In 1967, The Graduate created a generational divide among the movie-going public. Young audiences loved it, and propelled it to massive box-office success, while critics and older viewers were left colder than Mr. Robinson at home. This week the Stake podcast welcomes Joey Horstman, professor of English at Bethel University, to talk all things Mike Nichols, Baby-boomers, Simon and Garfunkel, Roger Ebert, and that single, unavoidable truth: Plastics.
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Next week on The Stake Podcast, we travel once more to the 1960s, to revisit George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, a movie that Variety called “an orgy of sadism.” It’s streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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