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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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Michael Curtiz

Ron and Clint Howard’s memoir The Boys (2021)

Rance Howard

Jean Speegle Howard 

The University of Oklahoma

Dennis Weaver

Gary Cooper

Bruce Dern

Harry Dean Stanton

Vincente Minnelli

The Andy Griffith Show TV series (1960-67)

Samuel Fuller

TFH Guru Allan Arkush

TFH Guru Roger Corman

New World Pictures

Our latest RZA podcast

Imagine Entertainment

Brian Grazer

Curious George TV series (2006-22)

Milos Forman

Danny DeVito

Christopher Lloyd

Kirk Douglas

Michael Douglas

Haskell Wexler

Jack Nicholson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey (1962)

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 

Warner Bros. Pictures

French New Wave

Andy Griffith

The Cornell Theatre in Burbank, CA

Charles Martin Smith

Happy Days TV series (1974-84)

Penny Marshall

Billy Crystal

Lowell Ganz

Babaloo Mandel

Thomas L. Miller

Glenn Close

James L. Brooks

Cliff Robertson

Ned Beatty

Steven Spielberg

Michael Jordan

Peter Morgan

The Crown TV series (2016-23)

Tom Hanks

Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet (1995)

On Directing Film book by David Mamet (1991)

Bill Connor

Dog Day Afternoon play by Stephen Adly Guirgis (2026)

Wolfgang Peterson

Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney

Meryl Streep

Gene Hackman

Clint Eastwood

James Stewart

Frank Capra

Sam Rosen

John Carradine

D.W. Griffith

Don Knotts

Sheldon Leonard

The Beverly Hillbillies TV series (1962-71)

Petticoat Junction TV series (1963-70)

Anson Williams

Bobby Sherman

Linda Purl

L.Q. Jones 

John Cassavetes

Alvy Moore

George Miller

Harlan Ellison

Jason Robards

Robby the Robot

Don Johnson

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