Temples Made With Hands
Temples Made With Hands
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010: The Nun Trifecta (Black Narcissus 1939, 1947, 2020)
In this episode I compare the book Black Narcissus, by podcast fave Rumer Godden, and its two screen adaptations from 1947 and 2020. Their chronological order correlates exactly with the order of my esteem, which is pretty ha...
009: Station Eleven (2014) versus Farenheit 451 (1953)
In this episode I compare the books Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. I deplore Bradbury's grimdark death of hope and laud St John Mandel's paradoxically inspiring hope after death (...
008: Ever After (1998) versus Cinderella (2015)
In this episode I compare the fairytale retellings of Cinderella in 1998’s Ever After and the imaginatively-named Cinderella of 2015. I ponder how a film as rife with historical inaccuracy as Ever After still gets cro...
007: Circle of Friends (1990) versus Normal People (2018)
In this episode I compare the college romances of the dreamy Circle of Friends, by Maeve Binchy, and the nihilistic nightmare Normal People, by Sally Rooney. What proves to be most galling is not, as I thought, that Rooney is ...
006: The Death of Stalin (2017) versus Jojo Rabbit (2019)
In this episode I compare the historical satires The Death of Stalin, which is one of my favourite films, and Jojo Rabbit, which isn’t even my favourite film by Taika Waititi. I indulge in several digressions to show off the b...