02 Archives | The Movies That Made Me

Sandi Tan

In our second season finale, Shirkers director Sandi Tan discusses some of the great, not so great and amazing movies she grew up on in Singapore. Plus, a trip to the mailbag!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Them! (1954)
First Blood (1982)
Rambo: First Blood, Part 2 (1985)
Shirkers (2018)
Explorers (1985)
Gremlins (1984)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Blow Out (1981)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Mission (1986)
A History of Violence (2005)
Under the Skin (2013)
Birth (2004)
They Call Her Cleopatra Wong (1978)
Dynamite Johnson a.k.a. The Return of the Bionic Boy (1979)
Mean Business a.k.a. The Devil’s Three (1979)
Master Samurai (1974)
American Commandos (1985)
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
For Your Height Only (1981)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Marathon Man (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Chinatown (1974)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Claire’s Knee (1970)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Adaptation (2002)
Red Sun (1971)
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Pola X (1999)
The General (1998)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Jingle All The Way (1996)
The Frighteners (1996)
Junior (1994)
Fargo (1996)
Con Air (1997)
The Brave (1997)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Nightmare Cinema (2019)
Cutter’s Way (1981)
The Green Room (1978)
Green Room (2016)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Wild Child (1970)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Dementia 13 (1963)
Fat City (1972)
The Innocents (1961)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Manhattan (1979)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Speed Crazy (1959)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Runaway Daughters (1994)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
The Black Vampire (1953)
M (1931)
M (1951)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Loved One (1965)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Freaks (1932)
The Howling (1981)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1967)
Fail Safe (1964)
Casino Royale (1967)
Casino Royale (2006)
Scream of Fear a.k.a. Taste of Fear (1961)
My Baby Is Black! (1961)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Bustin’ Loose (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Brute Force (1947)
The Naked City (1948)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Night and the City (1950)
Rififi (1955)
The Law (1959)
He Who Must Die (1957)
Uptight (1968)
The Informer (1935)

Other Notable Items

Risk board game
It miniseries (1990)
Sandra Dee
Alice Faye
Podcast guest Daniel Waters
Explorers and Gremlins novelization author George Gipe
River Phoenix
Ethan Hawke
Johnny Depp
Mad Magazine (1952- )
Pretty in Pink novelization by H.B. Gilmour
Blow Out novelization by William Harrison
John Travolta
Nancy Allen
Terminator and Terminator 2 novelization author Randall Frakes
The Last Starfighter novelization by Alan Dean Foster
John Williams’s E.T. The Extra Terrestrial soundtrack
Sixteen Candles soundtrack
Ennio Morricone’s The Mission soundtrack
Georges Delerue’s Agnes of God soundtrack
Ennio Morricone
Jerry Goldsmith
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
“Candy’s Room,” a very steamy song on Darkness on the Edge of Town
Mica Levi’s Under the Skin soundtrack
Alexandre Desplat’s Birth soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat
TFH Guru Roger Corman
American International Pictures
Marrie Lee’s Cleopatra Wong B-movie series
New World Pictures
Cirio Santiago
Bobby A. Suarez
Christopher Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Tobe Hooper
Rudy Ray Moore
Alamo Drafthouse Los Angeles
Wesley Snipes
D’Urville Martin
Batwoman
Linda Blair
Roman Polanski
Hugh Grant
Kristin Scott Thomas
Peter Coyote
Éric Rohmer
Georges Cardona
Charlie Kaufman
Robert Frazen
David Lynch
Toshiro Mifune
Alain Delon
Charles Bronson
TFH Guru John Landis
Ursula Andress
Leos Carax
Juliette Binoche
Denis Lavant
Metrograph Theater, New York
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Henry Silva
John Boorman
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Planet Hollywood
Wong Kar-wai
Emma Thompson
Cannes Film Festival
The Brave by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
The revival of VHS
Gérard Depardieu
The death of CD players
TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski
LaserDiscs
Video discs
Harlan Ellison
François Truffaut
Bruno S.
Werner Herzog
Chapo Trap House’s Podcast Episode
Chapo Trap House’s Eyes Wide Shut podcast
Bruno S.
Stanley Kubrick
Tom Cruise
Harvey Keitel leaving Eyes Wide Shut
Luana Anders
Susan Tyrrell
Anamorphic widescreen
Freddie Francis
Otto Preminger
Mario Bava
Dario Argento
Hill Street Blues TV series (1981-1987)
Brett Halsey
Paul Rudd
Justified (2010-2015)
Walton Goggins
Marlon Brando
Timothy Carey
American Cinematheque’s Film Noir Festival
The University of the Arts (formerly the Philadelphia College of Art, Joe’s alma matter)
Philadelphia movie theaters: Fox Theatre, Milgram Theatre, The Viking Theater, The Midtown, The Arcadia, Cinema 19, The Family Theater, The News Theater, The Palace Theatre, The Goldman Theater, The Studio Theatre, The Center Theater, TLA, Eric’s Place Theatre
Susan Strasberg
Richard Pryor
Jules Dassin
Raymond St. Jacques
Ruby Dee
Booker T. & the M.G.’s
Martin Luther King Jr.

