Charlene and Jackie dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.

Topics covered include writers writing about writing, the cinematic equivalent of click bait, best book stores in NYC, and what happens when a rom com lacks com.

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1:15 The fine Italian cashmere merchant Loro Piana

1:20 The Jacob Burns Film Center

6:10 The Jane Austen Cinematic Universe

7:40 The Lake Scene, if you need to watch it at this moment

9:45 Shakespeare and Company Shouting Out Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

13:00 The Ginger Man–it’s a real book!

15:50 As You Do A Gavotte

18:20 Prime Example of a Jonesian fall

20:00 Materialists: Kind of a Rom, not really a Com

22:43 “It’s not girl gets boy, girl gets book”–Greta Gerwig on Little Women

30:30 The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch

37:00 “If I have one wish, is that people go out from the film and they feel a bit happy and they want to read more poetry.”

40:00 The Dish and the Spoon: Greta Gerwig Raging in Pajamas

44:27 “Breadcrumbing”

49:15 Set with great wallpaper and matching lampshade and matching bedding and wallpaper

55:16 Two of our favorite NYC book stores: Kitchen Arts and Letters and Unnameable Books

58:53 A history of Book Row, NYC’s historic haven for bibliophiles. The store Jackie references is Alabaster Bookshop.

1:01:28 ‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut.

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