Bonus: The Killing of America (with Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine, from Pod Casty For Me) (Patreon)

CW: This episode contains discussions of graphic violence.

Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine, the hosts of the left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty For Me, invited me on to their show as part of their continuing Paul Schrader series, because I wanted to discuss two pieces of Schrader-related curiosities; the only music video Paul directed, for Bob Dylan’s Tight Connection to My Heart (1985), and his brother Leonard’s controversial documentary about the normalization of American gun violence and social disorder from 1981, The Killing of America (made with Japanese financing and barely released in the United States for decades).

My thanks to Jake and Ian for making this Patreon episode of their show available to Junk Filter patrons. Subscribe to the Pod Casty For Me Patreon!

You can find The Killing of America and the longer Japanese cut Violence USA on the Internet Archive.

NSFW trailer for The Killing of America (Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader, 1981)

Paul Schrader’s music video for Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), Bob Dylan (1985)