The Movies That Made Me

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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Cassian Elwes

Veronica Raedelli

Sam Pressman 

Luigi Mangione

Austin Kolodney

Cary Elwes

Stan Brakhage

Béla Tarr

Chantal Akerman

Sight and Sound

The Criterion Collection

Matt Damon 

Casey Affleck

John Cassavettes

HBO

Diane Keaton

Woody Allen

Colin Callender 

David Lean

Carol Reed

The Screen Actors Guild

Sergio Leone

Thomas Vinterberg 

Lars von Trier

Dogme 95

Focus Features

Barry Diller

Harris Savides

Our Paprika Steen podcast episode

Federico Fellini

Anthony Quinn

Richard Basehart

Robert Altman

Derek Jarman

Stanley Kubrick

John F. Kennedy

Netflix

Peter Brook

The Tower East Theatre in New York

Lord of the Flies novel

Adam Sandler

Ken Shapiro

Chevy Chase

Lane Sarasohn

Tom Schiller

The Smothers Brothers

TFH Guru John Landis

Al Pacino

William Friedkin

Bill Skarsgaard
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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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The Hollywood Food Coalition

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

Dede Allen

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

John Ottman

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

Clinton Shorter

Kerry Washington

James Cameron

Christopher Nolan

Omar Sy

The Hollywood Bowl

Bernardo Bertolucci

Maria Schneider

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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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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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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Francois Truffaut

Wagner Moura

Udo Kier

The Lord of the Rings franchise

Pedro Pascal

Enzo Nunes

Nicholas Roeg

Ted Kotcheff

Philip Kaufman

The Criterion Collection

TFH Guru Roger Corman

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog

Nicolas Cage

The Cologne Film Festival

The French new wave

Don Siegel

Sofia Coppola

Clint Eastwood

Geraldine Page

Paul Thomas Anderson

Robert Altman

Elliott Gould

Jack Davis

Mad Magazine

Mark Rydell

Roman Polanski

Adam Sandler

The Cannes Film Festival

Columbia Pictures

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Robert Elswitt

Emily Watson

John Carpenter

Kim Richards

Scream franchise

Eduardo Coutinho 

João Pedro Teixeira

Martin Scorsese

The Vietnam War

Bong Joon Ho

Jerry Goldsmith

Steven Spielberg

Tobe Hooper

Dick Miller

Polly Holliday

Phoebe Cates

David Cronenberg

Spike Lee
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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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