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EPISODE · Jan 6, 2026 · 1H 4M

TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley

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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) This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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