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Scott Vander Werf and former educator and film maker David Hast talk about Footlight Parade and other classic films on this first episode of Have You Seen...?Have You Seen is a series featuring WGVU Public Radio’s Scott Vander Werf in conversation with former educator and film maker David Hast about classic Hollywood movies.They’ll explore the history of cinema and the relevance of older movies within today’s world, of how the origins of cinema continue today. We bring you our first installment today, looking at Footlight Parade and other films.

David Hast and WGVU’s 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.

In this episode of Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about The Conversation written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman. It’s a 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. 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 discuss the Spike Lee classic, Do the Right Thing. Released in 1989 it stars Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito and Rosie Perez.

Today on Have You Seen…? David Hast and WGVU’s Scott Vander Werf talk about the seminal hard-boiled detective film The Big Sleep. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep is adapted from the classic crime novel by Raymond Chandler.

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