THE SECRET AGENT writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Movies That Made Me
Walkabout and Wake in Fright
Kleber discusses how Australian landscapes and the absurd violence in these films influenced atmosphere and his gas-station sequence.
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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Mad Magazine
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