Mikayla Nicholson makes her grand return to Roger's List this week to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's ambitious 1999 opus MAGNOLIA, featuring an all-star cast in a mind-bending intergenerational drama! Hosted by Steve Guntli Logo by Corinne Ke

Nashville (with Minimus Maximus)

Feb 9th, 2021 53m 33s

Minimus Maximus from the Off the Cuffs podcast joins me for another epic tour of the American South with NASHVILLE, Robert Altman's 1975 masterpiece featuring a cast of dozens! It's a movie that defies easy categorization but rewards viewers ea

Paris, Texas (with Doug McCambridge)

Feb 2nd, 2021 48m 35s

This week, Doug McCambridge, host of the amazing Good Times, Great Movies podcast, stops by to discuss Wim Wenders' lyrical, fascinating road movie PARIS, TEXAS (1984). We dissect the movie's themes and look at the amazing career of veteran cha

Day For Night (with Jordan Courtney and Nicholas Loup)

Jan 26th, 2021 1h 1m

Nicholas Loup and Jordan Courtney, hosts of the Filmshake podcast, join me this week to talk about Francois Truffaut's brilliant comedy DAY FOR NIGHT (LA NUIT AMERICAINE) from 1973, one of the greatest movies about making movies! Hosted by Ste

Stagecoach (with Luke Rahmsdorff-Terry)

Jan 19th, 2021 50m 46s

My dear friend Luke Rahmsdorff-Terry joins me this week to discuss John Ford's STAGECOACH (1939), the film that shaped cinema's most popular genre for decades to come and produced one of Hollywood's biggest-ever movie stars with John Wayne! Doe

El Topo (with Woody Ciskowski)

Jan 12th, 2021 1h

This week we're diving in to one of the weirdest movies on the list, Alejandro Jodorowski's surrealistic cult classic EL TOPO. Woody Ciskowski joins me to look at Jodorowski's incredibly long, strange career and analyze the bizzare confluence o

The Producers (with Diana Goodman)

Jan 5th, 2021 1h 2m

This episode is anything but a surefire flop, because we've got the amazing Diana Goodman (@lecinenerd) from the Thirty, Twenty, Ten podcast to talk about Mel Brooks' THE PRODUCERS! Often considered one of the funniest films of all time, this r

Easy Rider (with Emma Delaney and Nicole Vettese)

Dec 29th, 2020 1h 4m

Get your motor running, because we're taking on the countercultural classic EASY RIDER! Emma Delaney and Nicole Vettese are riding sidecar on Dennis Hopper's motorcycle odyssey across America, one of the most influential American movies of all

Adaptation (with Jesse Whitehead)

Dec 22nd, 2020 59m 34s

We're getting meta this week with the mind-bending 2002 comedy ADAPTATION! Comedian and podcaster Jesse Whitehead joins me to dig in to Charlie Kaufman's writer's block opus, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and

The Grey Zone (with Joseph Finn)

Dec 15th, 2020 50m 14s

Joseph Finn joins me to tackle one of the most challenging films we've encountered so far! We watched THE GREY ZONE, a harrowing Holocaust drama directed by beloved character actor Tim Blake Nelson! Hosted by Steve Guntli Logo by Corinne Kemp

Raging Bull (with Mike Lydon and Nicole Vettese)

Dec 8th, 2020 1h 12m

It's the first of our many encounters with Martin Scorsese on this show, and we're opening it up with a real heavyweight. We're talking about RAGING BULL, Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece featuring a performance by Robert DeNiro that redefined actin

The Band Wagon (with Molly Grattan)

Dec 1st, 2020 53m 35s

Author Molly Grattan joins me this week to chat about THE BAND WAGON, an exuberant Technicolor musical starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse! We discuss the history of MGM musicals, the parallels with SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and celebrate a much-

In A Lonely Place (with Karl Horberg)

