You can watch the films here:

https://www.dau.com/en

And here is Sophie's article behind the paywall. Our patrons will get it in the pdf format.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II125/articles/sophie-pinkham-nihilism-for-oligarchs

Here is the series of articles on growing up in NZ by Katherine Dolan:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/84158436/new-zealand-is-no-paradise-it-is-brutal

P.S. Skip first twenty minutes if you don't want to listen to us chat about Los Angeles, writing and depression.

Set in the boom years of the postwar 1940s, the show mixes fact and fiction in an alt-history that emphasizes the routine sexual exploitation built into the industry as well as its racism, sexism and homophobia. In short, it's a liberal fairytale that injects today's post-Weinstein wokeness into old Hollywood. 

PS: Next week's patron-only episode is going to deal with another kind of modern disaster in film: the nuclear meltdown. So we're going to talk to historian Kate Brown about the HBO show Chernobyl. Subscribe today! 

Eileen's article is attached below since it's only available for Jacobin subscribers.

Andrei talked about the nature of political art, dialectics, Russia's unique history and his brief collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky.

Watch the film here http://magnitskyact.com/ 

P.S. There is a construction next to Evgenia's apartment building, hence the soundscape.

We talk at length about The Irishman and Little Women, but also Parasite, The Souvenir, Cats and others.

See the attachment for noir films and books recommendations on Patreon.

Somehow we manage to relate this to Val Lewton and David Lynch movies. They’re part of The Family too.

Maria talked to us about how the Russian film industry works, why there is virtually no independent cinema in Russia, and why no one needs Russian film directors abroad. She also tells us about James Cameron’s role in reviving Russian film theaters in the late 1990s. It’s all about Titanic!

P.S. Our next episode is finally gonna tackle the Great Tarkovsky Mystery with a special Russian guest. So stay tuned…and subscribe!

All this plus Evgenia’s report back from the Venice Film Festival! Including the party at Pierre Cardin’s palazzo that followed the premiere of Todd Hughes & P. David Ebersole’s new doc, House of Cardin! 

The films we chat about -- Tropic Thunder, No Country for Old Men, La Chinoise, Kung Fu Hustle, Total Recall, Storytelling, Blade Runner, They Live, In Time, Dr. Strangelove.

Dolores McElroy co-taught a course on Stardom & Cinema with Eileen at UC Berkeley, and is currently writing a dissertation on the figure of the diva that Hollywood cinema inherited from grand opera.  

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Check out Episode #3: What Film Scarred You for Life? — available to Filmsuck patrons only. 

We also share some of the best of the many great responses we got from film-traumatized listeners and friends. (Thanks all who weighed in on this psychologically revealing topic!)

Plus we’ve got an interview with John Dolan aka Gary Brecher of Radio War Nerd that’s even better and funnier and more inclined to go off on wildly insightful tangents than we expected, so we’ve included it in its entirety. 

Sorry, we meant this episode to run only about an hour, but is it our fault we suffer from an excess of podcasting enthusiasm? John Dolan’s interview is in the second hour of the episode if you want to jump ahead!

Coming up soon: 

Episode #4: Awards Season Madness! 

Episode #5: Psycho Film Directors or Thank God They Did It Only on Screen

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Then we interview young but seasoned indie director Kelly Daniela Norris, whose recent film Nakom was nominated for a number of awards including a 2016 Independent Spirit Award, specifically the John Cassavetes Award for features made for under $500,000.  

Because this episode runs long at a bit over two hours, here’s a handy guide to what’s going on within in the episode so you can jump ahead if you like!

• First 30 minutes: Evgenia and Eileen gripe about indie film

• 00:30 – 1.36: Kelly recalls the impressive hell of making Nakom

• 1:36 – 1:51: Independent Spirit Awards and women directors

• 1:51 – 2:03: How to make a living in indie film, how not to combine filmmaking with academia

• 2:03 – 2:20: On editing and the mysteries of filmmaking, plus general hysteria

We're a little earlier than previously announced in releasing Episode #2, you lucky listeners! 

So we’ll still have time for two more episodes of Filmsuck in February. Coming up: Episode #3: What Film Scarred You for Life? And Episode #4: Award Season Madness! 

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We talk about the Coens’ early development as filmmakers, their work process, their status as reluctant auteurs, their embrace of genre filmmaking, some dominant themes and motifs of their films, their literary and philosophical tendencies, and their reception by critics and audiences, with a special emphasis on their latest film currently running on Netflix, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs".

This is our first episode. We'll be releasing regular biweekly episodes of Filmsuck starting in February. 

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