The Movies That Made Me

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

Filmmaker Clint Bentley discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite formative films with Josh Olson. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode If You Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025) Repulsion (1965) Antichrist (2009) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Taxi Driver (1976) Marty Supreme (2025) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Shampoo (1975) The Matrix (1999) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Splendor in the Grass (1961) Wanda (1971) Rules Don’t Apply (2016) Gypsy (1962) West Side Story (1961) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) The Hot Rock (1972) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) East of Eden (1955) Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Bus Stop (1956) Thelma and Louise (1991) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Conan O’Brien A$AP Rocky TFH Guru Illeana Douglas’ Connecticut in the Movies book (2023) NYU Blockbuster Video PBS Turner Classic Movies The Video Archives rental shop in Manhattan Beach, CA and later Hermosa Beach, CA Quentin Tarantino Kim’s Video shop in NYC Warren Beatty Faye Dunaway Arthur Penn French New Wave Jean Luc Godard Natalie Wood Barbara Loden  Eliah Kazan Ella Beatty Howard Hughes Ethel Merman Rosalind Russell Steve McQueen Robert Redford Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Betty Davis Joan Crawford The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92) The Academy Awards James Dean Raymond Massey East of Eden novel by John Steinbeck (1952) Nicholas Ray Rose Byrne Marilyn Monroe Lee Strasberg The Actor’s Studio Ridley Scott Callie Khouri Brad Pitt This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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