Peter Ramsey RETURNS!

Peter Ramsey, the Oscar-winning director of Spider Man: Into The Spider-Verse, returns to discuss some of the legendary directors with whom he’s worked.

(Check out Peter’s first Movies That Made Me episode here!)

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Internal Affairs (1990)
Lady in White (1988)
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Predator 2 (1990)
Almost An Angel (1990)
Crocodile Dundee II, the movie Peter meant that preceded Almost An Angel and made a surprisingly robust amount of money (1988)
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, the movie Peter mentioned that later succeeded Almost An Angel and made a wholly unsurprisingly modest amount of money (2001)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Point Break (1991)
The Godfather (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Infested (2002)
Spartan (2002)
Redbelt (2008)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Hulk (2003)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Life of Pi (2012)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Fight Club (1999)
Seven (1995)
Panic Room (2002)
Amadeus (1984)
Network (1976)

Other Notable Items

Peter’s Oscar win for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969)
Walter Mosley
Fantastic Four comic book series
Maximum FF book
Peter Ramsey’s First Movies That Made Me Podcast Episode
Bill Hader Podcast Episodes
The Saturn Awards
The Edgar Awards
The Elijah Wood-Daniel Noah Podcast Episode
Frank LaLoggia
Stephen Hopkins
Paul Hogan
Francis Ford Coppola
Ron Howard
Steven Spielberg
San Diego Comic-Con
Jim Belushi
David Lowery
George Jenson
Sherman Labby
Gordon Willis
Roman Coppola
Previsualization
Keanu Reeves
The Godfather Notebook
John Singleton
Michael Ballhaus
Dante Ferretti
Gary Oldman
William Cameron Menzies
John Huston
Jonathan Kaplan
Paul Bartel
Robbie McNeil
Star Trek: Voyager TV series (1995-2001)
David Mamet
The Village Voice alternative newspaper (1955- )
Josh’s Village Voice article “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script”
David Mament’s brain-dead Village Voice piece, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’”
Mamet’s On Directing Film book, actually very helpful for screenwriters
Eric Ramsey
Val Kilmer
Stanley Kubrick
Chris Baker
Jude Law
Ang Lee
Peter Weir
Orson Welles
Akira Kurosawa
Hulk screenwriter James Schamus
Eric Bana
Michael Anthony Jackson
Rodolfo Damaggio
Robert Wise
The 2009 Venice Film Festival Jury Panel, featuring Ang Lee and Joe
David Fincher
Fight Club’s unintentional men’s rights culture tie-ins

This list is also available on Letterboxd.