2012, directed by Pablo Larrain
With the lockdowns continuing, I decided to make this season about the one thing we couldn’t do: travel internationally. I put together a list of films that took the viewers across every continent on the planet. For a while, I thought about including John Carpenter’s “The Thing” so we could also have a movie set in Antarctica, but ultimately decided against it. I had to give myself a crash-course in Chilean history for this intro. When I discovered that the vote on ending the Pinochet dictatorship coincided exactly with the famous “You’re no Jack Kennedy” Bentsen/Quayle vice-presidential debate, I knew I had to include that too.