Clay gave a shoutout to his professor at GWU, Peter Rollberg, for turning him on to subtitled movies with foreign themes. It was actually a “totalitarian film study circle” — impressing Buck to the max if you hit the audio play button at the top of this page.

Here are his silent film recommendations:

Since the topic was about totalitarian regimes, Buck offered his picks, too.

But fear not, everyone, Clay’s still the same guy who believes in these two very important things.

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