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 fourth episode, Film Versus Film hosts Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs compare two films made 20 years apart, that bookend the grand period of US counterculture paranoia. One film is from the early '60s and introduced cinema audiences to the concept of brainwashing, and the other is a suspense-riddled thriller with an unlikely investigator: it's John Frankehimer’s The Manchurian Candidate and Brian De Palma’s Blow Out.
This special podcast series will culminate in a screening on 4 November of A24's Civil War followed by a special recording of the podcast. Book your tickets now.