Vinson Cunningham

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230 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I'm feeling it.

I see the spark.

It's close to that.

It took me a minute.

Wemby-like.

What'd you think, Alex?

Big train sequence.

Yeah, it's interesting because I do think that it's not really tugging at the heartstrings, partially because, to me, of the Spielberg films that I've seen, it seems to be the most sort of conceptual and abstract film.

I think it's trying to sort of rearrange, again, our society and see it through, like, the pane of a different window.

It reminds me of a poem by Robert Hayden.

I might have even mentioned it on this podcast.

He has this poem, it's called American Journal, and it's from the point of view of an alien visiting America.

Can I read a stanza?

And so the poem is, as the title suggests, it's a journal by this alien who has been sent by his overlords to come and sort of take notes on America.

He's like an alien Tocqueville or something like that.

Crowds gathering in the streets today for some reason obscure to me.

Noise and violent motion, repulsive physical contact, sentinels, pigs I heard them called, with flailing clubs,

Rage and bleeding and frenzy and screaming, machines wailing, unbearable decibels.

I fled lest vibrations of the brutal scene do further harm to my metabolism, already overtaxed.

It's this being who— It's about UFC at the White House.

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