The Movies That Made Me

TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley

The Movies That Made Me

Show Notes

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

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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)

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