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Secret Movie Club Podcast — 107 episodes
SMC Podcast #223: Movie Structure-The 3 Act, 5 Act, Symphonic structure & beyond
SMC Pod #222: 2025 Movies Pt 2 & Disclosure Day
SMC Pod #221: Internal vs. External Horror: Monsters Without and Within
SMC Pod #220: Inverting one movie to make another (Gemini movies)
SMC Pod #219: The Music Video Movie Director Generation
SMC Pod #218: From the stage to the screen-Adapting plays into movies
SMC Pod #217: Directing the Action Film
SMC Pod #216: Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Russian Sci Fi Hard to be a God, and our family field report
SMC Pod #215: Soviet Sci‑Fi: Hidden Masterpieces from Solaris to Silver Globe
SMC Pod #214: Casablanca: A case study of how a Studio Team Built a Masterpiece
SMC Pod #213: Ken Loach & his 1969 masterpiece KES
SMC Pod #212: Luis Buñuel, L'Age d'Or
SMC Pod #211: Movies & AI
SMC Pod #210: Frederick Wiseman-Master Documentarian
SMC Pod #209: The movie repertory theater, the video store, and the streamer
SMC Pod #208: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton-the start of two cinematic traditions
SMC Pod #207: The Character Actor
SMC Pod #206: Movies that capture what it means to be Jewish-American
SMC Pod #205: The movies of 2025
SMC Pod #204: The Two Stevens-Steven Spielberg & Stephen King
SMC Pod #203: Classic Hollywood Christmas
SMC Pod #202: The Italian Stylists
SMC Pod #201: Blade Runner & dystopian sci-fi movies
SMC Podcast #200: Lightning Bottle Movie Masterpieces
SMC Pod #199: The Toronto Film Festival 2025 1st Person POV-Blake Winston Rice & his short DISC
SMC Pod #198: 10 horror movie discoveries
SMC Pod #197: Is this Cinema Part Three: A Serbian Film
SMC Pod #196: The Godfather trilogy & why it's a true trilogy
SMC Pod #195: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER & the 2025 theater experience
SMC Pod #194: Pixote, Come and See, and the real horror movies
SMC Pod #193: Star Persona vs. Great Actors and everything in between
SMC Pod #192: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, & movies that capture the real Los Angeles
SMC Pod #191: Lorne Michaels & The Movie Impressario
SMC Pod #190: The Children of Caligari-Persona, 3 Women, Mulholland Drive
SMC Pod #189: The Val Lewton RKO horror unit of the 1940's & Jacques Tourneur
SMC Pod #188: Marlon Brando's ONE EYED JACKS (1961) & the eccentric Western
SMC Pod #187: The complex American character through 100 years of American cinema
SMC Pod #186: Rossellini's 1940's War trilogy: Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero & the thematic trilogy
SMC Pod#185: Steven Spielberg's JAWS & Why it's the exception to the rule
SMC Pod #184: The Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Horror genres (and how they are reflected in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings)
SMC Pod #183: Francesco Rosi's SALVATORE GIULIANO (1962, Italy)
SMC Pod #182: The Cannes Film Festival with someone who's been there!
SMC Pod #181: Recent movies that give me hope
SMC Pod #180: Is This Cinema Part 2 Part 2! Conversation on what is cinema
SMC Pod #179: Is this Cinema Pt II: The Human Centipede
SMC Pod #178: Gene Hackman - A helluva actor
SMC Pod #177: Roger Corman's Rules 2: The Spawning!
