Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min · 12 segments
Returning to the pod this week is my movie theatergoing partner-in-crime Graham Cannon, who selected Steven Spielberg's blockbuster *Jaws* from 1975. Featured in this episode…
Graham CannonGuest
Brayden ShawHost
[gentle music] Welcome back to the Formative Films Project, a podcast series exploring how the movies we watch shape us, entertain us, and help tell the stories of our lives.
This week I'm bringing back my good friend Graham Cannon, um, who it feels like I've been in just this ever-present, uh, you know, stream of consciousness dialogue about movies, um, for a while now, you know, about probably nine years or so.
You know, the first time in, in '21 we talked about, uh, Spike Lee's masterpiece, Malcolm X.
You know, this time we're talking about, um, Steven Spielberg's masterpiece Jaws from 1975, and, you know, the performances of, you know, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, you know, the kind of that central trio.
Um, along with the, you know, periphery cast as well, um, the supporting characters in Jaws.
Um, and just, you know, how this film has, has shaped our lives, how Spielberg has shaped our lives in, in terms of our mutual love of cinema.
Talk a little Spike Lee, talk a little Kurosawa, talk a little Disclosure Day, um, since we had just seen that.
[laughs] Um, so it's a, it's, it's a minor Spielberg summer I guess you would say, kind of before The Odyssey and Spider-Man took over.
Um, we did have some technical difficulties a little bit, so bear with us, although I think that kind of mirrors, uh, the troubled production of Jaws itself.
Kind of, you know, wide-ranging conversation about, you know, some of our favorite filmmakers, you know, kind of honestly about discovering our own individual movie tastes and, you know, just kind of going back to this, um, I mean, quite frankly incredible film.
Just a g- a guy that I'm always talking about movies with, and so I think it's, it's good to have the reunion on mic after five-ish years.
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[gentle music] Welcome back to the Formative Films Project, a podcast series exploring how the movies we watch shape us, entertain us, and help tell the stories of our lives.
This week I'm bringing back my good friend Graham Cannon, um, who it feels like I've been in just this ever-present, uh, you know, stream of consciousness dialogue about movies, um, for a while now, you know, about probably nine years or so.
You know, the first time in, in '21 we talked about, uh, Spike Lee's masterpiece, Malcolm X.
You know, this time we're talking about, um, Steven Spielberg's masterpiece Jaws from 1975, and, you know, the performances of, you know, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, you know, the kind of that central trio.
Um, along with the, you know, periphery cast as well, um, the supporting characters in Jaws.
Um, and just, you know, how this film has, has shaped our lives, how Spielberg has shaped our lives in, in terms of our mutual love of cinema.
Talk a little Spike Lee, talk a little Kurosawa, talk a little Disclosure Day, um, since we had just seen that.
[laughs] Um, so it's a, it's, it's a minor Spielberg summer I guess you would say, kind of before The Odyssey and Spider-Man took over.
Um, we did have some technical difficulties a little bit, so bear with us, although I think that kind of mirrors, uh, the troubled production of Jaws itself.
Kind of, you know, wide-ranging conversation about, you know, some of our favorite filmmakers, you know, kind of honestly about discovering our own individual movie tastes and, you know, just kind of going back to this, um, I mean, quite frankly incredible film.
Just a g- a guy that I'm always talking about movies with, and so I think it's, it's good to have the reunion on mic after five-ish years.
