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Big Screen Book ClubThe Handmaiden LIVE ft. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Episode 17The Big Screen Book Club is officially live and in colour.
This month we're reflecting on our first ever in-person edition of the Big Screen Book Club talking Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden, and the book it was based on, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, recorded from the Voicebox tent at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2022.
We were also lucky enough to be joined by the amazing author of Harmless Like You and Starling Days, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.
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Theme music...2022-12-021h 04Big Screen Book ClubThe Motorcycle Diaries | Episode 16This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we tackle our first-ever memoir with Ernesto "Che" Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries, adapted to the screen by Walter Salles! We talk American Interventionism, the seeds planted for the Communist icon, and doing a poo out of a window. We contain multitudes here on this prestigious podcast.
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Art by 82palette2022-10-3158 minBig Screen Book ClubWhere The Crawdads Sing | Episode 15This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we're headed straight to the cinema for an adaptation of one of the best-selling books of all time - modern supermarket classic Where The Crawdads Sing, written by Delia Owens, and directed by Olivia Newman, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones.
We talk the beauty of the marsh, the jarring beauty of Daisy Edgar-Jones' Kya, and how the book thinks you were a fool to assume that she could be anything other than a complete psychopath.
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2022-08-0858 minBig Screen Book ClubCarol | Episode 14This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we take a look at an icon of LGBTQ+ cinema - it's Carol, directed by Todd Haynes and adapted from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. We talk about loving love, how utterly captivating Cate Blanchett is, and how Sarah Paulson seems very willing to throw hands.
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Big Screen Book ClubThe Tragedy of Macbeth | Episode 13We're back!
This month on the Big Screen Book Club after our short hiatus, we're taking on the granddaddy of plays himself - William Shakespeare - in The Tragedy of Macbeth, directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand! We talk the inevitability of one's fate, do some cracking impressions of ravens, and discuss how Macbeth is far and away the Shakespeare play that's most tailored to goths.
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Art by 82palette2022-06-0257 minBig Screen Book ClubThe Big Sleep | Episode 12This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we're taking it back to old Hollywood to tackle The Big Sleep, the ultimate Bogie and Bacall picture directed by Howard Hawks! We talk the fervent sex appeal of Howard Bogart, the power dynamics balanced by Lauren Bacall, and generally not *getting* crime novels.
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Art by 82palette2022-04-0652 minBig Screen Book ClubThe Lost Daughter | Episode 11This month, by request of our lovely Patreon supporters (that's you!!!), we're off to Greece to study a newly appointed Academy Award nominee - The Lost Daughter, written by Elena Ferrante and written and directed for the screen by Maggie Gylenhaal. We talk transmisogyny, how angrily eating a Cornetto is a symbol of true Britishness, and how Ferrante herself may be an ancient alien. It all comes together, we promise.
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Art by 82...2022-03-021h 01Big Screen Book ClubAudition | Episode 10This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we're taking a look at Audition, the unsettling and icky horror cult classic written by Ryu Murakami, and directed by Takashi Miike. We chat about all the invasiveness of needles, how yoghurt is actually much worse than seeing a man's foot cut off, and how Asami has earned her right to sit atop the pile when it comes to Good For Her cinema.
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Art by 82palette2022-02-0256 minBig Screen Book ClubDune | Episode 9For our New Year special episode of the Big Screen Book Club, we harness desert power and tackle DUNE, 2021's grandest sci-fi adventure directed by Denis Villeneuve, and written by Frank Herbert. We talk about the potential of Josh Brolin's baliset ditties, how butthole-y the sand worms are, and why not casting Barry Keoghan in Dune Part Two would be a complete travesty.
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Art by 82palette2022-01-1157 minBig Screen Book ClubEmma | Episode 8This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we're FINALLY tackling Austen! We chat Emma, and its film adaptation directed by Autumn de Wilde. Expect sideburn hate, the first instance of Clarisse's Costume Corner, and an extented rant about how Emma gets period filmmaking right where Bridgerton gets it wrong.
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Art by 82palette2021-12-0159 minBig Screen Book ClubThe Haunting of Hill House | Episode 7This month on the spoooooky Halloween edition of the Big Screen Book Club, we take to Hill House, the sinister locale of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Mike Flanagan's Netflix series of the same name. We talk not trusting Steve's writing ability and The Woman in Black - and can Joseph finally talk Clarisse into being a fully-fledged Stanagan? (no)
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Art by 82palette2021-10-3155 minBig Screen Book ClubTrainspotting | Episode 6This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we take a trip to bonnie Scotland to talk Trainspotting, the infamous black comedy by Danny Boyle, adapted from the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. We take on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sick Boy being the ultimate himbo, and *that* chapter with the dog.
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Art by 82palette2021-10-0455 minBig Screen Book ClubAnnihilation | Episode 5This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we take a bold step into Area X as we take a look at Annihilation, the first novel in Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy, and its film adaptation by visionary director Alex Garland! Expect New Weird assessments, brilliant impressions of the film's soundtrack, and Joseph somehow making it about Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Art by 82palette2021-09-0357 minBig Screen Book ClubThe Shining | Episode 4In this episode of the Big Screen Book Club, we venture to the Overlook Hotel to assess Stephen King & Stanley Kubrick's The Shining! Expect excellent Jack Nicholson impressions, somehow comparing the film to two different M. Night Shyamalan films, and so much furry talk.
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Art by 82palette2021-08-0658 minBig Screen Book ClubThe Great Gatsby | Episode 3This month on the Big Screen Book Club Podcast, we take a look at the American classic, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and its film by Baz Luhrmann! We talk glitz, glamour, the jazz age and how Lana Del Rey is our modern-day Daisy Buchanan.
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Art by 82palette2021-06-2853 minBig Screen Book ClubJojo Rabbit | Episode 2This month on the Big Screen Book Club, we take a look at Taika Waititi's hilarious anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit, and the book that inspired it, Christine Leunens' hard-hitting and bleak Caging Skies!
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Art by 82palette2021-06-0152 minBig Screen Book ClubLittle Women | Episode 1In the very first episode of the Big Screen Book Club, Joseph and Clarisse talk Little Women, the Greta Gerwig-directed adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's literary classic. Expect Professor Bhaer thirst, excellent Amy impressions and recounting how many times the film brought them to tears!
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Art by 82palette2021-04-3058 minBig Screen Book ClubIntroduction | Episode 0Welcome to the Big Screen Book Club, the podcast that celebrates the loving relationship between literature and film! Join your hosts Joseph Kime and Clarisse Loughrey as they take a look at what's to come for the podcast, and reveal the first subject of our book club!
Brand new episodes are on the last Friday of every month!
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