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Xoe and Rita discuss film, literature, historical figures, interests, and obsessions.
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Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Bibiliography:
In Search of Anne Bronte by Nick Holland, (2016). - As the title indicates, this book focuses on Anne but it gives a rounded view of the family and their circumstances.
Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray (2010) - In which Heathcliff is a vampire. Didn't bother to read it, but had to include it here to show the range of fan fiction.
Film and televion adaptations of WH. Please forgive omissions. There are so many! Ratings out of 5 stars.
1920 - Wuthering Heights, starring Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward - silent screen adaptation - I have not seen it.
1939 - Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier - 3 stars: Worth-seeing, though the content is sanitized for the Hollywood censors and the actors' looks are beautified for the tastes of the day.
1948 - Wuthering Heights (British TV adaption) - starring Katherine Blake and Kieron Moore - have not seen it.
1962 - Wuthering Heights, starring Keith Mitchell and Claire Bloom - have not seen it.
1967 - Wuthering Heights (British TV series), starring Angela Scoular and Ian McShane - 1 1/2 stars: McShane has the Heathcliff glower down to the tee. But little else about this slow-paced drama is engaging.
1970 - Wuthering Heights, starring Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton - 4 stars: I saw this for my 13th birthday. It was my first taste of WH. My friends and I were so in love with Timothy Dalton. Nice dark perspective that maintains a lush emotional and physical violence along with the feral sexiness.
1978 - Wuthering Heights (TV series one season), starring John Duttine and Amanda Root - have not seen it
1992 - Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes - 2 stars: Fiennes is more mean and brittle than dark and brooding, while Binoche is too refined for Kathy.
1998 - Wuthering Heights, starring Robert Cavanah and Orla Brady - have not seen it.
2003 Wuthering Heights, starring Erika Christensen and Mike Vogel - modern day loose adaptation, I haven't seen it.
2009 - Wuthering Heights (limited TV series), starring Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy - 4 1/2 stars: These 2 actors are the among the best to assay these roles. They both have the acting heft and temperment to manage the layers these characters embody. Though note to ITV, for God's and all our sakes please get some better wigs. Only someone as massively talented as Tom Hardy could overcome that mop on his head.
2011 - Wuthering Heights, starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson - 1 1/2 stars: Director Andrea Arnold's films, while interesting, are low in energy and understated. This style does not serve a wild Gothic ghost story. The film is a faded husk. (On the other hand, many critics lauded it.)
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
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Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Rita's back in this extra short episode format to give you a very quick review.
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
ELAINE MAY
Films directed:
American Masters- Mike Nichols (2016)
Ishtar (1987)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
A New Leaf (1971) - The very best per Rita and Xoe.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278964/
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Folks! This third part to our series on English mystery writer and her creation, Lord Peter Wimsey, was hidden away in an obscure corner of my flashdrive until this day. Now you can hear of the last several books, our favorites, and the conclusion of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane's thrilling love story.
Music:
Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E minor Op. 44/2- 3. Andante
Future Mind by Powerbleeder
Wimsey novels in chronological order:
Whose Body? (1923)
Clouds of Witness (1926)
Unnatural Death (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Strong Poison (1931)- Xoe's Fav
The Five Red Herrings (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932) - Rita's favorite
Murder Must Advertise (1933) - Rita and Xoe's favorite
The Nine Tailors (1934)- Xoe's favorite
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
Bibliography:
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography, 1981.
Coomes, David. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, 1992.
Dale, Alzina Stone. The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1978.
Hitchman, Janet. Such a Strange Lady, 1975.
Kenney, Catherine McGehee. The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1990. (A scholarly look at the themes of social criticism in Sayers' work.)
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, 1993. (The best one in my opinion. It is writen in an open, modern style and contain many more pictures than than the others.)
Video:
The best series - A Dorothy L Sayers Mystery. BBC, 1987. This cover 3 out 4 of the Wimsey/Vane books -
Strong Poison (in which they meet and Peter saves Harriet from the gallows),
Have His Carcase (in which Harriet finds a body, which subsequently disappears, and partners with Peter in investigating and solving the murder),
Gaudy Night (in which Harriet goes back Oxford for a reunion and runs into a mystery about a vicious vandal; while the plots thickens, so does their romance).
Best Wimsey is Edward Petherbridge and best Vane is Harriet Walter, both of whom are in this series.
The other series was made by the BBC in 1970. It starred Ian Carmichel as Wimsey. Carmichel looks nothing like Wimsey and, to my mind, does not act like Wimsey either. This series includes:
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
The Nine Tailors
Murder Must Advertise
Five Red Herrings
Clouds of Witness
There were also a couple films made, both of which Sayers absolutely hated. They are:
The Silent Passenger, 1935, British, starring John Loden and Peter Haddon.
Busman's Honeymoon (US: The Haunted Honeymoon), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings, 1940.
A short Interview with Edward Patherbridge on playing Lord Peter Wimsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsMOMbCpBFU
Link to an article illustration about Sayer's advertisment for Guiness https://vinepair.com/articles/history-guinness-toucan-ads/
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Larry McMurtry born in 1936 in Archer City, TX. Also wrote Terms of Endearment and The Last Picture Show. Had the biggest used bookstore in the world until 2012.His father and grandfather were cattle ranchers.
Lonesome Dove TV miniseries, 1989 - Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
Their original script was welcomed by the studio, but disliked by the actors McMurtry and Bogdanovich had in mind: Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne.
Prizes - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1986)
Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words by Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones, May/June 2014, https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/larry-mcmurtry-brokeback-mountain-last-kind-words/
Saturday Jul 20, 2019
Saturday Jul 20, 2019
We were interviewed as guests on Anne Bogel's podcast What Should I Read Next?
Here's a link to the episode: https://modernmrsdarcy.com/192-episode
Thanks to Anne, Brenna, and Melissa. Welcome to our new listeners!
Saturday Jul 06, 2019
Saturday Jul 06, 2019
*Note: The episode ended up being so long that we split it into two parts. Part II will be released next Saturday and will pick up exactly where this one let off. Thanks for your patience!
Lonesome Dove Notes
Larry McMurtry born in 1936 in Archer City, TX. Also wrote Terms of Endearment and The Last Picture Show. Had the biggest used bookstore in the world until 2012.
His father and grandfather were cattle ranchers.
Lonesome Dove TV miniseries, 1989 - Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
Prizes - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1986)
Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words by Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones, May/June 2014, https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/larry-mcmurtry-brokeback-mountain-last-kind-words/
Origin of title: “Lonesome Dove Baptist Church”
On Brokeback Mountain screenplay: Their original script was welcomed by the studio, but disliked by the actors McMurtry and Bogdanovich had in mind: Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne.
Saturday Jun 08, 2019
Saturday Jun 08, 2019
There are 2 versions of The Warriors: theatrical release and director's cut. We recommend the theatrical release version because it eliminates that annoying comic book panels that interrupt the flow of the narrative.
The film is based on the Sol Yurick novel, The Warriors (1965), which in turn is based on Xenophon's Anabasis (370 BCE).
Music:
In the City- Joe Walsh
"The Warriors" theme and Baseball Furies Chase- Barry De Vorzon
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