Classic Films

Have You Seen…? looks at an unusual movie, Peter Ibbetson, starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. It presents a dreamlike love story that uses alternate realities and philosophical ideas unlike most classic Hollywood movies. David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about this film and a warning, there are spoilers

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northmen. Director Robert Eggers presents a unique, personal vision in his highly imaginative filmmaking

Charles Laughton was one of the great character actors in both British and American movies. On this episode, David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about his acting career in films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mutiny on the Bounty and the one film he directed, The Night of the Hunter

On this Have You Seen…? WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf and David Hast discuss the films of Barbara Stanwyck, including Stella Dallas, The Lady Eve, Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity and The Furies

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss the Italian Neo-Realism movement that occurred after the end of World War II. It was a school of filmmaking that influenced movie makers around the world

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about movies that changed cinema. They look at six movies that range from classic Hollywood to the French New Wave and some contemporary examples. The movies they discuss are: Breathless, Citizen Kane, Psycho, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Jaws and Marvel's Iron Man

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss Man on Wire, the Academy Award-winning documentary about Phillip Petitt, who walked a high-wire between the World Trad Center buildings in 1974. Directed by James Marsh, it’s presented as a heist film

David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about ‘On the Waterfront,’ the 1954 film starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, directed by the controversial director Elia Kazan. Kazan had named names before the House Unamerican Activities Committee in Congress. On the Waterfront is a film that grapples with labor issues and organized crime.

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about The Conversation. Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, the film that was ahead of its time looking at privacy and surveillance

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb is one of the greatest American cold war movies. David Hast talks with Scott Vander Werf talk about the Stanley Kubrick classic