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

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

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

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with...

Tosha Robinson.

Genevieve Kosky.

And Scott Tobias.

This week we're talking about whiskey tango fox trot, a new fact-based sort of comedy starring Tina Faye, written by Faye Surrey Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, partner Robert Carlock, adapted from a memoir by journalist Kim Barker, and directed by Glenn Foucara and John Requa, the team behind Focus, Crazy Stupid Love, and other films. The films are strikingly different in many ways. Ficcara and Reckwa bring a studied approach to the direction that owes little to Altman. MASH is very much a movie driven by guys while Faye's gender factors into the story in ways both large and small, from the ways her colleagues treat her to the steps she has to take to avoid offending Afghans. I'd also argue that despite its shambolic structure, MASH has a much clearer sense of purpose than Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, but we can get into that in a bit. Yet there are also very much films about makeshift and fluid communities of outsiders that spring

up in the middle of war zones. On this half of the podcast, we're going to place one next to the

other and see how they approach a similar subject, consider the differences between the approaches,

and discuss whether the wars themselves affect the films attempting to portray them.

Miss Baker, this is an extreme environment.

I've seen people with actual experience, like bad decisions here.

You should let me interview you.

But I do not know you.

How can we get to know each other?

Yes, kids. Excellent.

It's bananas. Here. I don't think I can do this

We are all here for a reason

So what's your reason?

I just wanted out of my job

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