Michael and Us: Everything's Just Great

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

After the upheaval of 1968, Jean-Luc Godard said goodbye to commercial cinema to create a new kind of radical Marxist filmmaking. With TOUT VA BIEN (1972), Godard and his filmmaking partner Jean-Pierre Gorin tried to meet the audience halfway. Taking place in a moment when the student protests, the French New Wave, and even Godard's own militant phase were receding from view, this fascinating Brechtian exercise starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand may or may not have room for optimism. PLUS: bold predictions about the incoming Biden administration, and the politics of another cinematic legend: James Bond.

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0:00.0	The Vietnam will be moor I'm a moor.
0:03.0	Johnson rago le moor
0:06.0	moor moor mow mow.
0:08.0	The nampant for the moor mow
0:10.0	mow mow
0:11.0	mow mow mow mow mow Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Slo and here is always with. Luke Savage, welcome
0:21.2	back everybody and happy inauguration week.
0:24.0	By the time you're listening to this, the coronavirus will be over,
0:28.0	the Trump era will be over.
0:30.0	The kids in cages will be free.
0:32.0	Speaking of decaying institutions, this week I revisited the last James Bond movie, Specter.
0:38.2	Is that really a decaying institution? I like the new James Bond movies actually.
0:42.6	It's not James Bond that's decaying so much as the institutions that he represents.
0:47.6	Whoa!
0:49.1	I watched Specter recently and I watched Skyfall recently and I watched Skyfall recently and I also watch the world is not enough with
0:54.7	Pierce-Brasnun.
0:55.7	Less said about that one the better.
0:57.4	Well I was going to say if we ever do a Bond film on the podcast which I actually think we should
1:02.0	we should avoid all of the Daniel Craig ones because they're actually just kind of fun and entertaining movies, whereas the Pierce-Brazin ones are incredible. And I don't mean in a good way. I mean, I remember watching those kind of age 12 and being like
1:14.3	wow this is so cool like if you've watched any from the Brausen era now they are so
1:19.0	outdated they are so of the 1990s in a way they actually feel more outdated than like the ones from the
1:25.2	60s and 70s I actually think that Die Another Day might be my favorite Bond
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