Schrader Ep. 28: Adam Resurrected (2008)

Sorry for the late update, everybody - we got trapped in one of those two-person horse costumes for like 48 hours, really really scary. But we're back to talk pretty seriously about Paul Schrader's 2008 literary adaptation ADAM RESURRECTED, the story of a German Jewish clown who becomes a concentration camp commander's human dog and then finds himself the Van Wilder of an Israeli psychiatric facility after the war. It is at once a very relevant and profoundly unhelpful film for the current moment, but we do our best to get to the bottom of the ideas at work here. We recorded this a few weeks ago, so facts about Israel's genocide of the people of Palestine are that many weeks old as we post this, to say nothing of whenever you find yourself listening to it. But, as ever: free Palestine. Further Reading: Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk "We Are Conquerors" by Adam Shatz "Yoram Kaniuk - The Last Great Zionist" by Yuval Ben-Ami "Israeli Writer Yoram Kaniuk, 83, On Pain And Peace" Palestine: A Socialist Introduction ed. Sumaya Awad and brian bean Further Viewing: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Forman, 1975) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Benigni, 1997) THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED (just kidding)   https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart