Episode 705: Always in Season / Flannery

Oct 23, 2019

As our seventh season enters its final third, Bart and Chris join guest host Sonali Gulati, a filmmaker and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a review of Jacqueline Olive’s searing look back at America’s violent history of lynching, Always in Season. Then, Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman, co-director of Flannery, a documentary about the late, great southern writer Flannery O’Connor, which was just awarded the inaugural Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Inspiring artists deserve inspiring discussions, and that’s what we bring to the podcast. Enjoy!

Group Review Documentary:

ALWAYS IN SEASON (Jacqueline Olive, 2019)

In theaters and film festivals now

Film Featured in Interview Portion:

FLANNERY (Elizabeth Coffman/Mark Bosco, 2019)

Currently playing in festivals

Other Films and Sites Mentioned:

• Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (Pamela B. Green, 2019)
• Diary of a Harlem Family (Gordon Parks, 1968)
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Gordon Parks exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum
• I Am (Sonali Gulati, 2011)
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (George Kunhardt/Peter W. Kunhardt/Teddy Kunhardt, 2019)
• The World of Piri Thomas (Gordon Parks, 1968)

 

Link to review by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:

• Film Festival Today review of Always in Season

 

Timestamps:

• 00:38 – Intro
• 05:02 – Group Discussion of ALWAYS IN SEASON
• 20:14 – Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman of FLANNERY
• 38:01 – Doc Talk

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Credits:

Artwork by Hilary Campbell

Intro music by Jeremiah Moore

Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)

Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed