Two black women, one lying down in bed, one sitting up, have a conversation in a scene from Born in Flames

Canon Fodder – Born in Flames

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Born in Flames (1983; Directed by Lizzie Borden) Canon Fodder Episode 69 This week, Daniel and Corky light the fuse with Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. Told through pirate radio broadcasts, surveillance footage, fake news reports and punk performances, Borden’s debut imagines a socialist America where revolution has […]

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Canon Fodder – Touki Bouki

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Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty) Canon Fodder Episode 68 This week, Daniel and Corky hit the road again with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki. Blending French New Wave style, African oral traditions and bursts of surrealism, Mambéty’s remarkable debut follows two young outcasts scheming to […]

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Jesus and his apostles in an image from The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).

Canon Fodder – The Gospel According to St. Matthew

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) Canon Fodder Episode 67 This week, Daniel and Corky spread the good word about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Shot with neorealist immediacy and scored with everything from Bach to Blind Willie […]

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Canon Fodder – The Battle of Algiers

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The Battle of Algiers (1966; Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo) Canon Fodder Episode 66 This week, Daniel and Corky rock the Casbah with their review of The Battle of Algiers. Shot with the urgency of breaking news, Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark docu-thriller covers colonial occupation, violent rebellion and the human […]

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Canon Fodder – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Directed by John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 65 After printing the legend, maiming the facts, and murdering the truth execution-style, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell ride into town to review John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. A stripped-down western […]

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Lars Rudolph as János Valuska in closeup while a crowd gathers in the background in a scene from Bela Tarr's black-and-white film, Werckmeister Harmonies.

Canon Fodder – Werckmeister Harmonies

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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Dir.: Bela Tarr) Canon Fodder Episode 64 With the cold, dead eyes of stuffed whales, cinematic world travelers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell finally arrive in a remote, fog-shrouded Hungarian village to review Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies. Composed of just 39 shots in 145 minutes, […]

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