Canada Day has arrived again, and the occasion has led us to explore the depths of Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century: a film Rankin describes as being "one part Canadian Heritage Minute and one part ayahuasca death trip."
The Twentieth Century is a fictionalized and hyper stylized look at the early political career of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister. It's a portrait of sexual repression and our relationship to empire, the irreality of Canada, and the idiosyncrasies of this beautiful man.
André Goulet, host of Unpacking the News, joins us for this crossover event discussing Canadian identity, film, and strangeness.
ReComradations:
André: Berlin by Jason Lutes
Abdul: Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Evan: Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1 by Gabriel Hardman & Corrina Bechko
Laura: Blowback Podcast