Writer and producer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, American Crime Story) brings in some old movie ads from his local newspaper to discuss the movies that made him.
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Movies Referenced In This Episode
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The just-reopened
New Beverly Cinema, where Josh curated a Karaszewski/Scott Alexander double bill, comprising
Ed Wood and
Problem Child.
Mannix (1967-1975), television series.
Director and cinematographer Ernest Dickerson (Juice, Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight, The Walking Dead) sits with Josh and Joe to discuss some of the movies, filmmakers and genres that have inspired him over the years, and the curse of teal!
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Movies Referenced In This Episode
Other Notable Items
The Purge (2018- ), television series on USA Network
The films, plays, radio shows and commercial output of
Orson Welles
Film and television writer
Nigel Kneale (
Beasts, Stone Tape, The Quatermass Experiment, First Men In The Moon)
The films of director-turned-cinematographer
Mario Bava
John Huston–
Oswald Morris collaborations (
Moby Dick,
Moulin Rouge,
Reflections In A Golden Eye,
The Man Who Would Be King)
The Wire (2002-2008), television series on HBO
Maniac (2018), Netflix miniseries
Director and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (Being There, The Right Stuff) sits with Josh and Joe to discuss some of the movies and filmmakers who have inspired him over the years.
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Movies Referenced In This Episode
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Three of the most influential directors of photography to inspire Caleb were French New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard (Breathless, Contempt), Eugene Schüfftan (
The Hustler, Lilith), and
Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor, The Conformist, Apocalypse Now).
Investigative journalist Mark Ebner takes our title seriously and walks Josh and Joe through the movies that actually made him!
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Movies Referenced In This Episode
Other Notable Items
Filmmaker Mick Garris (Masters of Horror, Nightmare Cinema, Sleepwalkers, Critters 2) walks us through his favorite rock and roll movies.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
God Told Me To (1976)
Piranha (1978)
Shivers (1975)
Nightmare Cinema (2019)
Almost Famous (2000)
Horsefeathers (1932)
The Howling (1981)
Riding The Bullet (2004)
My Dinner with Jimi (2003)
Tapeheads (1988)
Dirty Duck (1974)
Still Crazy (1998)
Withnail and I (1987)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Small Soldiers (1998)
All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Let It Be (1970)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
Help! (1965)
It’s Trad, Dad! a.k.a. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (1962)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
Under The Cherry Moon (1986)
Flipper’s New Adventure (1964)
The Boat That Rocked a.k.a. Pirate Radio (2009)
Love Actually (2003)
Head (1968)
Woodstock (1970)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
The Last Waltz (1978)
Wolfen (1981)
Nasty Habits (1977)
The Omega Man (1971)
Ed Wood (1994)
Absolute Beginners (1986)
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Hold On! (1966)
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Clambake (1967)
Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965)
Quadrophenia (1979)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Blindman (1971)
Candy (1968)
Tommy (1975)
The Bride (1985)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
The Exorcist (1973)
It Might Get Loud (2008)
The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1967)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1979)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Other Notable Items
TFH Guru Larry Cohen
The Z Channel
TFH Guru Jon Davison
Barbara Steele
Paul Bartel
Dick Miller
Lynn Lowry
The Post Mortem with Mick Garris podcast
Mick’s old band, Horsefeathers
Blumhouse Productions
Cameron Crowe
The San Diego Door
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Rod Stewart
Tower Records
Frank Zappa
Badfinger
Rolling Stone Magazine
Gentle Giant
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Joe’s “The Greibble” episode of the Amazing Stories TV series (1985-1987)
Don McLeod
The Turtles
Howard Kaylan
George Wendt
John Lennon
John F. Kennedy
Mark Volman
The Roxy Theatre
Sites that list streaming options
Jeff Lynne
Squeeze
Bill Nighy
Brian Gibson
Lynne Whitfield
Bruce Robinson
Syd Barrett
Stonehenge
Spinal Tap: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean
Bruno Kirby
Rob Reiner
AVCO Embassy
The Rutles
George Harrison
Eric Idle
Mick Jagger
Paul Simon
Monty Python
American Cinematheque
Jayne Mansfield
Frank Tashlin
Steve Allen
77 Sunset Strip TV show (1958-1964)
“Be-Bop-A-Lula”, Gene Vincent (1956)
Richard Lester
George Martin
Phil Spector
Flipper TV show (1964-1967)
Pamela Franklin
Richard Curtis
The Monkees
Jack Nicholson
Ringo Starr
Martin Scorsese
The Wolfen novel (1978)
Glenda Jackson
Charlton Heston
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
“Teddy Boys”
David Bowie
“Quiet Life” by Ray Davies
The Kinks
Patsy Kensit
Julien Temple
Michael Jackson’s “Ghosts” music video, directed first by Mick and finished by Stan Winston
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, directed by TFH Guru John Landis
Mick’s The Shining TV miniseries
Stan Winston
James Cameron
Digital Domain
Scott Rudin
Rick Baker
Herman’s Hermits
Jean Arthur
Arthur Lubin
Mister Ed TV series (1961-1966)
Elvis Presley
The Jordanaires
Where The Action Is TV series (1965-1967)
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Freddie and the Dreamers
Gerry and the Pacemakers
Gerry Marsden
Chad and Jeremy
Peter and Gordon
The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show (1961-1966)
“Come and Get It” by Badfinger
The tragedy of Badfinger
Apple Records
The Concert For Bangladesh album, George Harrison and Friends (1971)
Magic Christian Music soundtrack album, Badfinger (1970)
Tony Anthony
Pete Ham
Tom Evans
Harry Nilsson
Mariah Carey
Quadrophenia album, The Who (1973)
Tommy album, The Who (1969)
Franc Roddam
Pink Floyd
The Beatles TV show (1965-1969)
Peter Max
Early 1960s Czech Jules Verne movies
The Edge
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
Jack White
Robert Zemeckis
Brill Building
The Ramones
The Clash
TFH Guru Allan Arkush
P.J. Soles
Joey Ramone
This list is also available on Letterboxd.
