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Hannah Marks

The star and co-writer of the new film Banana Split walks us through some of her favorite comedies.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Banana Split (2020)
Big (1988)
West Side Story (2020)
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)
The ’Burbs (1989)
Back To The Future (1985)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Best In Show (2000)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Hours (2002)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Black Mass (2015)
The Irishman (2019)
Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Zoolander (2001)
Knocked Up (2007)
Armageddon (1998)
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
The Room (2003)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Liar Liar (1997)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Obvious Child (2014)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Harold And Maude (1971)
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)
Love Actually (2003)
Mandy (2018)
Killer Joe (2012)
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

Other Notable Items

The Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah Podcast Episodes
Orson Welles
The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)
Lauren Bacall
Steven Spielberg
Penny Marshall
Tom Hanks
John Mulaney
Elizabeth Perkins
Robert Downey Jr.
TFH Guru Illeana Douglas
Action TV series (1999)
Jay Mohr
Joel Silver
Buddy Hackett
Martin Scorsese
Tom Cruise
Quibi
An apparent upcoming Quibi show about Les Grossman
Bill Hader Podcast Episodes
Danny McBride
The Righteous Gemstones TV series (2019- )
Walton Goggins
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness documentary miniseries (2020)
Better Things TV series (2016- )
Christopher Guest
Bruno Kirby
Nicole Kidman
Diane Arbus
Johnny Depp
Tim Burton
Robert De Niro
Jennifer Coolidge
Lisa Kudrow
Mira Sorvino
Quentin Tarantino
Brad Pitt
Diane Krueger
Michael Fassbender
Christoph Waltz
Leslie Mann
Katherine Heigl
Seth Rogen
Pee-wee Herman
Freaks and Geeks TV series (1999-2000)
Judd Apatow
Paul Feig
David Duchovny
Ben Stiller
Alexander Skarsgård
Daniel Waters
Tommy Wiseau
The Disaster Artist memoir by Greg Sestero
Our Man Flint franchise
Eurospy movies
Elizabeth Hurley
Mel Brooks
Roger Ebert
Jay Roach
Tom Shadyac
Werner Herzog
Nicolas Cage
Bill Nighy
William Friedkin
Matthew McConaughey
Gina Gershon
Twin Peaks TV series (1990-91, 2017)

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

The Pandemic Parade

Movies to watch when you’re staying in for a while, featuring recommendations from Dana Gould, Daniel Waters, Scott Alexander, and Allison Anders.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Destroy All Monsters (1969)
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Beneath The Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971)
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972)
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973)
Suparpie
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Hello Down There (1969)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Thirteen Days (2000)
Stalker (1979)
Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
No Exit (1962)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Sleeper (1973)
The Tenant (1976)
Final Cut: Ladies And Gentlemen (2012)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
La classe américaine (1993)
The Sex Adventures of a Single Man a.k.a. The 24 Hour Lover (1968)
The Omega Man (1971)
Soylent Green (1973)
Knives Out (2019)
The Hunt (2020)
Banana Split (2020)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Monkey Business (1931)
Horse Feathers (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971)
Susan Slade (1961)
My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Two On A Guillotine (1955)
Sid & Judy (2019)
Judy (2019)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Where Angels Go Trouble Follows (1968)
Night Tide (1961)
Border Radio (1987)
Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Bleep a.k.a. Teenage Tease (1971)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Contagion (2011)
The Shining (1980)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors (1965)
The Wolf Man (1941)
I Am Legend (2007)
King Kong (1933)
The Second Civil War (1997)
Hope and Glory (1987)
Matinee (1993)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Patch Adams (1998)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Trouble Man (1972)
Moonshiner’s Woman (1968)

