Podcast appearances and mentions of Billy Lynn

And now it's time for something completely similar, folks. AKA we did another Ang Lee movie that one time. Anyhoo, this week the fellers discuss Ang Lee's wartime satire (?) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Is this a case of a source material's tone being lost in the adaptation? Why is Steve Martin in this movie? How does Vin Diesel go up against expectations and give the best performance in this movie (not a knock, it's a good one)?! Filming at 120 frames per second - why? Did we need the romance that maybe should've been more obviously satirical instead of a seemingly straight-forward subplot? All this and more in this week's episode! Next week: Monks. It's the safe way. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk stars Joe Alwyn, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Steve Martin, Chris Tucker, Ben Platt, Makenzie Leigh, Arturo Castro, Tim Blake Nelson and Vin Diesel; directed by Ang Lee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Fountain, the award winning author of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," joined KRLD Business Analyst David Johnson in the CEO Spotlight.

Filmmaker Esther Schwartz joins us as we dig into Billy Lynn and how many ideas this anomaly from Ang Lee has. Together, we get into the careers of the ensemble, Ang Lee's power following his second best director Oscar, Bush's America on screen in the 2010s and how the movies tech holds it back from being great

**This episode is brought to you by ICEX-Invest in Spain** Sara Spring is an incredible producer and former studio executive with a penchant for Luther Vandross.  Some may call her an international woman of mystery as she has shot all over the world in places like Spain, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Jordan, Morocco, Greenland, South Korea, and Tahiti. Her uniquely holistic approach to production is a result of working for studios, production companies and as a freelance producer for 20+ years. Most recently, Sara was NWEP on Netfilx series Warrior Nun which shot in Spain and produced the sixth season of Seal Team for CBS/Paramount+. During her 17 year tenure at Paramount, she oversaw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tin Tin, Flight, True Grit, Anchorman and Mean Girls.  She eventually took a big leap leaving Paramount for Sony Pictures where she was an executive VP of Feature Films, overseeing films like Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Queen and Slim. These days, Sara is develops and consults. She is also an adjunct professor for UCLA's graduate film program. Join us we dive into the benefits and inherent challenges of shooting overseas, her $1 million dollar mistake, and why she dreaded becoming a studio executive.  

Notes and Links to Rus Bradburd's Work        Rus Bradburd's latest book is the satirical novel, “Big Time.”  Rus attended Chicago Public Schools for eleven years before graduating from North Park College. After coaching basketball for fourteen seasons at UTEP and New Mexico State University, he left the game to study with Robert Boswell and Antonya Nelson—and pursue a life in writing. His five books focus on the intersections of sport, social progress, politics, and race. Rus has remained connected to the game through his acclaimed Basketball in the Barrio summer program in El Paso, as well as serving as NMSU's television “color analyst.”  He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to return to Ireland to work on his next book about refugees in Belfast, “Almost Like Belonging.” An accomplished fiddle player, he lives in Chicago, Belfast, and New Mexico. Buy Big Time   Rus Bradburd's Website At about 2:00, Rus gives background on his fiddle playing and his time as color commentator for New México State University  At about 3:40, Rus talks about Big Time as his first work of fiction, as well as its nice timing, and he details how he worked on the book for many years At about 5:40, Rus outlines some of the book's exposition and plot, and talks about the current Colorado Football connections At about 6:40, Rus talks about Univ of Chicago's 1939 dropping of football and other stimuli for the book's genesis, including Rick Russo's work, and Dave Meggyesy's book  At about 8:40, Rus talks about satire and fiction and ideas of how fiction often gets at truth so well At about 10:00, Rus gives more background on committee workloads and how the proliferation of committees and on particular example worked their ways into his book  At about 12:25, Rus talks about normalization of budget imbalance in universities  At about 13:30, Pete and Rus discuss the book's epigraph, and Ruis talks about how the book satirizes college athletics, while he's “knee-deep” in sports still At about 15:30, Pete details a compare and contrast lesson that he teaches  At about 17:00, Rus responds to Pete's question about the book's opening and main characters Mooney and Braverman, history professors, working concessions at football games  At about 18:40, Rus gives background on “pop poet” Layla, and the ways in which she and the two history professors work together; Rus connects today's conversations around student protests and protests in the book At about 20:30, Rus talks about the downfall of the Coors State English Department in the book At about 22:00, Rus cites the Missouri Football protest in fodder for a similar situation in his book At about 23:00, Rus speaks about rich owners often asking taxpayers to finance big building projects  At about 24:20, Pete asks Rus about any inspirations for Layla, and he expands upon how the character evolved in his writing At about 27:50, Pete charts the roles and importance of some characters in the book At about 28:35, Rus discusses the financial costs and gains of big sport universities, and argues that the sporting program is taking away from education and educators At about 33:00, Rus talks about a flawed system that puts so much work and so little compensation for adjunct instructors and showcases much hypocrisy At about 35:00, Pete points out links between Braverman and Mooney's activism and civil rights movements, and Rus connects to the push and pull that governs his own thoughts with regards to activism  At about 38:00, Rus talks about how the book's events are in many ways reminiscent of fractures on the political Left At about 40:25, Pete and Rus talk about NlL and how it relates to topics covered n the book, and whether/how NIL affected Rus' writing  At about 44:00, Rus cites Dagoberto Gilb as an example of a writer who is successful while not being preachy, and how through satire, one can be a “little more message-heavy” At about 45:50, Rus responds to Pete's questions about satire and hyperbole and highlights how his writing the book made him love his characters  At about 48:45, Pete asks Rus about doing dystopia in The Age of Trump, and Rus cites David Shields and a tantalizing book idea that is now obsolete  At about 51:10, Pete wonders about Rus' thoughts on the frenzied rise of legalized sports gambling, and Rus talks about further normalization of formerly-”sacreligious” things like beer sales at college games At about 53:20, Rus cites Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as an influence on his book and talks about using a real beer company's name At about 54:45, Pete compliments Rus' use of stream of consciousness  At about 56:30, Rus shares out information on readings and book events coming up, including one with Beto O'Rourke, and contact and book buying information You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Send a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe team up with Eisner-nominated writer and podcaster Jordan Morris for issue 24, featuring the debut of E. S. Pete, the death of a character introduced last issue, and how Booster Gold caused Reaganomics. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent and the Cover (07:00) Let's Talk About 52 #24 (17:39) The Backup (49:50) What's your favorite part of the issue? (53:53) The Blackboard (58:01) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:03:48) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Superman Batman Wonder Woman Ted Kord Booster Gold Martian Manhunter Firestorm Charli xcx - 360 Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk Jordan, Jesse, Go! Katy Perry Skeets Phil Jimenez George Pérez Andy Lanning Infinite Crisis Civil War Justice League International Countdown to Final Crisis Ralph Dibny Sue Dibny J. M. DeMatteis Super-Chief Bulleteer Seven Soldiers of Victory Ambush Bug Deadpool Forbush Man Stan Lee Bulletgirl Captain Marvel Firehawk Wolverine Jeff Lemire E.S. Pete Green Arrow Great Ten Gene Luen Yang Elliot S. Maggin Just Imagine… Red Tornado Rocket Red Silver Sorceress Tomorrow Woman Flash (Barry Allen) Crisis on Infinite Earths Hippolyta Aztek Ice General Glory Vibe Citizen Steel Amazing-Man Starman Yazz Crimson Fox Shade, the Changing Man Peter Milligan John Ostrander Martian Manhunter (1998 series) Captain America Arrow Ra's al Ghul Alexander Siddig Lazarus Pit Black Adam Isis Dwayne Johnson Osiris Frankenstein Lex Luthor Everyman Project Legion of Substitute Heroes Matter-Eater Lad X-Men Glob Herman Shark-Girl Shade, the Changing Girl Checkmate Amanda Waller Atom Smasher Suicide Squad Victor Sage Batwoman Dan Jurgens Days of Future Past Chris Claremont Justice League by Keith Giffen Babs Tarr Stripperella Leah Williams Power Girl Gotham City Sirens Punchline Empowered Legion of Super-Heroes Brian Michael Bendis JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Brainiac 5 Ronald Reagan Guy Gardner Matt Fraction Jimmy Olsen (2019 series) Tim Drake Saturn Girl Nura Nal Shadow Lass Gwen Stacy Jason Todd Lady Shiva Dennis O'Neil Youth Group Bowen McCurdy Specter Inspectors Buffy the Vampire Slayer Shaun of the Dead Dragon Ball Z Free With Ads The Godfather (1972) Cool World (1992) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) Good Mythical Morning 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.

