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  • Andor (2022), Episodes 1–3 w/ Jenny G. Zhang | Ep. 20
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.comVan and Lyle kick off their Andor series with Slate culture editor Jenny G. Zhang, diving into the show’s slow-burn opening arc where imperial bootlickers, jealous love interests, and rebels in the making collide on the Outer Rim. They discuss what makes Andor—a property of the Star Wars universe—feel different than its franchise kin, from its social realism to its psychological bite. If The Battle of Algiers looms large, so does Parable of the Sower, especially the show’s landscape of authoritarian company towns and the simmering hints of a revolutionary break. They talk about the Preox-Morlana security force as East India Company meets Blackwater, and Deputy Inspector Syril Karn as the story’s omnipresent archetype—the insecure man desperate to matter. Just like the pathetic rent-a-cops Andor is forced to kill, and the equally envious Timm Karlo, another tragic loser who dies trying to make up for his fateful angst. History appears to turn not so much on generals and emperors, but on the choices and contradictions of broken men. Men stuck in systems they didn’t build, and whose real breaking is yet to come.Further ReadingJenny’s websiteJenny on BlueskyJenny on Twitter“The Andor Dilemma: Pop Culture’s Place in Leftist Strategy,” by Van Jackson“Introducing Andor Analysed, Part 1,” by Jamie WoodcockThe Battle of Algiers EpisodeParable of the Sower, by Octavia ButlerThe Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, by Rashid KhalidiTeaser from the EpisodeAndor Season 1 Trailer
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  • Part I: The Siege (1998) w/ Kevin Fox | Ep. 19
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.comLong before the Patriot Act, long before “See Something, Say Something,” long before 9/11—there was The Siege. Released in 1998, this Bruce Willis–Denzel Washington vehicle depicts a post–terror attack New York placed under martial law. The city is bombed, neighborhoods are surveilled, and Arab and Muslim men are rounded up en masse, held indefinitely in cages under the Brooklyn Bridge. And yet, in perhaps the most jarring twist of all, the whole thing was co-written by Lawrence Wright, the celebrated journalist behind the GWOT-era classic, The Looming Tower.In this episode, Van and Lyle are joined once again by screenwriter Kevin Fox to revisit The Siege, not just as an artifact of pre-9/11 paranoia, but as an uncanny rehearsal for everything that would come after. Together they break down the film’s oscillation between prescience and myopia, from Bruce Willis as cartoonish generalissimo to Denzel Washington as constitutionalist good cop. The story’s themes of blowback, anti-Muslim hysteria, and civil-military overreach may come off as heavy-handed or superficial, but there are so many moments that still hit disturbingly close to home.Van, Lyle, and Kevin ask: What can a work like The Siege tell us about liberal complicity in the War on Terror? What happens when a film simultaneously warns of repression while making its own contribution to the atmosphere of fear? And what’s with the horny thermal cam surveillance scene?Further ReadingKevin’s WebsiteThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence WrightThe Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict, by William T. CavanaughGood Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, by Mahmood MamdaniIslamophobia and the Politics of Empire, by Deepa KumarBlowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, by Chalmers JohnsonTeaser from the EpisodeThe Siege Trailer
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  • Politics Behind the Scenes with Noah Hurowitz
    Something special for paid subscribers: A rare glimpse behind the curtain as Van, Lyle, and guest Noah Hurowitz talk about life and politics prior to recording a forthcoming episode of the pod. The full episode that followed from this conversation won’t be out for a while (covering the award-winning mini-series Carlos, from 2010). But there was so much good convo apart from Carlos that we wanted to share this part as a standalone behind-the-scenes episode where we’re just shooting the s**t.Their excessively candid discussion includes: * How Noah got laid off when his workplace unionized; * How he turned screwing off to Peru during Trump 1.0 into a career-making gig; * Covering the trials of El Chapo for Rolling Stone; * Who really benefited from the “War on Drugs”; * How the left should view Mexico and its president, Claudia Sheinbaum. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.bangbangpod.com/subscribe
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  • Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) w/ Tobita Chow | Ep. 18
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.comVan and Lyle are joined by scholar-organizer Tobita Chow as they take on Akira Kurosawa’s classic adaptation of King Lear. They dig into the film’s depiction of friendly fire, not just as cinematic spectacle, but as a stark commentary on the self-defeating logic of war. They also follow Hidetora’s descent from absolute ruler to ghost-like shell, wandering through the desolation of his past crimes.“In a mad world,” says the Shakespearean fool, “only the mad are sane.” Madness may initially protect the fallen king, but seeing the truth for the first time comes to haunt. Hidetora is confronted by a hermit boy once orphaned and blinded at the master’s command. The erstwhile victim now plays an accusatory, soul-indicting flute to his victimizer. The monarch manqué goes on to collapse in the ruins of a castle he once destroyed, proclaiming the man-made wasteland his private “hell.”Yet Hidetora’s ultimate collapse only arrives after his most loyal son is killed escorting his father on horseback. In the fool’s final telling, the gods have seen men killing each other since the very beginning. Men worship murder, not peace. Domination, not solidarity. And so the gods (along with Kurosawa, perhaps) have given us—once again—what we want.Further ReadingJustice is Global“Kurosawa’s Ran (1986) and King Lear: Towards a Conversation on Historical Responsibility,” by Joan Pong LintonKurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, by Mitsuhiro YoshimotoTeaser from the EpisodeRan Trailer
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  • Full Metal Jacket (1987) w/ Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman | Ep. 17
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.comVan and Lyle are joined by Combat Obscura filmmakers Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman—whose documentary launched Bang-Bang—to unpack what may be the greatest war film ever made.They revisit Parris Island’s brutal choreography, where cruelty becomes a kind of moral training. They discuss the infamous towel party, the haunting arc of Private Pyle, and the eerie echoes between his final scene and the female sniper’s death in the film’s second half. They track Joker’s evolution from ironic observer to hollowed-out participant, and how the movie dares us to see no difference between the two. Also: animal grunts, John Wayne impressions, Stars and Stripes propaganda, and the Mickey Mouse Club as a funeral dirge for the American century.As with Combat Obscura, Kubrick’s film lingers not just on war’s self-conscious, self-satirical aesthetics, but on complicity, spectacle, and what it truly means to be "in a world of s**t."Further ReadingCombat ObscuraEric’s WebsiteWhistles From The Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan, by Miles LagozeThe Short-Timers, by Gustav HasfordDispatches, by Michael Herr“Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” by Carol CohnWorking-Class War, by Christian AppyTeaser from the EpisodeFull Metal Jacket Trailer
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A show about war movies, with an anti-imperialist twist. Hosted by Van Jackson and Lyle Jeremy Rubin--military veterans, war critics, and wannabe film critics. www.bangbangpod.com
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