Scott Alexander
First, the WGA Spotlight, featuring Barry Schwartz.
WGA Spotlight: Barry Schwartz – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Baywatch (2017)
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Adaptation (2002)
Anchorman (2004)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Other Notable Items
Our brand-new Patreon!
Paramount Pictures
Warner Brothers
Sony Pictures
Baywatch TV series (1989-2001)
Baywatch Nights TV series (1995-97)
Charlie Kaufman
Miramax
Spike Jonze
Hulu
The WGA strike
The SAG-AFTRA strike
The AMPTP
Our pals at Movies Unlimited!
TCM
Followed by our feature presentation, wherein Ed Wood co-writer Scott Alexander returns to discuss a few of his favorite films from Z Channel with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Feature Presentation – Scott Alexander – Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Airport ’79: The Concord (1979)
Problem Child (1990)
Problem Child 2 (1991)
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Save The Tiger (1973)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock a.k.a. Mad Wednesday (1947)
The Freshman (1925)
Piranha (1978)
Real Life (1979)
Network (1976)
Modern Romance (1981)
Lost In America (1985)
From Noon Till Three (1976)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Tænk På Et Tal (1969)
Westworld (1973)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Phase IV (1974)
Demon Seed (1977)
West Side Story (1961)
North By Northwest (1959)
The Searching Eye (1964)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
The Kirlian Witness (1978)
Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
Homebodies (1974)
Trick Baby (1972)
Ed Wood (1994)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Big Eyes (2014)
Carnival Of Souls (1962)
El Topo (1970)
The Killing Kind (1973)
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
The Goonies (1985)
The Man With Bogart’s Face (1980)
Road Games (1981)
Rear Window (1954)
Psycho II (1983)
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
Always (1985)
Sitting Ducks (1980)
Insignificance (1985)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Playtime (1967)
Jour De Fête (1949)
Overlord (1975)
Spetters (1980)
The Fourth Man (1983)
Soldier Of Orange (1977)
Keetje Tippel (1975)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Robocop (1987)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Basic Instinct (1992)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Seven Beauties (1975)
The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
All Screwed Up (1974)
Swept Away (1974)
Swept Away (2002)
Overboard (1987)
High And Low (1963)
Screwed (2000)
Stray Dog (1949)
Ikiru (1952)
Living (2022)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man (2006)
Blow Out (1981)
Blow-Up (1966)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) – TFH’s Mogwai Madness
Winter Kills (1979)
The American Success Company (1980)
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967)
It’s Alive (1974)
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Man In The White Suit (1951)
Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Knives Out (2019)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Freebie And The Bean (1974)
The Stunt Man (1980)
Popi (1969)
Rhinoceros (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
The Iceman Cometh (1960)
The Producers (1967)
Day For Night (1973)
Small Change (1976)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974)
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
A Pain in the A__ a.k.a. L’emmerdeur (1973)
La Chèvre (1981)
King Of Hearts (1966)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Putney Swope (1969)
Chafed Elbows (1966)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
The Music Lovers (1971)
Mahler (1974)
Lisztomania (1975)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Night Watch (1973)
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Nasty Habits (1977)
I Will, I Will… For Now (1976)
Whiffs (1975)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
A Touch of Class (1973)
The Front Page (1974)
The Loved One (1965)
Sextette (1978)
Animals Are Beautiful People (1974)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Other Notable Items
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Paramount Pictures
Eric Roth
Our latest Larry Karaszewski podcast episode
Lori Anderson
WTF With Marc Maron
Gallagher
Barack Obama
The Z Channel
Jerry Harvey
HBO
Max
Rainer Werner Fassbender
Claude Chabrol
Jacques Tati
Alan Rudolph
John Alcott
Alastair Sim
Preston Sturges
Howard Hughes
Harold Lloyd
F.X. Feeney
TFH Guru Mick Garris
TFH Guru Jon Davison
Barbara Steele
Charles Champlin
The New York Times
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
The Little Rascals
The Three Stooges
Albert Brooks
“Something’s Gotta Give” song by Johnny Mercer (1954)
Merv Griffin Orchestra
The Velvet Underground
Charles Bronson
Jill Ireland
Frank Gilroy
Tony Gilroy
Dan Gilroy
“Hello and Goodbye” song by Elmer Bernstein (1976)
George Clooney
Elliott Gould
Christopher Plummer
Susannah York
John Candy
Curtis Hanson
Daryl Duke
Think of a Number novel by Anders Bodelsen (1969)
Time
Julie Christie
Donald Cammell
Saul Bass
The 1964 New York World’s Fair
101 Films
Timothy Bottoms
Barbara Hershey
The VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care Hospital
Larry Yust
Ian Wolfe
The New Beverly Cinema
Ed Wood
Rudy Ray Moore
Margaret Keane
The Continental Theatre/The Encore Theatre in Los Angeles
Curtis Harrington
Ann Southern
Gabriel Dell
The Dead End Kids
Huntz Hall
Jackie Coogan
Sean Astin
Robert Sacchi
Greta Scacchi
Humphrey Bogart
Charles Bronson
Robert Bronzi
Andrew J. Fenady
James Bacon
James Stewart
Bette Davis
The Casablanca Restaurant in Venice
Richard Franklin
Stacy Keach
Jamie Lee Curtis
Henry Jaglom
Our pals at Movies Unlimited!
Michael Emil
Zack Norman
Albert Einstein
Nicolas Roeg
Marilyn Monroe
Criterion’s The Complete Jacques Tati Blu-ray set
Stuart Cooper
John Alcott
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
TBS
Ted Turner
Paul Verhoeven
Jacques Demy
Lina Wertmüller
Madonna
Guy Ritchie
Akira Kurosawa
Norm MacDonald
Dave Chapelle
MGM
Michael Nathanson
Robin Hardy
TFH Guru Neil LaBute
British Lion Films
TFH Guru Roger Corman
The Gordon/Regent Showcase Theater
Edward Woodward
Anthony Shaffer
Paddy Chayefsky
William Richert
John Huston
Jeff Bridges
Sterling Hayden
Anthony Perkins
John F. Kennedy
Winter Kills novel by Richard Condon (1974)
The Manchurian Candidate novel by Richard Condon (1959)
Ralph Meeker
Kino Lorber
TFH Guru Larry Cohen
Ealing Studios
Alec Guinness
Star Wars franchise
Dennis Price
Katie Johnson
Peter Sellers
The Coen Brothers
Tom Hanks
Irma P. Hall
Stephen Sondheim
Rian Johnson
Richard Rush
The American Cinematheque in Hollywood
James Caan
Alan Arkin
Valerie Harper
The American Film Theatre
Ely Landau
The Music Center in Los Angeles
Lee Marvin
Jason Robards
Robert Ryan
Gene Wilder
Zero Mostel
Francois Truffaut
Francis Veber
The TLA in Philadelphia
Andre Gregory
The New Beverley Cinema in Hollywood
Robert Downey Sr.
Our pals at Movies Unlimited!
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Sarde
Max
Ken Russell
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Luiz Bonfá
Fabergé
Brut Productions
George Barrie
Elizabeth Taylor
Laurence Harvey
The Watergate scandal
Elliott Gould
Diane Keaton
Eddie Murphy
George Segal
Glenda Jackson
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
The Arcadia Theater in Philadelphia
The Warner Archive Collection
James Bacon
Mae West
Timothy Dalton
Ringo Starr
Keith Moon
Tom Selleck
“Love Will Keep Us Together” scene from Sextette
Jamie Uys
Xan Cassavetes
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