EDDINGTON writer/director Ari Aster - Part 2

The Movies That Made Me

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The discussion continues between The Movies That Made Me podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante and Eddington writer/director Ari Aster. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Barry Lyndon (1976) Lolita (1962) Lolita (1997) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Defending Your Life (1991) Real Life (1979) Mother (1996) High Anxiety (1977) Silent Movie (1976) Blazing Saddles (1974) Elephant Man (1981) Robocop (1987) Flesh + Blood (1985) The Fourth Man (1983) Soldier of Orange (1977) Turkish Delight (1973) Starship Troopers (1997) Infested (2002) Basic Instinct (1992) Total Recall (1990) Showgirls (1995) Hollow Man (2000) Black Book (2006) Taxi Driver (1976) The Wild Bunch (1969) Straw Dogs (1974) Audition (1999) Ichi The Killer (2001) Gozu (2003) Devils On The Doorstep (2000) Twentynine Palms (2003) Zabriskie Point (1970) Looking For Mr Goodbar (1977) Fat Girl (2001) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Blue Velvet (1986) Walkabout (1971) Psycho (1960) Vertigo (1958) A History of Violence (2005) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Andrei Rublev (1966) Imitation of Life (1959) The Baby of Mâcon (1993) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Written on the Wind (1956) There’s Always Tomorrow (1956) Mildred Pierce (1945) The Butcher Boy (1997) The Heart of the World (2000) Rumours (2024) Dimensions of Dialogue (1983) Daisies (1966) The Cremator (1969) Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) World of Glory (1991) Songs From The Second Floor (2000) A Swedish Love Story (1970) Playtime (1967) Billy’s Balloon (1998) World of Tomorrow (2015) Elephant (1989) Eddington (2025) Matinee (1993) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Marx Brothers Woody Allen Albert Brooks Stanley Kubrick Mel Brooks Coen BrothersBruce Jay Friedman James Mason Lolita novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) Adrian Lyne Peter Sellers Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- ) Carl Reiner David Lynch Paul Verhoeven Casper Van Dien Michael Douglas Takashi Miike Bruno Dumont Michelangelo Antonioni Vinegar Syndrome Diane Keaton Catherine Breillat Alfred Hitchcock David Cronenberg Pedro Almodovar Douglas Sirk Terrence Malick Roy Andersson Jacques Tati Spike Lee Nicolas Roeg The Criterion Collection Russ Meyer Daniel Clowes Steven Spielberg Brian De Palma Robert Altman Andrei Tarkovsky Peter Greenaway Rembrandt Sacha Vierny Dallas TV series (1978-91) Dynasty TV series (1981-89) Fred MacMurray Eamonn Owens Neil Jordan The Butcher Boy novel by Patrick McCabe (1992) Guy Maddin Evan Johnson Sergei Eisenstein The Toronto International Film Festival Our Caelum Vatnsdal podcast episode Jan Švankmajer The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson (1979-1995) Don Hertzfeldt Alan Clarke This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectre Vision Radio
0:02.0	You live your whole life and then in one second you learn what it's like
0:10.0	for primal terror to swallow you, mind and body.
0:20.0	He was standing in the hallway,
0:23.6	lit only on his left side by the bulb.
0:32.6	Just as he appeared in the photograph I'd found, he was very small, much shorter than his brother, my father,
0:40.3	Eric. The family had said he'd always been boy-faced and a bit skinny. Now, standing there,
0:47.0	he looked old and sick as well, but he looked angry too. Not for a moment did I think he was alive, and some terrible mistake had been made.
0:59.0	I knew instinctively that he was not really there, that I was looking at Herman in the depleted physical state he had died in.
1:09.0	He was wrong, he said again.
1:12.4	His whole body trembling slightly.
1:15.2	He jabbed his finger toward me, almost in tears.
1:19.2	I could have been a chemist.
1:21.1	I had the grades.
1:23.8	I think I tried to speak then, but was stable.
1:30.8	Uncle Herman kept his finger pointed in a threatening way as if it were up to me to change the past. He turned with creaky slowness
1:38.4	and took a couple of steps deeper into the hallway toward the kitchen, leaving all light behind him, becoming a
1:45.8	silhouette. He turned back just before he reached the threshold of the other room. His face
1:51.8	was a black blur, but his voice was still clear.
1:56.5	There's a fourth body, you know, he said, voice, hoarse.
2:02.4	Shovel's still in the shed.
2:06.8	Knife Point Horror.
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