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The Movies That Made Me

Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett.

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Documentary producer Josh Braun Jul 21, 2020

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Producer of some of the best documentaries in the world joins us to discuss the movies that have influenced him throughout his life.

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Sergio director Greg Barker Jul 14, 2020

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Director of Sergio and many docs talks about docs and movies taken from true stories.

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Accused, Over the Edge director Jonathan Kaplan Jul 07, 2020

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The director of Over The Edge and The Accused takes us on a journey through some of his favorite movies.

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Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver writer/director Edgar Wright Jun 30, 2020

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In our 100th episode, Edgar Wright takes us on a musical journey through some of his favorite cinematic needle drops.Show Notes:Movies Referenced In This EpisodeBeyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)Baby Driver (2017)*Reservoir Dogs (1992)Vanishing Point (1971)*2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Deja Vu (2006)Man On Fire (2004)The Bourne Supremacy (2004)The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)Alien (1979)The Mexican (2001)Gremlins (1984)*American Graffiti (1973)Star Wars (1977)Jaws (1975)The Exorcist (1973)Halloween (1978)The Amityville Horror (1979)*Dawn of the Dead (1978)Deep Red (1976)Suspiria (1977)Shaun of the Dead (2004)Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)*An American Werewolf In London (1981)The Long Goodbye (1973)The Evil Dead (1983)Face-Off (1997)The Wizard Of Oz (1939)Mandy (2018)The Hallow (2015)The Nun (2018)Mulholland Drive (2001)*Christine (1983)Blue Collar (1978)*Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)*Mauvais Sang (1986)Frances Ha (2012)Lovers On The Bridge (1991)Holy Motors (2012)Annette (TBD)*Goodfellas (1990)Mean Streets (1973)Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)Raging Bull (1980)*Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)Mad Max (1980)Babe (1995)(1973)Happy Feet (2006)Dr. Strangelove (1964)Band of Outsiders (1964)Blow-Up (1966)Bonnie And Clyde (1967)The Graduate (1967)Harold and Maude (1971)A Clockwork Orange (1971)Electra Glide In Blue (1973)The Warriors (1979)The Wanderers (1979)The Shining (1980)Trading Places (1983)Breathless (1983)Blood Simple (1984)Ghostbusters (1984)Back to the Future (1985)Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)Blue Velvet (1986)Manhunter (1986)Something Wild (1986)Do The Right Thing (1989)Wild At Heart (1990)Miller’s Crossing (1990)Silence of the Lambs (1991)Dazed and Confused (1993)Pulp Fiction (1994)Chungking Express (1994)Bottle Rocket (1996)Trainspotting (1996)Romeo + Juliet (1996)Grosse Point Blank (1997)Boogie Nights (1997)Rushmore (1998)Buffalo ‘66 (1998)Beau Travail (1999)The Matrix (1999)Sexy Beast (2000)The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)Ocean’s Eleven (2001)Zodiac (2007)Hard Boiled (1992)Bad Lieutenant (1992)Natural Born Killers (1994)Jackie Brown (1997)Last Night In Soho (TBD)Casino (1995)The Departed (2006)Shine A Light (2008)The Age of Innocence (1993)20 Feet From Stardom (2013) Other Notable ItemsWalter HillRoger EbertRuss Meyer“Neat Neat Neat” song by The Damned (1977)Bill PopeAlex NorthEnnio MorriconeTony ScottJerry GoldsmithRidley Scott“Bell Bottoms” song by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1994)“Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss (1896)“The Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II (1867)György LigetiStanley KubrickGeorge LucasWalter MirchRobert AltmanRon HowardPaul Le MatMackenzie Phillips“All Summer Long” song by The Beach Boys (1964)Happy Days TV series (1974-1984)Scott BaioSuzi QuatroHarrison Ford“Tubular Bells” song by Mike OldfieldLalo SchifrinWilliam FriedkinThe Twilight Zone TV series (1959-1964)The Halloween score by John Carpenter (1978)George A. RomeroDawn of the Dead score by Goblin (1978)Dario ArgentoSimon PeggDawn of the Dead The Unreleased Incidental Music (2004)De Wolfe Music"The Gonk" song by Herbert Chappell (1965)“Cosmogony” by Paul Lemel (1972)The Egyptian Theatre in HollywoodTFH Guru John LandisDavid Naughton“Blue Moon” song by Elvis Presley (1956)“Blue Moon” song by Bob Dylan (1970)“Blue Moon” song by Sam Cooke (1959)“Blue Moon” song by The Marcels (1961)“Moondance” song by Van Morrison (1970)“Bad Moon Rising” song by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)Jenny Agutter“The Long Goodbye” song by Clydie King (1973)John Woo“Over The Rainbow” song by Judy Garland (1939)“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” song by Darlene Love (1963)“Do You Hear What I Hear” by Johnny Mathis (1969)Nicolas Cage“Mandy” song by Barry Manilow (1974)The Vista Theatre in HollywoodCorin HardyThe Panos Cosmatos podcast episode“We Belong Together” song by Robert & Johnny (1958)“Little Bitty Pretty One” song by Thurston Harris (1957)Keith Gordon“Harlem Nocturne” song by The Viscounts (1959)“Bad To The Bone” song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers“I Feel Good” song by James Brown (1964)The Christine soundtrack (1983)Impressions of An American Werewolf In London soundtrack by Meco (1981)John Hughes“Oh Yeah” by Yello (1985)“Twist And Shout” song by“Love Missile F1-11” song by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (1983)The Ferris Bueller’s Day Off soundtrack (1986)SparksKraftwerk“The Race” song by Yello (1988)Jeffrey JonesLeos Carax“Modern Love” song by David Bowie (1983)Denis LavantJuliette BinocheAdam DriverMarion CotillardMartin Scorsese“Be My Baby” song by The Ronettes (1963)“Tell Me” by The Rolling Stones (1964)T. RexMott The Hoople“Rags To Riches” song by Tony Bennett (1953)“Layla” song by Derek and the Dominoes (1970)“Atlantis” song by Donovan (1969)“My Way” song by Sid Vicious (1978)“Jump Into The Fire” by Harry Nilsson (1971)“What Is Life” song by George Harrison (1971)“Monkey Man” song by The Rolling Stones (1969)George MillerBen CarsonAnsel ElgortJim McBrideQuentin TarantinoThe Strokes“Stuck In The Middle With You” song by Stealers Wheel (1972)“Little Green Bag” song by the George Baker Selection (1971)Michael Madsen“Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones (1969)Mary ClaytonMick JaggerThis list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oscar winning co-writer of Brokeback Mountain Diana Ossana Jun 23, 2020