We are back and to finish of the AMAZING Filmography of the GREATEST actor of all time and space. The God known as Vin Diesel. The films we will be discussing are A Man Apart, The Pacifier, Find Me Guilty and Billy Lynn's Long Half-time walk. Some of them are good films, some are a bit meh. But listen to find out Have you seen any of them? if you have. Let us know by reaching out to us on our social media platforms listed down below. Twitter @TripMultiverse Instagram @TripAroundTheMultiverse Email us at Aroundthemultiversepodcast@gmail.com Youtube: Trip Around the Multiverse Linktree : https://linktr.ee/tripmultiverse Also don't forget to check All Access Arcades on Instagram - allaccessarcade Tik Tok - @allaccessarcade Youtube - ⁠www.youtube.com/@allaccessarcade Website - https://www.allaccessarcade.com/

We talked about Ang Lee's mystifying 3D High Frame Rate experiment about what it's like for the hero of an unjust war to come back home and go visit the famous Dallas Football Team. Lee tries a lot of strange and interesting things here, but it doesn't quite add up to much. We disagreed a bit on this one, but it's a real fun episode. Sign up for an extra episode every week here https://www.patreon.com/Extended_Clip Buy tickets to our live podcast and screening of A Bucket of Blood in Brooklyn here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extended-clip-presents-a-bucket-of-blood-live-podcast-tickets-890438745257

