Marc Maron

“All right, Gimme Shelter. Because of the Stones and, you know, and because of the Maysles brothers and because I read a book about Altamont that really told me what was up and the entire disaster can be hung squarely on Mick Jagger. Yeah, read the Joel Selvin book.”

“Oh yeah, Burden of Dreams. Because Herzog and you want to see his ridiculous process and to see what he will put himself through just to make a movie.”

“Being There. Hal Ashby, Peter Sellers, brilliant, genius, so funny. I feel like I could watch it over and over again, which is one of the reasons— oh. Don't worry about it, I'm going to turn it off, don't even register it. It's not even rude. It would be rude if I checked it. I kind of want to, I'm not.”

“Female Trouble. Because I think that this entire, what this represents and who John Waters is and who Divine was and everything about this movie is one of the only weapons against fascism we have.”

“All right, so this one, McCabe & Mrs. Miller. This is a an Altman movie and this is really probably my favorite movie, one of them. And I don't even, I can't even tell you why. Because of the layers, because of the color, because of the mumbling, because of the deconstructed Western business, because of, you know, Julie Christie, because of opium, because of whores and religion and just, you know, industry. Come on, man. America on its way up. Doesn't end well for McCabe.”

“Oh okay, The American Friend. Now this movie is one of my favorite movies because I really don't understand it, and I keep going back to it because it's so compelling.”

“My Darling Clementine. John Ford Western, Henry Fonda, looks early. I've never seen it, but I thought if I'm in here I should have a Western, I should grab a Western, so I'm grabbing this Western. Is it Henry Fonda good guy or Henry Fonda scary guy? Oh, good guy. All right, he can do either of them.”

“This one's kind of hard to find and I don't know if I have found it, if I have it or not, but I know that I watched it on the Criterion Channel and I saw it when I was younger. I'm a big William Burroughs fan and this is a lot of Burroughs, like, you know, it's a lot of him being candid and hanging out and performing, and some history about him. He's a very unique guy and a big inspiration on me for reasons I can't even quite understand, but I've always been someone fascinated with him.”

“These are great movies about media and show business. This is A Face in the Crowd that I'm talking about now, with a very evil what's his name? Andy Griffith, you know, who plays Lonesome Rhodes, the drunk that Patricia Neal makes a monster by making him a star. Just kind of homespun, let's hang around, gets political, it gets kind of weird and then he gets caught off-mic saying horrible things. It's a great examination of megalomania in media.”

“And there's a great examination of what eventually sort of became not even tabloid just the complete exploitative nature of Journalism in a way...”

“What's this, Shame? I'm familiar with that.”