Episode 89: 1984 with Andrea Chalupa
A podcast about the great movie years.
Author, filmmaker, and Gaslit Nation host Andrea Chalupa joins us to discuss 1984—an appropriate year for an Orwell scholar—in advance of the release of her new graphic novel In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones. Listen in as she gives much love to Amadeus, Once Upon a Time in America, and, of course, 1984.
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Amadeus is available for digital rental or purchase. Once Upon a Time in America is streaming on Plex and available for digital rental or purchase.
Sixteen Candles is available for digital rental or purchase. 1984 is streaming on Kanopy, Tubi, Hoopla, and MGM+, or you can pick up the Criterion Blu-ray.
And Blood Simple is available on the Criterion Channel and Max, for digital rental or purchase, or on Blu-ray and 4K from Criterion.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1984, with guest Matt Singer, you can listen to that here. If you’d like to check out the “Every Frame a Painting” video series Andrea mentioned, they’re on YouTube here. And, if you’re morbidly curious, here’s the Tommy Cooper video Mike mentioned in Headlines.
You can follow Andrea on Twitter and Instagram, and you can buy In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones here. And you can see her chat with Terrell Jermaine Starr, host of the other Mike-produced podcast Black Diplomats, on Monday, September 16 at the Ukrainian Institute of America; more on that event here. You can watch her movie Mr. Jones at Kanopy, Hoopla, and Starz; it’s also available for digital rental or purchase.
You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). And he just announced the publication date for the James Gandolfini biography we’ve mentioned on the show - you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop. You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
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