Four weeks in a row, can you believe it?! This week we are back with a Substantive Cinema pick that we've been excited for for quite some time, Walter Hill's underrated masterpiece Southern Comfort.

The movie follows a squad of National Guardsmen doing exercises in the Louisiana swamps. After some painfully avoidable events, the men become hunted and are on the run for their lives against an enemy of their own making in a place that, while actually being part of their own homeland, they find entirely foreign. On the one hand, the film is a perfectly thrilling and taut entertainment. However, it's also a substantive look at White male entitlement, American exceptionalism, militarism, race relations, and more.

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Listen to Mitchell's previous Substantive Cinema appearance

Mitchell's Walter Hill Interview

WH Filmography Ranked

Mitchell on Letterboxd

Purchase the Vinegar Syndrome 4K

Streaming options for Southern Comfort

List of Substantive Cinema movies

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Witness in the City (Radiance Films)

Troy article (Paste)

Ethan & Maya Hawke interview

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162: Substantive Cinema | Southern Comfort feat. Mitchell Beaupre