Boots Riley
First, the WGA Spotlight, featuring Brenden Gallagher.
WGA Spotlight: Brendan Gallagher – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Dollar Generals (2022)
Only Wore Them Once (2023)
Raising Arizona (1987)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
True Grit (2010)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Blood Simple (1984)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Other Notable Items
Warner Brothers
Netflix
Warrior Nun TV series (2020-22)
Claire Downs
The Tallgrass Film Festival
Martha Kelly
Baskets TV series (2016-19)
Euphoria TV series (2019- )
The Coen Brothers
Preston Sturges
John Ford
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Angelyne
Democratic Socialists of America
Hugo Soto-Martinez
Ayn Rand
The impending Netflix pop-up restaurant
I’m A Virgo TV series (2023- )
Our pals at Movies Unlimited!
Samuel L. Jackson
And now for our feature presentation… writer/director Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You, I’m a Virgo) discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Stay tuned for a post credits update in which Boots and Josh discuss the ongoing WGA strike.
Feature Presentation: Boots Riley – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Gremlins (1984)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Infested (2002)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
The Last Dragon (1985)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Nashville (1975)
Matewan (1987)
Men With Guns (1997)
Crooklyn (1994)
Black Swan (2010)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Cape Fear (1962)
Minions (2015)
Tremors (1990)
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)
The Hawks And The Sparrows (1966)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Teorema (1968)
Mood Indigo (2013)
Mulan (1998)
Ratatouille (2007)
Delicatessen (1991)
Amelie (2001)
Tampopo (1985)
History of the World Part I (1981)
PlayTime (1967)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)
Magic Magic (2013)
Anchorman (2004)
Men In Black (1997)
Other Notable Items
Todd Perry
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Boots’ new TV series I’m A Virgo (2023- )
Boots’ band The Coup
Todd Sheridan Perry
Scott Kirvan
Amazon Prime Video
Walton Goggins
Jean-Luc Godard
Tessa Thompson
The New Parkway Theater in Oakland
The Sundance Feature Film Program
Joan Tewkesbury
Judd Apatow
Gaspar Noé
David Cronenberg
David Letterman’s Top 10 Lists
TFH Guru John Sayles
Ted Hope
Chris Cooper
James Earl Jones
Haskell Wexler
Arthur Jafa
Spike Lee
Tze Chun
Gremlins: Secrets Of The Mogwai TV series (2023- )
Bernard Herrmann
Jerry Goldsmith
Emir Kusturica
Gogol Bordello
Paul Schrader
Tune-Yards
Sony Pictures
Leonard Coen
Stu Fine
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Totò
Ennio Morricone
Michel Gondry
Froth On The Daydream novel by Boris Vian (1947)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Mel Brooks
David Lynch
Alice Waters
Jacques Tati
Busy, Busy Town book by Richard Scarry (1966)
Roy Andersson
Steve Martin
Michael Cera
Adam McKay
Will Ferrell
Star Trek
Sebastián Silva
David Zaslav
The infamous Apple TV+ executive interview by Rick Ellis
Paramount
IATSE
The Ed Solomon podcast episode
SAG
The DGA
The WGA
Payday Report
Netflix
Christopher Keyser
SEIU
The Taft-Hartley Act
The Cannes Film Festival
TFH Guru Howard Rodman
This list is also available on Movies Unlimited and Letterboxd.
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