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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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TRAILER SHOW: Clint Bentley Jan 10, 2026

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley on this week’s episode of the pod.

Check out Clint’s full conversation with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante ⁠here⁠!

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TRAILER SHOW: Kristen Stewart Jan 10, 2026

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER writer/director Kristen Stewart on this week’s episode of the pod.

Check out Kristen’s conversation with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante here!

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER writer/director Kristen Stewart Jan 09, 2026

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Movie star Kristen Stewart, who's making her directorial debut with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, unpacks the movies that made her with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Punch Drunk Love (2002)

Uncut Gems (2019)

The Chronology of Water (2025)

Infested (2002)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

St. Maud (2019)

River of Grass (1994)

First Cow (2019)

Meeks Cutoff (2010)

Badlands (1973)

The Mastermind (2025)

Panic Room (2002)

Female Perversions (1996)

Working Girl (1988)

Working Girls (2025)

9 to 5 (1980)

Angela (1995)

Angela’s Ashes (1999)

The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Hearts of Darkness (1991)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Jingle All The Way (1996)

Waterworld (1995)

Solaris (1972)

The Greatest Night in Pop (2025)

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

The Brutalist (2024)

Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Wanda (1971)

Targets (1968)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Shadows (1959)

Faces (1968)

A Woman Under The Influence (1974)

Husbands (1979)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Opening Night (1977)

Gloria (1980)

Sometimes A Great Notion (1971)

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Jeopardy! TV series (1964- )

Our Rose Glass podcast episode

The Sundance Film Festival

Kelly Reichardt

Larry Fessenden

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Jesse Eisenberg

The New Yorker

Melanie Griffith

The Laemmle Theatres

Our Rebecca Miller podcast episode

Girls TV series (2012-17)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Andrei Tarkovsky

“All Along The Watchtower” cover by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

“We Are The World” song by USA For Africa (1985)

Amanda Seyfried

Christopher Abbott

Joanne Woodward

The Last Movie Starsdocumentary miniseries (2022)

Peter Bogdanovich

A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation Against Themselves book by Sophie Gilbert (2025)

Francis Ford Coppola

The Palme d’Or

The Academy Awards

American Zoetrope

John Cassavetes

Paul Newman
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TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley Jan 06, 2026

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Filmmaker Clint Bentley discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Train Dreams (2025)

Thief (1981)

Heat (1995)

*One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Gremlins (1984)

Goonies (1985)

Sometimes A Great Notion (1971)

*Jules et Jim (1962)

Y Tu Mamá También (2002)

*Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

My Neighbor Totoro (1994)

Ponyo (2008)

Cars (2006)

Yellow Submarine (1968)

Bambi (1941)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Robin Hood (1973)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

La Strada (1954)

I Vitelloni (1953)

Il bidone (1955)

La Dolce Vita (1960)

8 ½ (1963)

Happy As Lazzaro (2018)

*Days of Heaven (1978)

Badlands (1973)

Jockey (2021)

*It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

Casablanca (1942)

The Godfather (1972)

Manhunter (1986)

*Andrei Rublev (1966)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Solaris (1972)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Stalker (1979)

The Mirror (1975)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Top Gun (1986)

Lady Bird (2017)

The Big Sick (2017)

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (2025)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

*Baraka (1992)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Let The Corpses Tan (2017)

Amer (2009)

The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013)

Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)

Breathless (1960)

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Blue Moon (2025)

*Ikiru (1952)

High and Low (1963)

Rashomon (1950)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

*Modern Times (1936)

City Lights (1931)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Great Dictator (1940)

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Bosch TV series (2014-21)

Tom Bernardo

Netflix

Joel Edgerton

The Golden Globe Awards

Adam Sandler

Federico Fellini

Akira Kurosawa

Police Squad TV series (1982)

Jack Nicholson

Clint Eastwood

John Ford

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey

Sometimes A Great Notion novel by Ken Kesey

Paul Newman

Richard Jaeckel

Universal Pictures

Henry Fonda

Milos Forman

Train Dreams novella by Denis Johnson

Harry Potter franchise

Broderick Crawford

Richard Basehart

Alice Rohrwacher

Terrence Malick

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” song by The Beatles (1967)

“Here Comes The Sun” song by The Beatles (1969)

Andrei Tarkovsky

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album by Bob Dylan (1961)

The New Beverly Cinema

Akira Kurosawa

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

Jean-Luc Godard

Richard Linklater

Frank Capra

Martin Scorsese

Charlie Chaplin

Unknown Chaplin documentary miniseries (1982)

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TRAILER SHOW: Mary Bronstein Dec 19, 2025

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with writer/director Mary Bronstein on this week’s episode of the pod.

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IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU writer/director Mary Bronstein Dec 16, 2025

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Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite formative films with Josh Olson.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

If You Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

Repulsion (1965)

Antichrist (2009)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Shampoo (1975)

The Matrix (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Wanda (1971)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Gypsy (1962)

West Side Story (1961)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

The Hot Rock (1972)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

East of Eden (1955)

Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Bus Stop (1956)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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TFH Guru Illeana Douglas’ Connecticut in the Moviesbook (2023)

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Blockbuster Video

PBS

Turner Classic Movies

The Video Archives rental shop in Manhattan Beach, CA and later Hermosa Beach, CA

Quentin Tarantino

Kim’s Video shop in NYC

Warren Beatty

Faye Dunaway

Arthur Penn

French New Wave

Jean Luc Godard

Natalie Wood

Eliah Kazan

Ella Beatty

Howard Hughes

Rosalind Russell

Steve McQueen

Robert Redford

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

Betty Davis

Joan Crawford

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92)

The Academy Awards

James Dean

Raymond Massey

East of Eden novel by John Steinbeck (1952)

Nicholas Ray

Rose Byrne

Marilyn Monroe

Lee Strasberg

The Actor’s Studio

Brad Pitt

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TRAILER SHOW: Bryan Fuller Dec 12, 2025

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Featured trailers for films mentioned in the previous episode.

