The Movies That Made Me

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Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠ #filmmaking #film #movies #cinema #behindthescenes #interview #filmhistory #hollywood #directing #writing #screenwriting #producing #editing #sounddesign #filmscores #music #indiefilm #cultcinema #arthouse #midnightmovies #horrorfilms #genrefilm #creativity #art #artists

  1. 3d ago

    COYOTE VS. ACME director Dave Green

    Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green unpacks his favorite animated movies with a live-action sensibility and his favorite live-action movies with a cartoon sensibility with Josh Olson and (sometimes) Joe Dante! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Coyote vs. Acme (2026) Modern Times (1931) Beetlejuice (1988) Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Batman Returns (1992) Ghostbusters (1984) The Conjuring (2013) The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) Get Shorty (1995) Ratatouille (2007) The Incredibles (2004) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) The Lost Weekend  (1945) The Last Action Hero (1993) Airplane! (1980) Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) Raising Arizona (1987) Predator (1987) M (1931) M (1951) The Black Vampire (1953) Barney's Great Adventure (1998) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Samy Burch Mel Blanc Charlie Chaplin  Abbey Road Studios in London, England Tim Burton Wes Anderson Michael Keaton Batman: The Animated Series TV series (1992-95) The Real Ghostbusters TV series (1986-91) Beetlejuice TV series (1989-91) The Simpsons TV series (1989- ) The Ren & Stimpy Show TV series (1991-95) Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures TV series (1987-88) The Tick TV series (1994-96) The Maxx TV series (1995) Christopher Nolan Daniel Waters Batman TV series (1966-68) ArcLight Cinemas  Joan Cusack Barry Sonnenfeld Pixar Brad Bird Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! TV series (2007-10) Warner Bros. Peter Lorre The Animated Peter Lorre book by Matthew Hahn (2024) Arnold Schwarzenegger Mad magazine (1952- ) Sergio Aragonés Lee J. Cobb Sam Raimi Ted Raimi Joel Coen Ethan Coen Nicolas Cage Bugs Bunny Wile E. Coyote Woody Woodpecker Paul Chadwick  Mega Man TV series (1994-96) Joseph Losey  David Wayne David Wain  The State SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests, and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    COYOTE VS. ACME director Dave Green

  2. Aug 18

    BUDDY writer/director Casper Kelly

    Writer/director Casper Kelly unpacks his favorite movies about television with host Josh Olson. Casper's new movie Buddy opens August 28th! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Buddy (2026) Mandy (2018) Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983) UHF (1989) The Ring (2002) Ringu (1998) Death to Smoochy (2002) Stay Tuned (1992) Switching Channels (1988) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Network (1976) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Heaven’s Gate (1980) Room 237 (2012) Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Soylent Green (1973) Falling Down (1994) Raising Cain (1992) A Face in the Crowd (1957) On the Waterfront (1954) Good Night and Good Luck (2005) The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) The King of Comedy (1982) Nightcrawler (2014) Sound of Metal (2019) My Favorite Year (1982) Ten From Your Show of Shows (1973) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Irreversible (2002) Memento (2000) Enter the Void (2009) Drive (2011) Videodrome (1983) Poltergeist (1982) Scanners (1981) The Brood (1979) Being There (1979) Mulholland Drive (2001) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell TV series (2013-19) Too Many Cooks TV special (2014) Adult Swim Yule Log TV special (2022) Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out TV special (2024) Our first podcast episode with Casper Weird Al Yankovic Barry Levinson John Ritter Reacher TV series (2022- ) Jane Schoenbrun Justice Smith Martin Scorsese Steven Soderbergh The Airport film franchise Rodney Ascher  William Holden Paddy Chayefsky Faye Dunaway Peter Finch  GG Allin Sterling Hayden Beatrice Straight  Ned Beatty Robert Duvall Brian De Palma Arrow Video Batman TV series (1966-68) Andy Griffith Walter Matthau Elia Kazan  Jimmy Kimmel Clifford Odets Robert De Niro Shelley Hack Paul Schrader Dan Gilroy Jake Gyllenhaal Riz Ahmed The Sid Caesar Show TV show (1963-64) The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show (1961-65) Mel Brooks Errol Flynn Selma Diamond Night Court TV series (1984-92) Peter O'Toole  Mark Linn-Baker Your Show of Shows TV series (1950-54) Mr. Show with Bob and David TV series (1995-98) The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1990, 1992-95) Ellen Burstyn Gaspar Noé  Nicolas Winding Refn Grand Theft Auto video game series David Cronenberg Jack Warden Melvyn Douglas Twin Peaks: The Return TV series (2017) David Lynch SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests, and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    BUDDY writer/director Casper Kelly

