
About this episode
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
Our Patreon!
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
Hayao Miyazaki
Astro Boy
Speed Racer
Anthony Quinn
Broderick Crawford
Richard Basehart
Alice Rohrwacher
Terrence Malick
Adolpho Veloso
“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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