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IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU writer/director Mary Bronstein

16.12.2025
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Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite formative films with Josh Olson.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

If You Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

Repulsion (1965)

Antichrist (2009)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Shampoo (1975)

The Matrix (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Wanda (1971)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Gypsy (1962)

West Side Story (1961)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

The Hot Rock (1972)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

East of Eden (1955)

Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Bus Stop (1956)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon!

Our pals at Movies Unlimited

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Conan O’Brien

A$AP Rocky

TFH Guru Illeana Douglas’ Connecticut in the Movies book (2023)

NYU

Blockbuster Video

PBS

Turner Classic Movies

The Video Archives rental shop in Manhattan Beach, CA and later Hermosa Beach, CA

Quentin Tarantino

Kim’s Video shop in NYC

Warren Beatty

Faye Dunaway

Arthur Penn

French New Wave

Jean Luc Godard

Natalie Wood

Barbara Loden 

Eliah Kazan

Ella Beatty

Howard Hughes

Ethel Merman

Rosalind Russell

Steve McQueen

Robert Redford

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

Betty Davis

Joan Crawford

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92)

The Academy Awards

James Dean

Raymond Massey

East of Eden novel by John Steinbeck (1952)

Nicholas Ray

Rose Byrne

Marilyn Monroe

Lee Strasberg

The Actor’s Studio

Ridley Scott

Callie Khouri

Brad Pitt

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