Cold War Cinema
@coldwarcinema.com
Cold War Cinema is a podcast about the shifting cultural, political, and aesthetic currents running through movies made during the Cold War.
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Went into the great Peter Watkins with some friends for @coldwarcinema.com! Listen and watch every Watkins you can!!
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Cold War Cinema: BONUS: Tribute to Peter Watkins (1935–2025)
In this bonus episode of Cold War Cinema, Jason Christian is joined by the independent filmmakers Eric Marsh and Christopher Jason Bell, to discuss the films and legacy of the British filmmaker and me...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Went into the great Peter Watkins with some friends for @coldwarcinema.com! Listen and watch every Watkins you can!!
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
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Tune in to hear us reminisce about our love of Peter Watkins and attempt to unpack the running themes and contradictions of the filmmaker's entire body of work.
New bonus episode is live!
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
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Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Tune in to hear us reminisce about our love of Peter Watkins and attempt to unpack the running themes and contradictions of the filmmaker's entire body of work.
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New bonus episode is live!
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
New bonus episode is live!
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
New bonus episode is live!
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
New bonus episode is live!
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
Independent filmmakers @christopherbell.bsky.social and Eric Marsh join us to discuss the cinema, politics, and legacy of Peter Watkins, who passed away on 30 October, 2025, the day after his ninetieth birthday. Link below:
coldwarcinema.com/bonus-tribut...
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New episode of @coldwarcinema.com just dropped! We had a great time with this one and got into all sorts of complicated readings of the film. Hope you enjoy!
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
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This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com just dropped! We had a great time with this one and got into all sorts of complicated readings of the film. Hope you enjoy!
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-8-inva...
This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-8-inva...
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-8-inva...
This week we discuss Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unpacking the complicated (and often contradictory) political allegories from both the left and the right. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-8-inva...
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Guaranteed listen.
Had a blast talking with @rafstitt.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com co-host @ptklein.com about M (1931). Check it out!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Guaranteed listen.
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This week I have Co-host of @coldwarcinema.com to discuss a terrible, yet analytically rich film: Red Dawn.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This week I have Co-host of @coldwarcinema.com to discuss a terrible, yet analytically rich film: Red Dawn.
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Had a blast talking with @rafstitt.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com co-host @ptklein.com about M (1931). Check it out!
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November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Had a blast talking with @rafstitt.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com co-host @ptklein.com about M (1931). Check it out!
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I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team this week talking about art, revolution, and the creation of national myths and political imaginaries.
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team this week talking about art, revolution, and the creation of national myths and political imaginaries.
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
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New episode of @coldwarcinema.com has dropped!
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com has dropped!
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
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This podcast centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.
One Battle After Another
In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This podcast centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.
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New recent book acquisitions, and more resources for
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September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New recent book acquisitions, and more resources for
@coldwarcinema.com
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Had a blast talking about the heist movie Entrapment for @1999thepodcast.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
This is a good one! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social welcome @jasonachristian.bsky.social to talk about the surprisingly pretty good ENTRAPMENT, a movie remembered as a dull box office bomb which was neither of those things!
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
1999: The Podcast #081 - Entrapment - with Jason Christian
Writer and co-host of the podcast Cold War Cinema joins to talk about 1999's OTHER art heist movie starring a former Bond actor, "Entrapment"
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September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Had a blast talking about the heist movie Entrapment for @1999thepodcast.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
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Every time I meet with @tonyjballas.bsky.social and @jasonachristian.bsky.social for @coldwarcinema.com I come away absolutely refreshed and recharged and super excited about the work we’re doing and why contextualizing film and history matters more than ever.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Every time I meet with @tonyjballas.bsky.social and @jasonachristian.bsky.social for @coldwarcinema.com I come away absolutely refreshed and recharged and super excited about the work we’re doing and why contextualizing film and history matters more than ever.
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New piece by Constance Grady on the Cultural Cold War.
"The artistic world that the CIA built was one of American innocence...Aesthetics existed in a pure sphere of their own, one where brushstrokes and colors were celebrated as depoliticized expressions of freedom."
www.vox.com/culture/4612...
"The artistic world that the CIA built was one of American innocence...Aesthetics existed in a pure sphere of their own, one where brushstrokes and colors were celebrated as depoliticized expressions of freedom."
www.vox.com/culture/4612...
The last time the US waged a propaganda war on the arts
Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.
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September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New piece by Constance Grady on the Cultural Cold War.
"The artistic world that the CIA built was one of American innocence...Aesthetics existed in a pure sphere of their own, one where brushstrokes and colors were celebrated as depoliticized expressions of freedom."
www.vox.com/culture/4612...
"The artistic world that the CIA built was one of American innocence...Aesthetics existed in a pure sphere of their own, one where brushstrokes and colors were celebrated as depoliticized expressions of freedom."
www.vox.com/culture/4612...
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I still think this essay I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social is the critical piece I'm most proud to have written. It's on Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece RIFIFI (1955), and I'd be honored if you read it.
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Rififi (1955): Easing the Pain of Betrayal
Rififi was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.
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September 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I still think this essay I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social is the critical piece I'm most proud to have written. It's on Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece RIFIFI (1955), and I'd be honored if you read it.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
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Excellent piece on one of my all time favorite movies Rififi:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
Rififi (1955): Easing the Pain of Betrayal
Rififi was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Excellent piece on one of my all time favorite movies Rififi:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
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A heart-pounding, heart-breaking portrait of a lying, contemptuous, and cruel person, and the ways that images construct reality. Essential viewing for understanding how fascism operates, that we must crush it completely, and why, when our current moment ends, we cannot exonerate those responsible.
September 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A heart-pounding, heart-breaking portrait of a lying, contemptuous, and cruel person, and the ways that images construct reality. Essential viewing for understanding how fascism operates, that we must crush it completely, and why, when our current moment ends, we cannot exonerate those responsible.
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A delight to discuss Fuller with tremendous company!
Join @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @stephenage.bsky.social, and I as we consider this striking film, writer-director Sam Fuller’s incendiary, but ultimately idealist, politics, and how Pickup helps us make sense of where we are today.
On Spotify:
On Spotify:
S2 Ep. 6: Pickup on South Street (1953; dir. Samuel Fuller) w/ guest Stephen Gillespie
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September 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A delight to discuss Fuller with tremendous company!
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Thanks to all the listeners of @coldwarcinema.com!
It's heartening to see that our little project has found listeners around the world. Here are the top ten countries. Thank you to everyone.
September 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks to all the listeners of @coldwarcinema.com!
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Kind of wild knowing that our little public scholarship passion project is engaging folks globally.
It's heartening to see that our little project has found listeners around the world. Here are the top ten countries. Thank you to everyone.
September 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Kind of wild knowing that our little public scholarship passion project is engaging folks globally.