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This is the one where Richard invokes the Fisher King and mise en abyme, while Garrett celebrates eccentric art, all in memory of “The King of Cult Cinema”, Roger Corman (1926-2024), who helped launch the careers of this episode’s two filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

Referenced media:

• “Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977)
• “Blue Collar” (Paul Schrader, 1978)
• “Grand Theft Auto” (Ron Howard, 1977)
• “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
• “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
• “Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1931)
• “Bride of Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1935)
• “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Chuck Jones, 1966)
• “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
• “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
• “Rosemary’s Baby” (Roman Polanski, 1968)
• “Night of the Living Dead” (George A Romero, 1968)
• “Finian’s Rainbow” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1968)
• “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
• “The Outsiders” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
• “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983)
• “West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
• “Footloose” (Herbert Ross, 1984)

Audio quotation:

• “Targets” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
• “Rumble Fish” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
• “Theme from ‘Terms of Endearment’” from “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983) by Michael Gore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW7TzkvCts&list=PLD6VJwu9YM-Xi3oEu5vabPRBgFtrmeP56&index=3

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This is the one where Richard refers to Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and praises cultural transgression, while Garrett remembers being a teen boy drawn to VHS tape covers featuring blood, breasts, and bullets.

Referenced media:

• “Jackie Brown” (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
• “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “Billy Jack” (T.C. Frank, 1971)
• “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” (Don Taylor, 1971)
• “Carnal Knowledge” (Mike Nichols, 1971)
• “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• “The Omega Man” (Boris Segal, 1971)
• “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “The Big Bird Cage” (Jack Hill, 1972)
• “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
• “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
• “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)
• “Paths of Glory” (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
• “Nights of Cabiria” (Federico Fellini, 1957)
• “Escape from Alcatraz” (Don Siegel, 1979)
• “S.O.B.” (Blake Edwards, 1981)
• “Cast Away” (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
• “Glory” (Edward Zwick, 1989)
• “All Is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, 2013)
• “Pickpocket” (Robert Bresson, 1959)
• “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• “Diary of a Country Priest” (Robert Bresson, 1951)

Audio quotation:

• “The Big Doll House” from the album “Roberta Stars in the Big Doll House” (2022) by Screen Syndicate, https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRyCJ6Ad6k
• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
• “A Man Escaped” (Robert Bresson, 1956)

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This is the one where The Hi-Lo Bros talk with filmmaker Dane Elcar and actor-producer Max Woertendyke about their movie "Brightwood".
Recorded on October 21, 2023.

Referenced media:

• “The Pond” (Dane Elcar, 2018)
• “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)
• “Scenes from a Marriage” (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
• “Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• “Eyes Wide Shut” (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
• “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
• “Mrs. Doubtfire” (Christopher Columbus, 1993)
• “Primer” (Shane Carruth, 2004)
• “Groundhog Day” (Harold Ramis, 1993)
• “Orange Is the New Black” (Jenji Kohan, 2013-2019)
• “Waiting for Godot” (Samuel Beckett, 1953)
• “Looper” (Rian Johnson, 2012)
• “12 Monkeys” (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
• “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
• “Old Joy” (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
• “Weekend” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

Audio quotation:

• “Brightwood” (Dane Elcar, 2022)

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This is the one about Artificial Intelligence where the Richard Chatbot signals Northrop Frye, and the Garrett Chatbot remembers eating.

Referenced media:

• “Death Wish” (Michael Winner, 1974)
• “Un Chien Andalou” (Luis Buñuel, 1929
• “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)
• “The Matrix” (The Wachowski’s, 1999)
• “2,001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• “Westworld” (Michael Crichton, 1973)
• “Westword” (Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, 2016-2022)
• “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (Joseph Sargent, 1970)
• “WarGames” (John Badham, 1983)
• “Saw” (James Wan, 2004)
• “The Invisible Man” (Leigh Whannell, 2020)
• “Mad Men” (Matthew Weiner, 2007-2015)
• “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (Ron Howard, 2018)
• “American Graffitti” (George Lucas, 1973)
• “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005)
• “12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen, 2013)
• “Dallas Buyers Club” (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2013)
• “Being John Malkovich” (Spike Jonze, 1999)
• “Weird Science” (John Hughes, 1985)
• “Adaptation” (Spike Jonze, 2002)
• “Where the Wild Things Are” (Spike Jonze, 2009)
• “Cast Away” (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
• “Gravity” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
• “All Is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, 2013)

Audio quotation:

• “Upgrade” (Leigh Whannell, 2018)
• “Death Wish (Main Title)” (Herbie Hancock, 1974)
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• “WarGames” (James Badham, 1983)
• “Circular saw sound” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COsFZqqxHFU
• “The Moon Song” (written by Karen Orzolek and Spike Jonze, and performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix, 2013)
• “Her” (Spike Jonze, 2013)
• “Song on the Beach” (written and performed by Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, 2013)
• “I’m So Glad” (written by Nehemiah Curtis James, and performed by Entrance, 2013)

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This is the one where Richard uses his superego to consider two peculiar horror movies about expressing the id, and Garrett expresses an ego ideal of contextual memory with a tip of the hat to Joe Bob Briggs.

