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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #83: The Tempest (2019)
83. Phyllidia Lloyd’s The Tempest (Part 3 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2019 I have a fondness for prison theater. When Beckett directed a trilogy of his plays at San Quentin in 1985, he found actors who embodied his existential tragicomedies with an ease few professional actors could muster. Those productions were much… Continue reading
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Episode 403: Jericho Brown and Richard Blanco!
Episode 403 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, I talk to two poets. First, I speak with the joyous Jericho Brown about his complex relationship to poetic tradition, identity, and music.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #307: The Brood
The Curator of Schlock #307 by Jeff Shuster The Brood Seriously, what is wrong with David Cronenberg? Criterion DVDs are weird. They have weird special features. On my DVD for David Cronenberg’s The Brood, we have an interview with Oliver Reed on The Merv Griffin Show from 1980. Other guests include Orson Welles and, naturally, Charo.… Continue reading
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The Anonymous Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #2
The Anonymous Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #2 As transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 19 January 2020 The Sozzled Scribbler sizzles as the Great Southern Land burns. People are, of course, upset and yours truly thinks, What a bunch of whingers. What happened to the great Australian spirit? Let the fires burn, I say. Only good… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #82: Hamlet (1964)
82. Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev and Iosef Shapiro’s Hamlet I am not sure why I enjoyed this Russian Hamlet so much. Jaded churl that I’ve become. I have had a surfeit of Hamlet (this is my eighth for this blog), and I don’t see that Kozintsev and Shapiro’s’s gorgeous, yet understated presentation is breathtakingly original. I have no… Continue reading
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Episode 402: A Craft Discussion of T.S. Elliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “Hamlet and Its Problems”!
Episode 402 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, Vanessa Blakeslee and I assail more essays on the craft of literature, this time two by T.S. Eliot. TEXTS DISCUSSED “Hamlet and Its… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #306: Rabid
The Curator of Schlock #306 by Jeff Shuster Rabid David Cronenberg ain’t right. I’ve got nothing profound to say about anything at the moment. I’m cranky. I’m wishing I could time travel back to 1997. I miss my Nintendo 64, my bubbled out CRT TV, and a new X-Files to look forward to on Friday… Continue reading
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Episode 401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!
Episode 401 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond about his favorite novel, Stoner… Continue reading
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