Original Montana Film Guide

The river is a place where you can lose it all — your life, your cooler full of beers, even your sense of modern tech — but it’s also where you can reclaim the life you once had. In this 90s adventure-thriller classic , Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon give peak-era performances as danger hits the water and the family vacation turns into a full-on survival movie. This episode of OMFG (Original Montana...

Jack Crabb is basically a blank screen we all project onto — a man pulled back and forth through American myth, shaped by odd father figures and the chaos of history. He survives everything, but never quite lands anywhere. Some say the universe is magic. Others say it’s meaningless. Join us, OMFG (Original Montana Film Guide), and decide for yourself. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Courtney Blazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ likes claw...

OMFG dives into Dogville — Lars von Trier’s chalk-lined morality tale where a mysterious woman arrives in a Depression-era mountain town and kindness curdles into nightmare folklore. Nicole Kidman gives one of her most devastating performances as the town’s masks slowly slip, one expression at a time. Revisit Dogville with us and see how a fairy tale becomes a biblical lesson carved in cruelty. Ne...

📞 Telefon (1977) There’s a Robert Frost poem out there that, when spoken, makes you do terrible things. Don’t answer the phone—or you might be the next power-plant bomber or helicopter kamikaze. Telefon is a Cold War fever dream that doesn’t always make sense, but OMFG (Original Montana Film Guide) is here to pick through the carnage. The only Montana in this chaos? A Great Falls hotel room—but h...

A picture only a surrealist could paint. Enter the dark shadows and blinding highlights as we peer through a closet and see the object of our affection overwhelmed by a demon in black leather. Blue Velvet is a very adult film—playing with themes of desire, temptation, death, and the search for self among the wreckage, crime, and white-picket fences. Are you brave enough to join OMFG (Original Mont...

A brutal, genre-bending western that asks: where is the modern western going? When a woman is abducted by a clan of cave-dwelling troglodytes, a grizzled sheriff leads a ragtag team of haunted men on a perilous rescue mission. What begins as a slow-burn frontier story turns into a shocking descent into primal horror — with one unforgettable, stomach-turning scene that redefines western grit. We ex...

Join OMFG as we wrap up our review ahead of the upcoming Montana Film Festival . In this episode, we dive into an eclectic mix of short films from both local and international visionaries — Andy Smetanka⁠ , ⁠Marshall Granger⁠ , ⁠Elizabeth Rao⁠ , ⁠Jesse Moynihan⁠ and ⁠Frances Chewning⁠ . Also, Lauren Norby drops in, to share his process for drawing one of the featured short's artwork. A cinemat...

In Eastern Western , a wandering drifter collides with the soul of the American frontier — refracted through an arthouse lens. Filmed across Montana’s wide plains and steeped in atmosphere, this indie flips the Western on its head, blending dusty Americana with surreal, meditative stillness. Join OMFG as we ride into the borderlands between myth and modernity, where every gunshot echoes like a mem...

The Horse Whisperer tells a story of healing that bridges the bond between a girl, her horse, and—ultimately—her mother. It moves quietly through the spiritual and emotional terrain of loss, resilience, and the power of animals. Join OMFG (Original Montana Film Guide) as we explore this tragic yet uplifting film and look into the life of Robert Redford, his Montana connections, and how the landsca...

Lovers on the Bridge ( Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ) throws us into the crumbling heart of Paris, where Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche play two broken souls who find each other on the city’s oldest bridge. Love here is messy, desperate, and alive against fireworks, water, and ruin. It’s a film about being seen at your lowest, about clinging to joy when nothing is promised, and about romance that bu...

This week on OMFG, a show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana, we dive into Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013). It’s a quiet, layered film about a Blackfeet WWII vet (played by Benicio Del Toro) dealing with a mysterious illness after the war—bouts of blindness, disorientation, and a system that doesn’t know how to treat him. Enter a French analyst (Mathieu Amalric) with...

In a wicked landscape where natural beauty surrounds, desolation, poverty, and violence cast everything in red. Here, predators and prey move side by side. The Wind River Reservation does not suffer the weak—nor does it forgive them. Join us on Original Montana Film Guide, the show about movies made partially or wholly in Montana. Solveig for joining us. Let's be friends: ⁠⁠⁠Larkin Matoon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

You can’t be everything for someone in a relationship. For two brothers in Montana in 1925, the world offers little more than the possibility of love — and the ease with which a life can be snuffed out. Look to the mountains, dear listeners. If you catch a vision there, keep it to yourself. That’s your secret. Join us on Original Montana Film Guide, the show about movies made partially or wholly i...

