Show Notes
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
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