Émission spéciale et fleuve pour fêter nos 15 années sur les ondes et notre 16ème saison. On a la mémoire qui flanche, on ne souvient plus très bien, tout entre nous a commencé, un 10 octobre 2008, et depuis nos yeux sont faits pour l'amour d'aimer et ne sont que le reflet d'un monde d'objets. Sans rêve et sans réalité, aux images nous sommes condamnés.Enfin bref, pour reprendre nos classiques, il est 19h et comme disait Peter… c'est l'heure !573ème émission, enregistrée au Cinéma Arvor in Rain City le 08 mai dernier, avant la projection du chef d'œuvre de Sam Peckinpah, Croix de fer, dans ce même cinéma. Moults remerciements à l'Arvor, bien évidemment, pour avoir accepté de nous accueillir et pour la carte blanche, et notamment à notre meilleur ennemi le Docteur Moreau (qui apparemment fait aussi de la radio).On tente de faire le bilan de nos 15 années de radio, en passant en revue le cinéma mondial (rien que ça), même si évidemment on y va à toute berzingue, trop vite, trop furieux. Pour le détail de tout ce qui n'a pas été évoqué, vous pouvez vous reporter aux différentes listes ci-dessous. Forcément, le cinéma étatsunien nous obsède, malgré tout, mais son l'état déplorable de son cinéma spectaculaire a permis de faire ressortir d'autres cinématographies, jusqu'à présent trop caché par l'éléphant hollywoodien.Emission également disponible sur le tube.Etaient présents lors de cette émission : El Comandante Thomas, Le Grand Timonier Er Force Wan, Carrément Fleuret, Docteur Erwan, Docteur JB, Simon D. « L'Ancien », Simon G. « Le Jeune » et JP.Nos créateurs Mathieu B. « Il Padrino » et Yannick K auraient dû être des nôtres, mais parfois la vie met des bâtons dans les roues de la liberté… (ie : les enfants).Nos dames étaient également malheureusement absentes (Maitresse Carla, Justeen, Laure) pour la simple raison qu'elles voguent désormais vers de véritables horizons professionnels chronophages et que le salariat est aussi une sacrée saloperie.Notre mixtake spéciale 15 ans – best & worst of, toujours disponible et toujours soyeuse.Pour préparer tout ce bazar, certains membres se sont pliés à l'exercice de faire un top 15 de leurs films préférés depuis l'année 2008. Les films préférés, et non pas nécessairement les plus importants (le choc industrialo-esthético-technique Avatar n'y figure pas par exemple), ou même les meilleurs, mais simplement nos préférés. Le concept de top 15 ayant été allégrement explosé par tous les participants.Les six listes reçues, pour aperçu de ce que la rédaction a retenue de ces 15 ans et dont nous n'avons pas eu le temps de parler. Ce qui est bien, c'est que chaque liste correspond vraiment à chaque membre !THOMAS « EL COMANDANTE »Speed racer (The Wachowskis – 2008)Mad Max : Fury road (George Miller – 2015)Dernier Maquis / Les Chants de Mandrin (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – 2008 / 2011)The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans / Au cœur des volcans (Werner Herzog – 2009 / 2023)Balada Triste de Trompeta (Alex de la Iglesia – 2010)The Counselor (Ridley Scott – 2013)Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson – 2019)Mektoub my love : Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche – 2017)Small Axe – Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen – 2021)Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen / 13 Hours : The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay – 2009 / 2016)GI Joe : Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers – 2009)Hypernormalisation (Adam Curtis – 2015)La Loi de la Jungle (Antonin Peretjatko – 2016)Lincoln (Spielberg – 2012)Boyhood / Everybody Wants Some !! (Richard Linklater – 2014 / 2016)Nostalgie de la Lumière (Patricio Guzmán – 2010)Unstoppable (Tony Scott – 2010)La Bataille de la Montagne du Tigre (THRTW – 2014)The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai – 2013)The Strangers (Na Hong-jin – 2016)Le Congrès (Ari Folman – 2013)RRR (S.S Rajamouli – 2022)Max et les maximonstres (Spike Jonze – 2009)The House that Jack Built (Lars Von Trier – 2018)Fast 5 (Justin Lin – 2011)Mange tes morts : Tu ne diras point (Jean-Charles Hue – 2014)Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols – 2016)The night comes for us (Timo Tjahjanto – 2018)First Reformed (Paul Schrader – 2017)Hors Champs aka La Révolution jusqu'à la victoire (Mohanad Yaqubi – 2016)L'Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (Guillaume Nicloux – 2013)Sympathie pour le Diable (Guillaume de Fontenay – 2019)Clint (pour tout, même le moins bon)Fire of Love (Sara Dosa – 2022)FLOPSucker PunchWatchmenCosmopolis / Maps to the StarsTabouBande de fillesP'tit QuinquinThe RevenantJaujaHateful EightLe ConcoursGraveLes garçons sauvagesJokerGolden GloveUncut GemsEverything everywhere all at onceER FORCE WAN « LE GRAND TIMONIER » FLOCH'LAY45 films / œuvres par ordre d'intensité dans la mémoire:[On ne se refait pas...]-Adieu au langage 3D (JLG)-Twin Peaks Saison 3 (Lynch / Frost)-La Flor (Llinás)-Southland Tales (Kelly)-Hypernormalisation (Curtis)-Mad Max — Fury Road (Miller)-Et maintenant ? (Pinto)-First Reformed (Schrader)-4h44 — Dernier jour sur Terre (Ferrara)-Bad Lieutenant — Escale à La Nouvelle Orléans (Herzog)-Holy Motors (Carax)-Spring Breakers (Korine)-The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)-Cavalo Dinheiro (Costa)-Les Chiens errants (Tsaï Ming-liang)-A la folie (Bing)-Sophia Antipolis (Vernier)-Memoria (Weerasethakul)-Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)-La femme qui est partie (Diaz)-Certaines femmes (Reichardt)-Le Congrès (Folman)-Mourir comme un homme (Rodrigues)-Bangkok Nites (Tomita)-High Life (Denis)-In The Family (Wang)-Pacifiction (Serra)-Le Gang des bois du temple (RAZ)-Le Loup de Wall-Street (Scorsese)-The Social Network (Fincher)-Va, Toto ! (Creton)-L'Héroïque Lande — La frontière brûle (Klotz / Perceval)-La Tierce des paumés (Alazard)-Il Buco (Frammartino)-Rester vertical (Guiraudie)-Carol (Haynes)-Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Jude)-Speed Racer (Wachowski)-L'Apollonide — Souvenirs de la maison close (Bonello)-It Follows (Mitchell)-The Strangers (Na Hong-jin)-Hacker (Mann)-Frangins malgré eux (McKay)-La ligne de partage des eaux (Marchais)-Everybody Wants Some !! (Linklater)SIMON  « L'ANCIEN » DANIELLOU‌Tops 2008-2023 : Impossible de choisir 15 films, alors voici 15 entrées…  - Label « Et là, ils accélèrent » : Mad Max Fury Road et Drive - Le daron Eastwood pour Richard Jewel et Sully - Les jeunes vieux du Nouvel Hollywood : Redacted et Passion, Le Loup de Wall Street, The Post, Tetro - Auteurs ricains : Trainé sur le bitume, Everybody wants some!!, First Reformed, First Cow/Showing Up, 4h44, un First Man et un autre Serious, Inherent Vice et Licorice Pizza + une poignée de scènes chez ce salopard de Tarantino (la partie de cartes d'Inglourious Basterds, le dîner de Django Unchained, le générique d'ouverture des Huit Salopards) - Les coups d'éclats de M. Night Shyamalan, mais aussi ses errances, qui seront toujours mille fois plus belles que les ternes pensums d'un Nolan ou d'un Villeneuve - Tropisme coréen : Burning, The Strangers, Le Transperceneige et plusieurs Hong Sang-soo : Ha Ha Ha, The Day He Arrives, Yourself and Yours, Juste sous vos yeux, De nos jours… (points de suspension qui font partie du titre mais qui sont aussi très opportuns ici !) - Des géants hongkongais (Les Trois Royaumes, The Grandmaster, Trilogie Detective Dee, Sparrow) et taïwanais (The Assassin, Les Chiens errants) - L'Odyssée de Pi d'Ang Lee et ses recherches inabouties sur Un jour dans la vie de Billy Lynn et Gemini Man  - Le cinéma hypnagogique de Weerasethakul - Tout Hamaguchi, en particulier Happy Hour, Asako I & II, Contes du hasard et autres fantaisies - Les derniers Kiarostami (Copie conforme, Like Someone in Love) et Le Poirier sauvage de son voisin Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Il était une fois en Europe : Elle, Bronson, Au cœur des volcans : Requiem pour Katia et Maurice Krafft, La Zone d'intérêt, Vincere, Il Buco, Cavalo Dinheiro, As Bestas - Vive le cinéma français ? Eh oui ! Sophia Antipolis et tout Virgil Vernier en fait, Mange tes morts, Mektoub my Love : Canto Uno, Les Chants de Mandrin, Adieu au langage, La Bataille de Solferino, Paul Sanchez est revenu, le cinéma de Guiraudie (et son Roi de l'évasion en particulier), - Génie de Pixar : Là-haut, Toy Story 3, Vice versa, Soul - Sus aux séries !, sauf celles-ci : Twin Peaks saison 3, True Detective saison 1, Louie saison 3, Horace and Pete, P'tit Quinquin, Generation Kill SIMON « LE JEUNE » GOSSELINTraîné sur le bitume (Craig S. Zalher)Bad Lieutenant : Escale à la Nouvelle-Orléans (Werner Herzog)Two Lovers (James Gray)La Bataille de la Montagne du Tigre (Tsui Hark)Le Gang des bois du temple (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmèche)13 Hours (Michael Bay)Warrior (Gavin O'connor)Cellule 211 (Daniel Monzon)Que Dios nos perdone (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)True Grit (Joël & Ethan Coen)Primal (Genndy Tartakovsky), saisons 1 et 2True Detective (Cary Joji Fukanaga), saison 1Neds (Peter Mullan)Passion (Brian De Palma)Mowgli (Andy Serkis)Tabou (Miguel Gomez)Pacifiction (Albert Serra)Unstoppable (Tony Scott)Le Transperce-neige (Bong Joon-Ho)Mad Max (George Miller)Everybody wants some!! (Richard Linklater)THIBAUT « CARREMENT » FLEURETBon....On y va...Dans le désordre...15 entrées...1/ La reine : Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, Detroit)2/ Hommes américains => James Gray (Two Lovers, The Lost City Of Z), Ad Astra, Armageddon Time), Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special, Loving), David Robert Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover, It Follows, Under The Silver Lake), Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Les 8 Salopards, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), David Fincher (Benjamin Button, The Social Network, Millenium, Gone Girl, Mank, The Killer), Adam McKay (Frangins malgré eux, Very Bad Cops, The Big Short, Vicce, Don't Look Up)3/ Corée du Sud => Na Hong-jin (The Chaser, The Murderer, The Strangers + The Medium), Bong Joon-ho (Mother, Snowpiercer, Okja, Parasite + Sea Fog)4/ Cosmogonie => Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller), The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)5/ Ibère => Kleber Mendonça Filho, Rodrigo Sorogoyen6/ NW Refn (Bronson, Le Guerrier silencieux, Drive, Only God Forgives, Drive, The Neon Demon)7/ Le travail de Spectrum Films8/ Mélomanes => Todd Haynes (Carol, Dark Waters, The Velvet Underground, May December + Mildred Pierce), Cameron Crowe (Aloha)9/ L'autre reine : Céline Sciamma (Pauline, Tomboy, Bande de filles, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, Petite maman + Les Revenants et Ma Vie de courgette)10/ Pot pourri cinéma français => Les Misérables, L'Ordre et la morale, Des Hommes et des dieux, Climax L'Apollonide11/ Art contemporain => Virgil Vernier, Clément Cogitore12/ Pot pourri documentaire : Retour à Forbach, Cameraperson, I Am Not Your Negro, Ne Croyez surtout pas que je hurle, A La folie, Sud Eau Nord Déplacer, Jim & Andy13/ Marco Bellochio (Vincere, La Belle endormie, Le Traitre, Marx peut attendre, L'Enlèvement + Esterno Notte)14/ Point séries : True Detective, Tchernobyl15/ Diversité : The Witch, Only Lovers Left Alive, A Ghost Story, Monsters, Spring Breakers, Oslo 31 août, The Grandmaster, Notre Petite soeur, A Touch Of Sin, Bad Lieutenant : Escale à NoLa, La Loi de Téhéran, Le Caire Confidentiel, Le Conte de la princesse Kaguya, Le Vent se lèveps : Je mets où Kelly Reichardt ?Voilà, voilà, ça ne ressemble à rien mais en même temps, 15 ans, c'est l'adolescence, c'est le bordel. JEAN-BAPTISTE « JAY-BALLS » MASSUETEvidemment, pas d'ordre du tout dans tout ça... (ah la la, tout ce que je laisse de côté, c'est hard quand même)Twin Peaks – The Return (David Lynch)Speed Racer / Matrix Resurrections (Lilly et Lana Wachowski)A Ghost Story (David Lowery)Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) / Top Gun Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Céline Sciamma)Oncle Boonmee, celui qui se souvient de ses vies antérieures (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)Vice-Versa / Là-haut (Pete Docter)Bienvenue à Marwen / Le Drôle de Noël de Scrooge (Robert Zemeckis)Ponyo sur la falaise (Hayao Miyazaki)Rubber / Wrong Cops (Quentin Dupieux)El Reino / As Bestas (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)Les Aventures de Tintin / The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)Fast and Furious 5 (Justin Lin)Le Loup de Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)Mad Max – Fury Road / Happy Feet 2 (George Miller)RRR / La Légende de Bahubali (S.S. Rajamouli)L'Odyssée de Pi (Ang Lee)DOC ERWAN CADORET1- Mad Max : Fury Road (2015) – George Miller2- Twin Peaks, saison III (2017) – David Lynch3- Under the Skin (2013) – Jonathan Glazer4- The Strangers (2016) – Na Hong-jin/As Bestas (2022) – Rodrigo Sorogoyen5- La Bataille de la montagne du tigre (2014) – Tsui Hark/Take Shelter (2011) – Jeff Nichols6- Balada Triste (2010) – Alex De La Iglesia/Mademoiselle (2016) – Park Chan-wook7- Vortex (2021) – Gaspard Noé8- A Serious Man (2009) – Joel & Ethan Coen9- Le Transperceneige (2013) – Bong Joon-ho10- La Loi de Téhéran (2019) – Saeed Roustayi11- Il Etait une fois à Hollywood (2019) – Quentin Tarantino12- Drive (2011) – Nicolas Winding Refn13- Outrage (2010) – Takeshi Kitano14- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – Wes Anderson15- Her (2013) – Spike Jonze/The Witch (2015) – Robert Eggers