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

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.

Sarfraz Manzoor, screenwriter of Blinded By The Light, stops by for a very special Music That Made Me episode.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Saw (2004)
Dead Silence (2007)
Upgrade (2018)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Network (1976)
Total Recall (1990)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Robocop (1987)
The Thing (1982)
The Howling (1981)
Star Wars (1977)
Jaws (1975)
Gravity (2013)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Gremlins (1984)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Ready Player One (2018)
Armageddon (1998)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Darkman (1990)
Die Hard (1988)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Out of Africa (1985)
The Artist (2011)
8 1/2 (1963)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Fargo (1996)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Magnolia (1999)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Piranha (1978)
Explorers (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Goonies (1985)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1979)
Renegades (1989)
Never Too Young To Die (1986)
The Time Travelers (1964)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Abyss (1989)
The Avengers (2012)

Other Notable Items

The Saw franchise
Waverley Gardens Twin Cinema in Melbourne, Australia
Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies Twitter account
Ash Williams himself, Bruce Campbell, who preceded Josh and Joe’s panel at Monsterpalooza
Makeup wunderkind Rob Bottin
Jack White’s esoteric recording methods

Joe’s Eerie, Indiana television series (1991-1992)

Leigh’s upcoming Invisible Man remake

The Insidious franchise
Joe Dante’s great hair

Bonnie Bedelia’s very great, very 80s hair in Die Hard

Lost Boys saxophonist Tim Cappello

Director Richard Quine’s filmography

Daniel Waters podcast episode

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Beloved TFH Guru, filmmaker and former trailer editor Brian Trenchard-Smith discusses the spectacular cinematic spectacles that made him, from Bond and beyond!

Movies Referenced In This Episode

His Kind of Woman (1951)
Mandy (2018)
Stunt Rock (1978)
The Man From Hong Kong (1975)
Dead-End Drive In (1986)
Leprechaun 3: In Las Vegas (1995)
Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)
BMX Bandits (1983)
Bush Christmas (1983)
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Dr. No (1962)
Becket (1964)
Vertigo (1958)
Four Guns To The Border (1954)
Rosebud (1975)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Zulu (1964)
Sahara (1995)
Sahara (1943)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Cleopatra (1963)
Spartacus (1960)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
El Cid (1961)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Out To Sea (1997)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Cabiria (1914)
Intolerance (1916)
Ben-Hur (1907)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Waterloo (1970)
Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
The War Lord (1965)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Big Red One (1980)
Waterworld (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
Overlord (2018)
Mary, Queen of Scots (2018)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The War Game (1965)
Privilege (1967)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
Thief (1981)
Manhunter (1985)
Thief (1981)
Independence Day (1996)
Lonely Boy (1962)
The Adding Machine (1969)
In Search of Gregory (1969)
Armageddon (1998)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Frog Dreaming (1986)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Carry On Cleo (1964)
Carry On Nurse (1959)
I’m All Right Jack (1959)
In Her Line of Fire (2006)
Personal Best (1982)
Quest for Fire (1981)
War and Peace (1966)

Other Notable Items

Brian’s book Alice Through The Multiverse (2018)
Brian’s book The Headman’s Daughter (2016)
Sylvester Stallone’s height
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s tempestuous marriages
Richard Carlson
Otto Preminger
Robert Mitchum
Stanley Kubrick
Anthony Mann
Kirk Douglas
Sophia Loren
Charlton Heston’s memoir In The Arena: An Autobiography
The oysters and snails Spartacus scene
TFH Guru/Movies That Made Me guest Adam Rifkin
Berlin Alexanderplatz miniseries (1970)
Esther Harris, Brian’s trailer boss at the National Screen Service trailer company
Samuel Fuller
Roots television mini-series (1977)
Peter Watkins
Wes Studi
Michael Mann
The Carry On film franchise
Hammer
Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1966) on Criterion Blu-ray

