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Tag: politics

How Severance Perfectly Parallels the Absurd Speakership Debacle

Film
By Deborah Goodwin | January 12, 2023
By Deborah Goodwin | January 12, 2023

How Severance Perfectly Parallels the Absurd Speakership Debacle

Filmmaker Deborah Goodwin unpacks the uncanny echoes of TV’s best show she found in Kevin McCarthy’s bumbling bid for power.

Revisited: How the World Became Wellesian

Film
By Mark Cousins | September 6, 2022
By Mark Cousins | September 6, 2022

Revisited: How the World Became Wellesian

Mark Cousins, whose new film March on Rome just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, on how Orson Welles was a man ahead of his time.

Mark Bronzino (Kontusion) and Mark “Barney” Greenway (Napalm Death) Just Want a Dignified Existence For All

Music
By Mark Bronzino | May 27, 2022
By Mark Bronzino | May 27, 2022

Mark Bronzino (Kontusion) and Mark “Barney” Greenway (Napalm Death) Just Want a Dignified Existence For All

The friends talk climate change, health care, unions, and more.

Tiller Russell Talks with Kevin Willmott on the Talkhouse Podcast

Podcast
By Tiller Russell | September 30, 2021
By Tiller Russell | September 30, 2021

Tiller Russell Talks with Kevin Willmott on the Talkhouse Podcast

The man behind The Night Stalker chats with Oscar-winner Willmott about race, politics, duality, collaborating with Spike Lee, and more.

How Motherhood Revolutionized My Filmmaking Approach (and How I See America)

Film
By Rachel Boynton | September 16, 2021
By Rachel Boynton | September 16, 2021

How Motherhood Revolutionized My Filmmaking Approach (and How I See America)

Rachel Boynton on the genesis of her new film Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are), and why she re-envisioned the way she made documentaries.

Remote Control: How the World’s Youngest Voting Evangelist Came to Be

Film
By Katherine Fairfax Wright | January 4, 2021
By Katherine Fairfax Wright | January 4, 2021

Remote Control: How the World’s Youngest Voting Evangelist Came to Be

Filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright on the memorable experience of making election ads with six-year-old motivational speaker Caleb Stewart.

How the 1960s Protest Movements Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

Film
By Deborah Shaffer | November 13, 2020
By Deborah Shaffer | November 13, 2020

How the 1960s Protest Movements Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

For Deborah Shaffer, director of the new doc Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, the political has always been personal.

We’re Taking the Day Off To Vote: Here’s Why Voting Is Important, In the Words of Talkhouse Contributors

Music
November 3, 2020
November 3, 2020

We’re Taking the Day Off To Vote: Here’s Why Voting Is Important, In the Words of Talkhouse Contributors

Your vote could be incredibly vital in closing the book on this monstrous, authoritarian era of American politics.

Perry Farrell Remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy

Music
By Perry Farrell | September 29, 2020
By Perry Farrell | September 29, 2020

Perry Farrell Remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy

The Jane’s Addiction mastermind and Lollapalooza founder pays tribute to the late justice.

The Way Forward: Pete Souza

Film
By Pete Souza | September 22, 2020
By Pete Souza | September 22, 2020

The Way Forward: Pete Souza

The former Obama White House photographer and subject of the new documentary The Way I See It looks ahead to life and art after COVID.

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