Classic Films

David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss Film Noir with one of the greatest from the genre: Out of the Past

On this episode David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about the film His Girl Friday and other screwball comedies and classic romantic comedies

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb is one of the greatest American cold war movies. On today’s episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast talks with WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf about the Stanley Kubrick classic.

On this episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about the 1947 film The Man I Love starring Ida Lupino and directed by Raoul Walsh. It’s a film noir that mixes family and jazz

On this episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about the Werner Herzog modern classic Aguirre, The Wrath of God starring Klaus Kinski. It’s a film that set the precedent for Herzog’s vision of humankind and nature

Beauty and the Beast was originally a French fairy tale published in 1740 by Villeneuve but it’s best known today as the animated Disney movie from 1991. On today’s episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf take a look at the original adaptation, the live-action Beauty and the Beast from poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau that was made in 1946

On this edition of “Have You Seen…?” David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about The Asphalt Jungle starring Sterling Hayden and directed by John Huston. It’s a proto-heist film, a police procedural, and a classic crime film.

In this episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf look at the 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, directed by Preston Sturges, a movie that combines serious drama, comedy and romance

In 1932 actor Paul Muni starred in two classic films, the original Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about these groundbreaking movies on this episode of Have You Seen…?

On this episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast talks with WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf about cinematography, the art of motion picture photography…how the masters of the form collaborate with directors to realize their vision, and how essential it is to our movie going experience, both in theaters and at home. The conversation begins with a clip from the documentary Visions of Light, featuring cinematographer Ernest Dickerson.