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The Godfather 1972

Caan's Sonny Corleone. Sean caught the restored print at Paramount, with Coppola and Talia Shire on hand, just months before Caan's death.

Rollerball 1975

Sean cites Caan's believability as an athlete on screen.

El Dorado 1966

Caan with John Wayne under Howard Hawks.

Bottle Rocket 1996

Caan lending his name to an unknown Wes Anderson and the then-unknown Wilson brothers on their first feature.

Hide in Plain Sight 1980

Caan's own directorial effort.

Misery 1990

Caan as Paul Sheldon, recently the subject of a Rewatchables episode.

The Gambler 1974

Freebie and the Bean 1974

Elf 2003

Probably how younger viewers know him best, as Buddy's dad.

Honeymoon in Vegas 1992

Slither 1973

One of the ornery, hard-to-find '70s character studies Sean recommends seeking out.

T.R. Baskin 1971

Cinderella Liberty 1973

Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

Joanna liked it more than Sean did. Both single out Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher as the highlight and note a tone that swings between six different kinds of movie (romance, kids-in-peril adventure, meta superhero satire, gothic horror, and cancer drama) inside one 119-minute runtime.

Eagle vs Shark 2007

Sean finds it too twee, though it's a Napoleon Dynamite-adjacent Jemaine Clement vehicle that got Miramax's attention off a trailer alone.

Boy 2010

Sean's pick for the skeleton key to Taika's sincerity: a loosely autobiographical story about a boy and his convict father, with Taika playing the dad.

What We Do in the Shadows 2014

Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016

Both hosts' favorite. Joanna calls it possibly a top-tier all-time favorite, and both credit Sam Neill and the film's tone balance.

Jojo Rabbit 2019

Won Taika an Oscar; both hosts remain a little mystified by that, and credit it partly to goodwill from Ragnarok.

Next Goal Wins 2023

Michael Fassbender-led soccer film, completed but not yet released as of this episode.

Both Sides of the Blade 2022

Made during Covid with a tiny cast and crew in Paris apartments and cars; Denis says the film wouldn't exist without the pandemic.

Stars at Noon 2022

The Nicaragua-set Denis Johnson adaptation she paused to make Both Sides of the Blade; production later moved to Panama.

High Life 2018

Her English-language film with Robert Pattinson, made on what she says was actually a modest budget.

Trouble Every Day 2001

Denis on being asked to make a horror movie and instead 'diving into a sort of horror.'

Bastards 2013

The film Sean says Both Sides of the Blade most reminded him of.

White Material 2010

Her last film shot in Africa, roughly 15 years before this conversation.

Memoria 2021

Denis's answer to the closing question: the last great thing she saw, watching it in a Paris theater.