  3. Aug 11

    BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL director David Kittredge

    Boorman and the Devil director David Kittredge walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies he loves that a lot of other people think are terrible! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Boorman and the Devil (2026) The Exorcist (1973) Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) The Exorcist III (1990) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) Blow-Up (1966) Rocky (1976) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) Excalibur (1981) Grease (1978) Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990) The Apple (1980) Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) The Odyssey (2026) Barbie (2023) Oppenheimer (2023) The Thing (1982) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Sorcerer (1977) The Wages of Fear (1964) Cruising (1980) Bad Boy Bubby (1993) Taxi Driver (1976) Dangerous Men (2005) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) The Black Hole (1979) Star Wars (1977) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Condorman (1981) The Watcher in the Woods (1980) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Can’t Stop the Music (1980) The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017) Xanadu (1980) Hudson Hawk (1991) A History of Violence (2005) The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Batman Returns (1992) Batman Forever (1995) Looker (1981) The Stepford Wives (1976) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Animal House (1978) Midnight Madness (1980) Meatballs (1979) 1941 (1979) Jaws (1975) It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Dumbo (1941) Scavenger Hunt (1979) The Love Guru (2008) Southland Tales (2007) Room 237 (2012) Ghost Boy (TBD) Spice World (1998) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Black Narcissus (1947) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition The Aero Theatre in Hollywood Mark Kermode John Boorman Martin Scorsese Michael Schultz The A-Team TV series (1983-87) Victor Hsu Aerosmith Earth Wind and Fire Steve Martin Carol Channing The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles Richard Kelly Robert Evans IMAX TCL Chinese Theatre Christopher Nolan John Carpenter William Friedkin Menahem Golan Rolf de Heer  Nicholas Hope Cinefile Video The Cannon Group Joss Ackland Walt Disney Pictures Roddy Macdowall Slim Pickens Anthony Perkins Michael Eisner Jeffrey Katzenberg ILM TFH Guru Edgar Wright The Venice Film Festival Caitlyn Jenner Allan Carr Valerie Perinne Steve Guttenberg The Village People Tammy Grimes Paul Sand Bill Butler Nancy Walker Disco Jeffrey Schwartz The cursed 1989 Rob Lowe Oscars Michael Beck Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles Bruce Willis  Danny Aiello Andie MacDowell  James Coburn David Caruso Sandra Bernhard  Richard E. Grant Steven de Souza Daniel Waters TFH Guru Michael Lehmann The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes (2026) David Hughes’ Rogue Commentary podcast Tim Burton Batman Val Kilmer  Nicole Kidman Michael Crichton Albert Finney Susan Dey Leigh Taylor-Young  HBO Rick Rossovich  Tim Rossovich CinemaScope Barry De Vorzon Michael J. Fox David Naughton Stephen Furst Andy Tennant CalTech Eddie Deezen  The Exorcist TV series (2016-17) Steven Spielberg The Zoot Suit Riots William Fraker Treat Williams Ned Beatty Dan Aykroyd John Belushi Joe Flaherty Christopher Lee Toshiro Mifune Warren OatesRobert Stack Mickey Rourke Wendie Jo Sperber Nancy Allen Murray Hamilton Lorraine Gary Tim Matheson  Columbia Pictures Universal Pictures Samuel Fuller John Williams The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles Dick Miller Vincent Price Richard Benjamin James Coco Scatman Crothers Ruth Gordon Cloris Leachman Cleavon Little Roddy McDowall Robert Morley Richard Mulligan Tony Randall Dirk Benedict Willie Aames Stephanie Faracy Richard Masur Meat Loaf Avery Schreiber Arnold Schwarzenegger Mike Meyers Cannes Film Festival Rodney Ascher  Steven Poster  Moby Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Sean William Scott Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- ) Cheri Oteri John Lovitz Nora Dunn John Larroquette Miranda Richardson Justin Timberlake Kevin Smith Janeane Garofalo Wallace Shawn Zelda Rubinstein The Spice Girls Richard O’Brien Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL director David Kittredge

