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In this Short Cut we discuss Martin Scorsese's love of Elia Kazan, The Wicker Man's assorted spinoff films, Louis Theroux's third Westboro Baptist Church documentary, and the rock doc A Band Called Death, from whom the episode draws its name. In flagrant violation of episode-artwork continuity, you'll have to subscribe to the Patreon to get the Lars Von Trier stuff.
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(Original episode description from patreon.com/reelpolitik:)
YOU JUST GOT GOT BY THE RP FALSE NEWS MACHINE!
That's right, the St Petersburg Troll Factories are ready, and they're at it again. This episode isn't even about politicians: it's our long-promised movie roundup, in which Jack and Yair run through some of the major releases of the last few months, the coming months, and have a wide-ranging discussion of cinema in general.
Reviewed: Ava Duvernay's powerful & accurate miniseries When They See Us, as well as Lars Von Trier's grimly funny The House That Jack Built (this episode was gonna be named after a pun on that title but I didn't want to a) take more credit for "building this show" than I deserve and b) compare myself to a serial killer - Jack).
We bitch about superhero movies, misanthropic art films, and Martin Scorsese's predilection for whitewashing the political context of his favourite movies, particularly when it comes to hated stool pigeon Elia Kazan. This is all, of course, while we drool over Marty's forthcoming the Irishman, his innovative use of pioneering False News techniques in his recent documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, and of cutting-edge cocaine-removing technology in The Last Waltz - because he makes some of our favourite movies.
We look back on the sacrilegious double-whammy of the Wicker Tree (2011 - bad) and Witchfinder General (1968 - good) and, finally, Jack recommends the excellent, bittersweet 2012 documentary A Band Called Death, and we play the episode out with the Death banger that gave it its name. The name of the song at the start? Well, you see...YOU HAVE THE (MOTHER'S) MIWK!!!! (BY THE MEAT PUPPETS!!!!)
