The Movies That Made Me
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- 1 hour 1 minuteDEAD MAN'S WIRE director Gus Van Sant
We've got auteur royalty on The Movies That Made Me today! The one and only GUS VAN SANT joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to talk about, yes, the movies that made him!
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Dead Man’s Wire (2026)
Song Sung Blue (2025)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Burying The Ex (2014)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Sátántangó (1994)
The Turin Horse (2011)
Elephant (2004)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Gerry (2002)
Last Days (2005)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Third Man (1949)
The Celebration (1998)
8 ½ (1963)
The Last of England (1987)
Jubilee (1978)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Mala Noche (1985)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Fail-Safe (1964)
House of Dynamite (2025)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
The Plague (2025)
Whistle (2026)
The Nun (2018)
The Groove Tube (1974)
Modern Problems (1981)
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
To Die For (1995)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Staircase (1969)
Other Notable Items
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Matt Damon
Casey Affleck
John Cassavettes
HBO
Diane Keaton
Woody Allen
David Lean
Carol Reed
The Screen Actors Guild
Sergio Leone
Focus Features
Barry Diller
Harris Savides
Our Paprika Steen podcast episode
Federico Fellini
Anthony Quinn
Richard Basehart
Robert Altman
Stanley Kubrick
John F. Kennedy
Netflix
The Tower East Theatre in New York
Lord of the Flies novel
Adam Sandler
Chevy Chase
Lane Sarasohn
Tom Schiller
The Smothers Brothers
TFH Guru John Landis
Al Pacino
William Friedkin
Bill Skarsgaard
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27 January 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 5 minutesTHE RIP writer/director Joe Carnahan
THE RIP writer/director Joe Carnahan returns to our podcast The Movies That Made Me. This time, Joe takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante on a sonic journey to unpack the John Williams scores that made him! Check out Joe's first appearance on the podcast here.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Rip (2026)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Images (1972)
The Cowboys (1972)
Shaft (1971)
Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Superman: The Movie (1978)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Gremlins (1984)
Poltergeist (1982)
Cobra (1986)
JFK (1991)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Munich (2005)
The Great Escape (1968)
Stripes (1980)
1941 (1979)
Animal House (1978)
The A-Team (2010)
The Howling (1981)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Maestro (2024)
Not Without Hope (2025)
Shadow Force (2025)
ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Always (1989)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Other Notable Items
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Orson Welles
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Brad Pitt
“Debbie Downer” on Saturday Night Live
Netflix
John Huston
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
Humphrey Bogart
Clark Gable
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA
John Williams
“The Sabbath Prayer” song from Fiddler on the Roof
Irwin Allen
Steven Spielberg
Robert Altman
John Wayne
Bruce Dern
Jason Patrick
Roscoe Lee Brown
The Smokehouse Restaurant
Richard Roundtree
“Theme From Shaft” song by Isaac Hayes (1971)
Glen Ford
Glen Campbell
Frank Oz
Sylvester Stallone
Donald Surherland
Jerry Goldsmith
David Mamet
Elmer Bernstein
Dick Miller
Nancy Allen
Tim Matheson
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Gale
Our Stephen Bissette podcast episode
Swamp Thing comic books
Pino Donaggio
Bernard Hermann
The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64)
Bradley Cooper
Kerry Washington
James Cameron
Christopher Nolan
The Hollywood Bowl
Bernardo Bertolucci
Maria Schneider
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20 January 2026, 9:00 am - 28 minutes 39 secondsTRAILER SHOW: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with THE SECRET AGENT writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho on this week’s episode of The Movies That Made Me!
Catch up with the pod here.
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16 January 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutesTHE SECRET AGENT writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho
THE SECRET AGENT director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down the movies that made him! Kleber is fresh off winning this year's Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for THE SECRET AGENT this weekend. His film's star, Wagner Moura, also took home a Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Small Change (1976)
The Secret Agent (2025)
Bacurau (2019)
*Walkabout (1973)
*Wake in Fright (1971)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Performance (1970)
The Witches (1990)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Superman (1978)
Star Wars (1977)
Piranha (1978)
*Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Paris, Texas (1984)
*The Beguiled (1971)
The Beguiled (2017)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
*The Long Goodbye (1973)
*Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
MASH (1970)
Chinatown (1974)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Happy Gilmore (1995)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1975)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
LA Plays Itself (2003)
Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
*Twenty Years Later (1984)
The Big Shave (1967)
The Longest Day (1962)
Cleopatra (1963)
Halloween (1978)
La Jetée (1962)
Green Vinyl (2004)
*Gremlins (1984)
*The Host (2006)
E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
*The Fly (1986)
*Do The Right Thing (1989)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Other Notable Items
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Udo Kier
The Lord of the Rings franchise
Pedro Pascal
Nicholas Roeg
Philip Kaufman
The Criterion Collection
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Klaus Kinski
Werner Herzog
Nicolas Cage
The French new wave
Don Siegel
Clint Eastwood
Geraldine Page
Paul Thomas Anderson
Robert Altman
Elliott Gould
Mad Magazine
Mark Rydell
Roman Polanski
Adam Sandler
The Cannes Film Festival
Columbia Pictures
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Robert Elswitt
Emily Watson
John Carpenter
Scream franchise
Martin Scorsese
The Vietnam War
Jerry Goldsmith
Steven Spielberg
Tobe Hooper
Dick Miller
Phoebe Cates
David Cronenberg
Spike Lee
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13 January 2026, 10:00 am - 21 minutes 48 secondsTRAILER SHOW: Kristen Stewart
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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10 January 2026, 4:00 pm - 28 minutes 41 secondsTRAILER SHOW: Clint Bentley
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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10 January 2026, 4:00 pm - 1 hour 8 minutesTHE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER writer/director Kristen Stewart
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)
Other Notable Items
Our Patreon!
Jeopardy! TV series (1964- )
Our Rose Glass podcast episode
Our Rebecca Miller podcast episode
Girls TV series (2012-17)
“All Along The Watchtower” cover by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
“We Are The World” song by USA For Africa (1985)
The Last Movie Stars documentary miniseries (2022)
A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation Against Themselves book by Sophie Gilbert (2025)
Paul Newman
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9 January 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesTRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley
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)
Other Notable Items
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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
Universal Pictures
Henry Fonda
Milos Forman
Train Dreams novella by Denis Johnson
Harry Potter franchise
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” song by The Beatles (1967)
“Here Comes The Sun” song by The Beatles (1969)
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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6 January 2026, 8:00 am - 30 minutes 34 secondsTRAILER SHOW: Mary Bronstein
Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with writer/director Mary Bronstein on this week’s episode of the pod.
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19 December 2025, 8:00 am - 1 hour 26 minutesIF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU writer/director Mary Bronstein
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)
Other Notable Items
Our Patreon!
Our pals at Movies Unlimited
TFH Guru Illeana Douglas’ Connecticut in the Movies book (2023)
NYU
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
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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16 December 2025, 8:00 am - 25 minutes 16 secondsTRAILER SHOW: Bryan Fuller
Featured trailers for films mentioned in the previous episode.
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