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Billy West

Legendary voice actor Billy West (Futurama, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action) takes Josh and Joe on an epic journey into the realm of animation and the cinematic masterpieces that inspired him.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961)
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
Love and Mercy (2015)
Space Jam (1996)
Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island (1983)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Superman (1978)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
The Puppetoon Movie (1987)
The Time Machine (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Dark of the Sun (1968)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Spartacus (1960)
Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon (1957)
A History of Violence (2005)
World Without End (1956)
Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (1956)
Hollywood or Bust (1956)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
12 Angry Men (1957)

Other Notable Items

Billy’s Bugs Bunny and adventures in Looney Tunes cartoons
Warner Brothers
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Futurama (1999-2007, 2010-2013)
Disenchantment television series (2018- )
M&M’s commercials
George Takei
Brian Wilson
Roy Orbison
The Beatles
Billy’s Elmer Fudd
Arthur Q. Bryan’s Elmer Fudd
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. television series (1964-1968)
Nickelodeon
Legendary Looney Tunes cartoonist Chuck Jones
Animation director Eric Goldberg
Marlon Brando’s weird ideas for Superman (1978)
Shock Theatre film packaging
George Pal
Puppetoons
Ray Harryhausen
Willis O’Brien
Paul Frees
The Beatles cartoon television series (1965-1969)
Bill Scott, voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose
Peter Fernandez, voice of Speed Racer and Racer Z
Barry Kroeger
Get Smart television series (1965-1970)
The Dick Van Dyke television series (1961-1966)
I Spy television series (1965-1968)
Powerhouse Indicator’s Ray Harryhausen box sets, Volume One and Volume Two
Robert Vaughn
Burt Ward
Mel Blanc
Hanna-Barbera
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lee J. Cobb

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Allan Arkush

Director and long time TFH guru Allan Arkush strolls down memory lane and the movies that made him. Slideshow: Josh’s photos of Allan’s original NYU-era copy of The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris, notes from Allan’s Martin Scorsese NYU class, and notecards detailing some of the film prints he watched with Joe Dante and Jon Davison during March of 1975.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Elvis Meets Nixon (1997)
Get Crazy (1983)
Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1979)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
Pinocchio (1940)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Earthquake (1974)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Woman In Green (1945)
8 1/2 (1963)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Breathless (1960)
Blow-up (1966)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Trip (1967)
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Peter Pan (1953)
These Raging Loins (1968 – est.)
Shane (1953)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Green Berets (1968)
Rear Window (1954)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
El Dorado (1966)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Force of Evil (1948)
The Killers (1964)
7 Women (1966)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Mean Streets (1973)
The King of Comedy (1983)
New York, New York (1977)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
The Time Machine (1960)
Exit Smiling (1926)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Things to Come (1936)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Gun Crazy (1950)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Moonrise (1948)
America America (1963)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Red River (1948)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Night of Terror (1933)
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Murder By Television (1935)
The Death Kiss (1932)
Woodstock (1970)
The Basketball Fix (1951)
Harvey (1950)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Amarcord (1973)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Great Escape (1963)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Stairway To Heaven a.k.a. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Rope (1948)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Summer Hours (2008)
Demonlover (2003)
Personal Shopper (2017)
Ikiru (1952)
Umberto D (1952)
Nebraska (2013)
Nashville (1975)
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
North By Northwest (1959)
Funny Face (1957)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
Damn Yankees (1958)
The World of Apu (1959)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Other Notable Items

The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris
The Davy Crockett miniseries (1954-1955)
Fess Parker
The Gilligan’s Island theme song
The Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier soundtrack
Ricky Nelson
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet television series (1952-1966)
Father Knows Best television series (1949-1954)
The Real McCoys television series (1957-1962)
Fame television series (1982-1987)
TFH Guru Jon Davison
The Grateful Dead
Heroes television series (2006-2010)
TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan
Harry Hurwitz (NYU professor-turned-director)
Martin Scorsese, Allan’s NYU film school professor
The importance of TV Guide to 20th century film buffs
Lee Marvin
New World Pictures
Letterboxd, the best
Van Morrison
Technicolor
Olivier Assayas
Carlos miniseries (2010)
Kodachrome
Ingmar Bergman
Beulah Bondi
Robert Altman
The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
Musso and Frank Grill