Referenced media:

• “Back to the Future” (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
• “Die Hard” (John McTiernan, 1988)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• “Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017)
• “Night of the Living Dead” (George A. Romero, 1968)
• “Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1931)
• “28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)
• “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (Joe Johnston, 1989)
• “The Skin I Live In” (Pedro Almodovar, 2011)
• “Midnight in Paris” (Woody Allen, 2011)
• “J. Edgar” (Clint Eastwood, 2011)
• “Melancholia” (Lars von Trier, 2011)
• “The Artist” (Michael Hazanavicius, 2011)
• “Shame” (Steve McQueen, 2011)
• “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (Lynn Ramsay, 2011)
• “Facts of Life” (Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, 1979-1988)
• “From Dusk till Dawn” (Robert Rodriguez, 1996)
• “The Adventures of Tintin” (Steven Spielberg, 2011)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2001)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)
• “300” (Zack Snyder, 2006)
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (Gore Verbinski, 2003)
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End” (Gore Verbinski, 2007)

Audio quotation:

• “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
• “Back to the Future” (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• “A Dangerous Method” (David Cronenberg, 2011)

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This is the one where Richard blazons the samurai katana, wakizashi, and the tanto, and Garrett remembers thinking that a photorealist depiction of gang violence might be the right way to woo a romantic partner.

Referenced media:

• “The Last Samurai” (Edward Zwick, 2003)
• “Ronin” (John Frankenheimer, 1998)
• “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
• “The Magnificent Seven” (John Sturges, 1960)
• “The Magnificent Seven” (Antoine Fuqua, 2016)
• “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
• “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
• “Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)
• “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
• “Se7en” (David Fincher, 1995)
• “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (Ishirō Honda, 1962)
• “The Tale of Zatoichi Continues” (Kazuo Mori, 1962)
• “The Leopard” (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
• “This Sporting Life” (Lindsay Anderson, 1963)
• “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” (Robert Aldrich, 1962)
• “The Exterminating Angel” (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
• “An Autumn Afternoon” (Yasujirō Ozu, 1962)
• “Knife in the Water” (Roman Polanski, 1962)
• “RoGoPaG” (Roberto Rossellini, Ugo Gregoretti, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963)
• “The Pawn Broker” (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
• “A Hard Day’s Night” (Richard Lester, 1964)
• “Marnie” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
• “The Gospel According to St. Matthew” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
• “The Birds” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
• “The Last House on the Left” (Wes Craven, 1972)
• “The Human Condition—No Greater Love” (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
• “The Human Condition—Road to Eternity” (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
• “The Human Condition—A Soldier’s Prayer” (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
• “Fellini’s Casanova” (Federico Fellini, 1976)
• “Easy Rider” (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
• “Boyz n the Hood” (John Singleton, 1991)
• “Menace II Society” (The Hughes Brothers, 1993)
• “New Jack City” (Mario Van Peebles, 1991)
• “Above the Law” (Andrew Davis, 1988)
• “Action Jackson” (Craig R. Baxley, 1988)
• “Stand and Deliver” (Ramón Menéndez, 1988)
• “Shane” (George Stevens, 1953)
• “Joe Kidd” (John Sturges, 1972)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Tender Mercies” (Bruce Beresford, 1983)
• “The Great Santini” (Lewis John Carlino, 1979)
• “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (Amy Heckerling, 1982)
• “Taps” (Harold Becker, 1981)
• “The Falcon and the Snowman” (John Schlesinger, 1985)
• “Milk” (Gus Van Sant, 2008)

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This is the one where Richard refers to Gnosticism, Elliot, birth marks, and all things awesome, and Garrett plays on the floor with a children’s toy.

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This is the one where Richard pines for a Sears catalog and Garrett discovers phallic imagery.

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This is the one where Richard falls in love with a book, Garrett trips over teenage memories, and the HiLo Bros consider vigilantes.

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This is the one where Richard recalls Bleeding Kansas, Garrett professes man-love for Clint, and revisionism is explained--sort of.

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This is the one where replicants inspire Richard to go full Milton while Garrett obsesses over AI coupling.

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This is the one where three men galivant through Estonia, and Heston plays the Lamb of God. Richard remembers the early 1980s, and Garrett insists on quoting Richard Matheson.

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This is the one where John Locke enjoys Bach and Chopin. Garrett thinks 19th century Swedes are cold fish, and Richard celebrates Jill Schoelen.