Allan Arkush
Hey! Ho! Let’s GO! TFH Guru and Rock’n’Roll High School Director Allan Arkush takes us to film school with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Also featuring Melissa Marlette in the Strike Force Spotlight.
Strike Force Spotlight: Melissa Marlette – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Gremlins (1984)
Innerspace (1987)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Death On The Nile (2022)
A Haunting In Venice (2023)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Invitation (2015)
Other Notable Items
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Nancy Drew TV series (2019-23)
The Vampire Diaries TV series (2009-17)
Desperate Housewives TV series (2004-12)
Kenneth Branagh
Francis Ford Coppola
Keanu Reeves
The Criterion Collection
Winona Ryder
The Americans TV series (2013-18)
The Warner Brothers Television Workshop
Phil Hay
The Los Angeles Dodgers
The Karyn Kusama podcast episode
Glen Morgan
Kristen Cloke
Our pals at Movies Unlimited!
Feature Presentation – Allan Arkush – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Get Crazy (1983)
Blast (1976)
The Searchers (1956)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Rear Window (1954)
The Bandwagon (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
El Dorado (1966)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Force Of Evil (1948)
The Killers (1964)
7 Women (1966)
The World Of Apu (1959)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1963)
West Side Story (1961)
Mountains May Depart (2015)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)
Ratcatcher (1999)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Imitation Of Life (1934)
The Shining (1980)
Paths Of Glory (1957)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Mother Night (1996)
Isle Of Dogs (2018)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Point Break (1991)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
The Swan (2023)
The Ratcatcher (2023)
Poison (2023)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Juice (1992)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Persona (1966)
Stalker (1979)
My Name Is Ivan a.k.a. Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Last Year In Marienbad (1961)
On The Waterfront (1954)
The Godfather (1972)
Raging Bull (1980)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Explorers (1985)
Body Double (1984)
Other Notable Items
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Del Shannon
The Replacements
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
The Replacements’ Tim: Let It Bleed Edition box set (2023)
P.J. Soles
“I Want You Around” song by The Ramones (1979)
“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” song by The Ramones (1979)
Ed Stasium
I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School book by Stephen B. Armstrong (2023)
The American Film Institute
Michael Jablow
UCLA Film School
TFH Guru Roger Corman
David Lean
NYU
Martin Scorsese
John Wayne
Ward Bond
Michael Powell
TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan
Jean-Luc Godard
Don Siegel
Lee Marvin
Robert De Niro
Satyajit Ray
The Beatles’ February 9th, 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
The Temptations miniseries
David Ruffin
Suzanne de Passe
Jia Zhangke
John Ford
Douglas Sirk
John M. Stahl
Stanley Kubrick
Wes Anderson
Steven Spielberg
Keith Gordon
Nick Nolte
Netflix
Roald Dahl
Kathryn Bigelow
Patrick Swayze
Robert Altman
TFH Guru Ernest Dickerson
Omar Epps
Tupac Shakur
Jodie Foster
Jonathan Demme
Ingmar Bergman
Liv Ullman
Bibi Andersson
Andrei Tarkovsky
Syd Field
Robert McKee
Al Pacino
Marlon Brando
Rod Steiger
Quentin Tarantino
Craig Wasson
Moonlighting TV series (1985-89)
Eva Marie Saint
Cybill Shepherd
Airwave Media
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