Film Literate

What we have here is...  Donn Pearce's debut novel and one of Paul Newman's most iconic characters.

The Story of a Life in the Forest.  Also, yeah, we know the plural of "deer" is "deer."

Also included are 11 more titles of upcoming movies based on books!  Going into this episode, beware of mild spoilers throughout.

A couple of guys who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area talk about its infamous Cipher Slayer, the people who pursued him, and quite possibly David Fincher's most masterful masterpiece.

Thank God for Site B!  In Film Literate's first episode with a special guest co-host, please excuse the odd momentary lapse in audio quality and enjoy the wild conversation between two grown men who were kids in the 90s.

Jeff VanderMeer's dream as dreamt by Alex Garland.

Not Caroline at all!

Thomas Savage.  Jane Campion.  The Power of the Dog.  The Academy Awards.  Banjos.

Let's talk Haruki Murakami!  In this episode, both Drive My Car, the 4-time Academy Award-nominated* critical darling, and Kafka on the Shore, the not-yet-adapted and debatably "unfilmable" 2002 novel, are covered somewhat extensively, with spoilers for both kept to a minimum.  Welcome, for the time being, to a brand-new world...

*Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Adapted Screenplay (ceremony forthcoming)

There once was a film that was Gladiator.  It was a thing.  Singer-songwriter-novelist-actor-screenwriter-genius Nick Cave was asked personally by Russell Crowe - Maximus himself - to write a sequel.  And he did.  You can find the script online.  The rest, as they say, is history.  (Spoiler alert: There is no sequel to Gladiator.)