The Movies That Made Me

MARTY SUPREME writer/director Josh Safdie unpacks his favorite movies with podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Burying the Ex (2015)

Uncut Gems (2019)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

King of New York (1990)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

The Funerals (1996)

The Addiction (1995)

4:44 Last Day On Earth (2011)

Tomasso (2019)

The Driller Killer (1979)

Ms .45 (1981)

Go Go Tales (2007)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

A Woman Under the Influence

*Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Hero (1992)

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979)

The Brood (1979)

*Fire in the Sky (1993)

*Matinee (1993)

*A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Lost Boys (1987)

*Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

*E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)

*The Shining (1980)

*Misery (1990)

Popeye (1980)

The Leprechaun (1992)

Mandy (2018)

The Princess Bride (1987)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

*The 400 Blows (1959)

*Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

*The Red Balloon (1956)

White Mane (1953)

Gremlins (1984)

*The Running Man (1987)

The Terminator (1984)

The King of Comedy (1983)

Total Recall (1990)

Robocop (1987)

*Above The Rim (1994)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

*Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky V (1990)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

*Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Stayin’ Alive (1983)

Carrie (1976)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

The battle of Jericho

Josh Mostel

G.I. Joe

Anton Yelchin

Anagrams 

Mike Leigh

Abel Ferrera

Willem Dafoe

Odessa A’zion

Clint Eastwood

James Cagney

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Kevin Garnett

Ronald Bronstein

Timothee Chalamet

Tyler, the Creator

Gwyneth Paltrow

IFC Films

Zohran Mamdani

Mira Nair

Dustin Hoffman

Meryl Streep

Eric Clapton

Stephen Frears

Geena Davis

Andy Garcia

Chevy Chase

David Cronenberg

Robert Benton

A Nightmare on Elm Street series

Wendy Carlos

John Candy

John Goodman

The Cuban Missile Crisis

4DX

William Castle

Smell-O-Vision

Shelley Duvall

The Shining novel by Stephen King (1977)

Stanley Kubrick

TFH Guru Mick Garris

The Shining miniseries (1997)

Jack Nicholson

The Beatles

Our Panos Cosmatos podcast episode

Johan Johansson

Gramaphone Records

Kathy Bates

James Caan

Rob Reiner

Alfred Hitchcock

Scatman Crothers

Vivian Kubrick

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Benny Safdie

John Lennon

John Hughes

Chris Columbus

Chicago

The Ramones

Richard Edson

Jim Jarmusch

The History of Bones: A Memoir book by John Lurie (2021)

Bob Hope

Bing Crosby

Mel Brooks

Matthew Broderick

Albert Lamorisse 

The Fleischer Brothers

Tex Avery

Harold Faltermeyer

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Oneohtrix Point Never 

Richard Dawson

Jerry Lewis

Paul Verhoeven

The New York Knicks

Queen

Onyx

Bernie Mac

2Pac

Dolph Lundgren

Sylvester Stallone

John Travolta

Welcome Back, Kotter TV series (1975-78)

The Bee Gees
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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with REDUX REDUX writers/directors Kevin and Matthew McManus on Friday's episode of The Movies That Made Me!

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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!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Redux Redux (2026)

The Terminator (1984)

Sliding Doors (1998)

Back to the Future (1985)

Bring It On (2000)

The Block Island Sound (2021)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Boss Level (2021)

Groundhog Day (1993)

*Death Wish (1974?)

*Blue Ruin (2013)

*Memento (2000)

Irreversible (2002)

The Prestige (2006)

Dunkirk (2017)

*Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

*Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

*Django Unchained (2012)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Funeral Kings (2012)

*The Unforgiven (1992)

Invictus (2009)

Mystic River (2003)

*Oldboy (2003)

Oldboy (2013)

Chinatown (1974)

*I Saw The Devil (2010)

A History of Violence (2005)

*A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

*Friday the 13th (1980)

Chato’s Land (1972)

Red River (1948)

Black Christmas (1974)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

While the City Sleeps (1956) 

A Christmas Story (1983)

*Drive (2011)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Revenge of the Blood Beast a.k.a. The She Beast (1966)

The Vengeance of She (1968)

The Stepfather (1987)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Michaela McManus

David Duchovny

Rob Lowe

The Clash

Netflix

Chris Sheffield 

Our Jim Cummings podcast episode

Mark Duplass

John Cassavettes

Joe Carnahan

Rotten Tomatoes

Universal Pictures

Our Jeremy Saulnier podcast episode

Our Macon Blair podcast episode

Christopher Nolan

Jonathan Nolan 

Skywalker Ranch

The Vista Theater in Los Angeles

Christoph Walz

Clint Eastwood

Gene Hackman

Francis Ford Coppola

Matt Damon

Sean Penn

Sidney Lumet

Spike Lee

David Cronenberg

The Hallmark Channel

Charles Bronson

Hulu

Michael Winner

John Wayne

Bob Clark

Ryan Gosling

Ron Perlman

Albert Brooks

Christina Hendricks

Terry O’Quinn

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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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