River City Stories collaborator Paul Hood joins Wally to talk about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show and the many forms of protest that artists have at their disposal. Along the way, we talk about Iranian cinema, Spike Lee, the Civil Rights Movement, and the underrated gem that is The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
00:00:29 Kendrick Lamar and the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show
00:13:01 Why Did Samuel L. Jackson Show Up?
00:16:40 Gil Scott-Heron and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
00:25:59 Difficult art and Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
00:30:19 The Last Black Man in San Francisco
00:42:20 Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Historical Protest
00:45:50 Alex Garland’s Civil War
00:53:06 Iranian Cinema and The Seed of the Sacred Fig
00:57:43 Jafar Panahi and This Is Not a Film
01:03:58 Spike Lee’s Protest Cinema: Bamboozled
01:05:59 Inside Man: Hiding Protest in Plain Sight
01:08:18 The 25th Hour
01:08:50 Do the Right Thing
01:12:14 Chi-Raq
01:13:27 Modern Protest Cinema
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