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Blow Up My Life (w/ Abigail Horton & Ryan Dickie)

Blow Up My Life (w/ Abigail Horton & Ryan Dickie)

FromMovies vs. Capitalism


Blow Up My Life (w/ Abigail Horton & Ryan Dickie)

FromMovies vs. Capitalism

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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Jan 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On this week’s Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by filmmakers Abigail Horton and Ryan Dickie to discuss their independent feature film Blow Up My Life, a dark comedy thriller set in the world of corporate pharmaceuticals. Abby and Ryan discuss their inspiration for making the film, and go into detail about the challenges producing and distributing independent film in the age of giant media conglomerates.A rough transcript of the episode is available here.For next week’s movie, we’ll be watching Michael Clayton.
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Released:
Jan 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (66)

A movie-rewatch podcast that explores the politics of your favorite films through an anti-capitalist lens. Each episode, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by a special guest for an irreverent yet critical discussion about a film and how it’s *obviously* a scathing indictment of late-stage capitalism. Fight Club? That’s about the degradation of modern consumerism. Office Space? A stark depiction of worker alienation. Antz? An animated kids movie about the military-industrial complex. Movies vs. Capitalism examines the crucial intersection between pop culture and politics — an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative, anti-imperialist analysis of your favorite talking pictures. It’s a middle finger to our rotting institutions and ruling-class proprietors who are slowly driving the human race into extinction. But, like, in a fun way ;)