Once again, a fairly random viewing - one of just two movies I watched in July - provides the film in focus to anchor this month's podcast. I happened to see Jim Jarmusch's quirky Coffee and Cigarettes because I was visiting someone who had an old DVD of it onhand and was intrigued by the title. Reflecting on both its seventeen-year production (assembled into an anthology from disparately shot but aesthetically similar short films) and the nineteen years since its release, I'm able to explore themes that always interest me regarding the passage of time - alongside other threads working their way through these blackout sketches of (usually) two actors playing themselves in a fictional, often contentious, conversation.
There were a lot of political topics dredged up by this month's podcast recommendations, including the legacy of revolutions, what Boris Johnson's resignation tells us about the state of the right and its appeal, and how shopping malls have evolved as cultural touchstones. There's a bit more feedback this time than last time (all from YouTube), another Marvel movie to discuss in brief capsule form, and for the second month in a row I have an essay on a fifties classic to share from my archive.
Meanwhile, having finally caught up to June's Twin Peaks character studies in late July, I caught up to July's just a few days into August. That's an improvement at least, and now I'm on pace to provide three advance entries to patrons every month going forward. This trio was particularly striking despite the low ranking, not only for the characters' onscreen antics but also the performers' offscreen lives...
(become a patron to discover their identities)
I introduced and cross-posted the full conversation on the site last week but actually the one post to make it up on schedule in July was Part 2 of this exchange with the hosts of the weird fiction podcast Counter Esperanto for the $5/month tier's reward...
Podcast Line-Ups for...
INTRO including first character studies
MONTHLY UPDATE including Lost in Twin Peaks pause, plan for the fall to prepare for 2023, highlight of published work: Obnoxious & Anonymous guest appearance, getting out of focus mode, behind the scenes: Lindsay Hallam conversation
FILM IN FOCUS: Coffee and Cigarettes
FILM CAPSULES: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS including avoiding consequences of abortion ban, Russian Revolution ends in Revolutions podcast, Boris Johnson's fall and the flawed appeal of the right, group behavior & voting for challengers to the 2-party establishment, status of Ukraine war, West Coast Straussianism's dumbed-down myth-making, the New Right as aesthetic, the "post-Covid" period, the history of malls & mall culture
VIEWER FEEDBACK from YouTube: American Wind in the Willows, political contrast of Big Chill & Return of the Secaucus Seven, motivation to kill Laura Palmer, possible routes for late season 2 of Twin Peaks
OPENING THE ARCHIVE: Lady and the Tramp
OUTRO
MONTHLY UPDATE including Lost in Twin Peaks pause, plan for the fall to prepare for 2023, highlight of published work: Obnoxious & Anonymous guest appearance, getting out of focus mode, behind the scenes: Lindsay Hallam conversation
FILM IN FOCUS: Coffee and Cigarettes
FILM CAPSULES: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS including avoiding consequences of abortion ban, Russian Revolution ends in Revolutions podcast, Boris Johnson's fall and the flawed appeal of the right, group behavior & voting for challengers to the 2-party establishment, status of Ukraine war, West Coast Straussianism's dumbed-down myth-making, the New Right as aesthetic, the "post-Covid" period, the history of malls & mall culture
VIEWER FEEDBACK from YouTube: American Wind in the Willows, political contrast of Big Chill & Return of the Secaucus Seven, motivation to kill Laura Palmer, possible routes for late season 2 of Twin Peaks
OPENING THE ARCHIVE: Lady and the Tramp
OUTRO
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