Screenwriter Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns, Hudson Hawk) walks Josh and Joe through 10 movies that he saw at very important moments in his life. An autobiography through film.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Demolition Man (1993)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Pom-Pom Girls (1976)
Psycho (1960)
Halloween (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Dead of Night (1945)
Devil Doll (1964)
Manhattan (1979)
Back Roads (1981)
The Last Hard Men (1976)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Gorgo (1961)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
Reptilicus (1961)
The Gauntlet (1977)
That’s Entertainment! (1974)
That’s Dancing! (1985)
That’s Entertainment! III (1994)
Chinatown (1974)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Hitman’s Run (1999)
On The Border (1998)
Instinct To Kill (2001)
Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)
The Three Musketeers (1974)
Below (2002)
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Knockaround Guys (2002)
White Oleander (2002)
Swept Away (2002)
Comedian (2002)
The Banger Sisters (2002)
Heathers (1989)
Shag (1989)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Walkabout (1973)
Killer Snakes (1974)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Breaking Away (1979)
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Dead Calm (1989)
The Dish (2001)
Breathless (1960)
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Weekend (1967)
Nostalghia (1983)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
The Tin Drum (1979)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Ishtar (1987)
Psycho (1998)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Phase IV (1974)
The Searching Eye (1964)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Lolita (1962)
Treasure Island (1950)
Being There (1979)
Star Wars (1977)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Jaws (1975)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Harry and Walter Go To New York (1976)
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Zandy’s Bride (1974)
Mean Girls (2004)
Fame (1980)
The Hunger (1983)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Other Notable Items
South 31 Drive-In, Indiana
Starlite Drive-In, Indiana
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 TV show (1988-1999, 2017- )
The Omen novelization by David Seltzer (1976)
David Hemmings
David Warner
Boris Karloff
“Copacabana (At The Copa)” by Barry Manilow
Damien: Omen II novelization by Joseph Howard and Michael Hodges (1978)
Monarch Books
Dean Owen’s Monarch Books novelizations of Brides of Dracula, Reptilicus, Carson Bingham’s Monarch novelization of Gorgo, Stuart James’s Monarch novelization of The Stranglers of Bombay
Harold Robbins
The Gauntlet novelization by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack (1977)
Pat Hingle
Gremlins novelization by George Gipe (1984)
Blow Out novelization by William Harrison (1981)
National Lampoon’s Animal House Book (1978)
Garrison Keiler
Richard Lester
Walter Hill
Paramount Pictures
Phoebe Cates
Sammy Davis Jr.
Jenny Agutter
Michael York
Farah Fawcett
Sam Neill
September 11th, 2001
November 8th, 2016
McGill University
Jean-Luc Godard
Andrei Tarkovsky
Francis Ford Coppola
The New Beverly Cinema
Malcolm McDowell
Werner Herzog
Volker Schlöndorff
Guns ‘N’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Alan Rickman
Bruce Willis
Mannix TV show (1967-1975)
The Ramones
Mel Torme
Uriah Heap
AC/DC
Keanu Reeves
Joe Brown’s Washington Post rave review for Hudson Hawk
Janet Maslin’s New York Times not-quite-rave review for Hudson Hawk
Psycho novel by Robert Bloch (1959)
Julianne Moore
Cinefamily
Saul Bass
Sue Lyon
James Mason
Peter Sellers
Lolita novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Stanley Kubrick
Gene Hackman
Jaws novel by Peter Benchley (1974)
Mark Waters
Nastassja Kinsky
Roger Moore
This list is also available on Letterboxd.