  4. Aug 5

    GIVE IT UP writer/star Gareth Reynolds

    Give It Up writer/star Gareth Reynolds breaks down some of the movies about comedians that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Give it Up (2026) The Aristocats (1970) The Aristocrats (2005) Funny People (2009) This is 40 (2012) Man on the Moon (1999) Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) I’m From Hollywood (1989) Comedian (2002) American Movie (1999) Joan Rivers: Piece of Work (2010) A History of Violence (2005) Rabbit Test (1978) George Carlin: Jammin’ in New York (1990) George Carlin’s American Dream (2022) George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya (2008) Punchline (1988) The Omen (1976) Bill Hicks: Relentless (1992) American Splendor (2003) American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009) Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979) Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) Blue Collar (1978) The King of Comedy (1982) Meet the Parents (2000) Taxi Driver (1976) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Pee-wee as Himself (2025) Innerspace (1987) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Air New Zealand The Dollop Podcast Peter Jackson Weta Workshop The Lord of the Rings film franchise Dave Anthony Our first podcast with The Dollop John Lennon Paul McCartney Our Glenn Howerton podcast episode Harlan Ellison New York Friars Club in New York The Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles Judd Apatow Adam Sandler Scott Alexander TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski Andy Kaufman Jim Carrey Comedy Central ABC’s Wide World of Comedy TV series (1973-76) Elvis Presley Bob Zmuda  Fridays TV series (1980-82) Mark Blankfield  Lawrence Welk The Pretenders Late Night with David Letterman TV series (1982-93) Kyle Anderson Jerry Seinfeld Gary Shandling Orny Adams Dane Cook Joan Rivers Don Rickles The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92) The Dewey Decimal System Dick Clark Russell Crowe Edgar Allan Poe Billy Crystal Gareth and Dave’s Past Times Podcast George Carlin Johnny Carson Tom Hanks Sally Field John Goodman David Seltzer Bill Hicks Paul Giamatti HBO MC Hammer Vanilla Ice Rush Limbaugh The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV series (1992-2014) David Letterman David Cronenberg Denis Leary Richard Pryor Paul Schrader Yaphet Kotto Harvey Keitel Robert De Niro Jerry Lewis Sandra Bernhardt Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film book by Mark Binelli (2026)  Paul Reubens Thomas Jane Our Martin Short podcast episode Gareth and Jake Johnson’s podcast We’re Here To Help SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    GIVE IT UP writer/star Gareth Reynolds

  5. Jul 28

    AMERICAN PSYCHO co-writer/director Mary Harron

    Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante chop it up with writer/director Mary Harron, the maestro behind the immortal American Psycho, about the movies that made her as a kid! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Avengers: Doomsday (2026) American Psycho (2000) I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) The Anna Nicole Story (2013) The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) Fear and Desire (1952) 8 ½ (1963) The Magician a.k.a. The Face (1958) Oliver! (1968) Doctor Dolittle (1967) Them! (1954) Dead of Night (1945) M (1931) M (1951) The Black Vampire (1953) Strangers on a Train (1951) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Repulsion (1965) Knife in the Water (1962) The Seventh Seal (1957) The Virgin Spring (1960) The Last House on the Left (1973) Ms. 45 (1981) My Man Godfrey (1936) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) The World of Apu (1959) Red River (1948) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1944) His Girl Friday (1940) All About Eve (1950) Switching Channels (1988) Deliverance (1972) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Naked and the Dead (1958) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) The Navy vs. The Night Monsters (1966) Wake in Fright (1971) First Blood (1982) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) The Young and the Damned (1950) Double Indemnity (1944) Tristana (1970) Belle de Jour (1967) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Exterminating Angel (1962) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition The MCU The Late Show TV series (1989-95) BBC Homicide: Life on the Street TV series (1993-99) Oz TV series (1997-2003) Six Feet Under TV series (2001-05) The L Word TV series (2004-09) Big Love TV series (2006-13) Alias Grace miniseries (2017) Netflix Alias Grace novel by Margaret Atwood (1996) Sarah Polley Arrested Development TV series (2003-06, 2013-19) Missing Movies Final Draft The Rising album by Bruce Springsteen (2002) David Lynch David Cronenberg Hee-Haw TV series (1969-92) Don Harron  Virginia Leith  Stanley Kubrick Mark Lester  Ingmar Bergman Michael Redgrave  The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64) Kris Millsap Buck Owens Roy Clark  Tammy Wynette Johnny Cash Fritz Lang Peter Lorre Joseph Losey David Wayne The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950) Robert Walker Roman Polanski Mia Farrow Charles Grodin John Cassavettes Ruth Gordon Hermione Gingold Sidney Blackmer Carole Lombard William Powell Gregory La Cava  Walter Houston George C. Scott Sterling Hayden The Cuban Missile Crisis Peter Sellers Slim Pickens Alec Guinness Satyajit Ray Howard Hawks Montgomery Clift John Wayne Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall The Big Sleep novel by Raymond Chandler (1939) Rosalind Russell Cary Grant Bette Davis Robert Altman Burt Reynolds Kathleen Turner Christopher Reeve Ted Kotcheff Charles Laughton Stanley Cortez German expressionist cinema Lillian Gish Robert Mitchum Shelley Long The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn novel by Mark Twain (1885) The Night of the Hunter novel by Davis Grubb (1953) Luis Bunuel Salvador Dali SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    AMERICAN PSYCHO co-writer/director Mary Harron

