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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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For seven weeks in 1936 and 1937, workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a risky sit-down strike. A true David vs. Goliath story, their strike won recognition for the United Auto Workers and changed labor in the United States forever. With a newer UAW strike fresh in the memory, we discuss the BBC documentary THE GREAT SIT-DOWN (1976).
Watch The Great Sit-Down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Py_vNt4fc
See Will introduce Gamera: Super Monster at the Fox Theatre in Toronto on April 16 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/important-cinema-club-gamera-super-monster/
"Joe Lieberman? Really?" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2018/07/joe-lieberman-democratic-party-conservative-left
"Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit" by Aditya Chakrabortty - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-jail-ftx-money
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 | So in March day and night by the big cooling tower. |
0:09.0 | Welcome to Michaeloss, I'm Paul Sloan here is always with. |
0:12.0 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. I'm Vauxhallne, here is always with. |
0:12.6 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
0:14.4 | I'm feeling a little down in the dumps because we're having a very aggrieved conversation |
0:18.0 | about current events just off Mike, a very sad conversation about what the world's come to. |
0:24.0 | And, you know, in this episode, I have some lighter matters to discuss. |
0:29.0 | Did you see the New York Times profile of Matt Farley this weekend. |
0:33.4 | I didn't read it, but I did see it. |
0:35.3 | Congrats to friend of the show, Matt Farley. |
0:37.4 | Yeah, I mean, I'm sure many, maybe even most listening to this, |
0:41.1 | know who he is, but for those who don don't he is the New England-based songwriter |
0:45.7 | slash filmmaker who is notable among other things for having written 25,000 songs on Spotify |
0:51.8 | which through the accrual of many pennies he makes into a living wage |
0:56.3 | But also to some of us to a smaller number of us |
0:59.7 | He and his friend Charlie Roxburgh are great filmmakers who have made this very impressive body of work as backyard productions |
1:06.8 | And I will I will not rest until he has his retrospective on the Criterion channel, which I think will happen but we did an episode on magic spot I think it was called Moturn and us a few months ago |
1:17.7 | This is maybe treading old ground for older listeners, but if you're a new listener you may may not know that my esteemed co-host, Will Sloane has actually played a not negligible role in putting Matt Farley's cinema on the map. |
1:30.0 | I've only seen, I think, two of Matt Farley's movies but they are remarkable unique |
1:34.8 | unusual absolutely worthy of you know wider discussion wider viewing and well you |
1:40.4 | published a book called Moturn on Moturn that was a series of interviews with you and |
1:44.6 | Justin DeClue co-host of your other podcast, The Important Cinema Club. |
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