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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Our Patreon! 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley on this week’s episode of the pod. Check out Clint’s full conversation with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante ⁠here⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Movie star Kristen Stewart, who's making her directorial debut with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, unpacks the movies that made her with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Punch Drunk Love (2002) Uncut Gems (2019) The Chronology of Water (2025) Infested (2002) Love Lies Bleeding (2024) St. Maud (2019) River of Grass (1994) First Cow (2019) Meeks Cutoff (2010) Badlands (1973) The Mastermind (2025) Panic Room (2002) Female Perversions (1996) Working Girl (1988) Working Girls (2025) 9 to 5 (1980) Angela (1995) Angela’s Ashes (1999) The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) Citizen Kane (1941) Burden of Dreams (1982) Hearts of Darkness (1991) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Jingle All The Way (1996) Waterworld (1995) Solaris (1972) The Greatest Night in Pop (2025) The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) The Brutalist (2024) Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Rachel, Rachel (1968) Wanda (1971) Targets (1968) The Last Picture Show (1971) Shadows (1959) Faces (1968) A Woman Under The Influence (1974) Husbands (1979) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) Opening Night (1977) Gloria (1980) Sometimes A Great Notion (1971) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Jeopardy! TV series (1964- ) Adam Sandler Ken Kesey  Our Rose Glass podcast episode The Sundance Film Festival Kelly Reichardt  Sissy Spacek Larry Fessenden David Fincher Tony Plana The Criterion Channel Jesse Eisenberg The New Yorker Melanie Griffith The Laemmle Theatres AMC Theatres Our Rebecca Miller podcast episode Girls TV series (2012-17) Marlon Brando Imogen Poots Klaus Kinski Jim Belushi Brian Levant Arnold Schwarzenegger Kevin Costner Thora Birch Andrei Tarkovsky  Bob Dylan “All Along The Watchtower” cover by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968) Frank Sinatra “We Are The World” song by USA For Africa (1985) Mona Fastvold Amanda Seyfried Christopher Abbott Paul Newman Ethan Hawke Joanne Woodward The Last Movie Stars documentary miniseries (2022) Barbara Loden Elia Kazan  Peter Bogdanovich Polly Platt A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast The Kinks Ray Davies  Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation Against Themselves book by Sophie Gilbert (2025) Francis Ford Coppola The Palme d’Or The Academy Awards American Zoetrope John Cassavetes Gena Rowlands Paul NewmanThis list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices