Sean Durkin

The writer/director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante on an exploration of his favorite cinematic endings.

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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
The Nest (2020)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Parallax View (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Limbo (1999)
Nashville (1975)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
3 Women (1977)
Chinatown (1974)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Third Man (1949)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Shoot The Moon (1982)
Parasite (2019)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
The Brood (1979)
The Graduate (1967)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Candidate (1972)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Birds (1963)
The Firm (1989)
Scum (1979)
The Firm (2009)
The Vanishing (1988)
The Vanishing (1993)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Repulsion (1965)
Pirates (1986)
What? (1972)
Blowup (1966)
Blow Out (1981)
The Long Good Friday (1980)

Other Notable Items

Jude Law
Carrie Coon 
Quentin Tarantino
John Wayne
The Pure Cinema Podcast
The Film Forum
Warren Beatty
TFH Guru Howard Rodman
TFH Guru John Sayles
The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)
Gwen Welles
Barbara Harris
Robert Altman
John Huston
Orson Welles
Paul Rudd
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton
Alan Parker
David Cronenberg
Buck Henry
The Graduate novel (1963)
Spike Lee
Tippi Hedrin
Alfred Hitchcock
Lew Wasserman
Gary Oldman
Alan Clarke
Nick Love
Michael Bay
Jeff Bridges
Kiefer Sutherland
Roman Polanski
Elliot Gould
Sydne Rome 
Bob Hoskins
Ann Beattie 

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