Episode 120 - Promoting Democracy In Other Countries

"I understood Paul Wolfowitz as a man who believed in promoting democracy in other countries, and I played him as somebody who thought he was doing the right thing. " - Eddie Marsan In the second part of the movie roundup that saw us reviewing three major new releases, we now trawl through the annals of film history to bring you a wide-ranging discussion of the form, from our love of South Korea's thriving national cinema, to the dazzlingly vibrant filmmaking that came from one of Italy's most politically tumultuous periods, namely Pasolini's Salo and Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. We talk about mid-period (post-exile) Roman Polanski thrillers, The Night of the Living Dead + 4K restorations of lo-fi films, and get stuck into Adam MacKay's Dick Cheney biopic Vice, which Yair hadn't actually seen at the time of recording, but we both quite liked. Opening tune - Morricone's theme to ...Citizen Above Suspicion Closing tune - Crazy Moose covering Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (This episode will be released on SoundCloud in a day or two, at which point we'll upload some exclusive Patreon content.)