500 Films: A Journey Through Genre Cinema

Against Leo, Caspar goes to bat,
But his plans to overthrow fall flat,
But ignore the brawl,
Because after all,
Tom Reagan keeps losing his hat.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Coen Brothers – Adam Nayman (2018, Abrams)
• The Coen Brothers: The Complete Unofficial Guide – Dan Jolin (2024, Greenfinch)
• The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film – David Thomson (2010, Little Brown)

It’s all a bit mysterious,
Food makes people delirious,
From fish abstain,
To fly this plane,
Surely you can’t be serious?

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story Of Airplane! – David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker

Frog One’s shipment will make you tipsy,
As you’d expect from a French gypsy,
Aside from the blow,
Popeye wants to know,
Ever picked your feet in Poughkeepsie?

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir – William Friedkin (2013, HarperCollins)
• 1971: The Films From Cinema’s Greatest Year – Robert Sellers (2023, The History Press)
• It Don’t Worry Me – Ryan Gilbey (2003, Faber And Faber)
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls – Peter Biskind (1998, Bloomsbury)
• Cinema Speculation – Quentin Tarantino (2022, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson)

H.G. Welles knew a thing or two,
About travel and time-in-lieu,
Advancing the clocks,
And meeting Morlocks,
He’ll help the Eloi stage a coup.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Darkness & Light – Patrick McGilligan (2003, Wiley)
  

A tennis player without a loss,
Meets a bachelor with too much gloss,
Politeness can drain,
Riding on the train,
As Bruno suggests to Guy, Criss Cross!

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Darkness & Light – Patrick McGilligan (2003, Wiley)
• Hitchcock – François Truffaut (1984, Simon & Schuster)

Henry and Tommy bleed Brooklyn dry,
With their fingers in every pie,
But Henry flays,
When Tommy says,
“What do you mean, ‘I’m a funny guy’”?

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Made Men: The Story Of Goodfellas – Glenn Kenny (2020, Hanover Square Press)
• Martin Scorsese: A Journey –  Mary Pat Kelley (1991, Hachette Books)
• De Niro: A Biography (2002, HarperCollins)
• Wiseguy – Nicholas Pileggi (1985, Bloomsbury)
• The Lufthansa Heist: Behind The Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook The World  – Henry Hill & Daniel Simone (2015, Rowman & Littlefield)
• Why wasn’t Goodfellas’ Henry Hill murdered by the mob? – Peter Bradshaw (2012, The Guardian)
• 25 Years Later: The Memorable Goodfellas Soundtrack – Jordan Esekia (The Film Archive, 2015)

Though the brothers couldn’t be whiter,
For a band they couldn’t be tighter,
In a car ex-police,
Says Jake post-release,
‘Elwood, fix the cigarette lighter’.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, The Rise Of Improv, And The Making Of An American Film Classic – Daniel De Vise (2024, Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Improv Nation – Sam Wasson (2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The SNL Companion: An Unofficial Guide To The Seasons, Sketches, And Stars Of Saturday Night Live – Stephen Tropicana & Steven Ginsberg, 2013, Applause)
• Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live – James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales (2002, Little, Brown And Company)

Joining Doc and Jock for a blabber,
Daughter Janette wants you to grab her,
At this time of year,
Don’t have too much beer,
You’ll never escape from the Yabba.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• 1971: The Films From Cinema’s Greatest Year – Robert Sellers (2023, The History Press) 
• Wake in Fright Understood The Horrors Of Australian Booze Culture. 50 Years On, Nothing’s Changed – Joseph Earp (2025, The Guardian)
• Wake In Fright (review) – Peter Bradshaw (2014, The Guardian)
• The making Of Wake in Fright – Luke Buckmaster (2016, The Guardian)
• Wake In Fright: Rewatching Classic Australian Films – Luke Buckmaster (2014, The Guardian)
• The Australian Book You Should Read Next: Wake In Fright By Kenneth Cook – Briohny Doyle (2020, The Guardian)
• Wake In Fright (review) – Mark Kermode (2014, The Guardian)
• Wake In Fright And Walkabout: Is The Threat Of Australia’s Landscape All In The Mind? – Stephen Orr (2018, The Guardian)
• Umbrella Entertainment Announces Restoration Of New Wave Landmark Wake In Fright(2024, Umbrella Entertainment)
• Wake In Fright: The Almost-Forgotten Film That Kickstarted The Aussie New Wave – John Patterson (2014, The Guardian)
• Wake in Fright: An Interview with Ted Kotcheff – Raffaele Caputo (2009, Senses Of Cinema)
• Tony Buckley On Wake In Fright (1993, NFSA)
• Ted Kotcheff On The Discovery Of Wake In Fright’s Original Negatives (2009, NFSA)
• Wake In Fright: NFSA Restored And Re-Released In 2009 (2009, NFSA)
• Wake In Fright Audiobook Excerpt (1960s, NFSA)
• Looking Back At Wake In Fright – Luke Buckmaster (2021, NFSA)
• Wake In Fright: 2009 Restoration – Peter Galvin (2009, NFSA)

Frank Sinatra, Sammy and Deano,
Want more from Las Vegas than Keno,
In a town full of sights,
They turn out the lights,
And steal the cash from the casino.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Rat Pack Confidential – Shawn Levy (1998, Doubleday)
• Hollywood At Sea: ‘Bounty’ Director Blames a Timorous Management for Tumultuous Saga – Murray Schumach (1962, New York Times)
• Ocean’s 11 (1960): The Rat Pack’s Kick In the Head – Mark Sommer (2018, ScreenFish)
• Frank Sinatra: An American Legend – Nancy Sinatra (1995, Virgin)
• Dean Martin: Memories Are Made Of This – Deana Martin (2004, Harmony Books)
• Why Me?: The Sammy Davis Jr. Story – Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Boyar & Burt Boyar (1989, Collins)
• Frank Sinatra: The Boudoir Singer (2011, Blood Moon Productions)
• Martini Man: The Life Of Dean Martin – William Schoell (1999, Taylor Publishing)

All Henry wants is some more power,
As talk of heists begin to flower,
The plan is bold,
Steal all the gold,
Smuggle it out to the Eiffel Tower.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season two is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Ripping England! – Roger Rawlings (2017, State University Of New York)
• Ealing Studios – Charles Barr (1977, Cameron & Tayleur)
• The Secret Life Of Ealing Studios – Robert Sellers (2015, Aurum Press)
• Forever Ealing – George Perry (1981, Pavilion)