#317 - Hunters in the Snow

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The great Homer Simpson once said, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." In that spirit, we watched Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece SOLARIS (1972), which imagines outer space as a manifestation of our inner life. PLUS: checking in on that most important issue of our time, the Oscars.

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0:00.0	It's a watchable night for Oscar.
0:07.0	Oscar Oscar.
0:08.0	Who will win?
0:11.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with.
0:14.0	Luke Savage.
0:15.0	Welcome back, everyone.
0:16.0	Sorry, we're a little late this week.
0:18.0	What can I say?
0:19.0	Life gets in the way sometimes, as I found out while watching this week's movie Solaris.
0:25.1	That is, you know, as Andrei Tarkovsky once said, life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
0:33.1	Well, anyway, this is a film culture and politics podcast. And there's perhaps no single event,
0:38.1	which epitomizes those three things together, more than the Oscars, folks, which I feel like
0:43.5	we talk about, or I should say you talk about, a pretty embarrassing amount on this show.
0:47.8	I was intrigued enough by some of your tweets today to want to talk about them. So I'm not really
0:52.8	up on the Oscar stuff you're riffing on, Will,
0:55.1	but can you fill me and the listeners in? First of all, the Oscar race is heating up. Who's
1:00.6	going to win? Who's going to lose? The questions on everyone's mind in Tenseltown are who walks
1:06.5	away with that gold little statue? You and I together have talked about the Oscars a fair amount, and you've always been
1:12.5	sort of bemused that I get hung up on it every year in some way.
1:16.4	And I get hung up on the Oscars for the same reason.
1:18.9	I think that you still sometimes watch Canadian leadership debates, even though you don't
1:24.5	like them.
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