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AFI film school #55: Duck Soup -- Getting to Freedonia

“Comedy, while going for laughs, will sometimes unfairly be taken less seriously than dramas…”

AFI film school #54: The Maltese Falcon -- Inventing Genre

“In prior weeks, I talked about movies that do genre so well they deserve to be on the list.
Chinatown is a great example because it’s not only a movie that did noir so well but found new ways to do it…”

AFI film school #53: Intolerance -- A Tolerance to Filmmaking

“Film history is such a big piece of this AFI list as we’re not only looking at movies that movie well but ones that taught all other movies how to movie. Back when filmmakers were still trying to figure out…”