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Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
The Beguiled (1971)
Tenet (2021? Maybe?)
Smokey Is The Bandit (1983)
Robin Hood (2010)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
The Devils (1971)
Song of the South (1946)
Gremlins (1984)
Dillinger (1973)
Marcello I’m So Bored (1966)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Big Wednesday (1978)
Swamp Thing (1982)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Payback (1999)
Bell, Book And Candle (1958)
Blowup (1966)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Medium Cool (1969)
25th Hour (2002)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Palm Springs (2020)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Mandy (2018)
The Sadist (1963)
Spider Baby (1968)
Night Tide (1960)
Stark Fear 
Carnival of Souls (1962)
The Devil’s Messenger (1961)
Ms. 45 (1981)
Léolo (1992)
The Howling (1981)
Showgirls (1995)
Green Book (2018)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Best Man (1964)
Advise and Consent (1962)
The Candidate (1972)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Seven Days In May (1964)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
The Man (1972)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Four Lions (2010)
Pump Up The Volume (1990)
Nightmare In The Sun (1965)
The Wild Angels (1966)
The Omega Man (1971)
The Nanny (1965)
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
The Italian Connection (1972) 
The Master Touch (1972)
Pinocchio (1940)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bambi (1942)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Apple (1980)
The Room (2003)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Other Notable Items

Christopher Nolan
Sam Peckinpah
Jeffrey Hunter
TFH Guru Adam Rifkin
Jackie Gleason
Ridley Scott
TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski
TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan
Jack Warner
Maverick TV series (1957-1962)
Warner Archive
Nicolas Winding Refn’s byNWR.com 
Something Weird
John Milius
Corey Feldman
Hooded Menace comic book (1951)
American International Pictures
Federico Fellini
New World Pictures
Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles
American Cinematheque
William Katt
Barbara Hale
TFH Guru John Landis
The Hollywood Pacific Theatre
High Fidelity novel by Nick Hornby
About A Boy novel by Nick Hornby
Led Zeppelin
The Liveliest Art by Arthur Knight (1959)
The Rise of the American Film by Lewis Jacobs (1939)
Pauline Kael
Manny Farber
The Grove Book Of Hollywood (2002)
Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking by Rocky Lang (2019)
Inside Warner Brothers by Rudy Belhmer (1985)
Errol Flynn
On Directing Film book by David Mamet (1992)
Backstory book series by Patrick McGilligan (1988)
Charles B. Griffith
Forrest Gump novel by Winston Groom (1986)
Richard Quine
Mel Gibson
Maria Bello
Ernie Kovacs
The Coen Brothers
Paramount Pictures
The Walt Disney Company
Chris Morris
Hulu
Nicolas Cage
The Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah Podcast Episodes
TFH Guru Edgar Wright
Vilmos Zsigmond
Jean-Claude Lauzon 
Joe’s upcoming film The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes (TBD)
Gore Vidal
Alan Alda
James Earl Jones
Criterion
Christian Slater
Allan Moyle
The AMC Palace Theatre in Philadelphia
The Family Theater in Philadelphia
The Fox Theatre in Philadelphia
The Milgram Theater in Philadelphia
Anthony Zerbe
Lincoln Kilpatrick
The Center Theater in Philadelphia
The World Theater in Philadelphia
Batman serial (1943)
Fernando Di Leo
Woody Strode
Henry Silva
Mario Adorf
Quentin Tarantino
Ruggero Deodato
Kirk Douglas
Ennio Morricone
Jeff Wells
The Hollywood Bowl
Robert Mitchum
TFH Guru John Sayles
The New Beverly Cinema
RiffTrax
Siskel and Ebert

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