It’s been 30 years and a thousand tears—just look at the shape Sam Shepard is in. Don’t Come Knocking, Wim Wenders’ aching road film, finds a man with no contact with family, a blacked-out past, and a reckoning under the city lights of Butte, Montana. Everything becomes illuminated when home is not what you left behind but what you rediscover. Also, stick around for the launch of 'Courtney's Color...

A copperhead in the grass isn’t safe—startle it and it will strike. Mickey has been bitten many times, but somehow she’s grown numb to the poison. Mickey and the Bear is a small-town tragedy stitched with new love, flickers of hope, and the urge to run. Join us for another episode of Original Montana Film Guide as we explore impermanence, volatile upbringings, and the gloom that shadows the Northw...

The world is a cold place when you’re locked in an Alaskan prison—escape is the only way to survive. Join OMFG as we jump aboard the train from hell: frozen mountainscapes, violence, and inevitable obliteration. Runaway Train —filmed in Deer Lodge, Anaconda, and beyond—is more than just a movie, it’s a ride to the end of the line. Original Montana Film Guide is a show about movies made partially o...

Have you ever been lost in the wilderness, with only a fellow hustler and a brother-father figure to light your way out? Enter Mike — a male prostitute selling his wares in the Northwest United States. His toughest challenge isn’t his profession, but his quest to find love wherever he can. Join us as we travel the open road with Mike (River Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves) in Gus Van Sant’s 1991...

Have you ever been entangled with a naughty person? One who may or may not have conned a steel plant out of $1.9 million? Fortunately, you might be able to Nicolas Cage your way out of this mess... or can you? Find out in the latest episode of OMFG: A Show About Movies Made Partially or Wholly in Montana . Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode—and join the conversation on our ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠subreddit⁠⁠⁠ ....

The Original Montana Film Guide (OMFG) is a show about movies made partially or entirely in Montana. In this episode, we discuss Nebraska (2013), following Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) on a cross-country journey with his son David (Will Forte). It’s a story of self-discovery, old love, a $1,000,000 promise, and the courage to act when you're at a crossroads. Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode—and...

Original Montana Film Guide is a show about movies made partially or entirely in Montana. Join Big Sky Country residents Daniel Mrgan , Courtney Blazon , Larkin Matoon and me, Josh Quick , for a fun romp through the 1955 film Timberjack —an adventure filled with unsavory villains, questionable saloons, a flatline hero, a drunk attorney, and the best dog in the whole world. Follow us on instagram:...

A 2016 documentary on the mystery man himself—David Lynch. Born in Missoula, though not raised here—earthly origins, sure, but somehow he always felt otherworldly. What more can really be said about this mystical director, now recently passed? Is there insight here, dear listener? Some kind of clue? Join Daniel Mrgan, Courtney Blazon, Lauren Norby, and me—Josh Quick—as we talk through Lynch’s life...

The Original Montana Film Guide is a show dedicated to movies made partially or entirely in Montana. Join hosts Lauren Norby, Daniel Mrgan, and Josh Quick as they dig into a wild 90s romp featuring Beethoven, Missy, and the lovable Conner family. It’s a live-action cartoon full of heart, chaos, and yes—even a hot dog eating contest.

The Original Montana Film Guide is a podcast about movies made partially or entirely in Montana. In this episode, we explore Richard Linklater’s first film, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books —a quiet, wandering piece filmed in part in Missoula, Montana. Missoula-based artists Courtney Blazon, Tony Gregori, and Josh Quick discuss the film’s meditative pace, its visual poetry, and th...

The "Original Montana Film Guide" Podcast zeros in on cinema with a connection to Montana, whether wholly or partially filmed there. In this episode, hosts Josh Quick, Lauren Norby, and Daniel Mrgan, with their buddy and comic book artist Tony Gregori, dive into "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory." The team reminisces about vintage action heroes and the old-school charm of local vi...

The "Original Montana Film Guide" is a cinematic-focused series that delves into movies filmed entirely or in part in Montana. Hosts Josh Quick, Lauren Norby, and Daniel Mrgan, alongside their friend and artist Theo Ellsworth, dive into the film "Damnation Alley," encountering unexpected surprises. Their review takes them through a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with giant s...