John Huston

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q51575: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Annie, which An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Fat City (1972); Annie (1982); Under the Volcano (1984); Moulin Rouge! (2001); Prizzi's Honor; The Dead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Cinderella (2021): 1 line

  1. unmapped (imitation) · through Moulin Rouge! (2001), which they directed: Moulin Rouge! ⇒ Cinderella (the host's read). The Amazon Cinderella tries the Moulin Rouge jukebox-musical thing and fails; Moulin Rouge is a lot harder to pull off.
    “It's trying to do the Moulin Rouge thing of like, oh, it's like a jukebox musical where we just like picked songs we like”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:50:36 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (7) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (director against type): John Huston → Annie. Huston's only musical, a grandiose swan song that never achieves liftoff.
    “It's the only musical he ever made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:55:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about John Huston: Out-take at the end: a montage in which a critic introduces John Huston as a director who also wrote his own film, treated like a savant.
    “It's being treated like he's some savant.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:53:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)