movies – Jacke Wilson

July 13, 2022

The History of Literature #421 – HOL Goes to the Movies (A Best-of Episode with Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome)

Summertime! The season for watching blockbuster movies in arctic conditions, heart-pounding suspense flicks that heat the blood, and cool-breeze dramas that stir the soul. In this best-of episode, Jacke celebrates the summer with portions of conversations with three previous guests, Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome. Additional listening suggestions: 135 Aristotle Goes to the Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature

Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle, brian price, hollywood, Literature, meg tilly, movies

August 16, 2021

The History of Literature #338 – Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)

Jacke talks to actress and novelist Meg Tilly about her unusual childhood, her life as a ballet dancer and Hollywood star, and her current life writing thrillers in the peaceful Pacific Northwest. THE RUNAWAY HEIRESS is the pulse-pounding story of a brave woman who finds herself falling for a big-shot film director while trying to stay Continue reading

Authors, books, history of literature, Podcast

Arts, hollywood, meg tilly, movies, romance novels, the runaway heiress, Writing

April 7, 2018

The History of Literature #135 – Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL2517676848.mp3 Hollywood screenwriter and professional script doctor Brian Price, author of Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting: Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter, found everything he needed to know about screenwriting in a 2,500-year-old text, Aristotle’s Poetics. Brian and Jacke talk about how Aristotle’s study of Greek tragedy has unlocked the buried secrets of storytelling – and how those Continue reading

Arts, history of literature, Podcast, Writing

Aristotle, black panther, casablanca, films, how to write a screenplay, movies, screenplays

August 27, 2017

The History of Literature #106 – Literature Goes to the Movies Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:11 — 46.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Ah, the sweet smell of success… and the burning stench of failure. Continuing their two part conversation on literary adaptations, Jacke and Mike choose ten of the worst book-to-movie projects of all time. How could so many people, working so hard and with such great source Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, Podcast, Writing

adaptations, battlefield earth, breakfast at tiffanys, cinema, enduring love, hollywood, movies, zardoz

August 16, 2017

The History of Literature #103 – Literature Goes to the Movies

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:21 — 62.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More 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 Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, novelists, Podcast, Writing

adaptations, apocalypse now, godfather, Literature, movies

December 3, 2015

The Restless Mind Show Episode 8 – My Inner Bleeping Bandit

Testing the Burt Reynolds method for avoiding cliches! Author Jacke Wilson takes a break from the history of literature to consider language and masculinity. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:51 — 22.2MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options (NB: We’re still sharing a feed with the History of Literature… Continue reading

restless mind show

burt reynolds, censorship, Cliches, comedy, curse words, funerals, masculinity, movies, office cards, profanity, smokey and the bandit

October 20, 2015

Steve Martin not wild, not crazy…

Brilliant reader MFA commented on the Steve Martin reference: My daughter and I still mist up at the Steve Martin backyard basketball scene in “Father of the Bride”. Not taking away from the Spencer Tracy Elizabeth Taylor version. Here’s the clip: Argh, this is heartbreaking. Was there really a version of me who would once have Continue reading

Podcast, restless mind show

dad, daughter, father of the bride, Humor, movies, sentiment, steve martin