Criterion Collection producer Karen Stetler

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Karen Stetler shares some of her best experiences producing discs for The Criterion Collection with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Black Narcissus (1947) The Apple (1980) A History of Violence (2005) Raging Bull (1980) Dead Ringers (1988) Naked Lunch (1991) Scanners (1981) Crash (1996) The Brood (1979) Videodrome (1983) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Taxi Driver (1976) Citizen Kane (1941) King Kong (1933) The Red Shoes (1948) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979) Time Bandits (1981) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) The Fisher King (1991) The African Queen (1951) Dark of the Sun (1968) Sons and Lovers (1960) I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Oliver Twist (1948) Major Barbara (1941) Brief Encounter (1945) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Tunes of Glory (1960) The Horse’s Mouth (1958) *The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) *Cairo Station (1958) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Nashville (1975) *3 Women (1977) *McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) Don’t Look Now (1973) The Player (1992) Short Cuts (1993) *Matewan (1987) *Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) One False Move (1992) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Shaft (1971) Shaft (2000) The Terminator (1984) *Withnail & I (1987) How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) *The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965) *Downhill Racer (1968) The French Connection (1972) War of the Worlds (1953) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1959) Avatar (2009) *The Prince of Tides (1991) *Funny Girl (1968) Yentil (1983) The Tales of Hoffman (1951) Birth of a Nation (1915) A Matter of Life and Death (1956) Mother (1996) *The Dead (1987) The Howling (1981) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Michael Powell Pia Zadora The Criterion Collection Menachem Golan Severin Films The Chicago International Film Festival Bosch TV series (2014-21) Tom Bernardo David Cronenberg A History of Violence graphic novel by John Wagner (1997) Janus Films Martin Scorsese Thelma Schoonmaker Sugar Ray Leonard Frank Warner Terry Gilliam Sid Sheinberg The Battle of Brazil book by Jack Mathews (1987) Kim Greist Hunter S. Thompson Ralph Steadman Johnny Depp Benicio del Toro Lynda Obst Richard LaGravense Robin Williams Our 2025 Halloween Jam episode Emeric Pressburger Marius Goring Moira Shearer Jack Cardiff Ian Christie The Cannes Film Festival ITV The Film Foundation Lauren Bacall TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski DH Lawrence Erwin Hillier Wendy Hiller Ronald Neame David Lean Alex Corda BAFTAAlec Guinness Video Archives Quentin TarantinoRitwik Ghatak Satyajit Ray Saeed Akhtar Mirza Kumar Shahani The Indiana National Film Archive Film and Television Institute of India Professor Joseph Fahmy Farid Shawqi Hind Rostom The Criterion Channel Playboy Magazine Alexander Payne Robert Altman Sissy Spacek Shelley Duvall Vilmos Zsigmond Keith Carradine Michael Murphy Rene Auberjonois Joan Tewkesbury Graham Clifford Ingmar Bergman TFH Guru John Sayles Chris Cooper Mary McDonnell David Strathairn Maggie Renzi Walter Mosley’s Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins novel series Attica Locke Carl Franklin Don Cheadle Billy Bob Thornton Denzel Washington Picket Fences TV series Woody Allen Bruce Robinson Peter Hannan Richard E. Grant Margaret Thatcher The Spy Who Came In From The Cold novel by John Le Carre Martin Ritt director Richard Burton Mikhail Gorbachev Robert Redford The Sundance Film Festival Joe Jay Jalbert Michael Ritchie Gene Hackman The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting by Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz (2004) Ben Bird The Star Wars film franchise Ray Harryhausen Barbra Streisand Elliott Gould Our RZA podcast episode The Wu-Tang Clan Wayne Wang Ang Lee TFH Guru Guillermo del Toro Albert Brooks John HustonThis list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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