EPISODE · Jul 21, 2021 · 1H 48M
An "UnWoke Racist Fantasia" (w/ Glen Rockney)
from System of Systems · host Adam Lehrer, Matthew Denicola
Friend of the show and co-host of the Rare Candy podcast Glen Rockney joins the boys to discuss the career of who we think is the best American filmmaker to emerge in the 2010s, S. Craig Zahler. Discussing all three of his films — Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete — the trio pinpoints the artistically interesting formal qualities that have separated Zahler from his contemporaries as one of the emerging film artists to celebrate: extreme length, genre subversion, hyperviolence, dialog, and more. They also try and parse Zahler's unique ideological viewpoint that seems to cross a Marxian critique of political economy with dissident right and conservative analysis of the lost values in American life. The career of Mel Gibson is also given the once-over. We also briefly discuss the low energy cancellation of Dom Fernow. Soundtrack: Kool Keith "Plastic World" https://music.apple.com/us/album/plastic-world-feat-kutmasta-kurt/1341877896?i=1341878734 Mars "Tunnel" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tunnel/1032781493?i=1032782129 The Stranglers "Black and White" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tank/696004821?i=696004907 Thergothon "Everlasting" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/everlasting/306282150?i=306282168) Ted Nugent "Stranglehold" https://music.apple.com/us/album/stranglehold/197914607?i=197914626 Lil B "Mel Gibson" https://youtu.be/Jo9Hjzu3BSs William Basinski "O My Daughter, O My Sorrow" https://youtu.be/oOYYmgXWUkw "Four Doomed Men Ride Out" from the Bone Tomahawk soundtrack: https://youtu.be/ssmYt8vL540 LINKS: Glen Rockney on twitter: https://twitter.com/GlenRockney Rare Candy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf-OCbm2KZQvZFt5YkmdbWw Rare Candy on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rare-candy/id1504917580 S Craig Zahler interview: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/3/22/18276913/s-craig-zahler-dragged-across-concrete-brawl-in-cell-block-99 S. Craig Zahler canceled by zoomer: https://youtu.be/WmdwJ5XMfLo Black Antonio Negri cancels Dom Fernow: https://jeanhugueskabuiku.substack.com/p/about-vatican-shadow-link-with-the
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Friend of the show and co-host of the Rare Candy podcast Glen Rockney joins the boys to discuss the career of who we think is the best American filmmaker to emerge in the 2010s, S. Craig Zahler. Discussing all three of his films — Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete — the trio pinpoints the artistically interesting formal qualities that have separated Zahler from his contemporaries as one of the emerging film artists to celebrate: extreme length, genre subversion, hyperviolence, dialog, and more. They also try and parse Zahler's unique ideological viewpoint that seems to cross a Marxian critique of political economy with dissident right and conservative analysis of the lost values in American life. The career of Mel Gibson is also given the once-over. We also briefly discuss the low energy cancellation of Dom Fernow. Soundtrack: Kool Keith "Plastic World" https://music.apple.com/us/album/plastic-world-feat-kutmasta-kurt/1341877896?i=1341878734 Mars "Tunnel" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tunnel/1032781493?i=1032782129 The Stranglers "Black and White" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tank/696004821?i=696004907 Thergothon "Everlasting" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/everlasting/306282150?i=306282168) Ted Nugent "Stranglehold" https://music.apple.com/us/album/stranglehold/197914607?i=197914626 Lil B "Mel Gibson" https://youtu.be/Jo9Hjzu3BSs William Basinski "O My Daughter, O My Sorrow" https://youtu.be/oOYYmgXWUkw "Four Doomed Men Ride Out" from the Bone Tomahawk soundtrack: https://youtu.be/ssmYt8vL540 LINKS: Glen Rockney on twitter: https://twitter.com/GlenRockney Rare Candy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf-OCbm2KZQvZFt5YkmdbWw Rare Candy on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rare-candy/id1504917580 S Craig Zahler interview: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/3/22/18276913/s-craig-zahler-dragged-across-concrete-brawl-in-cell-block-99 S. Craig Zahler canceled by zoomer: https://youtu.be/WmdwJ5XMfLo Black Antonio Negri cancels Dom Fernow: https://jeanhugueskabuiku.substack.com/p/about-vatican-shadow-link-with-the
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