Other Notable Items

The Human Condition film franchise
Ingmar Bergman
Andrew Bergman
James Bond
Jack Arnold
Tony Randall
Merv Griffin
Ken Berry
Richard Dreyfuss
Philip Glass
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Netflix
John Hughes
Pee-Wee Herman
Berlin Alexanderplatz miniseries (1980)
Luis Bunuel
Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen
Roman Polanski
The Larry Wilmore Podcast Episode
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Chico Marx
Margaret Dumont
Tex Avery
Thelma Todd
Leo McCarey
Edgar Kennedy
Laurel and Hardy
One Step Beyond TV series (1959-1961)
John Newland
Sir Paul McCartney
Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series (1955-1965)
Wonder Woman TV series (1975-1979)
The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-1964)
The Outer Limits TV series (1963-1965)
Suzanne Pleshette
“The Sacred Mushroom” episode in One Step Beyond (1961)
“The Day The World Wept – The Lincoln Story” episode in One Step Beyond (1960)
Roku
The Next Step Beyond TV series (1978)
Troy Donahue
TCM Watch
Delmer Daves
Douglas Sirk
Claudette Colbert
Parrish (1961)
Diane McBain
Parrish novel by Mildred Savage (1958)
Peyton Place novel (1964)
Peyton Place TV series (1964-1969)
Ryan O’Neal
Connie Stevens
William Conrad
Stephen Kijak
Renee Zellweger
Scott Walker
Pose TV series (2018- )
Billy Porter
Ida Lupino
Hayley Mills
Stella Stevens
Susan Saint James
Jerry Goldsmith
Lalo Schifrin
Curtis Harrington
Luana Anders
Dennis Hopper
Charlie’s Angels TV series (1976-1981)
Marjorie Cameron
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Charlton Heston
Vincent Price
Richard Matheson
George A. Romero
Hammer Films
Robert L. Lippert
American International Pictures
RKO Palace Theatre, New York
Austin Powers
The Simpsons TV series (1989- )
Politically Incorrect TV series (1993-2002)
Bill Maher
Real Time With Bill Maher TV series (2003- )
Eric Laneuville
John Boorman
Adam West
Burt Ward
Batman TV series (1966-1968)
James Brolin
George Pal
Gene Barry
“Time Enough At Last” episode of The Twilight Zone
Anthony Zerbe
Elisabeth Moss
The Crucible play by Arthur Miller (1953)
The Dana Gould Hour Podcast

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Acclaimed stuntman and action director extraordinaire Jesse V. Johnson (Avengement, Triple Threat, Accident Man) joins us to discuss the U.S. based action films and filmmakers that have influenced him the most.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

On The Waterfront (1954)
Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House (1922)
Undisputed (2002)
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Boyka: Undisputed (2016)
The Killer Elite (1975)
Convoy (1978)
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Birdcage (1996)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Easy Rider (1969)
Fail Safe (1964)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Ride The High Country (1962)
Major Dundee (1965)
Jinxed! (1982)
Beowulf (2007)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
The Girl Hunters (1963)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Point Blank (1967)
Falling Down (1993)
M (1951)
M (1931)
The Black Vampire (1953)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scum (1979)
Elephant (1989)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), possibly Joe’s favorite John Ford film
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Searchers (1956)
Charley Varrick (1973)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Rififi (1955)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941)
The Killers (1964)
The Beguiled (1971)
The Beguiled (2017)
Casablanca (1942)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Flaming Star (1960)
King Creole (1958)
The Shootist (1976)
Rough Cut (1980)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
The World In His Arms (1952)
Avengement (2019)
This Is England (2006)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Bustin’ Loose (1981)