  6. Jun 30

    Will Tracy Returns!

    Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Menu (2022) Bugonia (2025) Heathers (1988) Song of the South (1946) Jezebel (1938) The Little Foxes (1941) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Treasure Island (1950) The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) The Usual Suspects (1995) Get Him to the Greek (2010) Casablanca (1942) Clownhouse (1989) Powder (1995) Jeepers Creepers (2001) Boys Town (1938) Stand by Me (1985) Lord of the Flies (1960) Bound (1996) An Officer and a Spy (2019) Crimes and Misdemeanors  (1989) Match Point (2005) Manhattan (1979) The Two Jakes (1990) Chinatown (1974) The Godfather Part III (1990) Knife in the Water (1962) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Repulsion (1965) Predator (1987) Die Hard (1988) The Hunt for Red October (1990) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Rollerball (1975) Rollerball (2002) The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) The 13th Warrior (1999) I Love You, Daddy (2017) Blue Jasmine (2013) One Battle After Another (2025) Life is Beautiful (1997) Crash (2005) Green Book (2018) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Succession TV series (2018-23) The Onion The Academy Awards Stavros Halkias Wikipedia Daniel Waters William Hurt Our Thomas Jane podcast episode Disney Dalton S. Reymond Maurice Rapf Morton Grant The Hays Code Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA James Baskett  M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83) Br'er Rabbit  Elliott Gould Bill Cosby “The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936) Kevin Spacey Bryan Singer Russell Brand Diddy Jonah Hill Christopher McQuarrie Humphrey Bogart Richard Wagner  Woody Allen Roman Polanski Victor Salva  Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope The Wachowski sisters Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003) Johnny Cash Donald Pleasence Ruth Gordon The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13) Robert Towne Jack Nicholson The Dreyfus affair  Sofia Coppola Winona Ryder The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020) Peter Bogdanovich Polly Platt Andrew Hickey’s The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast “Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967) Ray Davies The Beatles John Lennon Yoko Ono “I’m Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977) John McTiernan Anthony Pellicano Chris Klein LL Cool J Sean Connery Sam Neill Stellan Skarsgard Alec Baldwin Antonio Banderas Louis C.K. Louie TV series (2010-15) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV series (2014-26) John Malkovich Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020) Dane Cook Roberto Benigni Steven Spielberg Jerry Lewis Nick Vallelonga Al FrankenSpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Will Tracy Returns!

