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I hate movies.

Welcome to Blowback.

I'm Brendan James and this is bonus episode number to be determined.

I don't know exactly what this is going to fall in the run yet but it doesn't really matter because this is going to be a fun one, a lighter one because we are here with Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theatre of Rift Tracks and of Blowback now.

Bill, how's it going?

Good, it's good to be on team Blowback Brendan.

You now are officially on a list somewhere in the US government's archives. We have a lighter task today because Bill's here that I've been wanting to do.

It's sort of a follow up to last season.

Those who listen to season one might remember that we had an episode about Hollywood's stinkers when it came to the Iraq war.

The attempts to process the Iraq war, most of them, if not all of them, failures that we reviewed.

And we thought it'd be fun to do that again for this season.

Viva, viva!

We did 20 ticks and that was the best one.

So we have three films here today from different eras and of differing skill levels that went into them.

But we would be remiss here if we did not make note of the actual record of Cuban films produced after the revolution, the ICAIC, the state film institute that came into being after the revolution produced one of the most impressive cultural legacies of that period.

And on to today it gives the lie to the American trope that communism cannot produce art. I produced lots of good art, masterpieces of film such as Lucia by Ambertos Alas, Memories of Under Development is a very prominent one.

And some of my personal favorites are these documentary works, these sort of collages by the director Santiago Overtes.

But you know, we have to say the Memories of Under Development, if like you were doing like a parody of what a communist country's film title would be.

Oh yeah, yeah, very on the nose. But anyway, quite unlike those those very good pieces of cinema, we're going to be talking about American attempts following the revolution years and decades after to process it, make sense of it, dramatize it.

I'll leave the last one unstated for now because real heads probably already know. Yeah, they will.

But the first one which we should just jump right into is called the Lost City, not of Z.

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