Dec 20, 2020
It's the holiday season! Consume! Buy! Obey! This week Raquel & Raphael honor apathy by talking about John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic, THEY LIVE. Why is Raquel disappointed in John? Why does she feel personally insulted by the film? Where does Raphael stand on the Shepard Fairey vs Banksy street art debate? Can political movies also be purposefully dumb & still be politically effective? What genre does Carpenter himself believe THEY LIVE to be? The age old fight of low-brow vs high-brow art continues!
The Generation Splice is film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through and through, and her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky Millenial punk rocker, former music journalist, and current film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a film for the two of them to dissect and see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of the movies.
Feel free to write to us! Give us some film suggestions at generationsplice@gmail.com or @gensplicepod on Twitter.
Raphael is on Twitter at @citycelluloid. You can find his film writing at cinefile.info and film-cred.com
The show is produced by The Martinez Family & the show’s theme song was written, performed, & produced by Raphael.