THE SECRET AGENT director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down the movies that made him! Kleber is fresh off winning this year's Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for THE SECRET AGENT this weekend. His film's star, Wagner Moura, also took home a Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Small Change (1976)

The Secret Agent (2025)

Bacurau (2019)

*Walkabout (1973)

*Wake in Fright (1971)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Performance (1970)

The Witches (1990)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Superman (1978)

Star Wars (1977)

Piranha (1978)

*Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Paris, Texas (1984)

*The Beguiled (1971)

The Beguiled (2017)

Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

*The Long Goodbye (1973)

*Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

MASH (1970)

Chinatown (1974)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Magnolia (1999)

The Wedding Singer (1998)

Happy Gilmore (1995)

Assault on Precinct 13 (1975)

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

LA Plays Itself (2003)

Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

*Twenty Years Later (1984)

The Big Shave (1967)

The Longest Day (1962)

Cleopatra (1963)

Halloween (1978)

La Jetée (1962)

Green Vinyl (2004)

*Gremlins (1984)

*The Host (2006)

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

*The Fly (1986)

*Do The Right Thing (1989)

Jungle Fever (1991)

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Francois Truffaut

Wagner Moura

Udo Kier

The Lord of the Rings franchise

Pedro Pascal

Enzo Nunes

Nicholas Roeg

Ted Kotcheff

Philip Kaufman

The Criterion Collection

TFH Guru Roger Corman

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog

Nicolas Cage

The Cologne Film Festival

The French new wave

Don Siegel

Sofia Coppola

Clint Eastwood

Geraldine Page

Paul Thomas Anderson

Robert Altman

Elliott Gould

Jack Davis

Mad Magazine

Mark Rydell

Roman Polanski

Adam Sandler

The Cannes Film Festival

Columbia Pictures

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Robert Elswitt

Emily Watson

John Carpenter

Kim Richards

Scream franchise

Eduardo Coutinho

João Pedro Teixeira

Martin Scorsese

The Vietnam War

Bong Joon Ho

Jerry Goldsmith

Steven Spielberg

Tobe Hooper

Dick Miller

Polly Holliday

Phoebe Cates

David Cronenberg

Spike Lee
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