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Stephen Bissette

Famed comic book artist Stephen Bissette (Swamp Thing) chats with Josh and Joe about the movies that made him! Below, check out Steven Spielberg’s letter to Julie Simmons, Heavy Metal Books editor, about Stephen Bissette’s 1941 graphic novel referenced in the episode:

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
A History of Violence (2005)
1941 (1979)
Animal House (1978)
From Hell (2001)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
Little Aurore’s Tragedy (1952)
The Sadist (1963)
The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960)
The Intruder (1962)
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1952)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Them! (1954)
The Colossus of New York (1958)
The Giant Behemoth (1959)
Gorgo (1961)
Crack in the World (1965)
My Fair Lady (1964)
First Blood (1982)
Rodan (1956)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Reign of Terror (1949)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Fools’ Parade (1971)
Attack (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Black Sunday (1960)
The Devils (1971)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Psycho (1960)
Diabolique (1955)
Reptilicus (1961)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Au Coeur De La Vie a.k.a. In the Midst of Life (1963)
The Mockingbird (1962), a short film from In the Midst of Life (1963)
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (1962) a short film from In the Midst of Life (1963)
Chickamagua (1962) a short film from In the Midst of Life (1963)
The Last Adventure (1967)
The Old Gun (1975)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Night Tide (1961)
The Devil’s Messenger (1961)
Mickey One (1965)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
The Chase (1966)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Little Big Man (1970)
Nashville (1975)
Burn! (1969)
Drive, He Said (1971)
Goin’ South (1978)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Dr. No (1962)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
The Road To Fort Alamo (1974)
Carnage, a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve, a.k.a. A Bay of Blood (1972)
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dutchman (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Born Free (1966)
The Alphabet (1968)
Eaux d’artifice (1953)
The War Game (1965)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Colossus: The Forbin Project(1970)
The Secret Cinema (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Performance (1970)
Walkabout (1971)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Eraserhead (1977)
Hard Times (1975)
The Brood (1979)

Other Notable Items

Joe’s 1962 dissertation on horrible movies, “Dante’s Inferno”, in Famous Monsters of Filmland
Zach Galligan
John Landis podcast episode
Heavy Metal magazine
The 1941 graphic novel (1979)
The Animal House graphic novel (1978)
Taboo comics anthology
From Hell graphic novel
Stephen Bissette’s Midnight Movie Monograph on The Brood
American Horror Project 2 box set from Arrow Films
Swamp Thing
“Still Waters” issue of Swamp Thing, Volume 2, Issue 38
Robert D. Krzykowski podcast episode
Them! star James Whitmore
Novelist Davis Grubb
The films of Mario Bava
Gorgo, the Charlton Comics series (1961-1965)
The filthy Gorgo paperback from Monarch Books (1961)
The filthy Reptilicus paperback from Monarch Books (1961)
The filthy Stranglers of Bombay paperback from Monarch Books (1960)
The filthy Brides of Dracula paperback from Monarch Books (1960)
The films of Robert Enrico
“The Hitch-Hiker” Twilight Zone episode (1963)
The films of Arthur Penn
The films of Sergio Leone
The films of Ray Harryhausen
The films of Mouly Surya
A Method of Lighting the Stage by Stanley McCandless (1932)
Mario Bava: All The Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas
Dutchman play by Leroi Jones (1964)
“The Anatomy Lesson” issue of Swamp Thing, Volume 2, Issue 21
Stephen Bissette’s upcoming 600-page book on The Brood

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Scott Alexander Volume 2

Part 2 of Scott Alexander (Ed Wood, American Crime Story)’s stroll through his comedy faves. Check out Part 1 here!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Big Store (1941)
Animal Crackers (1930)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
A Day At The Races (1937)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Faces of Death (1978)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Death Wish (1974)
Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)
Ed Wood (1994)
Zelig (1983)
Take The Money And Run (1969)
Bananas (1971)
Sleeper (1973)
Love and Death (1975)
Nashville (1976)
Zardoz (1974)
The Omega Man (1971)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Mr. Ricco (1975)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
The Love Bug (1968)
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (1977)
Snowball Express (1972)
The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973)
The Boatniks (1970)
Million Dollar Duck (1971)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
That Darn Cat (1997)
Problem Child (1990)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Party (1968)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
That Man From Rio (1964)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas! TV special (1966)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine (1965)
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
At the Earth’s Core (1976)
King Kong (1933)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Sleuth (1972)
Sleuth (2007)
Deathtrap (1982)
Real Life (1979)
Modern Romance (1981)
The Stunt Man (1980)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Altered States (1980)
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)

