The United States Studies Centre has partnered with the crew at the Film Versus Film podcast for a six-part series discussing movies that engage with US electoral politics.
In the first episode, Film Versus Film hosts Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs compare one of the greatest films of all time with an anomaly from the 1990s. One is about American idealism (or is it naivety) and the other is a thinly veiled portrait of Bill Clinton's election campaign. It's Frank Capra's Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939) versus Mike Nichols' Primary Colors (1998).
This special podcast series will culminate in a free cinema screening of A24's Civil War on the night before the US election.