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DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller Dec 09, 2025

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DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller discusses his favorite gateway horror films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Gremlins (1984)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

The Running Man (2025)

Dust Bunny (2025)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Explorers (1985)

Piranha (1978)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

The Howling (1981)

Coma (1978)

The Great Train Robbery (1976)

The ‘Burbs (1989)

Alien (1979)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Humanoids From The Deep (1980)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Scream (1996)

The Terminator (1984)

Time Bandits (1981)

Mad Max (1979)

Weapons (2025)

Hostel (2005)

Saw (2004)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Poltergeist (1982)

Star Wars (1977)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

ET The Extraterrestrial (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Thing (1982)

Stand By Me (1985)

Goonies (1985)

The Shining (1980)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Invaders From Mars (1986)

Labyrinth (1986)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Casino Royale (2006)

The Black Hole (1979)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Bambi (1941)

Escape From Witch Mountain (1975)

The Cat From Outer Space (1978)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Grimm's Fairy Tales of Lustful Couples (1969)

Silent Running (1971)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1983)

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)

Die Hard (1988)

Rocky (1976)

Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985)

Howling III: The Marsupials (1988)

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Our pals at Movies Unlimited

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George Lazenby

TFH Guru Edgar Wright

Lily Allen

David Harbour

Hannibal TV series (2013-15)

Laurence Fishburne

Columbia Pictures

Our Ethan Hawke podcast episode

Jerry Goldsmith

Pino Donaggio

Brian De Palma

Alexandre Desplat

David Byrne

Brian Eno

John Williams

Alien photo novel by Richard J Anobile (1979)

Star Trek TV series (1966-68)

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Johnny Mathis

Watchmen graphic novel series by Alan Moore (1986-87)

Pushing DaisiesTV series (2007-09)

Sean Connery

Terry Gilliam

Sid Sheinberg

Tobe Hooper

Steven Spielberg

Amblin

Craig T. Nelson

JoBeth Williams

TFH Guru John Sayles

Bryan’s Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror TV series (2022)

Wil Wheaton

River Phoenix

The MPAA’s PG-13 rating

Louise Fletcher

Jim Henson

Animal the Muppet

The Muppet Show TV series (1976-81)

Zach Galligan

Kate Capshaw

Harrison Ford

Walt Disney Pictures

The Love Boat

Ernest Borgnine

Joseph Bottoms

Shudder

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Marie Liljedahl

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Bruce Dern

Wolfgang Petersen

Barrett Oliver

James Bond

Sybil Danning
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TRAILER SHOW: Daniel Bessner Dec 05, 2025

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Featured trailers for movies discussed with Daniel Bessner

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AMERICAN PRESTIGE host, historian and author Daniel Bessner Dec 02, 2025

Show notes

Author/historian Daniel Bessner discusses his favorite dystopian films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Vanishing Point (1971)

Mad Max (1971)

Casablanca (1941)

Looper (2012)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

Chronicle (2012)

Fruitvale Station (2013)

Black Panther (2018)

Knives Out (2019)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Children of Men (2010)

Idiocracy (2006)

The Matrix (1999)

The Animatrix (2003)

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

They Live (1988)

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Minority Report (2002)

Magnolia (1999)

War of the Worlds (2005)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Escape From LA (1996)

Escape From New York (1981)

Robocop (1987)

The Warriors (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

12 Monkeys (1995)

Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1988)

The Fisher King (1991)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Brazil (1985)

Time Bandits (1981)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Gattaca (1997)

Mad Max (1979)

The Road Warrior (1981)

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Other Notable Items

Our pals at Movies Unlimited

The Hollywood Food Coalition

The American Cinematheque in Los Angeles

Daniel’s American Prestige podcast

Lawrence Summers

Daniel’s “Life and Death of Hollywood" article in Harper’s Bazaar

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Dante Alighieri

Poker FaceTV series (2023- )

Laura Dern

Carrie Fisher

Clive Owen

Julianne Moore

Lana Wachowski

Lily Wachowski

Keith David

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Joe Pantoliano

John Carpenter

Harlan Ellison

Tom Cruise

The Mission: Impossible film franchise

Philip K. Dick

Steven Spielberg

Max von Sydow

Kurt Russell

Peter Fonda

“Theme From New York, New York” song by Frank Sinatra (1977)

12 Monkeys TV series (2015-18)

Bruce Willis

Brad Pitt

Terry Gilliam

The Occupy Wall Street movement

V for Vendetta graphic novel series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982-89)

Ethan Hawke

Jude Law

Ernest Borgnine

Nicholas Hoult

Tom Hardy

Charlize Theron

George Miller

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road book by Kyle Buchanan (2022)

The Star Wars franchise

The Indiana Jones franchise

Mel Gibson

Daniel’s American Prestige interview with Glen Lowry

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