Guests and links:
Tessa https://twitter.com/thebiparadox 
Jack https://boxd.it/3hET 
Tori https://direct.me/vpotenza 
Matt https://twitter.com/mattyhugh 
 
full list:
 
The Janes (HBO)
X (Showtime)
Prey (Hulu)
Dual (Hulu)
Scream (Paramount)
NOPE (Peacock)
The Woman King (VOD)
Worst Person in the World (Hulu)
Women Talking
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Showtime)
Aftersun (VOD)
Decision To Leave (Mubi)
Pearl (VOD)
Dinner In America (Hulu)
Tar (VOD)
Bones & All
Banshees Of Inisherin (HBO)
 
ranked: https://letterboxd.com/grrnoise/list/wild-pretty-things-favorite-films-of-2022/ 
 
honorable mentions: Neptune Frost, Return To Seoul, Wounded Fawn, Crimes of the Future, Wendell & Wild, Before I Change My Mind, Kimi, RRR, The Fallout, Fire Of Love

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Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast

Ranking Our Favorite 2022 Films with Friends

Wild Pretty Things is an independent podcast about women on screen and behind the camera.

TV & Film

Film Reviews

On every episode of Wild Pretty Things, we explore one of our pop culture obsessions, or one of Bren’s!
This episode we’re spending a sunny day with the Valentine’s Day classic: Picnic at Hanging Rock, including full spoilers toward the end of the podcast.
 
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Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast
Monkey Off My Backlog
 
Picnic At Hanging Rock is the 1975 Australian adaptation of the Joan Lindsay novel about 3 girls and one of their teachers who go missing after a school trip.
 
dir Peter Weir (Dead Poet’s Society, Master & Commander, The Truman Show, The Mosquito Coast, The Last Wave)
Producer: Pat Lovell
DP: Russell Boyd (Crocodile Dundee, Master & Commander)
Costumes: Judy Dorsman 
makeup supervisor: Jose Luis Perez (Lord of the Rings)
and Liz Michie (Ever After!)
Cast
 
missing students:
Sara - Margaret Nelson
Miranda - Anne-Louise Lambert 
Irma - Karen Robson - Samara Weaving in the Prime mini
McCraw - Vivean Gray (The Last Wave)
Edith - Christine Schuler
Appleyard - Rachel Roberts (‘74 Murder on the Orient Express) - Natalie Dormer
Minnie (maid) - Jacki Weaver (Oscar noms for Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook)
Dianna de Poitiers - Helen Morse
Michael - Dominic Guard
Albert - John Jarratt (Wolf Creek)
 
Sharp Objects: we recommend something similar or relevant
 
The Next Picture Show - Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Dry
 
0:30:00 Analysis
P@HR as Weird Fiction
 
Story as dream & “real”
 
women as wild
 
Virgin Suicides influence?
 
Religion, Magic
 
Let’s Get Wild: Trivia & Random Thoughts

additional credits and bibliography:
 
Switchblade Sisters Podcast 
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/switchblade-sisters/episode-98-picnic-at-hanging-rock-with-the-office-and-maniac-writer-caroline-williams/ 
 
Deep Focus Lense review: https://youtu.be/Q-2Ttyh1FMc 
 
Acid Horizon podcast on Mark Fisher’s “The Weird & the Eerie” https://youtu.be/D__3ns55_k0 
 
Next Picture Show
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2375047009?selected=FILM5611478037 
 
Just one video busting corset myths:
https://youtu.be/rExJskBZcW0

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

We’re finally picking our favorite films of 2022, with the help of some friends.
We want to hear or read your picks!
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0:01:15 The Popular Picks
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2022 
 
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Jack’s fav)
metacritic #1
Showtime, discs
 
The Banshees Of Inisherin (Matt) 
metacritic #2
HBO
 
0:15:00 Tar (Matt’s fav)
metacritic #3
VOD, discs, Peacock 1/27 
 
0:29:30 Aftersun (Jack)
metacritic #4
VOD
 
NOPE (Tessa’s fav)
metacritic #5
Peacock, discs 
 
0:38:00 Decision To Leave (Tori’s fav)
metacritic #8
Mubi
 
Women Talking (Melissa)
metacritic #15
theaters
 
0:47:00 Bones & All (Matt)
metacritic #19
VOD
 
The Woman King (Melissa’s fav)
metacritic #30
VOD

0:55:00 Horror Picks
 
X
Showtime, blu-ray
2022 100 Horror Films guide: https://youtu.be/QHAkCJo_0-I 
 
Pearl (Tori)
VOD, blu-ray
 
Prey
Hulu
WPT podcast review: 
 
Scream (Tessa)
Paramount, discs
sequel coming this year
WPT: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-asyd9-12f4418 
 
1:08:30 Sharp Objects: Our Favorites
 
Worst Person in the World (Melissa)
Hulu
 
Dual (Jarret’s fav)
Hulu
 
1:22:15 The Dark Horses
 
Breakfast In America (Tori)
Hulu
The Dinner in America song - https://youtu.be/WCDchde-ENk 
 
The Janes
documentary
HBO

1:34:00 Honorable Mentions

Upcoming Episodes
ranking the top 10!
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) - HBO . . . a listener pick
 
 
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new and upcoming content: Parallel Mothers, The Graduate
 
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Melissa: : @mellooyellow on Twitter; mellooyellowxx on Instagram;  https://letterboxd.com/mellooyellow/ 
Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast
Monkey Off My Backlog https://twitter.com/monkeybacklog?lang=en 

additional credits and bibliography
 
Fever Ray, Willow, Bishop Briggs, Brutus, Tove Lo, Alice Glass, Megan Thee Stallion, Miya Folick

Our Favorite 2022 Films: Worst Person in the World, Dual, Tár, Dinner In America, Nope & more

This is a review of the recent Kieran Shipka vehicle, excerpted from our recent Patreon exclusive podcast

Swimming With Sharks (Roku) Review

This episode we’re  discussing one of the breakout features, and the latest performance of the actress who started it all: Amy Adams, as we dive down the well of Enchanted and Disenchanted, both streaming on Disney Plus. We’ll spoil both films. 
 
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Jarret: https://letterboxd.com/GrrNoise/ and on Instagram
Melissa: : @mellooyellow on Twitter; mellooyellowxx on Instagram;  https://letterboxd.com/mellooyellow/ 
Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast
 
Enchanted
2007
Susan Sarandon
Analysis & other thoughts
 
0:31:15 Sharp Objects: recommend something similar or relevant
 
0:36:00 Amy Adams
selected essentials
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Junebug (2005)
Sunshine Cleaning & Doubt (2008)
Julie & Julia (2009, Julie Powell died recently)
The Muppets (2011)
The Master (2012)
HER & American Hustle (2013)
Big Eyes (2014)
Arrival & Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Sharp Objects (2018)
VICE (2018)
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Night Bitch - in production
 
0:53:30 Both Films Crew and Cast
Patrick Dempsey
James Marsden
Idina Menzel
Rachel Covey
songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
 
0:57:20 Disenchanted
Griffin Newman recast as Pip
Maya Rudolph as Malvina Monroe
Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) as Rosaleen and Jayma Mays (Glee) as Ruby, Malvina's assistants
 
CORRECTION: The ballet Jarret was thinking of was Sleeping Beauty, not Cinderella.

Ranking Our Favorite 2022 Films with Friends

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