Nov 24th, 2020 50m 12s

Humphrey Bogart gives one of his best performances as the improbably named Dix Steele in this moody, brilliant film noir from director Nicolas Ray! Karl Horberg is on hand to discuss this Hollywood-set potboiler, featuring an amazing turn by Gl

Dark City (with Dan Reese)

Nov 17th, 2020 46m 21s

This week, we're heading to Alex Proyas' gothic, brilliant DARK CITY! Dan Reese joins me to talk about this modern sci-fi masterpiece starring Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connolly, Kiefer Sutherland, and William Hurt. Blending film noir, horror, and

Richard III (with Andy Bowman)

Nov 10th, 2020 58m 47s

Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by the release of this week's episode! Andy Bowman from the Geek 101 and Monkey Off My Backlog podcasts joins me to discuss Richard Loncraine's explosive 1995 adaptation of Shakespeare's

Great Expectations (with Tessa Swehla)

Nov 3rd, 2020 1h 16m

David Lean's 1946 take on Charles Dickens' immortal classic is considered by most to be the definitive adaptation; how does it hold up today? Tessa Swehla from the Monkey Off My Backlog podcast joins me to dig in to this sumptuous, witty, gothi

Dracula (with Gena Radcliffe)

Oct 27th, 2020 55m 56s

Pour a nice glass of "wine" and kick back for this special Halloween treat! We're delighted this week to be joined by Gena Radcliffe, film critic for The Spool and host of the wonderful Kill by Kill Podcast, to discuss Tod Browning's 1931 class

Some Like It Hot (with Lynsey Pennington)

Oct 20th, 2020 51m 17s

Nobody's perfect, but this sparkling Billy Wilder comedy comes pretty close. This week, Lynsey Pennington returns to discuss SOME LIKE IT HOT, one of the all-time great American comedies with an iconic performance from Marilyn Monroe! Hosted b

Faust (with Tim Stevens)

Oct 13th, 2020 54m 59s

We're back in the realm of German Expressionism this week with another ahead of it's time, larger than life production: FW Murnau's FAUST. This week, Tim Stevens from Marvel.com and The Spool is on hand to discuss this most metal of silent film

Chimes at Midnight (with Mike Lydon)

Oct 6th, 2020 1h

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, as Orson Welles can attest with CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, his bold remixing of Shakespeare's HENRY IV and HENRY V. Mike Lydon, host of the Cult Standard and Courage the Cowardly Podcast, joins me to discuss We

Moolaade (with Nicole Vettese)

Sep 29th, 2020 45m 46s

This week, the lovely and talented Nicole Vettese is on hand to discuss MOOLAADE (2004), from Senegalese legend Ousmane Sembene. This vibrant, beautiful film is one of the most obscure titles on the list; see why Roger Ebert advocated for it so

Ace In The Hole (with Woody Ciskowski)

Sep 22nd, 2020 55m 55s

It's the first of many times we're going to be talking about Billy Wilder on this show, and we're starting with a nasty one: ACE IN THE HOLE, a scathing satire and sunlit desert noir featuring Kirk Douglas as a heedlessly ambitious newspaper ma

A Woman Under the Influence

Sep 15th, 2020 1h 5m

This week we're looking at John Cassavetes' intense family drama A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, starring Gena Rowlands as a woman in the midst of a severe and disturbing mental breakdown, and Peter Falk as her blue-collar husband desperately tryi

Cleo From 5 to 7

Sep 8th, 2020 58m 58s

Sadly, there are only four films directed by female directors on the Great Movies list, but luckily, Agnes Varda's CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 made the cut. This concise, inventive, beautiful story of a gorgeous pop star waiting on some bad medical news s

Metropolis

Sep 1st, 2020 52m

This week, we're looking at the ur text for modern science fiction filmmaking, Fritz Lang's 1927 opus METROPOLIS. Despite how influential the film has proven to be, it took nearly 80 years for the film to be released as the director intended it