The Movies That Made Me

The brother filmmaking tandem Kevin and Matthew McManus (REDUX REDUX) hop on the line to unpack, well, the movies that made them with help from podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!
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Writer/director Óliver Laxe (SIRAT) chops it up with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss the movies that made him!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sirat (2026)

Wages of Fear (1953)

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Nostalghia (1983)

The Mirror (1975)

Ordet (1955)

Au Hazard Balthazar (1966)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Sorcerer (1977)

Mad Max (1979)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Easy Rider (1969)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Vanishing Point (1971)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Freaks (1931)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Dirty Pretty Things (2001)

The Naked Island (1960)

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

Late Spring (1949)

The Card Counter (2021)

The Four Seasons (1975)

Close-Up (1990)

Where is the Friend’s House? (1987)

Ten (2002)

Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)

Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Chuck Berry

The Beatles

Carl Theodor Dreyer 

Notes on the Cinematographer book by Robert Bresson (1975)

Sculpting in Time book by Andrei Tarkovsky (1985)

John Cassavettes

Béla Tar

David Lynch

The Criterion Collection

Dennis Hopper

Monte Hellman

Ry Cooder

Akira Kurosawa

Sergi López 

Kaneto Shindo 

Yasujirō Ozu

Paul Schrader

Oscar Isaac

Transcendental Style in Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Dryer book by Paul Schrader (2018)

Artavazd Peleshyan 

Abbas Kiarostami

Zohran Mamdani

Mira Nair

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with FALLOUT star Dallas Goldtooth on this week’s episode of The Movies That Made Me!

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with FALLOUT star Walton Goggins on this week’s episode of The Movies That Made Me!

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FALLOUT star Dallas Goldtooth takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through his favorite animated films.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Akira (1988)

Batman: Gotham Knights (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

My Neighbor Totoro (1994)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Hellraiser (1987)

Heavy Metal (1981)

Wolf Children (2012)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Bambi (1941)

Pocahontas (1995)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

Ponyo (2008)

The Borrowers (1997)

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

An American Tail (1986)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

The Land Before Time (1988)

All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)

Rock-A-Doodle (1991)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

WALL-E (2008)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Predator (1987)

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Explorers (1985)

Marathon Man (1976)

Clearcut (1991)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Maverick (1994)

The Lone Ranger (2013)

The Rescuers (1977)

Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Reservation Dogs TV series (2021-23)

Our Sterlin Harjo podcast episode

AMC Theaters

Anime

Hayao Miyazaki

Darren Aronofsky

Heavy Metal Magazine

Richard Corben

Walt Disney Pictures

Bob Hoskins

Don Bluth

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH novel by Robert C. O’Brien (1971)

Steven Spielberg

Dragon’s Lair video game (1983)

The Academy Awards

The Tulsa race massacre 

Watchmen limited series (2019)

Graham Greene

Wes Studi

Tantoo Cardinal 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Keanu Reeves

Sonny Landham 

The American Cinematheque in Hollywood, CA

Vidiots in Los Angeles

The Chapo Trap House podcast

TFH Guru Kier-la Janisse

Severin Films

Mel Gibson

Jodie Foster

James Garner

Maverick TV series (1957-62)

Jay Silverheels 

The Lone Ranger TV series (1949-57)

The Mohawk people
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