El Topo (with Woody Ciskowski)

Mikayla Nicholson makes her grand return to Roger's List this week to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's ambitious 1999 opus MAGNOLIA, featuring an all-star cast in a mind-bending intergenerational drama!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Email: [email protected] Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs

Minimus Maximus from the Off the Cuffs podcast joins me for another epic tour of the American South with NASHVILLE, Robert Altman's 1975 masterpiece featuring a cast of dozens! It's a movie that defies easy categorization but rewards viewers each and every time.  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Email: [email protected]  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Instagram: @rogerslitpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Magnolia 

This week, Doug McCambridge, host of the amazing Good Times, Great Movies podcast, stops by to discuss Wim Wenders' lyrical, fascinating road movie PARIS, TEXAS (1984). We dissect the movie's themes and look at the amazing career of veteran character actor Harry Dean Stanton.  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Nashville   

Nicholas Loup and Jordan Courtney, hosts of the Filmshake podcast, join me this week to talk about Francois Truffaut's brilliant comedy DAY FOR NIGHT (LA NUIT AMERICAINE) from 1973, one of the greatest movies about making movies!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Paris, Texas

My dear friend Luke Rahmsdorff-Terry joins me this week to discuss John Ford's STAGECOACH (1939), the film that shaped cinema's most popular genre for decades to come and produced one of Hollywood's biggest-ever movie stars with John Wayne! Does this rip-roaring Western adventure hold up today or has it been bested by it's imitators?  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected] Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Day For Night (La Nuit Americaine)    

This week we're diving in to one of the weirdest movies on the list, Alejandro Jodorowski's surrealistic cult classic EL TOPO. Woody Ciskowski joins me to look at Jodorowski's incredibly long, strange career and analyze the bizzare confluence of images that makes up his signature film, an acid western that helped invent the concept of the Midnight Movie!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Stagecoach 

This episode is anything but a surefire flop, because we've got the amazing Diana Goodman (@lecinenerd) from the Thirty, Twenty, Ten podcast to talk about Mel Brooks' THE PRODUCERS! Often considered one of the funniest films of all time, this ribald satire was too shocking for audiences in the 60s but has found a new appreciation over time!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: El Topo 

Get your motor running, because we're taking on the countercultural classic EASY RIDER! Emma Delaney and Nicole Vettese are riding sidecar on Dennis Hopper's motorcycle odyssey across America, one of the most influential American movies of all time!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected] Instagram: @rogerslistpod Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: The Producers 

We're getting meta this week with the mind-bending 2002 comedy ADAPTATION! Comedian and podcaster Jesse Whitehead joins me to dig in to Charlie Kaufman's writer's block opus, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod  Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @rogerslistpod Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Easy Rider 

Joseph Finn joins me to tackle one of the most challenging films we've encountered so far! We watched THE GREY ZONE, a harrowing Holocaust drama directed by beloved character actor Tim Blake Nelson!  Hosted by Steve Guntli  Logo by Corinne Kempen  Twitter: @rogerslistpod Email: [email protected] Instagram: @rogerslistpod  Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7ESRs Next week's episode: Adaptation