Red Rose Film Club

Hal & Craig

Each episode, hosts Hal and Craig break down a film and examine its component parts from a leftist perspective. Red Rose Film Club is a movie podcasts for leftists of all stripes that don't know what to talk about at parties other than movies and politics!

  1. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | Franco, Fascism, & Fantasy

    03/08/2025

    Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | Franco, Fascism, & Fantasy

    We start a three episode series discussing movies that depict the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's fascist rule in Spain. First up is Guillermo Del Toro's 2006 fantasy Pan's Labyrinth. Discussion includes: Recent watches: Wolf Man (2025), Heart Eyes (2025), Presence (2024), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), Let's Start a Cult (2024), and The Tarnished Angels (1957); The brave people in federal government resisting Trump and Elon's fascist takeover; The beauty of resistance and fantasy as an escape from political upheaval; And how many characters in Mel Gibson's new film FLIGHT RISK talk about pooping themselves? Follow us online! Follow us on Twitter at @RedRoseFilmPod Follow our Facebook Group Follow Hal on Twitter at @shestructured Follow Craig on Twitter at @KegFreighter Follow Hal's Letterboxd Follow Craig's Letterboxd SOURCES https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers Mercedes Penalba-Sotorrio's chapter "Of Fascist Heroes and Martyrs: Death and Violence in the Falanage Espanola" in the 2021 book The Crucible of Francoism: Combat, Violence, and Ideology in the Spanish Civil War  Michael Parenti's 1997 book Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism and his 2007 essay "Fascism the Real Story"  Hugh Thomas' 1961 book The Spanish Civil War The University of Warwick's illustrated timeline of the Spanish Civil War: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/scw/timeline/

    1h 36m
5
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20 Ratings

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Each episode, hosts Hal and Craig break down a film and examine its component parts from a leftist perspective. Red Rose Film Club is a movie podcasts for leftists of all stripes that don't know what to talk about at parties other than movies and politics!