Episode 457: The Big Dig (1969)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Our appreciation of 1969 continues with a look at The Big Dig. Also known as The Blaumilch Canal, the film was written and directed by Ephraim Kishon and stars Bomba Tzur as the titular Blaumilch, an escaped mental patient with a mania for digging. When he finds a jack hammer in downtown Tel Aviv he kicks off a chain of events that demonstrates the absurdity of bureaucracy.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.0	What number are we thinking of?
0:10.0	69, dudes!
0:16.0	Well, it's a 1969 o'K
0:23.6	Watercraft's the USA
0:27.6	It's another year for me and you
0:32.6	Another year with nothing to do It's another year for me and you
0:41.3	Another year with nothing to do
0:44.3	Film is not an immediate art form
0:51.3	Production can take weeks or months or more to complete.
0:55.3	The cinema of 1969 reflects the turmoil of 1968.
1:00.2	The political upheaval and protest that went on around the globe.
1:04.6	From the Tet Offensive in January of 1968, the General Strikes of France in May 68,
1:10.7	the riots that ravaged America from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, to Kansas City throughout the spring and into summer.
1:18.2	Political crises in Poland, Pakistan, West Germany, Scandinavia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, and the UK and Yugoslavia.
1:31.5	If 1968 is a year that shook the world, then the fallout of that year should be writ large
1:37.2	on the silver screen in 1969.
1:40.9	Throughout the year, we'll be looking at several films from 1969 and how politics, economics, religious, societal, and intellectual shifts in 1968 were reflected in the cinema of 1969.
1:55.1	Join us, won't you?
2:00.4	Music The BOTTA we're going to be chirovahsale.
2:14.6	Goral of Roveh Shalem Nattombe of his non-normal
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