Bonus Episode: Eli Roth

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this bonus episode of Talking Pictures recorded live at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, host Ben Mankiewicz chats with director and actor Eli Roth. They discuss Roth’s close relationship with David Lynch and his role as The Bear Jew in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.” Known for his horror films, we discover that scary movies made a young Eli Roth projectile vomit! The Super 8 reveals Roth’s broad film knowledge and his family admiration for Mel Brooks movies. Films Mentioned: Cabin Fever Hostel Hostel 2 The Green Inferno Thanksgiving Inglourious Basterds Death Proof Pulp Fiction True Romance The Idol* Ben-Hur Eraserhead* Superman: The Movie (1978)* The French Connection The Royal Tenenbaums The Conversation Knock Knock The Godfather The Godfather Part II Night Moves Scarecrow Quiz Show The Paper The Music of Chance Dr. Strangelove Rabbits The Scary of Sixty-First Jimmy and Stiggs It Follows* The Ring Clown E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Alien Private Parts House of 1000 Corpses Saw Nosferatu (2024) All Hallows' Eve Terrifier The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Scream VI Sleepaway Camp Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope Outland Dracula (1979) Kingdom of the Spiders Raiders of the Lost Ark Evil Dead A Nightmare on Elm Street The Devil's Rejects American Werewolf in London Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom The Wizard of Oz* Wild at Heart Joe (1070) The Breakfast Club Re-Animator Porky's Zapped Fast Times at Ridgemont High My Chauffeur 2001: A Space Odyssey* Blue Velvet* Pink Flamingos Hamburger: The Motion Picture One-Eyed Jacks House of Wax (1953) A Night at the Opera A Day at the Races Young Frankenstein The Producers (1967) Blazing Saddles High Anxiety American Psycho The Sixth Sense Friends with Benefits One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest America's Sweethearts The Exorcist The Shining Suspiria (1977) *Available on Max as of 5/7 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How we doing tonight, everybody?
0:13.0	What a great room.
0:16.0	I love a packed house.
0:17.0	Amazing.
0:18.0	We're here at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
0:24.6	Home base, the TCM Classic Film Festival, officially starts tomorrow.
0:28.7	Like many of you who love TCM, the guest you're already aware of.
0:30.2	Huge fan of the movies.
0:37.7	He's the filmmaker behind Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel 2, the Green Inferno, Thanksgiving, much more.
0:39.7	He is also, and we're going to talk about this tonight,
0:42.7	a pioneer in the business of making movies.
0:45.9	What he puts on the screen is what has made him one of the defining filmmakers of his time.
0:48.2	Often shocking, horrifying, and gruesome,
0:50.9	but he does it without sacrificing story,
0:53.8	character, humor, or intent.
0:56.7	Some of you also know him as the Bear Jew from Inglorious Bastards.
1:01.5	Bairjee.
1:03.4	Writer, director, producer, actor, and now studio head, Eli Roth.
1:09.2	Thank you, Ben.
1:10.8	Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Thank you.
1:16.1	So I want to tell a story that manages to compliment both of us at the same time.
1:24.3	So we had this scheduled for stuff falls apart all the time. We were going to talk to Eli six
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