Oscar-winning superstar director Ron Howard talks to his former New World Pictures colleague Joe Dante and co-host Josh Olson about the movies that made him and continue to impress him!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Limit Up (1989)

Grand Theft Auto (1977)

Infested (2002)

The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

Hollywood Blvd. (1976)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Rush (2013)

Curious George (2006)

*One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - 24:00

Amadeus (1984)

American Graffiti (1974)

12 Angry Men (1957)

The Howling (1981)

The ’Burbs (1989)

*The Graduate (1967) - 31:49

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

White Heat (1949)

The Searchers (1956)

*The Apartment (1960) - 39:26

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Night Shift (1982)

Splash (1984)

Parenthood (1989)

Silver Streak (1976)

Foul Play (1978)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

*As Good As It Gets (1997) - 44: 37

All The President’s Men (1976)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Network (1976)

*Schindler’s List (1993) - 49:00

Amistad (1997)

The Color Purple (1985)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Cape Fear (1991)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

*Dog Day Afternoon (1976) - 53:41

*Das Boot (1981) - 56:43

Eight Days A Week (2016)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Unforgiven (1992)

*Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 63:05

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

It Happened One Night (1934)

*A Boy And His Dog (1975) - 70:22

David and Lisa (1962)

Mad Max (1979)

The Road Warrior (1981)

Backrooms (2026)

Obsession (2026)

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Samuel Fuller

TFH Guru Allan Arkush

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Gary Sinise

Death of a Salesman play by Arthur Miller (1949)

Nathan Lane

Lee J. Cobb

Henry Fonda

Mister Roberts play by Joshua Logan (1948)

John Ford

The ’Burbs TV series (2026- )

Mike Nichols

Robert Surtees

Franco Zeffirelli

The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

Sidney Hickox

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French New Wave

Andy Griffith

The Cornell Theatre in Burbank, CA

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Happy Days TV series (1974-84)

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Tom Hanks

Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet (1995)