August 11, 2022
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) – AFI Movie Club
Featuring the incomparable talents of two AFI Life Achievement Award recipients – director Billy Wilder and star Jack Lemmon – SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) also features timeless performances from Tony Curtis, Joe E. Brown and Marilyn Monroe – who was named by AFI, along with Lemmon, among the greatest screen legends of all time....
August 10, 2022
NINOTCHKA (1939) – AFI Movie Club
Featuring the incomparable Greta Garbo in a rare comedic performance – with posters at the time proclaiming “Garbo LAUGHS” – NINOTCHKA (1939) was ranked by the American Film Institute among the art form’s greatest comedies and love stories. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, the film was co-written by AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Billy Wilder –...
August 8, 2022
NINE TO FIVE (1980) – AFI Movie Club
Ranked by AFI among the art form’s greatest comedies – and with a theme song that was included as one of the greatest movie songs of all time – NINE TO FIVE (1980) marked the feature film debut of singer Dolly Parton, and also stars AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Jane Fonda and AFI Honorary...
August 7, 2022
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) – AFI Movie Club
Originally conceived as an animated film, but which was to become Walt Disney’s first American-made live-action film, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA stars Kirk Douglas – recipient of the 19th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. Learn more about 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA in the AFI Catalog. HOW TO...
August 5, 2022
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986) – AFI Movie Club
A boundary-breaking love story starring Marlee Matlin in a feature debut performance that earned her an Academy Award® for Best Actress, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986) was directed by AFI DWW Alum and Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal recipient Randa Haines (Class of 1975), and edited AFI DWW Alum Lisa Fruchtman (Class of 1980)....
August 4, 2022
AFI Ranked #1 Film School
This week, we are thrilled to celebrate that The Hollywood Reporter has once again named the AFI Conservatory the #1 film school in America, highlighting the success of AFI’s Alumni along with the school’s commitment to creating a more inclusive and diverse filmmaking community. Speaking about the intense hands-on collaboration that makes the AFI film...
July 30, 2022
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) – AFI Movie Club
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) appears on both of AFI’s lists of the greatest American films of all time – the original list as well as the 10th Anniversary Edition. It ranks #5 among the most heart-pounding screen thrills and both Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins’ Dr. Hannibal Lecter were counted among...
July 27, 2022
HOLIDAY (1938) – AFI Movie Club
With HOLIDAY (1938), legendary director George Cukor reunited costars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn – who’d starred previously together in SYLVIA SCARLETT (1935) and BRINGING UP BABY (1938), and would co-star subsequently in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) – for a story of an idealistic dreamer engaged to a wealthy socialite. Both Hepburn and Grant were...
July 24, 2022
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019) – AFI Movie Club
HE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019) is about the city’s rapid gentrification and a man trying to reclaim a family home. Director/writer Joe Talbot and lead actor Jimmie Fails spoke to Fellows at a Harold Lloyd Master Seminar at the AFI Conservatory. Fails was also an Indie Contenders panelist at AFI FEST 2019....
July 23, 2022
GHOST (1990) – AFI Movie Club
The story of a romance undeterred by death itself, GHOST (1990) appeared on the American Film Institute’s list of the art form’s greatest love stories – with its iconic use of the Righteous Brothers’ classic “Unchained Melody” also ranking among the greatest movie songs of all time. Learn more about GHOST in the AFI Catalog....
July 21, 2022
LIFE OF PI (2012) – AFI Movie Club
LIFE OF PI (2012) was honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official AFI AWARDS rationale, “LIFE OF PI is an immersion into the world of imagination – one so powerful, so deeply transformational, that it stands...
July 13, 2022
EVE’S BAYOU (1997) – AFI Movie Club
Inspired to write EVE’S BAYOU (1997) by memories of her own childhood trips to Louisiana, director Kasi Lemmons made her feature directorial debut with the film – working again with cinematographer and AFI Alum Amy Vincent (AFI Class of 1991), with whom she’d collaborated previously on the 1996 short film DR. HUGO. Learn more about...
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