Join OMFG as we wrap up our review ahead of the upcoming Montana Film Festival. In this episode, we dive into an eclectic mix of short films from both local and international visionaries — Andy Smetanka⁠, ⁠Marshall Granger⁠, ⁠Elizabeth Rao⁠, ⁠Jesse Moynihan⁠ and ⁠Frances Chewning⁠. Also, Lauren Norby drops in, to share his process for drawing one of the featured short's artwork.

A cinematic buffet platter of delights curated by the incredible Sarah (Fergie) Ferguson, executive director of the Roxy theatre⁠..

For ten years, the Montana Film Festival has celebrated independent voices from around the world — uniting Missoula’s film community through shared, remarkable experiences and pushing the boundaries of contemporary cinema.

This year’s in-person festival runs October 23 – 26, with virtual screenings available October 27 – November 2. Get tickets.

Our reviews span the supernatural, existential dread, and the deep yearning for freedom in modern times. Thanks for listening — we hope you enjoy the show.

HOSTS:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Famed Missoula artist and doesn't suffer fools easily.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Larkin Matoon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula artist and oldest rapper alive.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula illustrator and wooden spoon enthusiast.

PRODUCER:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula illustrator and finder of lost apple pencils.

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In Eastern Western, a wandering drifter collides with the soul of the American frontier — refracted through an arthouse lens. Filmed across Montana’s wide plains and steeped in atmosphere, this indie flips the Western on its head, blending dusty Americana with surreal, meditative stillness. Join OMFG as we ride into the borderlands between myth and modernity, where every gunshot echoes like a memory.

HOSTS:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Famous Missoula Illustrator and raccoon taxidermy enthusiast.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Larkin Matoon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula artist and hip hop record builder.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula illustrator, designer and known as "the Croatian sensation".

PRODUCER:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠ : Missoula illustrator and pug herder.

This episode reviews a featured film from the 2025 Montana Film Festival, screening at the Roxy Theatre in Missoula. Grab your tickets and support local cinema—thank you, Roxy, for keeping Montana’s film culture alive!

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The Horse Whisperer tells a story of healing that bridges the bond between a girl, her horse, and—ultimately—her mother. It moves quietly through the spiritual and emotional terrain of loss, resilience, and the power of animals.

Join OMFG (Original Montana Film Guide) as we explore this tragic yet uplifting film and look into the life of Robert Redford, his Montana connections, and how the landscape shaped his storytelling.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) throws us into the crumbling heart of Paris, where Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche play two broken souls who find each other on the city’s oldest bridge. Love here is messy, desperate, and alive against fireworks, water, and ruin. It’s a film about being seen at your lowest, about clinging to joy when nothing is promised, and about romance that burns even as the world collapses.

Join us as we dive into Carax’s explosive cult masterpiece — where passion, destruction, and beauty collide. If you like this episode please follow us and tell your cinephile pals.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *did amazing artwork for this weeks cover.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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This week on OMFG, a show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana, we dive into Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013). It’s a quiet, layered film about a Blackfeet WWII vet (played by Benicio Del Toro) dealing with a mysterious illness after the war—bouts of blindness, disorientation, and a system that doesn’t know how to treat him. Enter a French analyst (Mathieu Amalric) with some unorthodox methods. Together, they uncover a life story shaped by a hard childhood and the constant drag of racism, told through one of the more unusual therapy sessions you’ll see in film.

Also—Daniel is back on the pod! Always good to have his voice in the mix as we unravel this lesser-known gem that’s part Western, part psychological drama, and part character study of resilience.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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In a wicked landscape where natural beauty surrounds, desolation, poverty, and violence cast everything in red. Here, predators and prey move side by side. The Wind River Reservation does not suffer the weak—nor does it forgive them.

Join us on Original Montana Film Guide, the show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana.
Solveig for joining us.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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You can’t be everything for someone in a relationship. For two brothers in Montana in 1925, the world offers little more than the possibility of love — and the ease with which a life can be snuffed out. Look to the mountains, dear listeners. If you catch a vision there, keep it to yourself. That’s your secret.

Join us on Original Montana Film Guide, the show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana. This episode we are joined by a very special friend: Susan Maruca, a scientist, potter and knitter in Missoula!

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⁠⁠Larkin Matoon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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It’s been 30 years and a thousand tears—just look at the shape Sam Shepard is in. Don’t Come Knocking, Wim Wenders’ aching road film, finds a man with no contact with family, a blacked-out past, and a reckoning under the city lights of Butte, Montana. Everything becomes illuminated when home is not what you left behind but what you rediscover. Also, stick around for the launch of 'Courtney's Color Corner' a possible new segment for our show.

🎬 OMFG: The Original Montana Film Guide — a show about movies made wholly or partly in Montana

Thanks so much Executive Director of the Roxy Theater. Sarah Ferguson for being our guest this week. We love the Roxy in Missoula, it's kind of our favorite place to watch movies!! If you're in our area check out their amazing calendar of movies.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

A copperhead in the grass isn’t safe—startle it and it will strike. Mickey has been bitten many times, but somehow she’s grown numb to the poison. Mickey and the Bear is a small-town tragedy stitched with new love, flickers of hope, and the urge to run. Join us for another episode of Original Montana Film Guide as we explore impermanence, volatile upbringings, and the gloom that shadows the Northwest’s strange, funky spirit.

Original Montana Film Guide is a show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠⁠

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The world is a cold place when you’re locked in an Alaskan prison—escape is the only way to survive. Join OMFG as we jump aboard the train from hell: frozen mountainscapes, violence, and inevitable obliteration. Runaway Train—filmed in Deer Lodge, Anaconda, and beyond—is more than just a movie, it’s a ride to the end of the line.

Original Montana Film Guide is a show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana.

Artwork by our co-host. Larkin Matoon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Mrgan ⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh Quick⁠⁠

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