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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002)

“The smaller the audience, the bigger the history.” So, at least, said Tony Wilson, co-founder of Factory Records and larger than life character at the center of Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 punk pseudo-music-doc, our topic today! We are joined by Professor of Italian Studies at Boston College to explore the pull of nostalgia, anticipated retrospection, howContinue reading “24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002)”

PUNCH DRUNK LOVE (2002)

Join us on the harmonium as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson’s (not-)musical tragicomedy Punch Drunk Love with Sean Burke (Founding Partner, Whistler Partners). We discuss how Adam Sandler embodies the awkwardness and anxiety of male adolescence, and how Anderson mixes color and sound to create an overwhelming kaleidoscope of social panic, rage and repression, andContinue reading “PUNCH DRUNK LOVE (2002)”