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Michael and Us: I Don't Like Sand

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactly? Your hosts are not entirely sure, but forge ahead anyway with this seminal work of postwar Japanese cinema.


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.



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0:00.0

Well, the listener should know that my dog Hugo was once again third Mike on this episode.

0:17.2

He's come to visit the Gore Lieberman Studios, come to do an audit.

0:22.2

He'll be chiming in with any thoughts he has as it goes along.

0:26.0

Before we get into this further, I mean, you know I've been on a three-stooge's kick lately

0:29.9

I'm always on a three-stooge's kick.

0:31.8

I'm never not thinking about the three-stooge's.

0:33.8

I want to tell you about a film that I watched this morning.

0:37.1

A big favor to mine growing up, not a very good one.

0:40.1

But, you know, I feel fondly towards it.

0:42.8

One of the last shrimp films called Wambam Slam from 1956.

0:48.4

There's a scene, shrimp is ailing in it.

0:50.5

He has a bad cold or flu, and most preparing him a foot bath.

0:55.4

That seems like a nice thing to do to a guy, right?

0:58.0

But what have I told you that Larry is also in the kitchen

1:00.5

and he's preparing some live lobsters for dinner?

1:04.3

Wouldn't it be awful if somehow the lobsters fell into the bucket they were using for the foot bath?

1:11.5

Anyway, I'll encourage the listeners to look up the film and just find out how that situation

1:15.8

resolves itself.

1:16.7

What was the one you showed me yesterday?

1:19.0

Well, I showed you a few minutes of one of those.

1:21.5

A film called An Ake in Every Stake, which has one of my probably top five favorite moments

1:28.8

in any comedy film ever, which is the boys are they're lugging up this big ice box,

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