Film Literate

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 Diazoni - 46:37 
Robert Diazoni - 48:26 
Andrew Martin Dodson - 1:00:24 
Derrick Diazoni - 1:51:14 
Charlotte Diazoni - 1:52:28 
Cody Hawkinson - 1:53:35

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’