Giddyup! This week we're talking about an essential Thingie, being forthcoming with one's universe, the squashissance, cowboy love stories (real and fictional), and, as usual, a whole lot more.Big Thingie Energy: a good vet, specifically cat ‘n bunny caretakers at Catnip & Carrots. Having a moment? Squash. Some recipes we love include Aacorn Squash with Coconut Custard from Kristen Kish for Food & Wine, Soy Glazed Kabocha Squash with Japanese Sesame Seasoning from Season with Spice, Delicata Squash Agrodolce from Athena Calderone for PureWow, and Roasted Honey Nut Squash and Chickpeas With Hot Honey from Melissa Clark for NYT. GRWM audiobooks we're into include Tom Lake by Ann Patchett and You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith (< who you probably know from her poem “Good Bones” and/or her essay “My Marriage Was Never the Same After That.”). We love cowboy love! Get into Lyla Sage's Rebel Blue Ranch series, starting with Done and Dusted and the upcoming Swift and Saddled. Related: the rodeo, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and Bella Hadid's cowboyfriend. We love easy crafts! Including decorating these 99¢ frames, rolling beeswax candles, doing fruit and veggie prints (maybe at RecCreate Collective in BK?), and collage journaling like Martina Calvi. Also, we endorse Target's Spritz line of party decorations (balloon arch + gold fringe, hello). We are deep in the Grossy Universe. Do you want any context on the people in our ‘verse? Ask away at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or even our Geneva. Do your nails so well you impress yourself with Olive & June—20% off your first Mani System when you use our link.YAY.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ben Fountain is the best-selling author of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" his new novel is "Devil Makes Three." It is about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti.

