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The lights dim, the audience hushes in expectation, and the light and magic begin. In some ways (the crowd, the sound) the experience of watching a movie could not be more different from reading a novel – and yet the two have some very important features in common. Novels and the cinema are intertwined, and both show the power of a cracking good story told through what John Gardner called a vivid, continuous dream. In this special episode, Jacke and Mike take a look at great films made out of great works of literature.
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“Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA).
Jacke Wilson 
Love the podcast, but Mike…lets not tell Pauline Kael to go to hell.
Maybe this film was mentioned and I missed it, but I’m surprised Roman Polanski’ s “Tess” wasn’t on anybody’s list. (Hardy is my favorite writer. Jude the Obscure is the only novel I read twice).
I don’t care for The Turn of the Screw as a story (it’s not that scary), but there is a great movie version with Deborah Kerr called “The Innocents.”
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I agree it’s not that scary, but I appreciate it as a disorienting story and one where James seems to be having some fun working out one of his own self-created challenges, in his own Jamesy way. I don’t think I’ve seen the Kerr film – thanks for the tip! (And I agree – Pauline Kael deserves a spot among the saints, not the sinners.) Thanks for the comment!
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