SMC Pod #176: Adaptation Pt 2-The Haunted House movie
SMC Pod #175: Adaptation Part 1: Frankenstein (novel) to movie (1931, James Whale, Universal)
SMC Pod #174: Dialogue-less Movies (Pure Cinema)
SMC Pod #173: The state of cinema, 2025 (it's rough)
SMC Pod #172: Is this Cinema? I: Pasolini's Salo or 120 Days of Sodom
SMC Pod #171: Watershed movies
SMC Pod #170: Bill Murray, the Agony & The Ecstasy
SMC Pod #169: David Lynch, an appreciation
SMC Pod #168: The Lubitsch Touch, a prologue
SMC Pod #167: Akira Kurosawa, Master Filmmaker, 2025 Edition
SMC Pod #166: 2024, the year in movies
SMC Pod #165: Stanley Kubrick, Director of 2020
SMC Pod #164: Alfred Hitchcock, Director of 2023
SMC Pod #163: Roger Corman's Rules
SMC Pod #162: Thanksgiving special-Giving thanks for the Bravo Channel (early 1990's)
SMC Pod #161: What is a masterpiece & masterpiece inflation
SMC Pod #160: CRUMB & The dark documentary (A deeper doc dive Part II)
SMC Pod #159: Communicating cinematically or ”An idea in every shot”
SMC Pod #158: Why PSYCHO is the 2001 of Horror movies
SMC Pod #157: Filmmaker Sensibilities: Blockbuster vs Art House
SMC Pod #156: Sex in American Cinema and the X & NC-17 Rating
SMC Summer Podcast #10: Twin Peaks:The Return Parts 9-18 & SMC Pod #115: Tom Cruise
SMC Summer Pod #9: When Hitchcock experiments & SMC Pod #108 Repost The High Concept Low Budget Film
SMC Summer Pod #8: Twin Peaks The Return Parts 1-8 & SMC Pod #10000 Repost Favorite pre 23rd Century Movies
SMC Summer Pod #7: Personal Favorite movies of the 21st century & SMC Pod #96 re-post Speed Racer
SMC Summer Pod #6: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces + SMC Pod #86 repost
SMC Summer Pod #5: Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2 Deep Dive + SMC Pod #85 repost: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
SMC Summer Pod #4: David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & the nexus of TV and Cinema + Defend This Movie #1 repost
SMC Summer Pod #3: William Friedkin, the passing of the 70’s guard, and SMC Radio Hour #4 repost
SMC Summer Pod #2: Box Office, Critical Success, Longevity + SMC Pod #15: Spike Lee Repost
SMC Summer 2023 Pod #1:When you have to reshape a movie & SMC Pod #1 Repost
SMC Podcast #155: David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY & Directors’ Oddball Entries
DEFEND THIS MOVIE #11: William Friedkin’s CRUISING
SMC Pod #154: The Fourth of July and Other Summer Holiday Movies!
SMC Pod #153: SEVEN SAMURAI Special!
SMC Pod #152: Comfort Food Movies + WE BOUGHT A ZOO!
SMC Bitesize Pod 4: The Heirs of ”The Wizard of Oz”
SMC Bitesize Pod 3: The ”Perfect Movie”
SMC Bitesize Pod 2: The Life Cycle of Lord of the Rings as cinema
SMC Bitesize Pod 1: Lars Von Trier’s EUROPA/ZENTROPA (1991)
SMC Pod #151: The 2023 Palm Springs 70mm Getaway Recap!
SMC Pod #150: BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY + Sequels That Are Better Than the Original!
SMC Pod #149: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE + More Passion Projects!
SMC Pod #148: Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS + Roger Ebert!
SMC Pod #147: CLERKS + Kevin Smith!
SMC Pod #146: Spring Holiday Movies!
SMC Pod #145: PURPLE RAIN + Musicians in Film!
SMC Pod #144: Body Swap Movies!
SMC Pod #143: Our 3rd Anniversary + Movies That Our Opinions Have Changed On!
SMC Pod #142: The 3rd Annual Secret Movie Club Podcast Oscars Special!
SMC Pod #141: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY + Non-Bond Spy Films!
SMC Pod #140: Hitchcock’s Disciples
SMC Pod #139: NOTTING HILL and LOVERS ROCK + Movie Pairings!
SMC Pod #138: SPELLBOUND + Romantic Thrillers!
SMC Pod #137: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH + Spike Jonze!
SMC Pod #136: JACKASS + high art and low art!
SMC Pod #135: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES + Sight & Sound 2022!
SMC Pod #134: Winter Break ‘22/’23 Catch-Up!
DEFEND THIS MOVIE #10: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
SMC Pod #133: Celebrating John Ford, Our Director of 2022