Joe and Anthony Russo have announced a new weekly Instagram live show titled Russo Bros. Pizza Film School, working to educate and spread some love to favorite classic films as well as local pizzerias while movie lovers are stuck at home during the pandemic. The series airs Fridays at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on Instagram @therussobrothers.
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Each week, the Bros will assign a movie for the class and will tune in with guests to talk about how different flicks have transformed their relationship to cinema while enjoying pizza from a local pizzeria.
For Episode 1, The Russo Brothers have assigned the movie La Haine (available on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes Movies). This week’s guest is Pete Hammond, currently the Chief Film Critic and Awards Columnist for Deadline Hollywood and is widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards season commentators for film and television. Before joining Deadline, Pete was an awards columnist for The Los Angeles Times, and a film critic for MovieLine, Box Office Magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com, and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete hosts popular year-round film screening series’ and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for his own television writing.
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The first episode launches Friday, May 15 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
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