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Ben Fountain, whose latest novel is “Devil Makes Three,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera. Ben Fountain is the author of one previous novel, “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,” which won the  National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012. His non-fiction book about the 2016 election, “Beautiful Country, Burn Again” was published in 2018. His earlier short stories were collected in “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2007/ “Devil Makes Three” is a long dense novel set in Haiti in 1992, beginning with the coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and features four main characters: a young CIA agent on her first assignment, an American everyman who runs a dive shop, and a brother and sister from a wealthy family. The young American becomes a favorite of the leader of the coup, who is a scuba fanatic, and the story goes from there. Complete 59-minute Interview     Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. 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Ben Fountain, whose latest novel is “Devil Makes Three,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, October 19, 2023. Ben Fountain is the author of one previous novel, “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,” which won the  National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012. His non-fiction book about the 2016 election, “Beautiful Country, Burn Again” was published in 2018. His earlier short stories were collected in “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2007/ “Devil Makes Three” is a long dense novel set in Haiti in 1992, beginning with the coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and features four main characters: a young CIA agent on her first assignment, an American everyman who runs a dive shop, and a brother and sister from a wealthy family. The young American becomes a favorite of the leader of the coup, who is a scuba fanatic, and the story goes from there.   The post Ben Fountain, “Devil Makes Three,” 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Ben Fountain's work has received the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.  His books include Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award.  His non-fiction book is Beautiful Country Burn Again.  His latest novel is Devil Makes Three. We talked about Ben's early exposure to social justice and politics, his history as a traveler to Haiti, protagonists who may or may not stake their claim on their own agency, writing from a female Haitian's point of view, his creative writing process, and Robert Stone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes the release of a new title by a great author is a welcome excuse to explore their previous work. On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Ben Fountain's latest novel, Devil Makes Three and an earlier, well-loved work  Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.  Marion Winikwill be in conversation with Ben Fountain on Monday October 9 at 7 pm, at Politics and Prose in DC. All titles available at The Ivy Bookshop and other fine local retailers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wellness by Nathan Hill follows a marriage over decades through a variety of successes, challenges and surprises. Hill joins us to talk about how long it took him to write his novel, describing a realistic marriage, the power of algorithms and more. Ben Fountain's Devil Makes Three brings readers to Haiti in 1991 with a cast of characters ranging from divers looking for shipwrecked treasure to CIA agents navigating a country in the midst of political unrest. Fountain joins us to talk about his connection to Haiti and the research he has done, the unique historical events that provide the backdrop for the novel, his influences and more.  Listen in as these authors speak separately with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.   This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.            Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).           Featured Books (Episode):  Wellness by Nathan Hill  Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain  The Nix by Nathan Hill   A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders  Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme  Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme  Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain  Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain  Beautiful Country Burn Again by Ben Fountain  The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis 

