DEAD MAN'S WIRE director Gus Van Sant

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We've got auteur royalty on The Movies That Made Me today! The one and only GUS VAN SANT joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to talk about, yes, the movies that made him! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Dead Man’s Wire (2026) Song Sung Blue (2025) The Princess Bride (1987) Burying The Ex (2014) Citizen Kane (1941) Sátántangó (1994) The Turin Horse (2011) Elephant (2004) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Gerry (2002) Last Days (2005) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Third Man (1949) The Celebration (1998) 8 ½ (1963) The Last of England (1987) Jubilee (1978) Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Mala Noche (1985) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) House of Dynamite (2025) Lord of the Flies (1963) The Plague (2025) Whistle (2026) The Nun (2018) The Groove Tube (1974) Modern Problems (1981) Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) To Die For (1995) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Boys in the Band (1970) Staircase (1969) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Cassian Elwes Veronica Raedelli Sam Pressman Luigi Mangione Austin Kolodney Cary Elwes Stan Brakhage Béla Tarr Chantal Akerman Sight and Sound The Criterion Collection Matt Damon Casey Affleck John Cassavettes HBO Diane Keaton Woody Allen Colin Callender David Lean Carol Reed The Screen Actors Guild Sergio Leone Thomas Vinterberg Lars von Trier Dogme 95 Focus Features Barry Diller Harris Savides Our Paprika Steen podcast episode Federico Fellini Anthony Quinn Richard Basehart Robert Altman Derek Jarman Stanley Kubrick John F. Kennedy Netflix Peter Brook The Tower East Theatre in New York Lord of the Flies novel Adam Sandler Ken Shapiro Chevy Chase Lane Sarasohn Tom Schiller The Smothers Brothers TFH Guru John Landis Al Pacino William Friedkin Bill Skarsgaard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.8	This is The Movies That Made Me with your hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante. I have to ask you on behalf of all directors, how you managed to navigate a movie with more producers than any movie it recorded history apparently.
1:44.9	Well, they weren't like regular producers that were all on the set.
1:49.1	That would have been maybe strange, like,
1:52.1	because I think there were 70 or 60 or something.
1:55.6	But there were maybe, there were Cassian, Elways.
1:59.6	I know Cassie.
2:00.6	Who's the main, really main producer.
2:03.0	He was there the whole time, pretty much.
2:05.2	There might have been some days he wasn't there.
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