Michael and Us: Penn and Paintbrush

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Libertarian magicians Penn & Teller turn their gaze to the art world in TIM'S VERMEER (2013), a documentary that attempts to prove that, with just the right set of tools and a lot of money, one wealthy entrepreneur can paint a Vermeer. We discuss the bleak, empty void that is Penn & Teller's view of art.

See Luke at the Toronto International Festival of Authors on September 27 - https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/critical-conversation-new-working-class/

Check out Luke's book The Dead Center - https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/

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	There's a star, a man waiting in the sky
0:04.3	He liked to come and meet us
0:06.1	But he thinks he blew our mind
0:08.0	There's a star, a man waiting in the sky
0:12.1	He told us not to blow it
0:13.9	Cause he knows it's all worth buying told me
0:16.7	Welcome to Michael and us
0:18.0	I'm Will Sloan, here again with
0:20.1	Luke Savage, welcome back everyone
0:21.8	So this week I went to see the new movie about David Bowie
0:25.6	Moonage Daydream
0:27.0	You're a David Bowie fan, right?
0:28.7	I mean, is there anyone who isn't a David Bowie fan?
0:31.1	Yeah, I guess I was, I just wanted to establish
0:33.6	that this is an area of
0:35.2	shared and balanced
0:36.4	Yeah, yeah, it's called Moonage Daydream
0:38.7	and it's this two-hour, two-and-a-half-hour kind of collage
0:42.0	like immersive sensory experience
0:44.8	of, you know, hearing the David Bowie music
0:46.8	Seeing a lot of concert footage and music video
0:49.6	Interspersed with little bits and pieces of interviews
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