  7. Jun 23

    Ron Howard

    Oscar-winning superstar director Ron Howard talks to his former New World Pictures colleague Joe Dante and co-host Josh Olson about the movies that made him and continue to impress him! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Limit Up (1989) Grand Theft Auto (1977) Infested (2002) The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) Hollywood Blvd. (1976) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Citizen Kane (1941) Rush (2013) Curious George (2006) *One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - 24:00 Amadeus (1984) American Graffiti (1974) 12 Angry Men (1957) The Howling (1981) The ’Burbs (1989) *The Graduate (1967) - 31:49 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Romeo and Juliet (1968) White Heat (1949) The Searchers (1956) *The Apartment (1960) - 39:26 Some Like It Hot (1959) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Night Shift (1982) Splash (1984) Parenthood (1989) Silver Streak (1976) Foul Play (1978) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) *As Good As It Gets (1997) - 44: 37 All The President’s Men (1976) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Network (1976) *Schindler’s List (1993) - 49:00 Amistad (1997) The Color Purple (1985) Jurassic Park (1993) Cape Fear (1991) Apollo 13 (1995) Frost/Nixon (2008) *Dog Day Afternoon (1976) - 53:41 *Das Boot (1981) - 56:43 Eight Days A Week (2016) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Unforgiven (1992) *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 63:05 It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) It Happened One Night (1934) *A Boy And His Dog (1975) - 70:22 David and Lisa (1962) Mad Max (1979) The Road Warrior (1981) Backrooms (2026) Obsession (2026) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Michael Curtiz Ron and Clint Howard’s memoir The Boys (2021) Rance Howard Jean Speegle Howard  The University of Oklahoma Dennis Weaver Gary Cooper Bruce Dern Harry Dean Stanton Vincente Minnelli The Andy Griffith Show TV series (1960-67) Samuel Fuller TFH Guru Allan Arkush TFH Guru Roger Corman New World Pictures Our latest RZA podcast Imagine Entertainment Brian Grazer Curious George TV series (2006-22) Milos Forman Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd Kirk Douglas Michael Douglas Haskell Wexler Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey (1962) Gary Sinise Death of a Salesman play by Arthur Miller (1949) Nathan Lane Lee J. Cobb Henry Fonda Mister Roberts play by Joshua Logan (1948) John Ford The ’Burbs TV series (2026- ) Mike Nichols Robert Surtees Franco Zeffirelli  The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Sidney Hickox  Warner Bros. Pictures French New Wave Andy Griffith The Cornell Theatre in Burbank, CA Charles Martin Smith Happy Days TV series (1974-84) Penny Marshall Billy Crystal Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel Thomas L. Miller Glenn Close James L. Brooks Cliff Robertson Ned Beatty Steven Spielberg Michael Jordan Peter Morgan The Crown TV series (2016-23) Tom Hanks Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet (1995) On Directing Film book by David Mamet (1991) Bill Connor Dog Day Afternoon play by Stephen Adly Guirgis (2026) Wolfgang Peterson Ringo Starr Paul McCartney Meryl Streep Gene Hackman Clint Eastwood James Stewart Frank Capra Sam Rosen John Carradine D.W. Griffith Don Knotts Sheldon Leonard The Beverly Hillbillies TV series (1962-71) Petticoat Junction TV series (1963-70) Anson Williams Bobby Sherman Linda Purl L.Q. Jones  John Cassavetes Alvy Moore George Miller Harlan Ellison Jason Robards Robby the Robot Don Johnson Techniscope SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jun 16

    TASK creator Brad Ingelsby

    TASK creator Brad Ingelsby walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies that have had the most sustained impact on him. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode 52 Pickup (1986) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) A History of Violence (2005) Boogie Nights (1997) Hard Eight (1996) One Battle After Another (2025) Phantom Thread (2017) There Will Be Blood (2007) Breaking Away (1979) Stand By Me (1986)  Freaky Tales (2025) Wild Tales (2014) Half Nelson (2006) Captain Marvel (2019) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Mean Streets (1973) Straight Time (1978) The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Goodfellas (1990) Deliverance (1973) The 400 Blows (1959) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Mare of Easttown miniseries (2021) Task TV series (2025- ) Mark Ruffalo Fabien Frankel  Emilia Jones Alison Oliver Kate Winslet The Cannon Group, Inc. Elmore Leonard Roy Scheider Ann-Margret John Frankenheimer John Glover Viggo Mortensen Maria Bello Beef TV series (2023- ) Frank Rizzo Attila the Hun Paul Thomas Anderson The Toronto International Film Festival Alfred Molina John C. Reilly Phillip Seymour Hoffman William H. Macy Don Cheadle Heather Graham The San Fernando Valley in Southern California Pedro Pascal Tom Hanks Ryan Gosling Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Ang Lee “Brokeback Mountain” short story by Annie Proulx (1997) Heath Ledger Michelle Williams Anne Hathaway Ernest Borgnine Larry McMurtry  Diana Ossana  The Academy Awards The BAFTAs The WGA Awards Quentin Tarantino Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia “Backstreets” song by Bruce Springsteen (1975) Mahershala Ali SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    TASK creator Brad Ingelsby
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Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠ #filmmaking #film #movies #cinema #behindthescenes #interview #filmhistory #hollywood #directing #writing #screenwriting #producing #editing #sounddesign #filmscores #music #indiefilm #cultcinema #arthouse #midnightmovies #horrorfilms #genrefilm #creativity #art #artists

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