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🗓️ 22 October 2023
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0:00.0 | This is a good vibes episode, so we thought we treat ourselves for a little bit of comfort food. |
0:05.1 | Treat ourselves and also treat all of you. |
0:07.4 | Would you believe it in the midst of a horrific humanitarian crisis, just one awful video after another on my Twitter feed, |
0:17.0 | what should pop up in the middle of all this? |
0:19.7 | What should prop up but the latest effort by this |
0:22.8 | podcast favorite intrepid documentary filmmaker? Sorry Michael Moore. Your friend and mine. |
0:29.1 | Alexandra Pelosi. She's back. She's back. Better than ever. Less than a year after Pelosi in the |
0:35.0 | house. We have another brand new Alexander Pelosi. She's done another |
0:38.9 | January 6th documentary. Thank you, by the way, to everybody who alerted us to this fact. Yeah, it was, |
0:44.3 | it was not a small number of people. Don't stop doing it. Some of you are probably thinking like, |
0:50.6 | oh, not another Alexander Pelosi documentary. What more is there to say? And you're right. |
0:56.5 | There is actually no more to say. She makes the same film every time. She's made the same film again. |
1:03.6 | We're going to say the same things. No, but there is something fascinating about, you know, an artist. |
1:09.3 | And I use the term loosely, obviously. Check out our previous |
1:12.0 | episodes in Alexandra Pelosi's work if you don't know what I'm talking about. She's the daughter of |
1:16.3 | Nancy Pelosi. She's making the same movie for 20 years. I'll link to the Jacobin article I wrote |
1:21.0 | about her. Yes. That's sort of a primer. Will has written the definitive essay. But there is something |
1:25.4 | about, you know, when a filmmaker is just repeating the |
1:28.0 | same thing over and over again. Oh, yeah, like Wes Anderson or Hong Sang Su. It becomes inherently |
1:32.8 | fascinating because, uh, you become hyper sensitive to any variations and then they can be |
1:37.5 | interesting. Well, I'm reminded of something that you told me once. Some film you saw where, you know, |
1:41.9 | it's, it's 90 minutes long or something. And for much of it, you know, |
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