Other Notable Items

Orson Welles
The Richard Stanley Podcast Episode
The Thomas Jane Podcast Episode
Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott At Columbia, 1957-1960 Blu-ray set
Jean-Pierre Melville
Robert Aldrich
Richard Brooks
Elia Kazan
Frank Capra
Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra by Joseph McBride
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride
The Name Above The Title memoir by Frank Capra
Netflix
Scott Adkins
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition film trilogy
Sam Peckinpah
The Criterion Collection
Kirk Douglas
James Coburn
Mitch Miller
Robert Zemeckis
Ralph Meeker
Brad Pitt
Travis McGee
Film noir character Doc Savage
Mickey Spillane
Raymond Chandler
A.I. Bezzerides
The Bradbury Building
Walter Hill
Joseph Losey
Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Priscilla Lane
Gladys George
Alan Clarke
Scum TV play (1977)
Danny Boyle
John Ford
John Wayne
Martin Scorsese
Who The Devil Made It book by Peter Bogdanovich
Lee Marvin
James Stewart
Woody Strode
“(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Don Siegel
Lindsay Anderson
Amoeba Records
Clint Eastwood
Walter Matthau
A Siegel Film: An Autobiography memoir by Don Siegel (1996)
Lucien Ballard
Michael Curtiz
Sam Wood
Michael Curtiz: A Life In Film by Alan K. Rhode (2017)
Erroll Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Bring on the Empty Horses memoir by David Niven
Lauren Bacall
John Brown
Jeffrey Hunter
Colonel George Armstrong Custer
J.E.B. Stuart
The Hays Code
Pat O’Brien
Gregory Peck
Thomas Turgoose
EastEnders soap opera (1985- )
The Eli Roth Podcast Episode
Richard Pryor

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Paprika Steen

The Danish star of The Celebration and many others discusses what seeing America only through movies when she was growing up.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Gremlins (1984)
Piranha (1978)
The ’Burbs (1989)
Matinee (1993)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
The Celebration (1998)
On The Border (1998)
The Idiots (1998)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Deep Throat (1972)
American Graffiti (1972)
Sexual Freedom In Denmark (1970)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1967)
The Godfather (1972)
Stripes (1981)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Faces (1968)
Taking Off (1971)
Gloria (1980)
Gloria (1999)
The Biggest Heroes (1996)
Nashville (1975)
That Time of Year (2018)
Psycho (1960)
All That Jazz (1979)
California Split (1974)
The Player (1992)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Heathers (1988)
Fame (1980)
Judy (2019)
Star 80 (1983)
Lenny (1974)
Over The Edge (1979)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Outsiders (1983)
Footloose (1983)
Raging Bull (1980)
Running On Empty (1988)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
On The Waterfront (1954)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)

Other Notable Items

Sandi Tan
Miguel Arteta
Russ Meyer
Dogme 95
Gabriel Byrne
Casper Van Dien
Bentley Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Stephen Rea
Peter Medak
Avi Lerner
Bob Misiorowski
Eric Roberts
Camilla Roos
Daniel Waters
Lars von Trier
John Wayne
RKO Pictures
Jerry Lewis
Ingmar Bergman
Happy Days TV series (1974-1984)
Ron Howard
Richard Dreyfuss
Wolfman Jack
Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )
Dan Aykroyd
Bill Murray
The Laraine Newman Podcast Episodes
Charlie Chaplin
Ellen Burstyn
Kris Kristofferson
Harvey Keitel
John Cassavetes
Miloš Forman
László Kovács
Gordon Willis
Diana Canova
Soap TV series (1977-1981)
Carly Simon
Thelma Ritter
Gena Rowlands
George Lucas
Robert Mitchum
Shelley Winters
Sharon Stone
Sidney Lumet
Ingrid Bergman
Thomas Vinterberg
Nevermind, album by Nirvana (1991)
Elliott Gould
Julie Christie
Robert Altman
Lily Tomlin
Woody Allen
Michael Murphy
Geraldine Chaplin
“I’m Easy” song by Keith Carradine
Gary Busey
Lenny Bruce
Roy Scheider
Robert De Niro
Christopher Walken
Brad Pitt
Leonardo DiCaprio
Al Pacino
Jack Nicholson
Christian Slater
Renée Zellweger
Bob Fosse
Virginia Woolf
Matt Dillon
Michael Cimino
One Shot: The Making Of The Deer Hunter book by Jay Glennie
Karl Malden
Kim Hunter