Other Notable Items

The Marx Brothers
You Bet Your Life television series (1947-1961)
Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World by Joe Adamson
The Marx Brothers Scrapbook by Richard Anobile
The Uncle Don outtakes (since disproven)
The Out-of-Towners composer Quincy Jones’ excellent composing filmography
The filmography of Mel Brooks
TFH Guru Alan Spencer
Alan’s Sledge Hammer! television series (1986-1988)
The filmography of Woody Allen
The cinematography of Gordon Willis
Disney uber-star Dean Jones
Blake Edwards’ films with Peter Sellers
Buddy Hackett
The two Dicks of the Bewitched TV series (1964-1972)
The ubiquitous Jean Rochefort

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Scott Alexander Volume 1

Robert D. Krzykowski

Robert D. Krzykowski (writer/director of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot) talks about movies that tap into American myth-making.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

A History of Violence (2005)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
Mandy (2018)
The Beaver Trilogy (available for purchase on director Trent Harris’ website) (2001 — a compilation of shorts filmed in 1979, 1981, and 1985)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Captain Phillips (2013)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Vertigo (1958)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Man From Laramie (1955)
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
High Noon (1952)
Die Hard (1988)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
8 ½ (1963)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
The Brother From Another Planet (1984)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Southside With You (2016)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Matewan (1987)
Superman (1978)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Superman II (1980)
Superman III (1983)
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)
The Godfather (1972)
Easy Rider (1969)
Rocky (1976)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
American Graffiti (1973)
Lincoln (2012)
Nashville (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Natural (1984)
Being There (1979)
The Conversation (1974)
Forrest Gump (1994)

Other Notable Items

Ilhan Omar’s courageous stand against Elliott Abrams during a House hearing.
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot star Sam Elliott’s acting heroes are Gary Cooper and James Stewart.
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (2017) by Glenn Frankel
“The Tin Star” short story by John W. Cunningham (1947), later adapted into High Noon
Malicious former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo
The origins of Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” (1989)
The writer/director John Sayles
The Superman Blu-ray containing Robert’s preferred television version of the film
The Natural (1952) book by Bernard Malamud, replete with a downer ending
Being There (1970) novel by Jerzy Kosinski

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Neil Marshall

Writer, producer, director, and editor Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) joins the podcast to discuss his ten favorite westerns.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Exorcist (1973)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
The Exorcist III (1990)
Casablanca (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Lust For Life (1956)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Citizen Kane (1941)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Drive (2011)
The Shining (1980)
Room 237 (2012)
Diabolique (1955)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Trial (1962)
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
The Stranger (1946)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Outside Man (1972)
L’Avventura (1960)
Blow-up (1966)
La Notte (1961)
L’Eclisse (1962)
The Guilty (2018)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957)
Fail Safe (1964)
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1997)
Ronin (1998)
The French Connection (1971)
French Connection II (1975)
To Live And Die In LA (1985)
The General (1926)
Bullitt (1968)
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jason Bourne (2016)
First Man (2018)
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
The Verdict (1982)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Parallax View (1974)
All The President’s Men (1976)
The Front Runner (2018)

Other Notable Items

Friedkin’s Twilight Zone revival episode, “Nightcrawlers”.
The 217 film directing credits of Michael Curtiz, and his epic biography, which comes highly recommended from Joe.
William Friedkin tells students when he speaks at film schools: “Leave school immediately, and go watch Hitchcock. You’ll learn everything you need to know from Hitchcock.”
The Exorcist compelled James Cagney’s beloved longtime barber to join the priesthood!
The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway.
Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet.
Playhouse 90 live television broadcast shows directed by John Frankenheimer (Friedkin’s idol) and Sidney Lumet.
Friedkin’s favorite painters include Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Vincent Van Gogh.
The performative physicality employed by Steve McQueen and Spencer Tracy.
Prior podcast guest Caleb Deschanel’s fascinating cinematography work — without a camera! — on Disney’s upcoming remake of The Lion King (2019).
Buzz Aldrin and moon conspiracy theorists.
Friedkin re-reads The Great Gatsby every six months.
The Strange Death of Vincent Foster.
Bob Woodward‘s book on John Belushi, Wired.

This list is also available on Letterboxd.