Benvenuti nella raccolta in formato Podcast delle puntate di #CloseUp, a cura di Matteo Righi, aka Houssy. #CloseUp è la rubrica di recensioni cinematografiche in onda su Radio Italia Anni 60 Emilia-Romagna.

0:00 - introduction1:20 - what have you been watching?8:59 - what is the persistence of vision theory?15:00 - various frame rates ranges for different platforms16:49 - TVS with motion smoothing17:48 - how shutter affects frame rate19:52 - the history of high frame rates in movies20:01 - Blair witch project21:36 - Paranormal activity22:25 - The Hobbit28:45 - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk29:50 - Gemini man35:38 - Avatar40:50 - final thoughts

Last fall, two authors, Ben Fountain, the author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Andrew Cryovac, writer of The Sojourn, were interviewed by students Jack Wyant, Isa Ramos, Francesca Nielsen and Madison Featherstone.

Writer Craig Rowin (Search Party) joins to discuss James Cameron's long-awaited blockbuster sequel, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang. Coming 12 years after the original AVATAR became the highest grossing film of all time, expectations were uncertain for Cameron's followup. Would audiences rush to revisit the Pandora's favorite family fortress, or neg the Na'vi in favor of BABYLON's flappers? Now THE WAY OF WATER has had its way with audiences, becoming 2022's highest grossing movie and receiving acclaim for its stunning effects, environmental allegory and emotionally resonant story. But how will the movie fare with this episode's trio of self-admitted franchise non-superfans? Listen to hear if AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER sinks or swims and stick around for diversions into Andor, lottery winners, Face/Off, Cassandra's curse, airplane movies, The Devil Wears Prada, Kevin Smith, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and much much more! AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER is currently in theaters.

Part 1: Zach, Grace and Michael talk about movies they saw this week, including: The Banshees of Inisherin, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.Part 2 (36:18): The group continues their Films by Ernst Lubitsch series with 1940's The Shop Around the Corner.See movies discussed in this episode here.Don't want to listen? Watch the podcast on our YouTube channel.Also follow us on:FacebookTwitterLetterboxd

Luke and Scott are back on the softball train and they break down their first foray for the 2022 season. Terry Cashman wrote a dumb song about baseball and then created one for the Tigers too. It's pretty dumb. Luke explains why he love MLB pitcher Zack Greinke which leads into the hoopla with the Tampa Rays players who refused to wear pride patches the team had made. The absurd angle is confirmed by Nick Anderson on Twitter as friend of the show Yancy revealed Anderson's hypocrisy. Kudos to you Yancy! How pathetic is it that corporations exploit Pride Month for promotion and advertising? This bleeds into the NFL and its love for the military. Mike wonders allowed how the NFL would celebrate Pride Month if it was in the fall instead of June. This reminds Mike of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ang Lee, which totally bombed a few years back. Luke shared an article in the Jacobin recently explaining that Bernie Sanders should run for president again. What do you think? In that article, there's a taxi driver in New York who says she missed Trump even though he was loud and brash. John Scott thinks that deep down we all want to be politicians in the worst way. Remember the band Belly? Gepetto inspires a recall. Luke says we wall want to be with a female lead singer of a band. His crush on Dolores O'Riordan remains to this day. Gwen Stefani was overhyped back int the day, but the gang wonders whether or not we'll see a Toby Keith duet with Gwen. We get to your emails as always. Brian love Bruce Dern. Brian also wants to know what our favorite sports movies are. Mr. Pink wants to know if the gang refers to themselves as men. We close the show with I'm The Man by Buck O'Nine. If any of this nonsense inspires you for better or for worse, email the show at isitsafepod@gmail.com

The Precision Podcasters and Smooth Talker draw nearer to the end of the lane with Vin City. This week the discussion is on Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk", with a bit of an "Obi-Wan Kenobi" detour to begin the episode.

