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The Next Picture Show

#019: MASH / Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Pt. 1)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Attention. Attention: This week’s movie pairing looks at the communities that spring up in the middle of war, and the odd ways people try to push back against the insanity that surrounds them. Inspired by the new Tina Fey wartime dramedy WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, we look back at Robert Altman's 1970 breakthrough MASH to see how the lives of those at war – and the visions of those depicting it – have changed in the years between Korea and Afghanistan. Fittingly, this turns out to be our most contentious selection ever. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about MASH, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:14.0

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:20.0

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:27.2

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:33.9

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:40.0

I'm Keith Phipps here with...

0:41.9

Tasha Robinson.

0:42.8

Genevieve Kasky.

0:43.6

And...

0:44.1

Scott Tobias.

0:45.0

We all believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

0:49.3

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current release.

0:54.9

Attention, attention. This week's movie will be a pair of films about communities that spring up in the middle of war and the odd ways people try to push back against the insanity that surrounds them.

1:04.1

Tasha, would you like to give us the details?

1:05.9

I would. Adapted with liberties from Chicago Tribune reporter Kim Barker's 2012 book The Saliban Shuffle,

1:12.3

a chronicle of her time as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan,

1:16.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot stars Tina Fey as Kim Baker, an on-wee-stricken employee of a major news network

1:21.8

who's tired of providing meaningless copy for others to read on the air.

1:25.4

To correct this, she signs on for a stint covering Afghanistan,

1:29.2

her base of operations, a boarding house in Kabul that's home to journalists, their security

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