SIRAT writer/director Óliver Laxe

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Writer/director Óliver Laxe (SIRAT) chops it up with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss the movies that made him! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Sirat (2026) Wages of Fear (1953) Andrei Rublev (1966) Nostalghia (1983) The Mirror (1975) Ordet (1955) Au Hazard Balthazar (1966) Blue Velvet (1986) Sorcerer (1977) Mad Max (1979) Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Apocalypse Now (1979) Easy Rider (1969) Zabriskie Point (1970) Vanishing Point (1971) Paris, Texas (1984) Freaks (1931) Dersu Uzala (1975) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Dirty Pretty Things (2001) The Naked Island (1960) The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) Late Spring (1949) The Card Counter (2021) The Four Seasons (1975) Close-Up (1990) Where is the Friend’s House? (1987) Ten (2002) Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003) Through the Olive Trees (1994) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Chuck Berry The Beatles Carl Theodor Dreyer Notes on the Cinematographer book by Robert Bresson (1975) Sculpting in Time book by Andrei Tarkovsky (1985) John Cassavettes Béla Tar David Lynch The Criterion Collection Dennis Hopper Monte Hellman Ry Cooder Akira Kurosawa Sergi López Kaneto Shindo Yasujirō Ozu Paul Schrader Oscar Isaac Transcendental Style in Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Dryer book by Paul Schrader (2018) Artavazd Peleshyan Abbas Kiarostami Zohran Mamdani Mira Nair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:33.7	This is The Movies That Made Me with your hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante. We will just go. We're very, very excited to have Oliver Lax, the writer, director of Srat, which is Spain's
1:42.2	Entree and the Best International Fe, nominee category this year is an
1:47.2	incredible film.
1:48.7	It's a very unusual film.
1:50.0	I'm very happy actually because, uh, uh, our whole thing is we talk to you about other
1:55.4	people's work and not too much about your film.
1:57.4	I'm very happy not to be talking too much about your film because I don't know how to talk about your film without giving too much away.
2:05.7	Well, it's a really, it's a really cool unusual movie with a cast of mainly non-professionals,
2:12.6	although you would never know it. And it's a landscape movie. And I and and and there's a there's there's
2:20.7	vans and trucks and things and at a certain point I thought I was sort of watching a
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