Paris, Texas, Freaks and human sympathy

Writer/director Óliver Laxe (SIRAT) chops it up with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss the movies that made him!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sirat (2026)

Wages of Fear (1953)

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Nostalghia (1983)

The Mirror (1975)

Ordet (1955)

Au Hazard Balthazar (1966)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Sorcerer (1977)

Mad Max (1979)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Easy Rider (1969)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Vanishing Point (1971)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Freaks (1931)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Dirty Pretty Things (2001)

The Naked Island (1960)

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

Late Spring (1949)

The Card Counter (2021)

The Four Seasons (1975)

Close-Up (1990)

Where is the Friend’s House? (1987)

Ten (2002)

Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)

Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Other Notable Items

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Chuck Berry

The Beatles

Carl Theodor Dreyer 

Notes on the Cinematographer book by Robert Bresson (1975)

Sculpting in Time book by Andrei Tarkovsky (1985)

John Cassavettes

Béla Tar

David Lynch

The Criterion Collection

Dennis Hopper

Monte Hellman

Ry Cooder

Akira Kurosawa

Sergi López 

Kaneto Shindo 

Yasujirō Ozu

Paul Schrader

Oscar Isaac

Transcendental Style in Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Dryer book by Paul Schrader (2018)

Artavazd Peleshyan 

Abbas Kiarostami

Zohran Mamdani

Mira Nair

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