Culture Gabfest - Live From Santa Monica Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and guest Karina Longworth of the the podcast You Must Remember This are live in Santa Monica to discuss Nate Parker's new film Birth of a Nation, W.D. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, and their favorite Hollywood films about Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest live from Santa Monica edition. |
| 0:26.7 | It's Wednesday, |
| 0:28.8 | and on today's show, |
| 0:29.7 | we'll be talking about Birth of a Nation, |
| 0:31.1 | the new film about |
| 0:32.0 | Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion |
| 0:33.4 | from writer, |
| 0:34.2 | director, and star Nate Parker. |
| 0:36.1 | And then we'll be joined |
| 0:37.2 | by the wonderful Karina Longworth |
| 0:38.5 | to talk about Birth of a Nation, |
| 0:40.6 | the very old, very racist, |
| 0:42.5 | and very cinematically influential film from DW Griffith. |
| 0:46.0 | Finally, we'll celebrate the greatest ever |
| 0:47.9 | Hollywood movies about Hollywood. |
| 0:50.6 | Joining me today is Slate Film Critic, Dana Stevens. |
| 0:53.7 | Hello, Julia. Hello, Julia. |
| 0:54.9 | Hello, Dana. |
| 0:59.9 | At the moment when Steve Metcalf was scheduled to get on his plane and come here to California, |
| 1:04.8 | he was vomiting violently in Hudson, New York, and was like, I cannot get on an airplane. Too much pie, someone in the audience |
| 1:12.9 | suggested. Okay, so before we start, we are so sad that Steve can't be here, and he is so sad that |
| 1:19.3 | he can't be here, that we thought that we might give him an audio get-well card from Santa Monica. |
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