The Allure of Really Bad Films
b'Films So Bad, They\\u2019re Actually Good
Guest:\\xa0Jeffrey Sconce, Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University
\\u2018Badfilm\\u2019 is a genre long characterized by movies \\u201cso bad that they are actually good.\\u201d\\xa0What makes a truly great badfilm?
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Citizen Kane
Guest: Harlan Lebo, author, "Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker\'s Journey"
The making of "Citizen Kane," long recognized as one of the greatest films ever made, has a story as interesting as the movie itself.
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The Real Lawrence of Arabia
Guest: Eugene Rogan, Professor, Modern Middle Eastern History, and Director, Middle East Centre, University of Oxford
Few true stories have inspired more awe than\\xa0that\\xa0of T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Winston Churchill said\\xa0of Lawrence, \\u201cI deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time . . . we shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live in the annals of war. . . . It will live in the legends of Arabia.\\u201d The 1962 film about Lawrence also became iconic. How well did the film capture the legend?'