Alex Winter
Actor / Filmmaker Alex Winter joins Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss movies featuring a cog in the machine – the individual struggling to exist within the system.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s Bill and Ted character power rankings
Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill And Ted Face The Music (2020)
The Game (1997)
Showbiz Kids (2020)
The Panama Papers (2018)
Zappa (2020)
200 Motels (1971)
Modern Times (1936)
Metropolis (1927) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Avatar (2009)
Things To Come (1936) – Jesus Trevino’s trailer commentary
M (1931)
M (1951)
The Last Laugh (1924) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Brazil (1985)
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, TFH’s Mogwai Madness
City Lights (1931)
Goin’ Down The Road (1970)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Young And The Damned (1950)
Shock Corridor (1963) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Stroszek (1977)
Even Dwarves Started Small (1970)
Ikiru (1952) – Glenn Erickson’s trailer commentary
Living (2022)
Up (2009)
L’idiot (1951)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) – Mike Mendez’s trailer commentary
Alphaville (1965) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Contempt (1963) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
La Jetée (1962)
12 Monkeys (1995) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
If… (1968)
The Hospital (1971) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickon’s Blu-ray review
Lolita (1962) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Seven Beauties (1975)
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Swept Away (1974)
Swept Away (2002)
Network (1976) – Chris Wilkinson’s trailer commentary
Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Christine (2016)
S.O.B. (1981)
A Face In The Crowd (1957) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
The Parallax View (1974) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
The Social Network (2010)
Three Days Of The Condor (1975) – Don Coscarelli’s trailer commentary
Deliverance (1972) – Neil LaBute’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (1979) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (1983)
Crimes Of The Future (2022)
Confess, Fletch (2022)
Dead For A Dollar (2022)
RRR (2022)
The ’Burbs (1989) – Ti West’s trailer commentary, TFH’s ‘Burbs Mania!
A Day At The Races (1937) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
The YouTube Effect (2023)
Other Notable Items
Our new home at the Airwave Media podcast network!
TFH Guru Allan Arkush’s My Favorite Movie Year: 1975 podcast episode
TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski
Abbott and Costello
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
John Brancato
Diana Serra Cary
Frank Zappa
PMRC
Fritz Lang
Charlie Chaplin
F.W. Murnau
Tod Browning
Paramount Pictures
The Shape Of Things To Come novel by H.G. Welles (1933)
Sight and Sound magazine
Alfred Hitchcock
Fred Astaire
Faust
Akira Kurosawa
Francois Truffaut
Joseph Losey
Giorgio Moroder
Alloy Orchestra
Telluride Film Festival
Monty Python
Mel Brooks
Luis Bunuel
Jean Cocteau
Oliver Twist novel by Charles Dickens (1839)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Samuel Fuller
Werner Herzog
NYU
Pixar
The Idiot novel by Fyodor Dostoyesvky (1869)
Crime And Punishment novel by Fyodor Dostoyesvky (1866)
Notes From The Underground novel by Fyodor Dostoyesvky (1864)
Bill Nighy
Kenji Mizoguchi
Eddie Constantine
Andrei Tarkosvky
Matt Helm
Chris Marker
Terry Gilliam
David Lynch
James Bond
A Clockwork Orange novel by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Stanley Kubrick
Malcolm McDowell
Lindsay Anderson
Washington University
Patrick Magee
Peter Sellers
Lina Wertmüller
Erich von Stroheim
Federico Fellini
Costa-Gavras
Madonna
Sidney Lumet
Paddy Chayefsky
George C. Scott
Robert Greene
The Watergate scandal
William Holden
Champagne Sharks podcast
Matt Christman
Aaron Sorkin
Warren Beatty
Robert Duvall
Faye Dunaway
Ned Beatty
Sid Sheinberg
Jonathan Pryce
Robert De Niro
Brave New World novel by Aldous Huxley (1931)
1984 novel by George Orwell (1949)
Terry Jones
David Cronenberg
J.G. Ballard
Walter Hill
The L.A. Times
Kristen Stewart
Beyond Fest
The American Cinematheque in Hollywood
The Marx Brothers
The Ed Solomon podcast episode
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