New recent book acquisitions, and more resources for @coldwarcinema.com

Had a blast talking about the heist movie Entrapment for @1999thepodcast.bsky.social! Check it out 👇

Every time I meet with @tonyjballas.bsky.social and @jasonachristian.bsky.social for @coldwarcinema.com I come away absolutely refreshed and recharged and super excited about the work we’re doing and why contextualizing film and history matters more than ever.

New piece by Constance Grady on the Cultural Cold War. "The artistic world that the CIA built was one of American innocence...Aesthetics existed in a pure sphere of their own, one where brushstrokes and colors were celebrated as depoliticized expressions of freedom." www.vox.com/culture/4612...

I still think this essay I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social is the critical piece I'm most proud to have written. It's on Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece RIFIFI (1955), and I'd be honored if you read it. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...

Excellent piece on one of my all time favorite movies Rififi: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...

A heart-pounding, heart-breaking portrait of a lying, contemptuous, and cruel person, and the ways that images construct reality. Essential viewing for understanding how fascism operates, that we must crush it completely, and why, when our current moment ends, we cannot exonerate those responsible.

A delight to discuss Fuller with tremendous company!

Thanks to all the listeners of @coldwarcinema.com!

Kind of wild knowing that our little public scholarship passion project is engaging folks globally.

It's heartening to see that our little project has found listeners around the world. Here are the top ten countries. Thank you to everyone.

New episode dropped, and it's a good one!

We’re talking about Sam Fuller’s noir masterpiece Pickup on South Street today on @coldwarcinema.com. It’s a remarkable movie that makes sense out of Cold War paranoia through an incisive critique of American ideological systems. I 🎧: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-6-pick...

If America is so good at keeping us down, maybe the best we can hope for is a material existence in the afterlife. This week on @coldwarcinema.com, we’re talking about Pickup on South Street, and how it makes sense of our homegrown Cold War paranoia. 👉 Listen now: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-6-pick...

New episode is live! On this episode, @jasonachristian.bsky.social and @ptklein.com discuss Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953) w/ guest Stephen Gillespie, from the STACKS podcast. Find out why J. Edgar Hoover hated this movie, and much more! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-6-pick...

Hey friends, if you are a listener of @coldwarcinema.com, please do us a huge favor and rate and/or review the podcast. It really helps! Thanks.

Had a blast talking to @christopherbell.bsky.social‬ about filmmaking, the streaming service @means.tv, the legacy of George W. Bush, and a whole lot more! Check it out!

New episode is live! @jasonachristian.bsky.social interviews Christopher Jason Bell (‪@christopherbell.bsky.social‬) about his docu-series MISS ME YET, about the George W. Bush presidency, the streaming service @means.tv, and more! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...

Who decides what constitutes propaganda? Join the @coldwarcinema.com this weekend as we think about the 1953 Soviet drama Silvery Dust and its critiques of America’s history of white supremacy, corrupt capital, and scientific collaborations with former Nazis. 🎧: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-5-silv...

New episode dropped! This is one of my favorites, y'all. Please leave us a review and share widely!

New episode is live! This week, we cover the 1953 Soviet sci-fi film Silvery Dust, which is a scathing critique US imperialism and unethical science. We also discuss Operation Paperclip, the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee (1932-1972), and more. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-5-silv...

Heads up, a new episode of @coldwarcinema.com drops tomorrow at 8:00 AM EST!

You really have to hand it to the CIA. All the money and manpower they invested in supporting a Non-Communist Left (NCL) for decades paid off. People are more confused than ever and it never occurs to them to seek answers in theories they've been taught to distrust or despise.

ICYMI I guested on a great new movie podcast, @Cold_War_Cinema to discuss Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, which is actually all about neoliberalism. Give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

New episode dropped!

This was fun! Give us a listen and sub to this pod, it’s great

New bonus episode is live! We invited @matthiasellis.com to help us discuss the new Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician Scheme, a film set in 1950 that grapples with all the contradictions of the Cold War era. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-the-ph...

The Phoenician Scheme is out on physical media today, so I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team and @matthiasellis.com for a special bonus episode of the pod all about Andersonian aesthetics and the Cold War origins of the world we live in. 🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/bonus-the-ph...

Film rec of the day: Matewan (John Sayles, USA, 1987)

Btw co-host @jasonachristian.bsky.social put together a @letterboxd.social list of the movies we've covered on the podcast, so far. Check it out! letterboxd.com/exilemagic/l...

On @coldwarcinema.com, I’m chatting with @jasonachristian.bsky.social and @tonyjballas.bsky.social about the ways that midcentury anticommunist films like I Married a Communist reveal a desire for an uncritical, ideologically homogenous American subject. 🎧 Listen Here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-4

Excited about this episode, y'all. We get into some little known labor history and discuss why recycled anti-Communist propaganda still works today. Check it out!

New episode of @Cold_War_Cinema is live! In this ep., @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @tonyjballas.bsky.social and @ptklein.com discuss Robert Stevenson's 1949 film I Married a Communist A.K.A. The Woman on Pier 13 and unpack its anti-communist propaganda. coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-4

Film rec of the day: The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1967)

Film rec of the day: Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1946)

Coming soon to @coldwarcinema.com: Silver Dust, a 1953 Soviet picture about the military-industrial complex and race in America. Produced some 5,000 miles away, this one nevertheless hits very close to home.

A supporter of Adlai Stevenson, she was saved from the Commies by John Wayne's two-fisted HUAC investigator Big Jim McLain. (An Army of Phantoms 201-03)

@jasonachristian.bsky.social, @ptklein.com and I just had a very special guest on @coldwarcinema.com. Any guesses as to who it might be? Find out July 29th!

Btw co-host @jasonachristian.bsky.social put together a @letterboxd.social list of the movies we've covered on the podcast, so far. Check it out! letterboxd.com/exilemagic/l...

Film rec of the day: Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem) (Jindřich Polák, Czecholsovakia, 1977)

Film rec of the day: Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR, 1960)

Cold War Cinema has a new Instagram account! Follow us there! instagram.com/coldwarcinem...

Folks, the para-academic film podcast world has legs and its running! Give the Cold War Cinema folks a follow and check out their recent episode on what sounds like one of the most interesting, under the radar postwar Soviet films podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Cold War Cinema has a new Instagram account! Follow us there! instagram.com/coldwarcinem...

New episode of @coldwarcinema.com just dropped! I'm pretty proud of this one, so please do give it a listen.

#NowPlaying at @coldwarcinema.com: I’m talking about The Russian Question, Mikhail Romm’s nuanced critique of a sensationalist American news media and its hunger for war and conflict. 🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-3-the-...

New episode is live! This week we discuss Mikhaill Romm’s THE RUSSIAN QUESTION, a 1948 Soviet drama set in the United States that presents a brilliant critique of mass media bias and offers a nuanced critique of US culture more broadly. coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-3-the-...