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Bonus: Getting to Know Your Hosts
Season 2
In this bonus episode we thought we'd do something different and chat about our personal backgrounds, our early cinema memories, and our scholarly in…
13 hours ago
Bonus: Robert Kramer's Radical Cinema w/ guest Whitney Strub
Season 2
In this bonus episode, Jason interviews the historian Whitney Strub about his scholarship and his new book Films That Explode Like Grenades: Robert K…
1 month ago
S2 Ep. 14: Fail Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet)
Season 2 Episode 14
The Cold War Cinema team returns to discuss Sidney Lumet's 1964 film Fail Safe, a powerful (and bold) independent Hollywood production that paints a …
1 month, 1 week ago
S2 Ep. 13: Ivan's Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky) w/ guest Taylor R. Genovese
"I want to underline my own belief that art must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art mu…
2 months ago
Bonus: New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction w/ guest Ryan Ruby
Season 2
In this bonus episode, cohosts Jason Christian and Anthony Ballas speak with the literary critic Ryan Ruby about New German Cinema, particularly the…
3 months ago
Bonus: Interview w/ Dr. Alice Lovejoy
Season 2
In this bonus episode, cohosts Jason Christian and Paul T. Klein interview the film historian Dr. Alice Lovejoy about her scholarship and her new boo…
4 months, 1 week ago
S2 Ep. 12: Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer) w/ guest Adam McKay
Season 2 Episode 12
On this episode, the Cold War Cinema crew is joined by director, writer, and producer Adam McKay to discuss John Frankenheimer's paranoid, psychologi…
5 months, 1 week ago
S2 Ep. 11: Letter Never Sent (1959, Mikhail Kalatozov)
Season 2 Episode 11
The Cold War Cinema team, Jason Christian, Anthony Ballas, and Paul T. Klein, return to discuss Mikhail Kalatozov's 1959 drama Letter Never Sent.
Sy…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
S2 Ep. 10: The Searchers (1956, John Ford) w/ guest Aspen Ballas
Season 2 Episode 10
The Cold War Cinema team returns with special guest Aspen Ballas to discuss John Ford's 1956 western The Searchers. Aspen is a PhD student of Engl…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
S2 Ep. 9: Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)
Season 2 Episode 9
The Cold War Cinema team returns to discuss Grigory Chukhray's 1959 war drama Ballad of a Soldier.
Alyhosha is 19-years-old private on the Eastern F…
7 months ago