Pod Casty For Me

The Winds of Winter is still a distant dream for incarcerated fantasy fans, but our episode on Soderbergh's 2017 NASCAR caper LOGAN LUCKY is coming to you on schedule. We brought back our friend, and rebel among San Diego film critics, Glenn Heath Jr. to discuss how Ocean's 7-Eleven combines Soderbergh's impatience with conventional film production, his visions of an incongruous South, and his preternatural flair for heist movies. It might be a live-action cartoon or it might be serious American Regionalism. We lay it all out for you in what Sebastian Stan has called "the dirtiest air of all."
Further Reading:
"Will Soderbergh's Strategy of Bypassing the Studio System...,"  by Ryan Faughnder
Prison Life Unlocked by Phillip Vance Smith Jr. 
"Former Coal Towns Get Money from Clean-Energy Factories," by Hiroko Tabuchi 
"How an Ex-Coal Mining Town is Turning to Ecotourism," by Emily Cataneo
"For Black NASCAR Fans, Change Would Mean Feeling at Ease," by Andrew Keh
Further Viewing:
RAISING ARIZONA (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987)
BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, 1996)
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (Adam McKay, 2006)
BERNIE (Richard Linklater, 2011)
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Digital Gym Cinema
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Pacific Arts Movement
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As promised, we decided to dig in on last year's Best Picture winner and one of the most-discussed Political Films to come out of Hollywood in a long time: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. And of course we roped in our buddy Ryan Torgeson, formerly of the Altmania podcast, who has maybe more context for this film than anyone we know. We talk about whether the film has a coherent politics and what that might be, the film's depiction of Black women, the "discourse" that most pissed us off, being the child of radical parents, and of course how many beers we've had (and their relative size). Really great conversation, check it out!
follow Ryan: https://x.com/molecularlioneI
"Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another" by Angelica Jade Bastién - https://www.vulture.com/article/black-actresses-are-carrying-one-battle-after-another.html
Mother Country Radicals podcast - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/mother-country-radicals/
As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Scrub in, folks - we're headed back to the operating theater for the second and final season of The Knick! Doctors Thack and Edwards and the gang are up to even more bleak shenanigans this time, and we're talking about it all. It's a bonafide Pod Casty cornucopia of context as we chat medical hypnotism, eugenics, Black Nationalism, sideshows, addiction treatment, urban revival churches, condoms, New York City corruption, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus, Kimi's really one on this time.
Further Reading:
Soderbergh interview on AI by Brent Lang
Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper
Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts by Ben Singer
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America by Benjamin Reiss
André Holland interview by Rodrigo Perez
"The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" by Paul Prescod
"The Shadow of Booker T. Washington" by Jervis Anderson
"A Short History of the Condom" by Hallie Lieberman
"The Wedding Night" by Ida Craddock
Further Viewing:
THE MOSQUITO COAST (Weir, 1986)
MAD MEN (various, 2007)
J. EDGAR (Eastwood, 2011)
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We're back with another commentary track, this time for a movie by a director we almost covered: David Cronenberg. His 1988 identical twin gynecologist horror-tragedy DEAD RINGERS deals with all kinds of themes we love: the nature of the self, of experience, of the body, of morality. It's also got the guy from Soderbergh's KAFKA and the lady from TIGHTROPE and OBSESSION. Listen to this along with the film or just listen on its own - it works either way, in our opinion!
"Dead Ringers" by Ron Rosenbaum & Susan Edmiston
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Get ready for one (second-to-)last ride! We're hopping on the food truck with the Kings of Tampa to talk MAGIC MIKE XXL, Greg Jacobs's 2015 sequel to MAGIC MIKE, on which Soderbergh served as both cinematographer and editor. Returning to the show is our pal, movie person and social media producer Marie Bardi! We talk nontoxic masculinity, female pleasure, the film's response to race-based criticism of MAGIC MIKE, and whether the Kings can be considered a leaderless worker collective. Grab your cheetos and water and give it a listen.
Further Reading:
"Where Mike Got the Magic" by Tressie McMillan Cottom
"The Subversive Phallocentrism of Channing Tatum," by Katie Warfield
"The Lived Experience of Male Sex Work." by Michael G. Cutris and Joshua L. Boe
Further Viewing:
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, 1933)
THE STORE (Frederick Wiseman, 1983)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, 1999)
STEP UP (Anne Fletcher, 2006)
STEP UP REVOLUTION (Scott Speer, 2012)
NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
DOG (Reid Carolin, Channing Tatum, 2022)
Follow Marie Bardi-Salinas:
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blank-check-with-griffin-david/id981330533
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