of Motion Pictures.