  2 Vin fanboys give their thoughts on Vin Diesel's performance in the 2016 Film: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk! Be sure to prepare for the next episode by watching XXX: Return of Xander Cage! Follow us on Twitter: Official account - https://twitter.com/SonicMovieShow Devon - https://twitter.com/CursonaFun Ethan - https://twitter.com/EthanAbsolutely  

2 Vin fanboys give their thoughts on Vin Diesel's performance in the 2015 Film: The Last Witch Hunter, as well as the Dungeons & Dragons one shot: D&Diesel! Be sure to prepare for the next episode by watching Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk! Follow us on Twitter: Official account - https://twitter.com/SonicMovieShow Devon - https://twitter.com/CursonaFun Ethan - https://twitter.com/EthanAbsolutely

In the second of three parts, Finn & Uther continue their titanic and officially certified job of finding the best film of 2021.The 16 finalists: Another Round, Dune, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0.1 Thrice Upon a Time, The Father, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, James & Isey, Judas & the Black Messiah, The Last Duel, The Matrix Resurrections, The Nest, No Sudden Move, Petite Maman, Pig, The Power of the Dog, and Summer of Soul.Awards this episode include: Best Editing, Best VFX/Animation, Best Debut, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress.Other films recommended: The Wizard of Oz, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Paddington, Paddington 2, Candyman, The Sparks Brothers, Shiva Baby, Promising Young Woman, Abigail's Party, The Other Side of the Wind, The Voyeurs, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Top of the Lake, Top of the Lake: China Girl, An Angel at My Table, Dr. Strange, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Suicide Squad, Gemini Man, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ruben Brandt Collector, Encanto, Luca, Earwig and the Witch, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, In the Heights, West Side Story, The Show, I Blame Society, Passing, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Prisoners of the Ghostlands, Titane, Aquaman, Blackkklansman, Godzilla vs. Kong, Jungle Cruise, No Time to Die, Rose Plays Julie, Small Axe, The Favourite, Malignant, Minari, Cousins, Nomadland, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Tick Tick... Boom!, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Pulp Fiction, Ocean's 11-13, Out of Sight, Sex Lies and Videotape, The Informant, Bottle Rocket, and The Irishman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew and Dave are back! Moving on from Friday, the duo turn their sights onto the somewhat forgotten 2016 drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk from director Ang Lee! Enjoy the conversation in which the hosts offer their thoughts on the stages of Lee's career, how the film was ahead of the curve thematically, and whether or not a gun can be fired in a stadium full of people and not result in a ton of paperwork.Next Episode: What's the deal with one time directors?All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

In today's episode, Christy Billings sits down with members of the Russell Library Veterans Writing Group, Vance Fisher: US Helicopter Pilot, Vietnam, and Korea; Jennifer Glick: First Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam and Harvey Goldstein: Air Force, Vietnam. They'll discuss their connection to Middletown, their time in the service and their experiences within the writing group. Enjoy!Recommendations Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandReckoning by Mary Trump Code Warriors: A Year in Vietnam by William WoodThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Traumaby Bessel van der Kolk M.D.Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk  Reckless by Lesley Choyce.Organizations:IRIS:  https://irisct.org/Community Foundation of Middlesex County: https://middlesexcountycf.org/ (edited) This podcast uses music by Ashutosh, under a creative commons license:Time by ASHUTOSH | https://soundcloud.com/grandaktMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk among other works, talks about storytelling, the role Dallas plays in his writing and his sense of this city as an essence of America.

This week on The Scuttlebutt we begin our trek through Post-9/11 war movies by welcoming back Ryan Ahl, Kathryn Ghion, and filmmaker Evan Mulgrave to review BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK and SAND CASTLE. Each movie covers the warrior's journey but in very different ways. One's a hero, the other breaks his own hand to get out.  Neither film fared well on Rotten Tomatoes (BILLY LYNN - 44%, SAND CASTLE - 47%) but did they deserve the bad reviews? We'll answer that and other questions: Did they accurately portray life in the military? Did Ryan catch any inaccuracies? And most importantly - did either movie give us something to rant about? You betcha! Check out the new episode to see what all the fuss is about at veteransbreakfastclub.org/scuttlebutt. Thank you to Millerstown Pic-A-Part for sponsoring this episode!   Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUULFJ_I048 Sandcastle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hq28cZ938E

Introducing Rachel Jeanette to The Above Average Joe Show! Rachel has worked on several projects which include 90 Minutes in Heaven, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Allegiant, Nashville and many more! We talk to Rachel about working on ‘Billy Lynn’s Halftime Walk’ as a cheerleader, working with with Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) in ‘90 Minutes In Heaven’, playing keys on the hit TV show ‘Nashville’ and her work as a singer with newly released Christmas singles that are currently in rotation and getting played across the nation!

Joe Nelson is one of the most amazing, incredible and adorable people in the film industry with the biggest heart! He has worked in different capacities on Allegiant, Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: Road Chip, Anchorman 2, Ant-Man, Best of Enemies, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, Godzilla: King of Monsters, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Insurgent, Joyful Noise, Life of the Party, Logan Lucky, Madea’s Big Happy Family, The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, Powers, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ride Along 2, Tag, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead and that’s just a partial list! In EPISODE 2, Joe tells us how he got into the casting department, and then we have a serious discussion on living with and dealing with depression and round it all off with a great game of ‘25’, where the most points you can get is...closer to 40!! This is one heckuva finale you won’t want to miss!

Joe Nelson is one of the most amazing, incredible and adorable people in the film industry with the biggest heart! He has worked in different capacities on Allegiant, Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: Road Chip, Anchorman 2, Ant-Man, Best of Enemies, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, Godzilla: King of Monsters, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Insurgent, Joyful Noise, Life of the Party, Logan Lucky, Madea’s Big Happy Family, The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, Powers, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ride Along 2, Tag, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead and that’s just a partial list! In EPISODE 1, I sit and have a great chat with him about how he ‘accidentally’ got into the movies. How he had to drop his pants to keep one of his gigs ( #NOTMeToo ) and we even had a special SURPRISE MUSICAL GUEST drop in! And don’t forget to check out the BONUS EPISODE, full of outtakes, an anecdote (without the Internal Thought Recorder accidentally turning on) and the original recording of the game of ‘25’! Special voice acting credits to: Marian Sing, CC Ice, Mary Krans, Chris Marks, Jamie Lynn Catrett, Lorenzo Yearby, Indiana Sifuentes, Isabel DeLaCruz, Jessica Schmahl and William Tokarsky in the ‘Murder America’ skit Marian Sing, Isabel DeLaCruz and Indiana Sifuentes in ‘LaCharona’ Courtney Chen as Belle in ‘The Vampire Batman Knight’ Julie Kitsulie as Elmo in ‘Mortal Sesame Street Fighter Kombat!’

