New podcast, about a wonderful comedy that deserves a lot more attention than it has received, Hail, Caesar! (2016), maybe the best comedy of the last decade, a movie about the movies — about Hollywood in the ‘50s, about ordinary Americans & their problem, are they Christians & how is that working out for them?, & extraordinary Americans & their problem, are they Communists & how is that working out? Everybody is a capitalist & it’s not clear anyone is for capitalism.
The Coen Bros. show off their talent as well as their fondness for the movies, conjuring genre after genre from the musical to the Western, but they also conjure up certain American types & try to show the relationship between what we see on screen & what we see around us.
You can find links below, to Spotify:
Apple Podcasts
SoundCloud