Original Montana Film Guide
Original Montana Film Guide (OMFG) explores movies made in or inspired by the Big Sky State. From Hollywood epics to indie gems, we dive into the stories, landscapes, and creative spirit that make Montana a cinematic frontier. Hosted by local artists and film lovers, OMFG celebrates the wild mix of artistry, humor, and Montana weirdness that runs through every reel.
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📞 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 hey, it counts.
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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 Montana Film Guide) in a speeding car f...
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 explore how western grit collides wit...
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.
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 memory.
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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 landscape shaped his storytelling.
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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 burns even as the world collapses.
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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 some unorthodox methods. Together,...
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.
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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.
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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 Corner' a possible new segment for...
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 Northwest’s strange, funky spirit.
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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.
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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 miracle, My Own Private Idaho. Our j...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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, his work, and the near-impossible ...
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 the journey of a young filmmaker as he d...
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