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Go beyond the screen with the official podcast from Required Watching. This is your audio masterclass in the art of storytelling, designed for filmmakers, screenwriters, and dedicated cinephiles.Each week, host and film analyst Tray Epps (and sometimes other guests)…
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Film School is a Scam. Here's the Real Curriculum (opens the original)
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Eighty thousand dollars buys you the 180-degree rule and four years of fear. It doesn't buy you the three things every great film runs on: the Blueprint (how it was built), the Ghost (why it haunts you), and the Echo (what it changed). This is the real curriculum — through Kurosawa's power geometry in High and Low, the ending of Memories of Murder, and the reason Japanese sentence structure teaches screen tension better than any seminar.Films mentioned: High and Low (1963) · Memories of Murder (
Why Modern Actors All Sound Like They're Whispering (opens the original)
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There's a performance style that's taken over prestige cinema. Quiet, internal, barely-there. And everyone's blamed the actors. Wrong call. The whispering isn't coming from the performance. It's coming from the camera. This is a breakdown of the specific technical shift that changed how actors perform, why sound designers are furious about it, and what three films did differently that nobody gave them credit for.
For Glen - A Tribute to Glen Hansard (opens the original)
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A personal audio essay on Glen Hansard, Once , and twenty years of chasing the feeling of that first screening. Recorded the week the world lost him. Required Watching is your curriculum for cinematic literacy. We deconstruct the art and craft of filmmaking to help you become a sharper storyteller. ▶️ Subscribe for new video essays every week : ▶️ Website ▶️ Twitter/X ▶️ Instagram ▶️ Letterboxd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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