Reel Rap

Reel Rap

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Reel Rap episodes

  • Play It As It Lays with Ashley

    We talked about a shared history and Joan Didion's 1970 novel, Play It as It Lays. We discussed Frank Perry's film adaptation from 1972 starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.


    Find Ashley on instagram at @boygeniusraps


    Here is that book I mentioned: The Well Played Game by Bernard De Koven


    Ashley mentioned the short story collection by Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others


    1 hr 27 min
  • In A Lonely Place with Brendan

    We discuss the novel, In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes and the adaptation by Nicholas Ray. The film stars Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart.


    Follow Brendan: @luso_brendan


    Tales From the Mall Podcast

    The Isolation Chamber


    Thank you for listening to Reel Rap. On the next episode, we will discuss Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)


    Intro song: Flamengo by Bonfiglio de Oliveira (1931)

    1 hr 51 min
  • The Remains of the Day with Bryan Counter

    Listen to Bryan’s new podcast, Authors Die Twice


    Today Bryan Counter joins us to discuss Nobel Prize Winner, Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" as well as the film adaptation by James Ivory. Thanks for listening.


    Read Bryan's work here: ⁠Spiralling Relations: Barthes, Kant, and Balzac⁠

    and here: ⁠Mere light


    For those reading and watching along: Next, we will read, watch, and discuss the book and film "In a Lonely Place" with a very special guest.


    The song is September Song by Kurt Weill, performed by Walter Huston

    1 hr 17 min
  • Devotion (1946) A Bronte Sisters Film

    Devotion (1946) imagines the Bronte family home as Emily and Charlotte write their masterpieces, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. We discuss these books and the film.


    Our next episode will cover Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and the film of the same name. Read and watch along with us!


    Song is: ε΅γŒδΈ˜ο½žγƒ’γƒΌγ‚Ήγ‚―γƒͺフに捧ぐ by Ikuko Kawai on her album Wuthering Heights.

    40 min
  • The Poetry of Wallace Stevens

    In this episode we discuss the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

    Next episode, we will cover the book The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and the film, The Remains of the Day (1993).

    Feel free to read along.

    Poem covered include:

    The Idea of Order at Key West

    Dutch Graves in Bucks County

    The Plain Sense of Things


    Thanks!

    59 min
  • Affliction (1997)

    Wade Whitehouse gets a toothache.

    Affliction is a book by Russell Banks. It was adapted into a film by Paul Schrader.

    Reel Rap is a podcast about books and their film adaptations. Unless we decide to change it to something else. Thank you for listening.

    If you want to come on the show, let us know!

    1 hr 23 min

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Reel Rap is a podcast about adaptations. Thank you for listening.