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A rare foray into comic book adaptation,Charlene and Chelsea discuss Terry Zwigoff's cult favourite GHOST WORLD, adapted from Daniel Clowes' comic of the same name - a peek into the weird and wonderful world of Enid Coleslaw as she and her best friend Rebecca navigate the tricky transition from high school to the world that awaits them.…
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For the month of March, Charlene and Chelsea like to read something Irish so this year they've chosen Bram Stoker's Dracula and watching Francis Ford Coppola's divisive, gloriously gothic, 90's big screen adaptation. There is much to swoon over. Joined by special guest horror expert, Producer Bren!Cinema Book Club tarafından oluşturuldu
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This month Charlene and Chelsea revisit one of their all-time top 5 favourite films Stephen Frears' adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. Cinema Book Club explores the differences between the British, 90's set novel and the early 00's US-set film and a brief discussion of the more recent gender-swapped TV series.…
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"Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”This episode Chelsea and Charlene discuss Zola, Janicza Bravo's big-screen adaptation of A'Ziah King's epic Twitter thread. This is our first ever discussion of a Twitter adaptation so we're pretty giddy!Zola, a Detroit waitress, strikes up a …
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This episode we finish our season of "Films Based on Articles" with Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Ok, we admit, this one is a bit of a stretch but we really wanted to explore the roots of this one.Cameron Crowe wrote the screenplay for this film based on his experience on the road with The Allman Brothers writing an article for Rolling Stone. So w…
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This month (and for the next three episodes) we're doing things a little differently. We read Nik Cohn's New York Magazine article Tribal Rites of The New Saturday Night and watched John Badham's seminal 70's disco classic Saturday Night Fever.You can read the article here. It's a good read!https://nymag.com/nightlife/features/45933/…
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This episode Charlene and Chelsea read HG Wells' The Invisible Man and watched not only Leigh Whannell's 2020 adaptation but also James Whale's 1933 version and Paul Verhoeven's 1999 film Hollow Man. While the main focus is the 2020 version Charlene and Chelsea trace the evolution of the story over the course of more than a century.…
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This month we read Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt and watch Todd Haynes' wintry adaptation, Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as a wealthy socialite and a young department store worker whose immediate attraction takes them on a journey that changes them both forever.We swoon over Cate. We swoon over Sarah Paulson. We swoon over …
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For Halloween, we chose Wiliam Friedkin's adaptation of William Peter Platty's The Exorcist. One of the most notoriously terrifying films ever, and banned in Ireland for 25 years, Charlene, Chelsea and special guest Bren Murphy (host of the Under Your Podcast podcast)discuss their thoughts on the book and film.…
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This month Charlene and Chelsea were back in the cinema to watch George Tillman Jr's 2018 adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-selling young adult novel, THE HATE U GIVE.The Hate U Give tells the story of Starr Carter, who lives in two worlds: the poor, black neighborhood where she resides and the mostly white prep school she attends. This uneasy balan…
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This month we read Jane Austen's romantic comedy, Emma, and watch Amy Heckering's 90's re-imagining, Clueless.Both Cher and Emma are handsome, clever and rich - immensely privileged but with big hearts and fabulous wardrobes. Chelsea and Charlene look at some of the clever ways Amy Heckerling delivered a relevant and charming 20th century update of…
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This episode Charlene and Chelsea are reading Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning novel The Color Purple and watching Steven Spielberg's Oscar nominated adaptation.Thank you to Bren Murphy for setting us up as always and for editing the podcast. And thank you as always to Meagan Hyland for our artwork. And to you, our listeners for your attention.…
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Bonus episode!Charlene and Chelsea take a look back at previous Cinema Book Club discussion, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, based on the beloved cult novel by Andre Aciman.Join us as we chat through our thoughts on this swoony summer romance novel and its sunny adaptation starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.Special thanks to Bren M…
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This month, still socially isolated (sorry if there's tech issues!), Charlene and Chelsea were reading Ben Mezrich's novel The Accidental Billionaires and watching Aaron Sorkin's adaptation, The Social Network, directed by David Fincher.We're joined by a very special guest, our friend and colleague Mark Byrne, our resident legal expert, who talks u…
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Charlene and Chelsea revisit one of their favourite previous Cinema Book Club adaptations, William Goldman's The Princess Bride. A classic for all the family, Goldman adapts his own novel into one of the greatest cinema adventures of all time. Directed by Rob Reiner and featuring one of most perfect ensembles ever ensembled, both the film and the b…
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Charlene and Chelsea discuss the notorious 1981 film adaptation of Christina Crawford's autobiography Mommie Dearest which focuses on her tumultuous relationship with her movie star mother Joan Crawford (played here by another Hollywood Legend, Faye Dunaway). As it is March 2020, and COVID-19 has us all self-isolating, we are recording separately v…
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