Enough Said (2013) explores dating mishaps in mid-life, after two people are divorced and ready to see their kids go off to college. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and James Gandolfini star in a quirky romance where a woman hears way too much information about her new boyfriend from his ex-wife. The film is written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and this month is Holoftember on the Ms. Wonderful Film Club Podcast. Learn more about consciousness in film on mswonderful.substack.com, or learn about your host, Jana Rose, through www.janamarierose.com

We are calling September 2024 Holoftember and celebrating films by writer and director Nicole Holofcener. This film Please Give from 2010 has a focus on experiencing the guilt and shame of financial wealth and health in a world where many people struggle. It also highlights the challenges of marriage, parenting, and being a good neighbor. Enjoy this conversation from Ms. Wonderful and Ms. Cool (Jana Marie Rose and Katie McGraw) that explores the fun and flavor of a unique writer and director whose films are a blend of Woody Allen and Jane Austen for a modern age.

Difficult women of faith and audacity...hmm! Host Jana Rose & Katie McGraw, best friends and literature majors, discuss the short stories and style of Flannery O'Connor and the depiction of her in the new film Wildcat, starring Maya Hawke and directed by Ethan Hawke. This podcast ends with a short original script as a spinoff of the film, as all Ms. Wonderful podcast episodes do.... Learn more on the newsletter, mswonderful.substack.com and buy the new book written by the host Jana Rose: Letters to a Young Woman, from Paris, also about women, faith, and life's journeys.

Ms. Wonderful discusses the 1998 film Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, with fellow Philadelphia actor and friend, Gene Foschini. The cast of this film includes Robert DeNiro, Anne Bancroft, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Chris Cooper. Subscribe to mswonderful.substack.com to follow along with the film club and events. Visual clips of the podcast on YouTube: @rosewoodstv

This summer of 2024 we are watching films by actor Ethan Hawke and examining masculinity. Hamlet (2000) directed by Michael Almereyda depicts a modern Hamlet set across a backdrop of New York City, and he feels like a Joker character. McGraw and Rose discuss and read a short script of who Hamlet meets in the afterlife. Listen and follow along and subscribe to the film blog, Mswonderful.substack.com

In a conversation that is way too long, Rose and McGraw discuss why we chose Ethan Hawke as an actor to showcase for the summer of 2024. (It's HAWKE SUMMER! Did you know?) We explore poetry, teachers who inspired us in literature classes, how Transcendentalist American poets might react to our society's obsession with technology, a deep-dive into parenting, social status, adolescent suicide and heroism in Dead Poets Society, and end with an original script and B-side ending for the movie Dead Poets Society. (There's a little about Ethan Hawke in here, we promise!)

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Rose and McGraw "man-up" and decide to "keep it real" from the Mid-Atlantic as they examine masculinity, terror, and storytelling from the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Brad Pitt, and Edward Norton. They even read a new, short original script with a different spin.

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