Episodes
INTRODUCTION
Parallels in Pictures
BRIDGING FROM CLASSIC TO CURRENT CINEMA
Creative director and writer Joe Cooper explores the many connections between films of the past and what we see today.
EPISODE 1
New York
THE COLOSSUS ON CAMERA
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EPISODE 2
Obsession
LENSES OF THE MIND AND MADNESS
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EPISODE 3
Bombshells
WOMEN AND STAYING POWER IN HOLLYWOOD
The power to devastate (not to mention mitigate, earn and outwit) as been delivered by women in cinema since the art form began. The power that filmmakers have at the time a film is made is often outlasted by that of the fire featured on screen.
EPISODE 4
CHEMISTRY
REEL REACTIONS CAPTURED ON SCREEN
“Movies aren’t real life” goes the popular if pessimistic adage — except sometimes, the connections happening between two performers — actually are.
EPISODE 5
Parties
SPECTACLE, SET PIECE AND STORY
Parties provide directors with myriad ways to seduce, shock and tell stories, and a big Hollywood party is its own genre of film fun.