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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Is Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979) about the Soviet Russia in which it was made? And if not, then where exactly is "The Zone"? We wade into one of the most forbidding cinematic objects of all time, but realize that the answer is only ever found within. PLUS: Justin Trudeau is historically unpopular - so why hasn't he stepped down?
"US Politics Has Reached a Dead End" by Luke Savage - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk
"Revealed: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake" by Hugo Lowell - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk
Our episode on Ivan's Childhood - https://www.patreon.com/posts/263-sculpting-in-55465791
Our episode on Solaris - https://www.patreon.com/posts/317-hunters-in-64139407
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 | I don't care machine this moment |
0:05.0 | it's the one, it's the one, |
0:07.0 | that here the world |
0:09.0 | that here the world This might be the worst start to the podcast in history and we've had some bad ones. |
0:20.5 | Just yeah, I don't know. The boys are fighting. I just want all the listeners to know. The boys have been arguing. There has been much name calling, much finger pointing at the bad audio setup. And me, I'm the one who's sick does my |
0:35.0 | co-host give me any grace no no he doesn't I mean you've you've played that |
0:40.1 | card like three times already in the last 15 minutes as we've been trying to get |
0:45.4 | this going and I think you're out of lives on that one will get your shit together well |
0:49.2 | welcome to Michael and us I am well Sloane I think with me as per usual is. That's Luke Savage welcome |
0:56.3 | back everyone yeah no well is feeling a little bit under the weather |
0:59.7 | which it's impressive that he agreed to take on a big movie this week. |
1:05.0 | I thought that it would be kind of nice to just have an afternoon of watching a long, slow, boring art house movie, |
1:12.0 | just feeling the rhythm as the coughs are up and the cold |
1:15.8 | medication and the NyQuil and all that works its way through my system to just be |
1:20.9 | swept along in Tarkovsky's Jeunicequois. |
1:25.0 | And I was right. I had a great time with this week's movie. |
1:28.0 | You could probably narrow it down the movie we're doing, |
1:31.0 | but I guess we have some other stuff to talk about |
1:33.8 | before we get into Andre Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker film, a film that's |
1:39.8 | been a long time coming on this podcast and you know one of those films that will and I both love |
1:45.2 | it in fact we saw it together for the first time back in 2016 I remember that |
1:49.8 | night very well I don't think either of us had seen any Tarkovsky films before and I |
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