Erratic Dialogues

By Gabriella Edelstein and Claudette Palomares

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 var... more

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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

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March 19, 2018Episode 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.
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19min
February 13, 2018Episode 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
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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”
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26min
February 01, 2018Episode 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
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28min
December 31, 20172017 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
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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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27min
December 28, 20172017 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
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25min
December 26, 20172017 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
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29min
December 19, 2017Episode 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
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23min
March 28, 2017Episode 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)
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51min
December 30, 2016Episode 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
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1h 7min
October 31, 2016Episode 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
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46min

FAQs about Erratic Dialogues:

How many episodes does Erratic Dialogues have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.