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Children of Men, or The Fruitless Christmas Special
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It's the Fruitless Christmas special. Chris Barker and Alien (aka Stewie Griffin DJ) join Josiah to discuss Children of Men (2006), the incredible craft behind the film, and the politics of hope and futurity.
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References
- Children of Men (2006), directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
- The Possibility of Hope, an archival documentary about Children of Men on the Arrow Blu-Ray release.
- There Is No Future, video appreciation about Children of Men by Philip Kemp on the Arrow Blu-Ray release.
- "Count-Down to Dystopia," Armond White https://www.nypress.com/news/count-down-to-dystopia-DGNP1020080109301099976.
- O-Bi O-Ba, The End of Civilization (1985). I (Josiah) kind of mischaracterized the ending of this movie. It's a lot more ambiguous than that, and I kind of projected a hopeful ending on a dreamy, weird final scene. Watch it for yourself and decide what the ending means: http://exmilitai.re/film.html.
- "Why Children of Men haunts the present," Gavin Jacobson, https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2020/07/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-2006-apocalypse-coronavirus.
- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman
- Out of the Red Closet, https://files.libcom.org/files/out-of-the-red-closet-kasama-pamphlet_0_0.pdf.
Music & Audio credits
- Children of Men (2006)
- Interviews with James Lovelock, Slavoj Zizek, and Naomi Klein from The Possibility of Hope, an archival documentary about Children of Men on the Arrow Blu-Ray release.
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel, played by Kaleb Brasee, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnlhpXV5IM.
- Yesterday – bloom.
- In My Dreams – bloom.
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