Lance Mungia

Six String Samurai writer/director Lance Mungia discusses the movies that made an impact on him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Six-String Samurai (1998)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Seven Samurai (1954)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Frankenstein (1931)
King Kong (1933)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Little Fugitive (1953)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
The Searchers (1956)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)
Wrath Of Man (2021)
Yojimbo (1961)
Last Man Standing (1996)
Ikiru (1952)
Oldboy (2003)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Gremlins (1984)
Jaws (1975)
Psycho (1960)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
The Postman (1997)
Waterworld (1995)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Day After (1983)
Fail Safe (1964)
Behind The Green Door (1972)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
The Irishman (2019)

Other Notable Items

The Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray of Six-String Samurai
Flicker Alley
Elijah Drenner
Kristian Bernier
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Martin Scorsese
Frank Capra
Billy Wilder
Clark Gable
Claudette Colbert
The Hays Code
Academy Awards
Ray Ashley 
Morris Engel 
Ruth Orkin
Richie Andrusco
The French New Wave
Ansel Adams
Peter O’Toole
David Lean
T.E. Lawrence
Omar Sharif
Alec Guinness
Anthony Quinn
Sergio Leone
John Wayne
Clint Eastwood
Eli Wallach
Ennio Morricone
TCL Chinese Theatres
Guy Ritchie
Scott Eastwood
Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune
Wong Kar-wai
Walter Hill
Bruce Willis
Steven Spielberg
Kevin Costner
Stanley Kubrick
Ronald Reagan
Monty Python
Red Alert novel by Peter George (1958)
The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-1964)
“Try A Little Tenderness” song by Ray Noble
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Joe Pesci
The Irishman deepfake
The Tom Cruise deepfake
The Barack Obama deepfake
Humphrey Bogart
Marilyn Monroe

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