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GHOST KINO
by Connor Beckett McInerney, Astro Rys, Éire Ó Gallachóir
"There's a spectre haunting Hollywood..." A podcast about Socialism, Sinema, and Shitposting, dissecting films from yesterday and today from a critical theory angle. Hosted by your favorite armchair revolutionaries Astro (they/them), Éire (they/them) and Connor (he/him).
Episodes
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The gang totally wouldn't rob a bank for the record (in Call of Duty). Ghost Kino layabouts get together for another film that's, as the kids might say, "gay af," talking about Sidney Lemet's 1975 dramedy Dog Day Afternoon, which as an electric performance by Al Pacino and other stage-trained...
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Totally Fucked Up (1993)
“All the things the homos like, I hate” can be etched on each our tombstones. The Ghost Kino Institute for Gays Who Can’t Do Film Analysis Good (And Want to Learn How to Do Other Stuff Good Too) go in on Greg Araki’s seminal 93 flick Totally Fucked Up, a representation of queer youth in 90s LA…
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
If you can’t beat em, join em (and then beat em). The Ghost Kino Gang discusses the 1973 flick “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” an excellent, rad as heck movie about an ex-CIA asset who trains Black freedom fighters in Chicago to uproot and dismantle the state through militant organizing....
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Episode 8: Dune (1984)
TW: There is a brief discussion of SA, sexual misconduct at 17:55, which ends at 20:20. Yeah can I get uhhhhhhhhhh eighth of spice delivered to Ridgewood, Queens? The Ghost Kino Cultural Vanguard goes in on David Lynch’s 1984 flop Dune in a split-vote roundtable that answers once and for all — is...
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Episode 7: Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Serious unity on this episode amongst Catholic potato eating peoples. The gang cannonballs into the pool of divergent ideologies that is known as Ashes and Diamonds, a 1958 film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda that examines the immediate interwar period following the end of WWII. We chat about…
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Episode 6: Midsommar (2019)
Skol! May Day has come and gone, and so it’s time for the gang to go deep on Ari Aster’s 2019 release Midsommar, looking past the more obvious framing of this film as a “breakup movie” to look at the socio-political themes present beyond the frame (and inside the bear). Topics of discussion…
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Episode 5: Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Connor is definitely not afraid of a northern California secret society that is affiliated with owls, though he did pick David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake as the film of choice for this week's episode. The gang chats about subliminal messages, indie music from the year 2011,...
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Episode 4: Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) (feat. Malik Childs)
For our first recent film we went long chatting about Judas and the Black Messiah, an absolutely incredible flick about the life and activism of Fred Hampton and the Chicago Black Panther Party, engaging in echo-chambered groupthink about anarchism, mutual aid, and the political operandi that...
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Episode 3: Eraserhead (1977)
Really this film is about David Lynch's inability to get laid during film school. We chat about what his breakout work says about environmental violence, our relationship to one another in a world of artificial scarcity, the bébé and its significance, and how weird it must've been to seen this…
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Episode 2: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Connor held the gang hostage and forced everyone to kill their inner child by analyzing the whimsical tale of a batshit entrepreneur and his coterie of exploited, tiny, orange workers. We go long discussing how Grandpa Joe is a scumbag, Roald Dahl's terrible politics, and where each of the…
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Episode 1: Shoplifters (2018)
The gang gets together and starts the podcast in earnest, settling on Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 film Shoplifters as their first topic of conversation. We chat about the way in which this flick tackles the urban poor, what parts felt revolutionary, what parts felt liberal, and how it stacks up...
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"There's a spectre haunting Hollywood..." A podcast about Socialism, Sinema, and Shitposting, dissecting films from yesterday and today from a critical theory angle. Hosted by your favorite armchair revolutionaries Astro (they/them), Éire (they/them) and Connor (he/him).
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Connor Beckett McInerney, Astro Rys, Éire Ó Gallachóir
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"There's a spectre haunting Hollywood..." A podcast about Socialism, Sinema, and Shitposting, dissecting films from yesterday and today from a critical theory angle. Hosted by your favorite armchair revolutionaries Astro (they/them), Éire (they/them) and Connor (he/him).
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