In this episode, Hal and Craig discuss Luis Bunuel's 1962 The Exetermingating Angel, a biting satire of the wealthy elite. In addition, Hal and Craig discuss:
- Ron DeSantis' growing war on public education;
- How awesome the WWE is;
- Terry Gilliam's surrealist masterpiece Brazil;
- Daniel Day Lewis' son turned rapper (who is about to Gabe Day Lose It);
- And Armond White's catholic fascism.
Sources:
- Slade Lecture 2010 series entitled "Surrealism and Art History" from University of Oxford executed by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University. Especially from Week 1: Automatism and Chance: Surrealist Strategies and Their Legacies in Contemporary Art and Film
- Linda Williams' 1992 monograph Figures of Desire
- Criterion Channtel bonus interview with director Arturo Ripstein (his father was a producer and he worked uncredited as AD for Bunuel before becoming a director himself)
- Surrealism Beyond Borders. The Met exhibition in late 2021-early 2022; also listed to a Yale University Press podcast with the curators from the Met and the Tate Modern
- "The Surrealist Film" an article in September 1966 issue of ArtForum written by Toby Mussman
- Luis Bunuel monograph written by Ado Kyrou in 1963
