Big Screen Book Club

The 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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This 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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This 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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This 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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This 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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This 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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For 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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This 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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