Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares, The Century of the Self) has made a career in documentaries transposing powerful news footage, unnerving interviews, and his signature authoritative British narration. The effect are long form documentaries tackling immensely complicated events and eras in the 20th and 21st centuries that he attempts to describe with simple, elegant theses. Cole and Mike's acrimonious conversation was made possible by a .75 L bottle of Transmitter Brewing's WF1.

HYPERNORMALISATION — Adam Curtis

Filmmaker and screenwriter Mikhail Karadimov brings TYSKIE Polish Beer straight from Greenpoint Brooklyn to discuss Krzysztof Kieślowski's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE. Bon appétit!

DOUBLE LIFE VERONIQUE — MIKHAIL KARADIMOV

Returning guest co-host documentarian Jeremy Workman discusses his new film THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET and his dad Chuck Workman's Beat Generation documentary THE SOURCE over BROOKLYN OKTOBERFEST from Brooklyn Brewery.

THE SOURCE — JEREMY WORKMAN

Political cartoonist, columnist, and author Ted Rall co-hosts this episode of LA GRANDE BOUFFE (THE BIG FEAST) podcast to discuss BBC documentarian ADAM CURTIS'S ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE EPISODE ONE.

ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE — ADAM CURTIS

Political cartoonist Ted Rall returns to co-host a discussion of THE GILLIGAN MANIFESTO, a documentary that outlines the television series's leftist underpinnings. We're drinking UNION JACK IPA from FIRESTONE WALKER.

THE GILLIGAN MANIFESTO — TED RALL

Slideshow begins at 8:02. Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2suiX4WE4Y

CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI - Michael F. Moore

New York City cinephile Martin Keller helps kick off LA GRANDE BOUFFE (THE BIG FEAST) 3.0. All new episodes are recorded live at Blind Tiger Ale House on Bleeker at Jones in the West Village. Now we get to pick a beer we think goes best with our film choice right off Blind Tiger's generous board of great craft beer. Cigar City's MADURO Brown Ale is the beer of choice for our discussion of this impressive Western from Andrew Dominic.

JESSE JAMES — MARTIN KELLER

KILLING THEM SOFTLY — MARTIN KELLER

Veteran film critic Cole Smithey and NYC cinephile Martin Keller discuss  THE MAD BOMBER, one of the films that inspired Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

THE MAD BOMBER — MARTIN KELLER

Veteran film critic Cole Smithey and NYC cinephile Martin Keller discuss  Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD at BLIND TIGER in New York City's West Village over glasses of PEEKSKILL VALLEY LIFE IPA.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD — Martin Keller

BLAST OF SILENCE —  JEREMY WORKMAN

Gen X veteran film critic Cole Smithey invites a different co-host to copiously consume international politics and culture through the prism of a single film and a different craft beer.

HYPERNORMALISATION — Adam Curtis

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