Michael and Us: House of Pelosi
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The 20-year filmmaking career of Alexandra Pelosi has been building up to this moment: a hagiographic documentary portrait of her mother, the outgoing U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We watched PELOSI IN THE HOUSE (2022).
"Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Makes Awful Documentaries Fawning Over the Establishment" by Will Sloan - https://jacobin.com/2022/12/nancy-alexandra-pelosi-documentary-filmmaking-establishment
"Nancy Pelosi Delivered Little for the Left, but We Might Miss Her Anyway" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2022/11/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-democratic-party-center
"The Obamanauts" by Corey Robin - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:21.2 | And I mean it might allowed to say welcome back to, I mean it's weird I guess to say that to the two of us, |
| 0:26.0 | but we are recording in person for the first time since, I don't know, the end of September, |
| 0:30.7 | something like that feels like a lifetime ago. That's right. We're at my home now. Luke's come over. |
| 0:35.1 | We're having a bit of a double feature watching both movies for the podcast this week, the first of |
| 0:40.3 | which, um, boy, I have, we've got to do this before. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. This one's, |
| 0:46.0 | this one's pretty special and I guess we kind of inadvertently cheated. I mean, the movie's not |
| 0:50.2 | special. It's terrible, but it's like, the occasion is, uh, is special because I mean, should we |
| 0:55.4 | just get right to it? I mean, this is, this is not the new movie by, uh, acclaimed distinguished |
| 1:01.6 | filmmaker, Alexandra Pelosi, who, uh, is somebody that we have, I don't know, I think we've talked about |
| 1:07.4 | her on this podcast and her work. I think we are the, we are the leading Alexandra Pelosi correspondence. |
| 1:13.7 | The only, yeah, I mean, the only, I mean, we have, we've seen the early stuff. We've seen journeys |
| 1:18.7 | with George. We've seen, I can't remember the names of the other ones, but we've seen those two. |
| 1:23.6 | And this one, I mean, I don't know, I feel like one of those people who like, you know, saw Oasis |
| 1:28.9 | at one of their like early shows or something or you know, saw, saw the Beatles at the Hamburg club, |
| 1:34.0 | you know, and then, and then got to see, you know, the, the Ascent, I feel like we've entered a new |
| 1:38.7 | era of Alexandra Pelosi, new documentary on HBO. I mean, they're, they've all been on HBO, |
| 1:43.6 | so who knows? Maybe this one will disappear into the ether like all the other ones. But I mean, |
| 1:47.2 | just the experience of, of watching this one was incredible for us because the last film by |
| 1:52.7 | Alexandra Pelosi that we talked about, which was only just in the last, you know, a few months, |
| 1:56.9 | was one that, you know, we knew it existed because there's like a tag on IMDB and Wikipedia for it. |
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