Erratic Dialogues

Erratic Dialogues

By Gabriella Edelstein and Claudette PalomaresSociety & CultureArts
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  • Episode 15 – Lady Bird (2017)

    Gabriella and Claudette travel back to 2002 and review Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Tracey Letts.

    Length: 17mins, Recorded February 2017

    https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/erratic-dialogues-lady-bird-final-itunes.mp3

    iTunes/Apple Podcasts Link/Download HERE

    Notes:

    • Our 2017 film Roundup
    • ‘Lady Bird’ No Longer Has a Perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (and Nobody is Happy About It) (Indiewire)
    • A documentary on the failed musical Merrily We Roll Along – The Stephen Sondheim musical that Lady Bird performs at her Catholic high school.
    • Pretty in Pink (1986) written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch.
      • 19 min
    • Episode 14 – The Shape of Water (2017)

      Gabriella and Claudette review Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a Cold-War, aquatic fairytale set in Baltimore, 1962, starring Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and Doug Jones.

      Length: 25mins, Recorded January 2017

      https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/erratic-dialogues-review-the-shape-of-water-final.mp3

      iTunes Link/Download HERE

       

      Notes:

      • Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
      • Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro
      • Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple dance in The Little Colonel (1935) referenced in The Shape of Water
      • The Big Lebowski (1998) Dream Sequence
      • Beauty and the Beast (2017) – Our podcast review of this film.
      • “Jacked up Kangaroo”
        • 26 min
      • Episode 13 – Erratic Dialogues reviews Phantom Thread (2017)

        Gabriella and Claudette reviews P.T. Anderson’s twisted, Hitchcock-inspired period (quasi?) romance, Phantom Thread, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville.

        Length: 30mins, Recorded January 2017

        iTunes Link/Download HERE

        https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/phantom-thread-final-itunes.mp3

        Notes:

        • Pygmalion—the Greek myth and George Bernard Shaw play,
        • The Red Shoes—a 1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
        • Rebecca—Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel; Mrs Danvers
        • Darren Aronosky’s mother! (2017)
        • There Will Be Blood (2007)—Daniel Day Lewis’ previous collaboration with P.T.Anderson
        • Topsy Turvy (1999)—Mike Leigh’s film on Gilbert and Sullivan
          • 28 min
        • 2017 in Review: Television and Podcasts

          The last part of our Cultural Roundup series for 2017  (Part One: Film and Part Two: Books) is all about the contemporary serial medium: television and podcasts! In this episode, Gabriella and Claudette discuss (and debate) their favourite television and podcasts for 2017.

          Length: 26 mins, Recorded December 2017

          https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-television-and-podcasts.mp3

          iTunes Link/Download HERE/Podcast Feed

          Notes

          Television

          • 0:43 – The Crown available on Netflix
          • 3:11 – American Vandal available on Netflix
          • 4:50 – Star Trek: Discovery available on Netflix
          • 7:00 – Big Little Lies available on HBO/Foxtel, based on the novel by the Australian writer Jaclyn Moriarty
          • 7:45 – The Young Pope available on SBS on Demand
          • 10:20 – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel available on Amazon Prime, by Amy Sherman Palladino (Gilmore Girls & Bunheads)

            • Podcasts

            • 12:57 – Chat 10, Looks 3
            • 14:30 – Crybabies 
            • 15:01 – The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, adapted into Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze) starring Meryl Streep
            • 16:21 – S*Town 
            • 18:30 – Dirty John

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              27 min
            • 2017 in Review: Books

              In our literary segment of a three-part Cultural Roundup Series for 2017 (Part One: Film can be found here), Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite books of the year.

              Length: 24 mins, Recorded December 2017

              https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-in-books-final-itunes.mp3

              iTunes Link/Download HERE/Podcast Feed

              Notes

              • The 2017 Booker Prize
              • 1:40 – 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (The book Claudette never finished)
              • 1:57 – Autumn by Ali Smith
              • 2:00 – Exit West by Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
              • 2:30 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
              • 3:17 – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
              • 4:55 –Tenth of December by George Saunders
              • Black Mirror – A sci-fi TV show from the UK
              • 6:01 – Winter by Ali Smith
              • Pauline Boty, an artist referenced in Autumn by Ali Smith
              • Barbara Hepworth, an artist referenced in Winter by Ali Smith
              • 10:10 – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
              • 11:10 – Elmet by Fiona Mozley, The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
              • 11:55 – Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
              • 15:15 – The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
              • 16:14 – The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
              • 17:21 – The Artist is Present, performance artwork by Marina Abramović
              • 20:27 – True Stories (The 2017 Compendium edition by Text Publishing) by Helen Garner
              • 20:48 – “Why She Broke” by Helen Garner, story in The Monthly, June 2017

