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Reel 2: Malcolm X, Selma
In today’s episode, Sean and Claude take a look at two films about civil rights leaders of the 1960s: Malcolm X (1992), directed by Spike Lee, and Selma (2014), directed by Ava DuVernay. In general, people have very different images of these two icons in their heads: Martin Luther King as the nonviolent, peaceful “passive…
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Reel 1: 1968 Science Fiction
That this didn’t appear sooner is totally on me (Claude). I promise, the workflow on this show is improving. For our first show, we have to go back to the start, of course. Specifically, Sean’s start. We go back to the year of his birth and check out a couple of science fiction movies that…
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Reel 1 Preview
In our honest-to-goodness first episode, Sean and Claude take a look at two science fiction films which were both released in 1968, but which couldn’t have more different views with regard to how things turn out in the future. Tune in on August 24th when we look at 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original…
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Welcome to the Show!
It’s the first episode of Words and Movies! In the inaugural show, Sean Gallagher and Claude Call introduce themselves to you and talk about what makes them so smart (hint: one of us is SMART, the other is S-M-R-T), plus what sort of stuff we’ll be talking about, the overall approach we’ll be taking to…









