S3E4: 5 Movies & 2 Songs

The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast

In this episode, we’re doing our own version of the BBC’s classic show “DESERT ISLAND DISCS“. On that show, guests are invited to answer the question, if you were marooned on a desert island and could take five pieces of music and two books, what would they be (and neither book can be Shakespeare or the Bible)? Because we’re movie makers, we’ve swapped the music for movies and music for the books. So, the question is: “what are your 5 FAVORITE MOVIES and your 2 FAVORITE SONGS?”

Funny thing? Though Gil Adler and I were creative partners and best mates for a decade, if you had asked me back then what my friend’s five favorite movies were, I would have been at a total loss.

I had zero idea then and, until we made this episode of our podcast, zero idea now.

Turns out a lot of our choices feature the same attributes: they’re well-written, well told stories about emotions and feelings and how tricky it can be to navigate these things.

Among The Movies:

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

AN AMERICAN TAIL

BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

BARRY LYNDON

FORREST GUMP

DON’T LOOK NOW

ANYTHING GROUCHO MARX

NETWORK

Among The Songs:

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, Leonard Cohen’s amazing HALLELUJAH, THE WAY WE WERE and A LITTLE PRIEST from the Stephen Sondheim musical SWEENY TODD.

About that last one… stories about cannibalism seem to tickle something inside us. That could explain the new show we’re about to take into the streaming TV marketplace – ARE YOU AFRAID?

It’s a wickedly fun show about flesh-eating ghouls and it asks the question “in a world as fucked up as ours, is it really so weird to want to be the monster?”

But, first things first. Join us as Gil and I discuss some of our very favorite movies and songs – and why we love them so much!