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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Brokeback Mountain (2005) Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Red River (1948) The Last Picture Show (1971) Hud (1963) Piranha (1978) Battleship Potemkin (1925) They Drive By Night (1940) Kings Row (1942) The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) The Grapes of Wrath (1942) Buffalo Bill (1944) Laura (1944) Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) The Day of the Triffids (1963) Moby Dick (1956) Village of the Damned (1960) Written on the Wind (1956) Magnificent Obsession (1954) There’s Always Tomorrow (1956) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Brazil (1985) Lost In La Mancha (2002) The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996) The Fisher King (1991) Dr. Strangelove (1964) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Deer Hunter (1978) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) A History of Violence (2005) The Searchers (1956) Fort Apache (1948) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Other Notable Items

The WGA Awards The BAFTAs The Academy Awards Larry McMurtry George Clooney Ang Lee Bill Clinton “Brokeback Mountain” New Yorker short story by Annie Proulx Flannery O’Connor The Motion Picture Production Code TV Guide George Raft Rock Hudson Ann Sheridan Jean Harlow The Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO James Bond Paul Newman TFH Guru John Sayles The Varsity Theater in St. Louis, MO The Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis, MO Roger Corman Raoul Walsh Ida Lupino Humphrey Bogart Ronald Reagan Claude Rains Turner Classic Movies Branded TV series (1965-1966) Have Gun Will Travel TV series (1957-1963) Paladin Maverick TV series (1957-1962) Dana Andrews William Wellman Darryl Zanuck Joel McCrea Henry Fonda Anthony Quinn Harry Morgan The Night of the Triffids novel (2001) The Day of the Triffids BBC miniseries (1981) The Day of the Triffids novel by John Wyndham (1951) The Avengers TV series (1961-1969) Diana Rigg Childhood’s End novel by Arthur C. Clarke Robert Heinlein Harlan Ellison Douglas Sirk Dorothy Malone Pedro Almodovar Rainer Werner Fassbender John Waters John Stahl Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Joan Bennett Brad Pitt Terry Gilliam Anything For Billy novel by Larry McMurtry Billy The Kid Don Quixote novel by Miguel de Cervantes Peter Sellers The Martin Cinerama Theater in St. Louis The Cuban Missile Crisis Christopher Walken Joseph Bonanno The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo (1969) The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Michael Imperioli The Searchers novel by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Le_May John Wayne John Ford Monument Valley The Last Picture Show soundtrack by Hank Williams Audie Murphy John Huston The Making of “The Red Badge of Courage” New Yorker article by Lillian Ross Ken Kesey Horseman, Pass By novel by Larry McMurtry (1961) Film Flam: Essays collection by Larry McMurty (1987)

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Narcos producer Eric Newman Jun 16, 2020

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The producer of Narcos takes us on a walk through some of the movies that made him.

