Movies We Like
Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker on The Conformist
Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker on The Conformist—the film that made her want to pick up a camera, and what Storaro’s light taught her.
June 8, 2026
For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release decade. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.
Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker on The Conformist—the film that made her want to pick up a camera, and what Storaro’s light taught her.
Production designer Roger Fires—Nobody, Violent Night, Psycho Killer—joins Andy and Pete to talk about The Exorcist: the film that terrified him as a child and captivated him as an adult.
We dig into Donald Cammell’s Demon Seed, the Thinking Machines series entry where AI gets personal—hubris, a smart home turned prison, Julie Christie, and a genuinely bonkers ending.
The machine does exactly what we designed—and that’s the problem. We dig into “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the Thinking Machines series opener about Cold War AI and the danger of indifference.
Cinematographer Marcus Patterson, who recently shot Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), joins us to discuss Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, a movie he likes!
We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s pretty bad but oddly still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six.
We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.
For our monthly member bonus episode, we backflip into Hua Shan’s crazy tokusatsu movie The Super Inframan. It’s frenetic and non-stop, and we had a blast. Check it out!
We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Sidney Lumet’s fantastic bank heist gone wrong, Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and John Cazale.
We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Dario Argento’s Deep Red, aka Profondo Rosso, our first dip into Italian Giallo films.