#464 - Wheatfield with Crows

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Late in his career, Akira Kurosawa plumbed his subconscious and came up with DREAMS (1990), one of his most underrated films. We discuss the ways that this film captures the mood and style of a dream, and its unifying theme of humankind's relationship with nature. PLUS: We attempt to define the ambient politics (and anti-politics) of the post-Trump years. "Martin Scorsese: 'I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am'" by Zach Baron - https://www.gq.com/story/martin-scorsese-profile Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - www.patreon.com/michaelandus Preorder Luke's new book "Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality," coauthored with Ed Broadbent - ecwpress.com/products/seeking-s…cracy-ed-broadbent TORONTO: See Luke and Ed Broadbent in conversation at the Toronto Reference Library on October 22 - www.eventbrite.ca/e/seeking-social…ets-713793665067 VANCOUVER: See Luke and Ed at the Central Library on November 1 - vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/650b36e…0219cf8b5cf95f See Will introduce THINGS (1989) at the Fox Theatre on October 3 - www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/the-impor…classics-things/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:18.3	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
0:20.3	Well, this is a little bit of old
0:21.7	news at this point, but I think it merits discussion because it is a story of our age, you know,
0:27.4	the sort of thing that happens in our time. I licked my finger and put it up in the wind, and I felt
0:32.3	the wind's shifting, and I felt a breeze that said that this is, this is a story that in some way
0:37.4	embodies the moment.
0:39.1	So last week off, Mike, we discussed that Robert De Niro was allegedly going to play
0:43.5	Travis Bickle in an advertising campaign for Uber, which is so funny.
0:51.1	Uber, we are the people.
1:13.2	I mean, Robert De Niro, a man who has made, you know, his share of bad movies, I think it's fair to say over the last 20 years or so. This seemed like a particular, a particular bridge too far. I showed you this on my phone. And you said, I not predict that they're, you said to me,
1:18.5	you said, the world is such now that thanks to social media, this will be noticed.
1:21.0	People will be upset about this.
1:24.5	And within a few days, well, here's an article in variety.
1:28.3	A representative for Robert De Niro has denied reports that the Oscar winner has reprised his role as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver for an Uber ad campaign.
1:34.3	Several published reports in recent days asserted that De Niro was revisiting the seminal character
1:39.2	from Martin Scorsese's 1976 drama, a role that cemented his status as one of the great actors of his era.
1:45.1	Reports of the plan for the commercial prompted taxi driver screenwriter Paul Schrader to slam
1:49.4	the idea in a Facebook post.
1:51.3	Ouch, why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning, Schrader wrote on September 20th,
1:56.7	but I haven't seen it.
1:57.8	If I'm lucky, I never will.
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