TFH Presents

The Movies That Made Me

with your host Josh Olson

Season 01 | Episode 20

Ernest Dickerson

Director / Cinematographer

Director and cinematographer Ernest Dickerson (Juice, Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight, The Walking Dead) sits with Josh and Joe to discuss some of the movies, filmmakers and genres that have inspired him over the years, and the curse of teal!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

“Ed Wood” (1994)

“Juice” (1992)

“Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight” (1995)

“The Brother From Another Planet” (1984)

“Malcolm X” (1992)

“Do The Right Thing” (1989)

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)

“Gravity” (2013)

“Interstellar” (2014)

“The Exorcist” (1973)

“Strangers On A Train” (1951)

“Vertigo” (1958)

“Marnie” (1964)

“Psycho” (1960)

“The Wrong Man” (1956)

“Notorious” (1946)

“Rear Window” (1954)

“Chimes At Midnight” (1965)

“The Other Side of the Wind” (2018)

“Touch of Evil” (1958)

“Citizen Kane” (1941)

“OK Connery”/“Operation Kid Brother” (1968)

“The Quatermass Xperiment ” (1955)
“Quatermass 2 ”/“Enemy From Space ” (1957)

“Theater of Blood” (1973)

“First Men In The Moon” (1964)

“Jason And The Argonauts” (1963)

“Halloween III” (1982)

“Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983)

“Kill, Baby, Kill” (1966)

“Blood And Black Lace” (1964)

“The Whip And The Body” (1963)

“Danger Diabolik” (1968)

“Rabid Dogs” (1973)

“The Last House on the Left” (1972)

“Moby Dick” (1956)

“Moulin Rouge” (1952)

“Reflections In A Golden Eye” (1967)

“The Man Who Would Be King” (1975)

“White Hunter, Black Heart” (1990)

“The African Queen” (1951)

“A Fistful Of Dollars” (1964)

“For A Few Dollars More” (1965)

“The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly” (1967)

“Face To Face” (1967)

“The Great Silence” (1968)

“You Only Live Twice” (1967)

“Django” (1966)

“Burying The Ex” (2015)

“The Ipcress File” (1965)

“The Train” (1965)

“The Guns of the Navarone” (1961)

“The Great Escape” (1963)

“El Cid” (1961)

“Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)

“Doctor Zhivago” (1965)

“Where Eagles Dare” (1968)

“Operation Crossbow” (1965)

“Castle Keep” (1969)

“The Gypsy Moths” (1969)

“The Blue Max” (1966)

Other Notable Items

Foreign Exchange Blu-ray Imports in Culver City: a great location for hard-to-find international releases!

“The Purge” (2018- ), television series on USA Network

Alfred Hitchcock–Robert Burks collaborations (“Strangers On A Train” through “Marnie,” excluding “Psycho”)

The films, plays, radio shows and commercial output of Orson Welles

The misadventures of vengeful director Emilio Fernandez

The Movies That Made Me podcast guest Uwe Boll‘s boxing exploits

“The Quatermass Experiment ” (1953, BBC television serial)

“Quatermass And The Pit” (1958-1959, BBC television serial)

Film and television writer Nigel Kneale (“Beasts,” “Stone Tape,” “The Quatermass Experiment,” “First Men In The Moon”)

“The Walking Dead” (2007- ), television series on AMC

The films of director-turned-cinematographer Mario Bava

Tim Lucas’ book on Bava, “All The Colors Of The Dark” (2008)

John Huston–Oswald Morris collaborations (“Moby Dick,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Reflections In A Golden Eye,” “The Man Who Would Be King”)

“The Wire” (2002-2008), television series on HBO

“Maniac” (2018), Netflix miniseries

The novels and screenplays of Ray Bradbury

“The Rifleman” (1958-1963), television series on ABC

“Wanted Dead Or Alive” (1958-1961), television series on CBS

The Spaghetti Western genre

The Giallo genre

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

About the Podcast

Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson.

The Movies That Made Me is recorded live at Patio 7 in the historic Crossroads of the World complex in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett.

About The Host

Josh Olson was the only student in his second grade class to see The House That Dripped Blood. Many years later, he wrote and directed the no-budget horror film, INFESTED, a brutal assault on The Big Chill, with zombies. He went on to write the screenplay for A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and was nominated for the WGA, BAFTA and Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. He kept losing to Larry McMurtry, but that’s okay.

He has written features and TV shows with Harlan Ellison, Walter Hill, Slash, Willie Nelson, and Mick Jagger. His Village Voice essay “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script” became an internet phenomenon, getting upwards of five million hits.

The ten-part audio drama BRONZEVILLE which he wrote, starring Laurence Fishburne, Larenz Tate, Tracee Ellis Ross, Omari Harwicke and Tika Sumpter was a popular and critical hit, and is currently being developed for TV. He and John Brancato (THE GAME) recently wrote and sold the feature spec TRIGGER WARNING, which is being produced by Thunder Road.