Tag: Past Present Future

• Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas Bonus: Sovereignty

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/1mC2EPO This bonus episode for PPF+ to accompany our bad ideas series is about what’s gone wrong with the idea of sovereignty. David talks to historian of ideas Lucia Rubinelli… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films Bonus: Apocalypse Now w/ Helen Thompson

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/jx2u6LP David talks to Helen Thompson about Francis Ford Coppola’s manic masterpiece of the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now (1979), a film that almost destroyed its director and some of its cast.… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: The Zone of Interest

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/rUMwgQB The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: The Social Network

  January 5, 2025

  https://ift.tt/kO3QYnT The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: Jeanne Dielman

  January 4, 2025

  Today’s great political film is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll. A… more ›