Peter Ramsey

Writer/director Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) joins Josh and Joe to discuss movies he loves that he wishes more people knew.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse (2018)
Sing (2016)
The Godfather (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sammy Going South/A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1965)
Diner (1982)
Internal Affairs (1990)
Pacific Heights (1990)
Blow-up (1966)
Out of the Past (1947)
Against All Odds (1984)
A History of Violence (2005)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The Duellists (1977)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Fearless (1993)
The Last Wave (1977)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Devils (1971)
Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
New York Stories (1989)
Malcolm X (1992)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Crooklyn (1994)
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Altered States (1980)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
The Ape Man (1943)
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Brazil (1985)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Tetro (2009)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
The Outsiders (1983)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Harakiri (1962)
Mandy (2018)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Persona (1966)
The Girl On The Bridge (1999)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Dobermann (1997)
Serie Noire (1979)
Mysterious Island (1961)
Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
Mona Lisa (1986)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
The Iron Giant (1999)
The Incredibles (2004)
Ratatouile (2007)
Shrek (2001)
Tank Girl (1995)
Shrek 2 (2004)
Shrek the Third (2007)

Other Notable Items

Clifford Odets
Ernest Lehman
On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, helmer Alexander Mackendrick’s filmmaking book from his CalArts years
James Wong Howe
Val Lewton–Nicholas Musuraca collaboration
Peter Weir
Spike Lee
Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell beef on the set of Altered States (and whose side William Hurt took)
Akira Kurosawa
Masaki Kobayashi
The demise of Filmstruck
The Criterion Collection’s Ingmar Bergman box set
The Motion Picture Production Code
The Man In The High Castle television series
Patrice LeConte
The collaboration of Ray Harryhausen and Charles H. Schneer
Neil Jordan
Brad Bird

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