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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 30/08/2026

New bonus episode is live! Hosts @jasonachristian.bsky.social and @tonyjballas.bsky.social are joined by guest Silas Nathan to discuss the iconic Soviet-Cuban masterpiece I AM CUBA (1964). Link below! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-15-i-a...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 01/08/2026

New bonus episode is live! Hosts @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @tonyjballas.bsky.social and @ptklein.com discuss their personal backgrounds, their scholarly interests, and the trajectory of the podcast. We had fun with this conversation and we hope you enjoy it! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-gettin...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 01/07/2026

New bonus episode is live! @jasonachristian.bsky.social interviews Whitney Strub about his new book, Films That Explode Like Grenades: Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema, just published by University of Chicago Press. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-robert...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 24/06/2026

New episode is live! We discuss Sidney Lumet's 1964 film FAIL SAFE, a powerful (and bold) independent Hollywood production that paints a horrific picture of a potential nuclear war. LINK: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-14-fai...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 30/05/2026

New episode is live! We invited our friend and comrade Taylor R. Genovese to help us discuss Andrei Tarkovsky’s debut feature film Ivan's Childhood (1962), Tarkovsky’s aesthetic vision, the concept of “toska,” the Great Patriotic War, and more! Link below: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-13-iva...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 24/03/2026

New episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 18/03/2026

EMILE DE ANTONIO'S COLD WAR COUNTERCULTURE 📽️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in April! bit.ly/4sT3sNR

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 19/02/2026

We chopped it up with the director Adam McKay (@ghostpanther.bsky.social) on the pod this week, examining John Frankenheimer's SECONDS (1966), Cold War paranoia, medical horror, climate change, Adams's film career and more. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-11-sec...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 13/02/2026

Reminder that we have an Instagram account, for anyone interested in following it: instagram.com/coldwarcinem...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 12/02/2026

New episode is live! The CWC team discusses the brilliant Soviet film LETTER NEVER SENT (1959), dir. by Mikhail Kalatozov. We explain the tenets of socialist realism, the function of the Western genre in the US context vs. the USSR context, and more. coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-11-let...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 15/01/2026

New episode is live! This week the squad welcomes Aspen Ballas to help us discuss John Ford's THE SEARCHERS (1956). We unpack the ideological underpinnings of the western genre itself, and demonstrate how it is operating in Ford's masterpiece. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-10-the...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 26/12/2025

New episode of is live! This week we discuss Grigory Chukhray's 1959 war drama, BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. We loved this movie and had a lot to say about it's formal choice and themes. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-9-ball...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 23/12/2025

Hello, friends, We learned that our production costs are going up in January and we're thinking of selling t-shirts to offset the cost. If you're a listener of the podcast, please let me know your thoughts on the mockup design and if you'd consider buying one.

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 20/11/2025

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...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 17/11/2025

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...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 27/10/2025

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...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 06/09/2025

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.

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 29/07/2025

New bonus episode is live! We invited @matthiasellis.com to help us discuss the new Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician Scheme, a film set in 1950 that grapples with all the contradictions of the Cold War era. Check it out! coldwarcinema.com/bonus-the-ph...

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Cold War Cinema @coldwarcinema.com · 04/07/2025

Cold War Cinema has a new Instagram account! Follow us there! instagram.com/coldwarcinem...

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