In this book-ish and film-ish episode, BFL chats with Emily and Anya, both wonderful writers and filmmakers, about Poor Things starring Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, boring Hemingway, alienated poetry, and incredibly explicit audiobook adventures. The guests then share how they got started with filmmaking, before discussing the statement - the book is always better.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:36 How BFL met the guests

01:58 BFL reading update

04:07 Emily reading update

13:49 Anya reading update

27:03 Guest bios

28:25 Anya’s recent project

34:11 Emily’s recent project

39:39 How did you get started in filmmaking?

50:00 Film adaptations of books

Works mentioned

Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley 

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Death in the Afternoon By Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Help by Kathryn Stockett 

Arrival by Denis Villeneuve

The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

Blade Runner by Ridley Scott

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Harry Potter movies

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson

Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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