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Larry Wilmore

The great Larry Wilmore joins us to share some very personal double features.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

1917 (2019)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Duck Soup (1933)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Parallax View (1974)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Jaws (1975)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Party (1968)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Richard Pryor: Live In Concert (1979)
Richard Pryor: Live And Smokin’ (1971)
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Lenny (1974)
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Lolita (1962)
Caligula (1979)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
The Elephant Man (1980)
What Would Jack Do? (2020)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Apartment (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Sting (1973)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The General (1926)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Radio Days (1987)
The Graduate (1967)
Cooley High (1975)
American Graffiti (1973)
Dazed And Confused (1993)
Crooklyn (1994)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

Other Notable Items

The Daily Show TV series (1996- )
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore TV series (2015-16)
The Bernie Mac Show TV series (2001-2006)
Insecure TV series (2016- )
Larry Wilmore: Black On The Air podcast
Sledge Hammer! TV series (1986-1988)
The Facts Of Life TV series (1979-1988)
TFH Guru Alan Spencer
Universal Studios Theme Park
The Marx Brothers
W.C. Fields
George S. Kaufman
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
Harpo Marx
Margaret Dumont
Bill Marx
Harpo Speaks! memoir by Harpo (1961)
Son of Groucho by Arthur Marx (1972)
Irving Thalberg
Bob Iger
Disney+
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977)
The Beatles
John Lennon
Richard Lester
John Frankenheimer
Jonathan Demme
Angela Lansbury
Lawrence Harvey
Frank Sinatra
Janet Leigh
John F. Kennedy
Warren Beatty
Paula Prentiss
Gene Kelly
Malcolm McDowell
“Singin’ In The Rain” song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown (1929)
Debbie Reynolds
A Clockwork Orange novel by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Stanley Kubrick
The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)
Steven Spielberg
Richard Dreyfuss
Peter Sellers
Blake Edwards
Get Smart TV series (1965-1970)
Richard Pryor
Bob Hope
George Carlin
Rudy Ray Moore
Lenny Bruce
Jerry Lewis
Dean Martin
Jim Carrey
James Mason
Hugh Hefner
Bob Guccione
Sue Lyon
Shelley Winters
David Lynch
Mel Brooks
John Morris
Jack Lemmon
Shirley MacLaine
Billy Wilder
Mad Men TV series (2007-2015)
Fred MacMurray
I.A.L. Diamond
Robert Redford
Paul Newman
George Roy Hill
Robert Shaw
Marvin Hamlisch
Scott Joplin
The Magic Castle
Albert Whitlock
Monty Python
Terry Jones
Eric Idle
Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Christoph Waltz
Brad Pitt
Quentin Tarantino
The Coen Brothers
Buster Keaton
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Jeff Daniels
Michael Keaton
Mike Nichols
Dustin Hoffman
Katharine Ross
Simon and Garfunkel
“The Sound of Silence” song by Simon and Garfunkel
The Catcher In The Rye novel by J.D. Salinger (1951)
Ryan O’Neal
Buck Henry
Glynn Turman
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
What’s Happening!! TV series (1976-1979)
Happy Days TV series (1974-1984)
Michelle Yeoh
Jerry West
Bill Morrison
Issa Rae

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Caelum Vatnsdal & Kier-la Janisse

