This travelogue by Alexandra Pelosi and Aaron Lubarsky follows George W. Bush on the campaign trail ahead of his contested victory in 2000, examining the relationship between politicians and the media.
Continuing our collaboration with The Baffler magazine, this week-long series responds to their fall issue, which examines the use and abuse of the “emerging majority” in political life around the globe. Coined by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips to describe a turn to the right in American politics, the phrase has since been used by Democratic partisans to cast demographic change in the US as an unalloyed good for their party—despite evidence that no such monolithic voting bloc is emerging. How has the idea of a coming consensus been used to manipulate voters and paper over dissension within various ethnic and racial groups? What kinds of backlash has the perceived threat of demographic change caused? This series ponders those questions and more.
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The New God
Fri, Oct 18, 2024
The New God
Fri, Oct 18, 2024Comparable to Michael Moore’s documentary portraits, The New God is Tsuchiya Yutaka’s dogged attempt to understand Japanese youth culture and its discontents towards the end of the big capitalist 20th century.
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The First Purge
Sat, Oct 19, 2024
The First Purge
Sat, Oct 19, 2024An action-packed work of 21st-century Blaxploitation depicts a grassroots militia takeover in response to a thinly veiled metaphor for Reagan’s “war on poverty,” which doubles as a contemporary critique.
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Bulworth
Sat, Oct 19, 2024
Bulworth
Sat, Oct 19, 2024Warren Beatty plays a senator who takes out a hit contract on himself, and suddenly finds the courage to call it like he sees it, in a ripe artifact of Clinton-era progressive self-loathing.
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Idiocracy
Sun, Oct 20, 2024
Idiocracy
Sun, Oct 20, 2024Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph are subjects of a military time-travel experiment who wake up 500 years into the future to discover the average IQ has plummeted and morons rule the planet.
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Gattaca
Sun, Oct 20, 2024
Gattaca
Sun, Oct 20, 2024In a future where eugenics has become the norm, an aspiring astronaut stuck on earth due to the supposed inferiority of his genes assumes a new identity in a bid to join the space program.
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Watermelon Man
Sun, Oct 20, 2024
Watermelon Man
Sun, Oct 20, 2024In a fascinating, fearless snapshot of race relations after the assassinations of MLK and Malcolm X, a racist insurance salesman wakes up one morning to discover his skin has turned black.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Mon, Oct 21, 2024
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Mon, Oct 21, 2024Nancy Kelly’s adaptation of Ruthanne Lum McCunn’s novel tells the story of a Chinese woman sold by her family into servitude in the 19th-century American west.
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Terror 2000—Intensivstation Deutschland
Tue, Oct 22, 2024
Terror 2000—Intensivstation Deutschland
Tue, Oct 22, 2024Performance artist, filmmaker, and all-around mischief-maker Christoph Schlingensief embraces hardcore schlock to engage with xenophobia towards Eastern Bloc refugees around German reunification.
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Sleep Dealer
Wed, Oct 23, 2024
Sleep Dealer
Wed, Oct 23, 2024Mexicans remotely operate robot laborers across state lines while living in poverty at home in Alex Rivera’s cyberpunk thriller about tech surveillance, corporate hegemony, and climate catastrophe.
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Wild in the Streets
Thu, Oct 24, 2024
Wild in the Streets
Thu, Oct 24, 2024An upstart pop star-turned-politician builds a platform on the grievances of America’s overlooked youth majority in a film that raises galvanic questions about ageism, civil rights, and drug culture.
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I, Robot
Thu, Oct 24, 2024
I, Robot
Thu, Oct 24, 2024A private detective is embroiled gets to the bottom of a robotics company CEO’s mysterious suicide in 2030s Chicago in a sci-fi blockbuster loosely tethered to ideas from Isaac Asimov’s eponymous novel.