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

Fascinating passage from the essential 1968 essay "Towards a Third Cinema," by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas:

ENTRAPMENT is actually pretty good?? And shoulda had a sequel?? And I maybe think it's better than THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, even though @juliasirmons.bsky.social disagrees?? Anyway, listen to us talk about it with @jasonachristian.bsky.social

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

This is a good one! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social welcome @jasonachristian.bsky.social to talk about the surprisingly pretty good ENTRAPMENT, a movie remembered as a dull box office bomb which was neither of those things! Here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Tomorrow! More heisting! Catherine Zeta-Jones! Catherine Zeta-Jones's ass! Connery impressions! It's all here! With @jasonachristian.bsky.social

Broke my nearly three-year fast from watching TV to start rewatching The Americans, which I think is an underrated show. It also has a killer soundtrack.

Anyone interested in putting together a panel on (de)colonization for WPSA 2026 (San Diego)?

Less than zero respect for anyone who hasn't spoken out publicly in defense of Palestine and to condemn Israel. Your cowardice is abhorrent.

I'm not sure US citizens are aware of this catastrophe unfolding very quickly. The entire economy and immigration system is about to be wrecked in a matter of hours because of Trump's new H1-B Visa policy.

My latest Substack newsletter is live andrewnette.substack.com/p/everything...

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...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

We're going back-to-back with the Former Bond Actors As Art Thieves 1999 subgenre as we look at what many remember as 1999's most high-profile dud and are surprised to learn it's actually quite delightful (and wasn't a dud!) 9/23 with @jasonachristian.bsky.social

Thank you, Adam!

“The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it. The dismissals, the blacklists…”

Vernon, Greenfield #12 Featuring film rec of the week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...

Thank you, Adam!

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

Good piece w astute use of the blacklist. I've written a lot about Dassin over the years. (You probably know my notes for the Criterion RIFIFI Blu-ray.) Linking to a piece fyi on UPTIGHT! written for Tablet (once a worthy venue, now way, way too rightwing for me) www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

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...

JFC U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon.

Israel has bombed Qatar in an attempt to murder Gaza negotiators gathered for ceasefire talks, just days after bombing Yemen to murder the Prime Minister and cabinet in Sanaa, all while conducting a genocide. Obscene levels of violence. A terrorist regime in the fullest sense.

A delight to discuss Fuller with tremendous company!

🔥 JACOB’S BOOK IS OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!!! 🔥 If you like magic shotguns, orc best friends, labor organizing, lesbians, sorcery, or killing fascists, you'll dig this book. If you don't like any of those things…reread the list, that stuff is awesome. www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-bo...

Thanks to all the listeners of @coldwarcinema.com!

Join @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @stephenage.bsky.social, and I as we consider this striking film, writer-director Sam Fuller’s incendiary, but ultimately idealist, politics, and how Pickup helps us make sense of where we are today. On Spotify:

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

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.

Created a @letterboxd.social list of the films that we'll be watching for my Radical Aesthetics independent study (syllabus here: trgenovese.github.io/syllabi/PHI2...) letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...

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.

PENULTIMATE DIGITAL FRONTIERS EPISODE: Captain America: The First Avenger, is about a young weakling who gets a fat shot of juice and uses his new muscles to fight Nazis. Or is it about the maintenance of this story in itself? Hard to say: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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...

Haven't yet had a chance to catch all of Dr. Osuna's episode with us on Predator? If you've got 15 minutes you can hear his breakdown of what the Imperial '80s meant to Central America, providing the historical context through which to view Predator youtu.be/e5lSpvsRMG8

8/26/60: John Cassavetes' indie landmark Shadows More: @steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oc... @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/one-night-st... Rosenbaum: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/09/the-...

Conservatives, foaming at the mouth: “Everything should exactly like it was 100 years ago! 🤬 Only women should be cheerleaders!!! 🤬 Respect traditional gender roles!!!!” 100 years ago:

New collections added! • El Moudjahid Digital Archive (Algeria) • Xiandai Funü (China) • Xinhua ribao (China) • Gramsci Digital Library (Italy) • Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers • Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Today we’re remembering Vannak Anan Prum, an author and illustrator whose empathy and confidence shone through in everything he created.

Other than early Soviet works by Eisenstein et al. and "Towards a Third Cinema" by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, what are some leftist manifestos urging for a new radical cinema?

Guess I'll make another list: 50: The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) 51: He Ran All the Way 52: Umberto D. 53: The Big Heat 54: Seven Samurai 55: Pather Panchali / Rififi 56: A Man Escaped 57: The Cranes Are Flying 58: Vertigo 59: Hiroshima Mon Amour

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...

The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957

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...

For the evening crowd 👇