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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 35 — American Movie (1999) (opens the original)
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DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American Movie (1999). What does it mean to aspire towards creative production as a provincial dreamer-cum-slacker? What was left of the American dream as the clock ticked over and a new millennium began? Find out in today's episode.
Summer Break (opens the original)
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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 34 — While We're Young (2014) (opens the original)
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Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them: millennials. No one captured this dissonant first encounter better than Noah Baumbach in his 2014 feature While We're Young [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_We%27re_Young_(film)] — a spiralling comedy of manners obsessed with subcultures, technology, filmmaking, ethics, and the process
Season 1, Gen X — Episode 33 — Amores Perros (2000) + Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (opens the original)
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Patreon here. [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod] It's the early 2000s in Mexico — and everyone is feelin' fine. The PRI's uninterrupted one-party 71-year reign of social-democratic, but also neoliberal, authoritarian incompetence is over. The insanity of the drug war proper, unleashed in 2006, is a distant spot on the horizon. A guy with the last name Fox is in charge — he's like George Bush but with even more charisma...and a strange penchant for coke (a cola). Yes, that's right — today'
Season 1, Gen X — Episode 31 — No (2012) (opens the original)
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Patreon here. [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod] This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material that's more End of History in its politics? Chilean director Pablo Larraín [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Larra%C3%ADn] seemed to think not — producing his 2012 feature No [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_(2012_film)] — half as a celebra
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