#2452 - Roger Avary

February 11, 2026

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5 min read

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual, freewheeling Joe Rogan Experience interview blending film geekery, movie clips, and wild conspiracy rants.
The Key Players: Roger Avery, Oscar-winning screenwriter (Pulp Fiction co-writer with Tarantino), film historian, and provocateur diving deep into cinema history and fringe theories; Joe Rogan as enthusiastic reactor, pulling clips and pushing back.
The Vibe: Fun and nerdy at first (movie breakdowns), turning intense and mind-bending with Epstein files, 9/11, and flat Earth debates—equal parts educational geek-out and "wait, what?" paranoia.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

Discussions hop from golden-age Hollywood innovations to digital decay, vampire flicks, and elite cabals—pure podcast chaos.

Topic 1: Classic Film Magic vs. Modern Digital Slop – Avery geeks on Orson Welles' groundbreaking shots in Citizen Kane (1941) and Touch of Evil (1958), like impossible dolly pulls and crane sequences done with WW2-era tech; laments streaming's formulaic "white papers," video village executives killing spontaneity, and how film forced "lightning in a bottle" vs. endless digital rolling.
Topic 2: Horror/Vampire Movies & Hidden Meanings – Clips from Nosferatu variants (Herzog's 1979 Klaus Kinski gem, new Eggers version), What We Do in the Shadows, **Let the Right One In

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Roger Avery**
2 (01:09) **Orson Welles and Citizen Kane**
3 (04:12) **Touch of Evil Opening Shot**
4 (10:08) **Film vs. Digital Filmmaking**
5 (21:55) **Modern Cinema Critiques**
6 (27:29) **Vampire Movies Deep Dive**
7 (43:49) **Horror, Zombies, and TV Trends**

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Show Notes

Roger Avary is a director, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter known for “Pulp Fiction,” which he co-wrote with Quentin Tarantino, as well as “The Rules of Attraction” and “Killing Zoe.” He is the co-host, along with Tarantino, of “The Video Archives Podcast.”
www.youtube.com/@videoarchivespodcast
www.patreon.com/videoarchives
www.avary.com

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