Jeremy and Paco talk about 2011's Source Code, directed by Duncan Jones. Featuring a clip from the first unreleased iteration of this podcast in 2021, where filmmaker Caitlyn Johnson joined us to talk about the movie.

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You can watch Tony Scott's Deja Vu (2006) on Starz, or rent it on Apple or Amazon.

Further reading and sources:

• Gyllenhaal says the 'Bean' could be metaphor for 'Source Code' |Dean Richards, Chicago Tribune

• Like Something Out Of A Movie: Alleged Shakedown On Metra Film Location |CBS News and Better Government Association

• Bean sculptor reflects pride on Chicagoans |Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times

• With Chicago fans, everything just Jake |Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times

• Metra Train Stars in Movie “Source Code” with Jake Gyllenhaal ⁠ |Better Magazine

• Secret of her success: Michelle Monaghan's Midwestern roots help versatile actress stay grounded |Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

• How Jake Gyllenhaal Wooed Duncan Jones to Direct ‘Source Code’, |Lindsay Powers, Kim Messina, Hollywood Reporter

• Temporality and Surveillance I: Terrorism Narratives and the Melancholic Security State| From Surveillance Cinema by Catherine Zimmer

• Speculative Finance and Network Temporality in Duncan Jones's Moon and Source Code, | David P. Pierson, CR: The New Centennial Review
  

Jeremy and Paco talk about A Working Man (2025), directed by David Ayer.

First Impressions is a new episode format where we talk about recently released Chicago movies. Let us know any that are coming up!

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Further reading and sources:

• ⁠‘I’ll Do What I Have to Do to Survive’: David Ayer faced a “dark night of the soul” after the controversy of Suicide Squad. It changed his career.⁠ | Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
• "A Working Man" review⁠ | Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
• ⁠Harsh Times, Ayer's first film, is available on Tubi

Jeremy and Paco are joined by author Noah Gittell to talk about Eight Men Out (1988), directed by John Sayles.

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Eight Men Out is screening at the Music Box on 35mm on March 23, introduced by Noah! You can buy your tickets here.

Further reading and sources:

• Baseball: The Movie | Noah Gittell
• Eight Men Out | Eliot Asinof
• The Betrayal | Charles Fountain
• “It Ain’t So, Kid, It Just Ain’t So:” History’s Apology to “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Charles Comiskey and Chicago’s Black Sox | Daniel J. Voelker and Paul A. Duffy, originally in Chicago Lawyer magazine
• `Eight Men Out' - Film gets a fix on the real story behind the 1919 Black Sox scandal | Dave Hoekstra, Sun-Times, November 29, 1987

• Decency and Muck: The Visions of John Sayles and Oliver Stone
  
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  “Sports Films, History, and Identity.” | Aaron Baker, Journal of Sport History 25, no. 2 (1998): 217–33.
• “Trades Sink Sox to Lowest Payroll.” | Dave Van Dyck, Chicago Sun-Times, September 2, 1988
• "A Conversation Between Eric Foner and John Sayles,” from Past Imperfect: History according to the movies | Edited by Ted Mico, John Miller₋Monzon, and David Rubel