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Legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman Jun 09, 2020

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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016)

*Vertigo (1958)

*Citizen Kane (1941)

Rope (1948)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Song of the South (1946)

*The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)

*The Third Man (1950)

The Jungle Book (1967) The Jungle Book (2016) The Lion King (2019)

*Pinocchio (1940)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

The Old Mill (1937)

*Casablanca (1942)

Cinderella (1950)

*Singin’ In The Rain (1953) *Paths of Glory (1957)

1917 (2019)

*The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) *Star Wars (1977) American Graffiti (1973)

Sorcerer (1977)

Other Notable Items

Michael Fiore The Watts riots

The LAPD’s cruel mistreatment of Rodney King

The George Floyd protests

MOVE in Philadelphia

Walt Disney Pictures TFH Guru Roger Corman

The Three Stooges I Am the Greatest: The_Adventures of Muhammad Ali TV series (1977)

Alfred Hitchcock

Bernard Herrman’s Vertigo score

The latest Sight and Sound poll of the best films ever

Lux Radio Theatre

Jon Favreau I Love Lucy TV series (1951-1957)

Silly Symphonies animated short film series

Humphrey Bogart

The Beverly Canon Theatre in LA

The Fox Venice Theatre in LA

The Encore Theatre in LA

The Silent Movie Theatre in LA

Mantan Moreland

Amos and Andy TV show (1951-1953)

Spencer Williams

The Jack Benny Program TV show (1950-1965)

Hattie McDaniel

Whoopi Goldberg

Splash Mountain

The Blake Masters Pandemic Parade episode

Lennie Hayton André Previn

The Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara

Stanley Kubrick

Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood

Cinefantastique Magazine (1967-2006, 2009- )

The Greedo-Han controversy

William Friedkin

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The Walking Dead's Greg Nicotero Jun 02, 2020

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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Outbreak (1995)

Creepshow (1982) The Howling (1981) Dawn of the Dead (1978) *Horror of Dracula (1958)

*The Time Machine (1960)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1963?) Night of the Living Dead (1968) From Russia With Love (1963) Planet of the Apes (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Frankenstein (1931)

*The Wolf Man (1941)

*The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

*The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

*The Towering Inferno (1974)

*20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)

Thunderball (1965) Broadcast News (1987) Young Frankenstein (1974)

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Star Wars (1977)

Jaws (1975) Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)

What’s Up Doc? (1972)

Logan’s Run (1976) *Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Dragonslayer (1981)

*Aliens (1986)

1917 (2019) Gravity (2013)

Alien (1979)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1949) Nightmare Cinema (2019)

War of the Gargantuans (1970)

The Green Slime (1969)

Other Notable Items

Creepshow TV series (2019- ) The Walking Dead TV series (2010- ) Dana Gould

Night Gallery TV series (1970-1973)

The Sarah Silverman Program TV series (2007-2010)

The Los Angeles Times

Chiller Theatre TV series (1963-1984)

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Universal Classic Monsters

Star Trek TV series (1966-1969)

Lost In Space TV series (1965-1968) Charlton Heston Land of the Giants TV series (1968-1970)

TFH Guru Mick Garris

Peter Bogdanovich

Barbra Streisand

The Cinefex Magazine article on Little Shop of Horrors

The James Bond film franchise

Manimal TV series (1983)

TFH Guru John Landis’s “Thriller” music video (1983)

Abbott and Costello

Rob Bottin Cinefantastique magazine (1967- )

Belinda Balaski

The Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 Criterion set

The Post Mortem with Mick Garris podcast

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Escape from the Planet of the Pandemic Parade May 29, 2020

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Please support the Hollywood Food Coalition. Text "Give" to 323.402.5704 or visit https://hofoco.org/donate!

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Action star Scott Adkins May 26, 2020

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The martial arts icon talks about some of his favorite action movies. Josh challenges him to a fight.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Armaggeddon (1998)

Innerspace (1987)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Matinee (1993)

Debt Collector (2018)

Triple Threat (2019)

Avengement (2019)
Ip Man 4 (2020)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Debt Collectors (2020)

The Three Musketeers (1974)

*Rocky II (1979)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky IV (1985)

Paradise Alley (1978)

*First Blood (1982)

Rambo -- First Blood Part II (1985)
*Enter The Dragon (1973)
Giant (1956)
Game Of Death (1978)

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

Marlowe (1969)

*Road House (1989)

Grosse Point Blank (1997)
Hard Boiled (1992)
*The Killer (1989)

Death Wish (1974)

Seconds (1966)
Face/Off (1997)

Heat (1995)
Under Fire (1983)

True Lies (1994)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

*The Raid (2011)
Die Hard (1988)

The Raid 2 (2014)

A History Of Violence (2005)
Munich (2005)

*Point Break (1991)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Armour of God (1986)

The Protector (1985)

Under Siege (1992)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Billy Jack (1971)
John Wick (2014)

Other Notable Items

Our Jesse V. Johnson podcast episode
The Ip Man franchise
Donnie Yen

Anthony De Longis
Basil Rathbone

Errol Flynn
Oliver Reed

The Rocky franchise
Sylvester Stallone

Bill Conti’s score for the Rocky films
Brian Dennehy

The Green Hornet TV series (1966-1967)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Batman TV series (1966-1968)

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Quentin Tarantino

Benny “The Jet” Urquidez

John Cusack
Sam Elliott

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The 180-degree rule, crucial to fight scenes

Steven Spielberg

Kathryn Bigelow

Warner Brothers

Charles Bronson

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