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Ben Godar of the Des Moines Film Society was kind enough to invite us to discuss Spike Lee's 1986 film "She's Gotta Have It" for their Cinema at Home series of 80s movies. We talk about the positives of student filmmaking, cinematic love for NYC, and more. As a bonus, our discussion wrapped with a focus on the new Quentin Dupieux film, "Deerskin" (available to rent on desmoinesfilm.org). Enjoy!

In this bonus episode, Dustin revisits an idea from our Moonrise Kingdom episode: music in Wes Anderson's work. He is joined by special guest, Dr. Christopher Scheer, who provides interesting insight into Britten and other composers connected with Anderson's work. Christopher Scheer is the associate professor of musicology at Utah State University in Logan, UT. In 2009 he was a Leverhulme International Visiting Fellow at Liverpool Hope University where he spearheaded the organization of a colloquium on Theosophy and the Arts, out of which developed the Leverhulme sponsored network (of which he is a member), “Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy and the Arts, 1875-1960,” in which he has played an integral role as organizer, artistic director, and curator. A catalogue/edited book connected to the network sponsored exhibition “Enchanted Modernities: Mysticism, Landscape, and the American West,” has just been published. He also recently published a chapter on Theosophy and music in A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880-1930. Scheer’s research is focused on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British musical culture. He recently edited a collection of essays, with Dr. Eric Saylor, on The Sea and the British Imagination that was published by Boydell, and is currently working on a monograph about the operas of Gustav Holst for the Ashgate Interdisciplinary Opera Series. Scheer’s research has been published in edited collections published by Brepols, Ashgate, and Boydell, as well as in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Victorian Culture and the Journal of Musicological Research. He is also a visiting curator at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art overseeing their Museum + Music series, and is Vice President of the North American British Music Studies Association. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KUTa6P6lM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raz8kxd0Q7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMLWuY36KQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2bDWRE_3tI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQoRTBg49M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCDK8TOuI9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeDyb2JbmuI