Filmmakers/authors discuss the movies they wish more people were familiar with.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Top Gun (1986)
Water Power (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)
In Fabric (2018)
A Climax of Blue Power (1974)
Forced Entry (1975)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Nashville Girl (1976)
Ms .45 (1981)
Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Design For Living (1933)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Melody (1971)
Oliver! (1968)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Stardust (1974)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Bellboy (1960)
Which Way To The Front? (1970)
Hardly Working (1980)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Duck Soup (1933)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
The Second Civil War (1997)
I, A Woman (1965)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
The Devil Dared Me To (2007)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
American Movie (1999)
Rituals (1977)
Shivers (1975)
Deliverance (1972)
Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
The Thing (1982)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The Driver’s Seat (1974)
Return To Waterloo (1984)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Night of Terror (1933)
Apache Drums (1951)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Harriet (2019)
1917 (2019)
Rope (1948)
Lifeforce (1985)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
The Howling (1981)
Gremlins (1984)
True Crime (1999)
Breezy (1973)
Twinky (1969)
Little Darlings (1980)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
The Boys (1998)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Snowtown (2011)
Wake In Fright (1971)
Careful (1992)
Adventureland (2009)
Crime Wave (1985)
Crimewave (1985)
Crime Wave (1954)
Barton Fink (1991)

Other Notable Items

WKRP In Cincinnati TV series (1978-1982)
Hold My Order, Terrible Dresser: The WKRP in Cincinnati Podcast
Shout! Factory
Wiseguy TV series (1987-1990)
“A Whiter Shade Of Pale” by Procol Harum
“Tiny Dancer” by Elton John
Spectacular Optical
The Miskatonic Institute For Horror Studies
Mike Malloy
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la
Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s by Kier-la
A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi by Kier-la
Richard Stanley
They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema by Caelum
David Cronenberg
Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin by Caelum
You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller by Caelum
The Roger and Julie Corman Podcast Episode
Meg Ryan
Kelly McGillis
Shawn Costello
Bernard Herrmann
The Mark Ebner Podcast Episode
Michael H. Kenyon, the “Enema Bandit”
“The Illinois Enema Bandit” by Frank Zappa
Gloria Leonard
Jeanne Silver
Sharon Mitchell
Long Dong Silver
Eric Edwards
Jamie Gillis
Peter Strickland
Harry Reems
Tuesday Weld
Ernst Lubitsch
The Criterion Collection
Preston Sturges
Criterion’s Godzilla: The Showa Era Films box set
Edward Everett Horton
Franklin Pangborn
Charles Durning
Brian Dennehy
Lee Marvin
James Coburn
The Bee Gees
Waris Hussein
Alan Parker
Jack Wild
Mark Lester
Tracy Hyde
The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin
Roman Coppola
Robert Stigwood
Peter Suschitzky
“Melody Fair” by the Bee Gees
David Puttnam
John Boorman
Kathleen Freeman
Jerry Lewis
The Sammy Maudlin character on SCTV
Brian Donlevy
Stanley Adams
Bob Dylan
The Marx Brothers
Zeppo Marx
Gummo Marx
Why A Duck? by Richard Anobile (1980)
W.C. Fields
Flask of Fields by Richard Anobile (1973)
Chris Jordan
Joseph Salerno
Don Walters
Gary Graver
Orson Welles
Mac Ahlberg
TFH Guru John Landis
Ant Timpson
Ken Carter
Gordon Pinsent
National Film Board of Canada
Evel Knievel
Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain
TFH Guru David DeCoteau
Rod Taylor
Johnathon Schaech
The CBC
Stephen King
Elizabeth Taylor
Andy Warhol
Richard Burton
Ray Davies
The Kinks
Kenneth Colley
Ken Russell
Tim Roth
Amazon Prime
Come Dancing TV series (1949-1998)
Bela Lugosi
Rare Filmm: Cave of Forgotten Films site
Val Lewton
Ken Russell
John Toll
Michael Gothard
Tobe Hooper
Cannon Films
The James Bond franchise
Henry Mancini
Steve Railsback
Halley’s Comet
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Peter Firth
Frank Finlay
Sir Patrick Stewart
Aubrey Morris
John Dykstra
The Quatermass franchise
John Carpenter
Nigel Kneale
Dan O’Herlihy
Tommy Lee Wallace
Tom Atkins
Stacey Nelkin
Woody Allen
Clint Eastwood
Charles Bronson
Susan George
Alexa Kenin
David Wenham
Rowan Woods
The Boys by Gordon Graham
The Lord of the Rings film series
Toni Collette
The murder of Anita Cobby
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Ned Kelly
“The Wild Colonial Boy” song
Martin Scorsese
Ted Kotcheff
Guy Maddin
The Minnesota Twins
The 6 Million Dollar Man TV series (1973-1978)
Georges Méliès
The Coen Brothers
Sam Raimi
Andre De Toth
John Paizs

