Ep. 56: The Thing
03/30/23 • 64 min
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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss how movies can go from being dismissed to being hailed as masterpieces, the dynamics of (dis)trust, and the non-existence of the soul, in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss how movies can go from being dismissed to being hailed as masterpieces, the dynamics of (dis)trust, and the non-existence of the soul, in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the mythologization of outlaws and the American West, and the slow and painful road of disillusionment, in Andrew Dominic’s melancholic western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Ep. 57: Her
With new A.I. technologies on the rise, Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden revisit Spike Jonze’s Her to discuss the extent of its prescience, the effects of technological progress on human culture, and the true nature of consciousness.
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