Film Literate

Raymond Chandler. Leigh Brackett. Robert Altman. Elliott Gould. And it's a pretty short episode, which is funny when you consider the title.

A conversation about time, violence, and war.

A look at some upcoming adaptations!

Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, and two old friends from high school check into a hotel...

Happy Holidays! For everyone except The Grinch. Only, actually, also The Grinch. But then, wait, no, spoiler alert. And a great big festive thank you to Rachel Irene Wilke, Colleen Murphy, Chris Lord, Trevor West, Ewa Mykytyn, Derrick Diazoni, Robert Diazoni, Julie Diazoni, Hillary Frederich, Myles Fenton, Joseph Abrams, Kat Cook, Xozy and Dolly, Melissa Franco, Sedona, and Rosemary!

I've seen the future, and you're going to listen to this episode.

This episode is, as they say, NSFW. Somehow, Mychael Danna's beautiful and haunting score failed to get a single shoutout in over 137 minutes of podcasting. Terribly unfortunate oversight. Incredible work by him on this film. Next stop: New Canaan, CT!

Will they ever adapt this for the screen? Should they? Do you know the story behind the story of what happened to Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran at Hampden College?

Don't be afraid of Brightcliffe Hospice...

Daphne du Maurier.  Alfred Hitchcock.  Bodega Bay.

When I recorded this, I'd only read half of the new release in order to keep spoilers to a minimum.  So, click play and enjoy!

A look back at Panem's annual reminder that the districts belong to The Capitol.  Me.  My wife.  Only one victor will emerge.

With four additional guests on top of the three titularly featured, this is easily Film Literate's most ambitious episode to date!  It's about baseball, change, math, money, and perspective as well as family, friendship, movies, rooting for the perennial underdog, and 2002's then record-setting 20-game win streak by the Oakland Athletics. GUEST INDEX: Chris Zappettini - 02:38  Julie...

The first Bond movie is actually based on the sixth Bond book, but who needs to worry about continuity on a tropical mission at the very start of a major film franchise?

And now for a bit about the "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which might also be meant the "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," I don't know. Also covered: ‘Sweet Thursday’

What we have here is...  Donn Pearce's debut novel and one of Paul Newman's most iconic characters.

The Story of a Life in the Forest.  Also, yeah, we know the plural of "deer" is "deer."

Also included are 11 more titles of upcoming movies based on books!  Going into this episode, beware of mild spoilers throughout.

A couple of guys who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area talk about its infamous Cipher Slayer, the people who pursued him, and quite possibly David Fincher's most masterful masterpiece.

Thank God for Site B!  In Film Literate's first episode with a special guest co-host, please excuse the odd momentary lapse in audio quality and enjoy the wild conversation between two grown men who were kids in the 90s.

Jeff VanderMeer's dream as dreamt by Alex Garland.

Not Caroline at all!

Thomas Savage.  Jane Campion.  The Power of the Dog.  The Academy Awards.  Banjos.

Let's talk Haruki Murakami!  In this episode, both Drive My Car , the 4-time Academy Award-nominated* critical darling, and Kafka on the Shore , the not-yet-adapted and debatably "unfilmable" 2002 novel, are covered somewhat extensively, with spoilers for both kept to a minimum.  Welcome, for the time being, to a brand-new world... *Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Fe...

There once was a film that was Gladiator.  It was a thing.  Singer-songwriter-novelist-actor-screenwriter-genius Nick Cave was asked personally by Russell Crowe - Maximus himself - to write a sequel.  And he did.  You can find the script online.  The rest, as they say, is history.  (Spoiler alert: There is no sequel to Gladiator.)