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

Julien Nitzberg

The director of The Wild Wonderful Whites of West Virginia and creator of the new musical For The Love Of A Glove talks with Josh and Joe about some of his favorite unexpected and unlikely political musicals.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
The Producers (1967)
The Critic (1963)
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Head (1968)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Risky Business (1983)
Fantasia (1940)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Drive, He Said (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Parasite (2019)
Hustlers (2019)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Cabaret (1972)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
The Pirate (1948)
Sweet Charity (1969)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
If… (1969)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The Graduate (1967)
Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1978)
Heathers (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Amadeus (1984)
Blood Simple (1985)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
That’s Entertainment! (1974)
That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)
That’s Entertainment! Part III (1994)
East Side Story (1997)
Circus (1936)
Freaks (1932)
Jolly Fellows (1934)
Volga-Volga (1938)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
Space Is The Place (1974)
Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Return To Oz (1985)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Psycho (1960)
Under the Rainbow (1981)
Spice World (1997)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Star Dust (1974)
Catch Us If You Can (1966)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Slade in Flame (1975)
KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
The Man From Elysian Fields (2001)
Ned Kelly (1970)
The Oscar (1966)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A Bucket Of Blood (1959)
The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
All Night Long (1963)
Catch My Soul (1974)

Other Notable Items

Julien’s play For The Love Of A Glove
For The Love Of A Glove composers Drew Erickson, Nicole Morier, and Max Townsley
Michael Jackson
The Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Theater
The Jackson 5
Donny Osmond
The Osmonds
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
The Marx Brothers
Maus graphic novel by Art Spiegelman (1980-1981)
Zero Mostel
Mel Brooks
Carl Reiner
The 2,000 Year Old Man
William Hickey
The Producers Broadway play (2001)
The Monkees
Thalia Cinema in New York
Frank Zappa
The Monkees TV series (1966-1968)
Russ Meyer
The Sex Pistols
The Beatles
Victor Mature
Mike Nesmith
The Egyptian Theatre
Mickey Dolenz
Bob Rafelson
Carole King
The Brill Building
Martin Scorsese
Netflix
Warner Brothers
RKO Pictures
Dick Powell
Ruby Keeler
Joan Blondell
Luis Buñuel
Judy Garland
Liza Minelli
Bob Fosse
Fosse/Verdon TV miniseries (2019)
Vincente Minelli
Louise Brooks
Lindsay Anderson
Bleecker Street Cinema
Alan Price
The Animals
Ray Davies
The Kinks
Malcolm McDowell
Hank Williams
Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams III
Ralph Richardson
Tim Curry
David Suchet
Antonio Salieri
Miloš Forman
F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus play (1979)
Peter Shaffer
Tom Hulce
The Coen Brothers
Brad Pitt
The Elephant Man
Trecey Dory
Amazon Prime
Todd Haynes
Karen Carpenter
Richard Carpenter
Sun Ra
MC5
Iggy and the Stooges
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ingmar Bergman
What’s The Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won The Heart Of America by Thomas Frank (2004)
L. Frank Baum
William Jennings Bryan
John Glover
Ted Turner
Walter Murch
Janet Leigh
The Spice Girls
David Essex
The Dave Clark Five
John Boorman
Slade
Tony Bennett
The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet
Martin Miller
Fred Katz
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Patrick McGoohan
Othello play by William Shakespeare (1603)
Jerry Lee Lewis
Catch My Soul musical
Richie Havens

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Eli Roth

Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Eli Roth’s History of Horror) takes us on a journey through endlessly rewatchable cable movies of the 80s.