Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 38: The Creator
October 11, 2023
It’s the spookiest time of year, and nothing is spookier than….. Rogue One director Gareth Edwards!
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff talk about The Creator, an original sci-fi film from Edwards starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, and Ken Watanabe. Releasing at the most topical of times, The Creator takes on human-AI relations while heavily integrating East Asian themes and aesthetics… for better and worse.
Referenced in this episode is this video by Patrick H Willems about the state of the modern film industry. For more thematic analysis on The Creator, check out this review by Siddhant Adlakha on Joysauce.
This episode was produced during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the actors currently on strike, the films being discussed in this show wouldn’t exist. To learn more about the ongoing strike, go to https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/