Writer/Director Adam Rifkin (The Last Movie Star, The Dark Backward, Director’s Cut) sits with Josh and Joe to go behind the scenes, break the fourth wall, and take an altogether deep dive into his favorite movies about making movies. Consider this episode The Movies-About-Movies That Made Me.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Director’s Cut (2015)
Jaws (1975)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
The Dark Backward (1991)
Shooting the Warwicks (2015)
Giuseppe Makes a Movie (2014)
American Movie (1999)
Seven (1995)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Shampoo (1975)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Miracle Mile (1989)
Barton Fink (1991)
Hail Caesar! (2016)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Stardust Memories (1980)
8 ½ (1963)
All That Jazz (1979)
Alex In Wonderland (1970)
Amarcord (1973)
Persona (1966)
Star 80 (1983)
Sorcerer (1977)
The Seven Ups (1973)
The French Connection (1971)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
September (1987)
Interiors (1978)
Another Woman (1988)
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
Hooper (1978)
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings (1975)
Navajo Joe (1966)
The Stunt Man (1980)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Cat People (1942)
The Big Carnival/Ace In The Hole (1951)
A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Player (1992)
Heat (1986)
City Heat (1984)
Heat (1995)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Big Sleep (1978)
Farewell My Lovely (1975)
Popeye (1980)
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
Streamers (1983)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Vincent & Theo (1990)
Short Cuts (1993)
Fade To Black (1980)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
After The Fox (1966)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Matinee (1993)
The Death Kiss (1932)
Ed Wood (1994)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Nickelodeon (1976)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Cinema Paradiso (1991)
Singin’ In The Rain (1953)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Cameraman (1928)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Movie Crazy (1932)
The Party (1968)
The Road To Hong Kong (1962)
Gunga Din (1939)
Argo (2012)
King Kong (1933)
Living In Oblivion (1995)
Contempt (1963)
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
Peeping Tom (1960)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Big Picture (1989)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Baadasssss! (2003)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Adaptation (2002)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born (1976)
A Star Is Born (2018)
S.O.B. (1981)
10 (1979)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Swimming With Sharks (1995)
Bombshell (1933)
Chaplin (1992)
The Trip (1967)
Day For Night (1973)
Other Notable Items
Adolph Caesar (FYI: Percy Rodriguez was the actual Jaws trailer narrator)
R. Lee Ermey
Mike Plante
David Nordstrom
Mark Borchardt
Penn Jillette
David Fincher
Andrew Kevin Walker
Film Comment
Rif Coogan
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea
The Day of the Locust novel by Nathaniel West
Jackie Earle Haley
Donald Sutherland
Homer Simpson and Homer Simpson
William Castle
The Varsity Theatre, Chicago
The Parkway Theatre, Chicago
Robert Altman
William Atherton
Karen Black
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Coen Brothers
John Turturro
John Goodman
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Jeff Daniels
Van Johnson
Federico Fellini
Bob Fosse
Paul Mazursky
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Akira Kurosawa
Francois Truffaut
Ingmar Bergman
Roy Scheider
Charles Bronson
Richard Dreyfuss
Gene Hackman
Larry Edmunds Bookshop
Charlie Chaplin
Bruce Dern
Gena Rowlands
Burt Reynolds
Hal Needham
Brian Keith
Robert Klein
Peter Bogdanovich
Clint Eastwood
Sergio Corbucci
Richard Rush
Peter O’Toole
Steve Railsback
Charles Manson
Hotel del Coronado, San Diego
Kirk Douglas
Val Lewton
Barry Sullivan
Lana Turner
Dick Powell
William Faulkner
Burt Lancaster
Louis B. Mayer
Billy Wilder
Robert Aldridge
William Holden
Gloria Swanson
Greta Garbo
Pola Negri
Michael Tolkin
Elliott Kastner
Robert Mitchum
New Line Cinema
Dennis Christopher
Kevin McCarthy
Victor Mature
TFH Guru Allan Arkush
TFH Guru Jon Davison
Godzilla
Toho
Robby The Robot
Cuban Missile Crisis
Charlie Haas
Jerico Stone
Cathy Moriarty
William Schallert
Robert Cornthwaite
Mark McCracken
John Hora
Bert I. Gordon
Turner Classic Movies
Harold Lloyd
Peter Sellers
Peter Dinklage
Daniel Waters
Fritz Lang
Brigitte Bardot
Jack Palance
Michael Powell
Hammer Film Productions
John Cleese
Christopher Guest
Kevin Bacon
Jean Harlowe
The Red Door in Burbank
Mario Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles
James Whale
Bill Hader
This list is also available on Letterboxd.