Modern Romance | Albert Brooks Festival

This week we dive into the intro and opening scene of Wes Anderson's lovely 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums. We examine all the luxurious ways he handle every aspect of film and what he can accomplish with a budget. Fantastic movie and discussion. Enjoy! Make sure to play along with each festival and leave comments so we can interact with you and remember to subscribe to the channel if you like what you see. Follow us for more interaction and content: INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/deepdivefilmschool YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/deepdivefilmschool TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@deepdivefilmschool LETTERBOXD: https://letterboxd.com/adampalcher Join our growing community for new videos every week!

This week we begin our Movies About Movies Festival with Steven Spielberg's autobiographical film The Fabelman's, an honest retelling of his childhood and how he fell in love with movies. A perfect opening film for this show. Enjoy the conversation!  

This week we dive into the epic scene from the 1993 Tony Scott film True Romance. This is the scene where Gary Oldman won us over for a lifetime playing Drexel to Christian Slater's Clarence. What a scene! What a movie! What a conversation! Enjoy! Make sure to play along with each festival and leave comments so we can interact with you and remember to subscribe to the channel if you like what you see.  Follow us for more interaction and content: INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/deepdivefilmschool YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/deepdivefilmschool TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@deepdivefilmschool Join our growing community for new videos every week! 

This week we have a bonus episode! This is the documentary that inspired our Albert Brooks Festival and we wanted to share our thoughts with you about the doc itself, how it changed our view of Albert after the festival and celebrate what a damn comedic prodigy he really was. Enjoy!

This week we delve into the wild mind of the one and only Stanley Kubrick. We discuss his final movie, Eyes Wide Shut, and the intensity and horror that is felt as Tom Crusie's character William gets more than he bargained for when he's invited to a party. You know the scene, we all know the scene. Great movie and conversation! Enjoy! Make sure to play along with each festival and leave comments so we can interact with you and remember to subscribe to the channel if you like what you see. Follow us for more interaction and content: INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/deepdivefilmschool  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/deepdivefilmschool TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@deepdivefilmschool Join our growing community for new videos every week!

This week we close out our Albert Brooks Festival with his underrated 1991 classic, Defending Your Life. A fascinating story of a man between worlds after he gets hit by a bus. This after life brings him something he's never felt before, calm and joy but also angst as he has to defend his life to prove he's worthy of moving on. Great film and conversation, enjoy!

Happy Halloween! This week we dive into a wonderful example of exposition in horror with the infection scene from David Robert Mitchell's 2014 horror throwback, It Follows. Great scene and conversation! Enjoy! Make sure to play along with each festival and leave comments so we can interact with you and remember to subscribe to the channel if you like what you see. Follow us for more interaction and content:  INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/deepdivefilmschool  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/deepdivefilmschool TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@deepdivefilmschool Join our growing community for new videos every week! 

In the third installment of our Albert Brooks festival, we break down the 1985 road trip comedy about a mid-thirties couple quitting society and living off their life savings in a Winnebago. A hilarious take on societal norms. mid-life crisis and the trouble of marrying a gambler. Great movie and conversation! Enjoy!

This week we break the classic ending to the Sergio Leone's 1966 spaghetti western masterpiece The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. A tale of bounty hunters on a quest for hidden treasure buried in a secret place. Wow, what a scene! Enjoy the conversation! Make sure to play along with each festival and leave comments so we can interact with you and remember to subscribe to the channel if you like what you see.  Follow us for more interaction and content: INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/deepdivefilmschool  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/deepdivefilmschool TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@deepdivefilmschool Join our growing community for new videos every week! 

This week we continue our Albert Brooks festival with our second installment, Modern Romance from 1981. Written, directed and acted all by Brooks himself we get a self loathing, selfish man who is too into his own world and his own problems to truly face what's actually affecting his relationship with his patient girlfriend. Enjoy the conversation!