This is Reel Accuracy.
An opportunity to hear from experts as they discuss their work, describe their passion, and most importantly, help us break down films.
For our next episode of Reel Accuracy we talk to Natalie Virginia Lang, author of the book ‘Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller.’ With vivid detail and striking prose, Natalie provides readers a glimpse into her experience growing up on Sumas Mountain in British Columbia, her encounters and connection with the land around her, and the changes she has observed to the environment. Truly a love letter to BC, this book will leave you with a renewed appreciation for the wild.
Listen as Natalie takes us through her inspiration for writing the book, discusses the process of getting her work published, and talks about how she held on to hope despite the year that was 2021 (that of the pandemic, heat dome, wildfire trifecta).
And in perhaps her greatest feat to date, Natalie will lend her insight to help us examine Rosemary’s Baby. This 1968 classic, based on the 1967 novel of the same name, features an ambitious husband trying to do right by his family with the help of some truly altruistic neighbors (spoiler alert: it does not). Not content with dissecting Mia Farrow’s undeniably scene stealing performance, Natalie and the guys discuss the novel as well, a book that the trio agrees was chalk full of tension, dripping with foreboding, and whose leading lady was far ahead of her time.
We discuss all of this and more while sampling two drinks: ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ a herbal gin and fruit based cocktail that had Neil reaching for the Tannis Root, and ‘Roman’s Vodka Blush,’ a sweet beverage that gave us so much in return.
