Michael and Us: Death of the Iron Age Café

Tony Buba chronicled the decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania in a series of acclaimed documentaries that elevated him to national notoriety. But in the extraordinary documentary/fiction hybrid LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUST BOWL FANTASY (1988), he asks what it means when his success is tied to so many people's poverty.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.