Albert Hughes
Albert Hughes (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, The Book of Eli, and many others) takes us on a wild journey through the movies that made him, then explains why he’s not a cinephile (Spoiler: He is). Heads up – you’re going to hear some words you’ve never heard on our show before, and only one of them is Metropolis.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Gremlins (1984)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Candidate (1972)
Menace II Society (1993)
Die Hard (1988)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Scarface (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Raging Bull (1980)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Alpha (2018)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
True Romance (1993)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
The Matrix (1999)
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
A Serbian Film (2010)
Scarface (1932)
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Departed (2006)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
The Godfather (1972)
Casino (1995)
JFK (1991)
Dead Presidents (1996)
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Psycho (1960)
The Cremator (1969)
The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Halloween (2018)
From Hell (2001)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Hoffa (1992)
V For Vendetta (2005)
Spartacus (1960)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Joker (2019)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Shining (1980)
Lolita (1962)
Lolita (1997)
Platoon (1986)
Filmworker (2017)
S Is For Stanley (2015)
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Fail Safe (1964)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Face In The Crowd (1957)
The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
Blind Fury (1989)
Zatoichi (2003)
Ichi (2008)
Ichi The Killer (2001)
Blind Justice (1994)
Blind Man (2012)
Baraka (1992)
Blade Runner (1982)
Olympia (1938)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
Bring Me The Head of Alfred Garcia (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Django Unchained (2012)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
Sexy Beast (2001)
Other Notable Items
Albert’s brother Allen Hughes
Johnny Depp
Joel Silver
Larenz Tate
Tyrin Turner
Jean-Luc Godard
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Midnight Cowboy novel by James Leo Herlihy (1965)
John Schlesinger
Jon Voight
Angelina Jolie
Oliver Stone
Alfred Hitchcock
The Martin Short podcast episode
Second City Television TV series (1976-1984)
“3D Firing Line: Midnight Cowboy II” skit on SCTV
“The Larry Siegel Show” skit on SCTV
Rick Moranis
The Laemmle Theaters
Luc Besson
Howard Hawks
Howard Hughes
Brian De Palma
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert’s Scarface review
Al Pacino
Michelle Pfeiffer
Denzel Washington
Jack Nicholson
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matt Damon
Mark Wahlberg
Alec Baldwin
George Raft
Paul Muni
The Hays Production Code
Narcos TV series (2015-17)
Netflix
The Eric Newman podcast episode
Joe Bob Briggs
Bob Dylan
“Layla” by Derek and the Dominoes
Eric Clapton
Joe Pesci
Robert De Niro
Robert Richardson
James Woods
Sharon Stone
The MPAA
Jack Valenti
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Juraj_Herz
Milos Forman
Jamie Lee Curtis
Alan Moore
Francis Ford Coppola
Danny DeVito
Lynne Ramsay
Joaquin Phoenix
Warner Brothers
Adrian Lyne
Georg Krause
Lucien Ballard
Kirk Douglas
Anthony Mann
Dalton Trumbo
Leon Vitali
Peter Sellers
Zatoichi series
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Criterion box set
Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune
The Lone Wolf and Cub series
Rutger Hauer
Armand Assante
Kung Fu TV series (1972-1975)
The Incredible Hulk TV series (19770-1982)
David Carradine
Billy Jack
Fritz Lang
Ridley Scott
Denzel Washington
Leni Riefenstahl
George Lucas
Sam Peckinpah
Richard Pryor
Mel Brooks
Quentin Tarantino
Samuel L. Jackson
George Carlin
Dave Chapelle
Mark Twain
Ben Kingsley
Jimi Hendrix
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cheech and Chong
The Fox Theatre in Detroit
The Cremaster Cycle
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