Mike Flanagan

Movies Unlimited
Season 08 | Episode 01

Mike Flanagan

Writer / Director / Podcaster

Filmmaker/Podcaster Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher) discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Doctor Sleep (2019)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Charade (1963)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Jaws (1975)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 3 (1983)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Piranha (1979)
The Howling (1981)
The Untouchables (1987)
Smokey And The Bandit Part 3 (1983)
Glory (1989)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Battleship Potemkin (1926)
Rear Window (1954)
Rope (1946)
Vertigo (1958)
The Birds (1963)
Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016)
Road Games (1981)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Platoon (1986)
Casablanca (1942)
Nosferatu (1922)
Star Wars (1977)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Stand By Me (1985)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Gerald’s Game (2017)
Hush (2016)
Lone Star (1996)
Oculus (2013)
Limbo (1999)
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Sorcerer (1977)
To Live And Die In LA (1985)
The French Connection (1971)
The Exorcist III (1990)
Alien (1979)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Network (1976)
Repo Man (1984)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
All That Jazz (1979)
Blowout (1981)
Blow-Up (1966)
Ikiru (1952)
Cabaret (1972)

Other Notable Items

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SpectreVision Radio 
Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah
Midnight Mass miniseries (2021)
The Fall of the House of Usher miniseries (2023)
Mike’s podcast Director’s Commentary
Stanley Donen 
Peter Stone
Martin Scorsese
The Criterion Collection
Michael Powell
IMAX
Steven Spielberg
Phil Tippett
Star Trek: The Original Series TV series (1966-69)
Jaws novel by Peter Benchley (1973)
The Jaws Log book by Carl Gottlieb (1975)
Joe’s attempted Jaws 3, People 0
The National Lampoon
John Hughes
Tod Carroll 
Richard D. Zanuck
David Brown
Mike Finnell
Bo Derek
Brian De Palma
Ennio Morricone
Sean Connery
Elliot Ness
Al Capone
The Untouchables graphic novel miniseries by Brian Michael Bendis (1997)
Paramount Pictures
Ed Zwick
Matthew Broderick
Denzel Washington
Andre Braugher
Morgan Freeman
Cary Elwes
Alfred Hitchcock
Thelma Ritter
Grace Kelly
The Arclight Hollywood
Stacy Keach
Jamie Lee Curtis
Richard Franklin
Shudder
Humphrey Bogart
Ingmar Bergman
I Spy TV series (1965-68)
The Dick Van Dyke Show TV series (1961-65)
Get Smart TV series (1965-70)
Our pals at Movies Unlimited, the movie collector’s website!
The Cineplex Odeon Bowie Market Place Cinema 6 in Bowie, Maryland 
Different Seasons novella collection by Stephen King
Frank Darabont
Netflix
Gerald’s Game novel by Stephen King (1992)
Carla Gugino
TFH Guru John Sayles
Chris Cooper
Matthew McConaughey
Kris Kristofferson
The Haunting Of Hill House miniseries (2018)
William Friedkin
The American Cinematheque in Hollywood
Robert Downey Jr.
George C. Scott
Legion novel by William Peter Blatty (1983)
C. Everett Coop
Fabio
Brad Dourif
The Collectors’ Edition of The Exorcist III by Shout Studios
Jason Miller
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton
Sam Shepard 
Nastassja Kinski 
Ry Cooder 
Robby Müller 
David Lean
Bob Fosse
Roy Scheider

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