We've learned so much from doing this project. It's truly been life-changing. If you listen to the show and enjoy it, please rate and review it, if you feel so inclined, and help us spread the word! coldwarcinema.com

Today marks two years since we launched Cold War Cinema. We've released 30 episodes so far, and it feels like we're just getting started. Thanks so much to our listeners! If you like our show, please do us a huge favor and rate or review it and spread the word. coldwarcinema.com

These folks are friends of the show and doing great work. Go follow and listen!

For the latest ep. of @coldwarcinema.com, @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @ptklein.com, and I discuss Grigori Chukrai's 1959 classic, "The Ballad of a Soldier." Link below!

New episode, y'all. I hope you enjoy it! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-9-ball...

New episode of is live! This week we discuss Grigory Chukhray's 1959 war drama, BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. We loved this movie and had a lot to say about it's formal choice and themes. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-9-ball...

Hello, friends, We learned that our production costs are going up in January and we're thinking of selling t-shirts to offset the cost. If you're a listener of the podcast, please let me know your thoughts on the mockup design and if you'd consider buying one.

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🔈Excited to announce the theme for Season 2 of The Desi Gaze podcast! We will explore Indian films from 1981 to 1991–the year the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Indian economy liberalized.

I'm not sure I've read a better single-paragraph explanation of the reasons for, and contours of, the Cold War. (from The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture, by Carl Freedman)

In case you missed our Tribute to Peter Watkins!

Listen to www.coldwarcinema.com Hooked! @jasonachristian.bsky.social @tonyjballas.bsky.social

Went into the great Peter Watkins with some friends for @coldwarcinema.com! Listen and watch every Watkins you can!! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...

Tune in to hear us reminisce about our love of Peter Watkins and attempt to unpack the running themes and contradictions of the filmmaker's entire body of work.

New bonus episode is live! Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below: coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...

New bonus episode is live! Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below: coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...

New episode of @coldwarcinema.com just dropped! We had a great time with this one and got into all sorts of complicated readings of the film. Hope you enjoy!

New episode is live! This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-8-inva...

Guaranteed listen.

This week I have Co-host of @coldwarcinema.com to discuss a terrible, yet analytically rich film: Red Dawn.

Had a blast talking with @rafstitt.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com co-host @ptklein.com about M (1931). Check it out! screenagewasteland.com/the-canon-po...

I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team this week talking about art, revolution, and the creation of national myths and political imaginaries. It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style. 🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...

New episode of @coldwarcinema.com has dropped!

New episode is live! This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...

This podcast centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.

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.