                • Upcoming books mentioned:

                • Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
                • The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
                • Manifesto: Power and Women by Mary Beard
                • My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
                • Ulverton by Adam Thorpe (Hilary Mantel cried when this book did not reach the 1992 Booker shortlist)
                • My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
                  • 25 min
                • 2017 in Review: Film

                  Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite films of 2017.

                  Length: 28 mins, Recorded December 2017

                  iTunes Link/Download HERE/Podcast Feed

                  https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-movies-final-itunes.mp3

                  Notes

                  • 1:10 Call Me by Your Name directed by Luca Guadagnino. Our podcast review of the film HERE.
                  • 2:24 – Get Out directed by Jordan Peele
                  • 3:30 – Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve
                  • 4:11 – Okja directed by Bong Joon-ho. Available on Netflix.
                  • 5:35 – The Killing of a Sacred Deer directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
                  • The Greek Tragedy Orestes
                  • The actor Barry Keoghan stars in Dunkirk as well as The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
                  • 9:40 – Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins
                  • 10:49 – Paterson directed by Jim Jarmusch
                  • 12:03 – Toni Erdmann directed by Maren Ade
                  • 13:10 – Dunkirk directed by Christopher Nolan
                  • 13:45 – Baby Driver directed by Edgar Wright
                  • Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy: Shuan of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The End of the World.
                  • Linda Holmes’ review of Baby Driver on Pop Culture Happy Hour
                  • 16:00 – I am Not Your Negro directed by Raoul Peck, based on the writings of James Baldwin
                  • 18:23 – The Death of Stalin directed by Armando Iannuci
                  • 20:30 – The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) directed by Noah Baumbach. Available on Netflix.
                  • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) directed by Wes Anderson

                    • Upcoming Films mentioned:

                    • The Shape of the Water directed by Guillermo Del Toro
                    • Lady Bird directed by Greta Gerwig
                    • A Wrinkle in Time directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the YA novel of the same name by Madeleine L’Engle
                    • The Florida Project directed by Sean Baker, who previously directed Tangerine.
                    • Mortal Engines, based on the novel by Philip Reeve and produced by Peter Jackson
                      • 29 min
                    • Episode 9 – Erratic Dialogues review Call Me By Your Name (2017)

                      Gabriella and Claudette review the much-celebrated Call Me By Your Name (2017), a film directed by Luca Guadagnino, with a screenplay by James Ivory, adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. The film stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.

                      Length: 24mins, Recorded December 2017

                      iTunes Link/Download HERE

                      https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/call-me-by-your-name-final-itunes.mp3

                      Notes:

                      • Call Me By Your Name is the third film in Guadagnino’s Desire Trilogy, which includes I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015)
                      • Merchant & Ivory
                      • A Room with a View (1985) based on the 1908 novel of the same name by E.M. Forster. Lucy Honeychurch is the heroine of A Room with a View.
                      • A Contrapposto pose
                      • Plato’s (not Aristotle or Socrates) theory of Soulmates
                        • 23 min
                      • Episode 8 – Erratic Dialogues review Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (2017)

                        “Be Our Guest” to this latest Erratic Dialogues podcast, in which Claudette and Gabriella review Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017), directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans and Emma Thompson.

                        Length: 50mins, Recorded March 2017

                        iTunes Link/Download HERE

                        https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/erratic-dialogues-disney-beauty-and-the-beast-2017-final-itunes.mp3

                        Notes:

                        • Gabriella and Claudette did not have time to discuss LeFou, but please look at Hailey Bachrach’s “We’ve Already Had a Gay LeFou”
                        • The Greats podcast episode, in which Gabriella and Claudette first document their hatred of Rococo
                        • Droit du seigneur
                        • Beyond the Lights (2014): Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Beyonce-inspired turn.
                        • Buff Kangaroo. Buff Kangaroo with a tin.
                        • Dan Stevens. Cousin Matthew. Man Booker Judge.
                        • Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête (Beauty & the Beast)
                        • “Evermore”, the Beast’s excruciating, eminently forgettable new song.
                        • La Belle et la Bete (2014) starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel.
                        • Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979) featuring ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’ and ‘The Tiger’s Bride’. Full text here.
                        • Lin Manuel Miranda on the exquisiteness of Howard Ashman’s lyrical phrasing in Beauty and the Beast (1991)
                          • 51 min
                        • Episode 7 – 2016: A Cultural Autobiography

                          Gabriella and Claudette discuss the books, film, theatre and podcasts that they loved (and a few that they loathed) in 2016.

                          Length: 1hr 6mins, Recorded December 2016

                          iTunes Link/Download HERE

                          https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/erratic-dialogues-2016-a-cultural-autobiography-final.mp3

                          Notes:

                          • Sport for Jove’s Summer Season, a double bill of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar/Antony & Cleopatra (playing to January 29, 2017)
                          • Eimar McBride on TLS, reading an excerpt from her novel, The Lesser Bohemians.
                          • “Selfie with Sunflowers”, Julian Barnes on Van Gogh for LRB Podcast
                          • “What I Did in 2015” – Alan Bennett reads from his diaries for LRB Podcast
                          • Helen Garner’s review of Pride and Prejudice
                          • Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisha Solomon
                          • “My Son, the Prince of Fashion” by Michael Chabon for GQ Magazine

                            • Episode Rundown

                            1:40 Theatre in 2016

                            1:56 King Charles III
                            7:14  Twelfth Night
                            11:15 The Literati
                            12:30 Disgraced
                            13:30 Taming of the Shrew
                            16:00 Three Sisters
                            18:34 Antigone
                            20:54 Speed the Plow
                            27:00 Books in 2016
                            28:10 The Lesser Bohemians
                            31:00 The Natural Way of Things
                            33:05 A Little Life
                            34:47 The Argonauts
                            35:50 Between the World and Me
                            37:28 Everywhere I Look
                            39:39 M Train
                            40:06 The First Bad Man
                            43:00 TV in 2016
                            Gabriella recommends The West Wing (NBC)
                            Claudette recommends Some Girls (BBC), Stranger Things (Netflix), The Crown (Netflix), Victoria (ITV)
                            44:00 Film in 2016
                            44:38 Rooco and his Brothers (1960)
                            45:37 Where am I Going? (2016)
                            47:05 Nocturnal Animals (2016)
                            49:03 Arrival (1960)
                            50:28 Podcasts in 2016
                            50:52 The Party Room
                            51:00 TLS Voices (Times Literary Supplement)
                            52:10 How Did this Get Made?
                            52:43 London Review Books Podcast
                            52:13 The Berlin Patient
                            53:56 My Dad Wrote a Porno
                            54:38 How to Be Amazing, Episode 46: Ira Glass
                            56:25 This American Life
                            Episode 592: Are We There Yet (Refugee Camps in Greece)
                            Episode 597: One Last Thing Before I Go (Wind Telephone in Japan)
                            58:20 Things we are looking forward to in 2017
                            Moonglow
                            Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
                            Hillary Mantel’s new book
                            Golden Hill
                            The Essex Serpent
                            Margaret the First
                            Measure for Measure
                            Three Sisters
                            The Rover
                            Ghosts
                            Cabaret
                            Parsifal

                            1 hr 7 min
                          • Episode Six: Erratic Dialogues reviews Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante

                            In this episode, Gabriella and Claudette review Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante (2016), a non-fiction tesserae of letters and interviews between the mysterious Italian author and her publishers, journalists, and readers.

                            Notes:

                            • Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
                            • The Italian author, Elsa Morante
                            • Gabriella’s essay: Who gets to speak and why?
                            • Claudette’s essay: The Bogeywoman

                              • Length: 45mins, Recorded October 2016

                              iTunes Link/Download HERE

                              https://erraticdialogues.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/frantumaglia-final-itunes.mp3
                              46 min

                            About Erratic Dialogues

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                            Erratic Dialogues is a monthly broadcast in which the hosts, Claudette Palomares and Gabriella Edelstein, discuss happenings in the world of art, theatre and film, as well as literature in all its variety.