Ben Fountain, whose latest book, “Beautiful Country, Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution” details the 2016 presidential campaign through essays, some of which were previously published in a different form in The Guardian, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. Ben Fountain is primarily a fiction writer, the author of the best-selling novel, “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk” and the story collection, “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.” In this interview, he discusses elements of the 2016 election, including how the Democrats have chosen to abandon the New Deal, Trump's success as a demagogue, the failure of the press during the election, along with the arc of his career as a writer. The post Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country, Burn Again appeared first on KPFA.

Ben Fountain stopped by the podcast to talk with us on his visits to Haiti, his inspiration for his award winning book “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, and his time […]

Decider's Joe Reid joins us to share his 2018 Oscar predictions, and to look back at the predictions we all made together last year—we didn't see Moonlight coming at all and were way too high on Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Ang Lee's latest film, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, stars British actor Joe Alwyn as 19-year-old private Billy Lynn, who is caught on camera saving a comrade and, after the video goes viral on YouTube, becomes a pin-up for the war in Iraq. Through a sequence of flashbacks the realities of the war are revealed in contrast with the public's distorted perceptions of heroism. Kirsty talks to Ben Fountain, the novelist on whose book the film is based, and Joe Alwyn who was offered the part whilst still in drama school.Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British art, but her reputation as an artist has long been overshadowed by her family life and romantic entanglements. Dulwich Picture Gallery in London seeks to rectify that with the first major solo exhibition of her work. Its curator, Sarah Milroy, shows Kirsty around.To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Front Row has asked figures from the arts world to select the art work, inspired by the events of 1917, they most admire. Tonight writer, comedian and lifelong Russophile, Viv Groskop selects a poem by Anna Akhmatova.We remember sitcom writer Alan Simpson who has died at the age of 87. As one half of writing duo Galton and Simpson, the pair created sitcoms including Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Edwina Pitman.

Dave and Alonso got their eyes fried by one of the world's leading filmmakers, and they disagree on a film that's destined to be a big awards contender. Also, there's discussion of lima beans. Follow us @linoleumcast on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, review us (and subscribe) on iTunes, that's what love can do. Join our club, won't you? Dave's DVD pick of the week: HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION Alonso's DVD pick of the week: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

No te pierdas el estreno de la quinta temporada de La Sexta Nominada, una introducción a las películas que protagonizarán la próxima carrera por el Oscar hasta que una de ellas sea coronada el 26 de febrero en el Dolby Theatre. Cristina González, periodista cinematográfica del grupo Atresmedia e invitada en el especial del Festival de Cannes que grabamos el pasado mayo, acompaña a Dani Mantilla y Juan Sanguino en el estreno de temporada del podcast. Guía del episodio Principales aspirantes: Aliados, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, El nacimiento de una nación, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, La La Land, La luz entre los océanos, La llegada, The Lost City of Z, Loving, Manchester By The Sea, Mooonlight, Silencio, Sully Otros títulos: Florence Foster Jenkins, Nocturnal Animals, Lion, Hidden Figures, Passengers, Un monstruo viene a verme, The Promise, Rules Don't Apply, Queen of Katwe, Vaiana, Zootropolis

Valley Fever (Farrar Strauss Giroux)  A razor-sharp, cross-generational tragicomedy set in California's wine-soaked Central Valley.  Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when a breakup leaves her heartbroken and homeless, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the "real" wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers like Gallo and Kendall-Jackson, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and blissfully bad decisions. But along the way, she rediscovers her love for the land, her talent for harvesting grapes, and a deep fondness and forgiveness for the very first place she ever left. With all the sharp-tongued wit of her first novel, Rules for Saying Goodbye, Katherine Taylor examines high-class, small-town life among the grapes--on the vine or soaked in vodka--in Valley Fever, a blisteringly funny, ferociously intelligent, and deeply moving novel of self-discovery. Praise for Valley Fever: “Valley Fever goes straight to the heart of it: How are we supposed to live? How to jump through those hoops of fire known as love and work and family, and hopefully emerge with body and soul more or less intact. Or even--dare I say it?--to come through with some measure of peace in ourselves. Katherine Taylor's unflinching novel takes on the big stuff, and does so with an empathy and insight that reward the closest reading. This superb book succeeds on every level." – Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “In Katherine Taylor's stirring and sneakily capacious novel, what begins as a family romance widens out to be nothing less than a portrait of the knotty, complicated relationship between land and the people who make it their life's work to nurture and sometimes exploit it. Heartbreak comes in the form of relentless heat, ravaging dust, and a perfect grape left to wither on the vine, and the undoing of a once proud family vineyard becomes as potent a tale of love and betrayal as any I've recently read. Taylor's prose is sharp, rueful, hilarious and crackling with life. Her characters' raw, unsentimental affairs with one another and with the earth they till will stay with you long after you've left the book's pages behind.” – Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin Katherine Taylor is the author of the novels Valley Fever and Rules for Saying Goodbye. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Town & Country, ZYZZYVA, The Southwest Review and Ploughshares, among other publications. She has won a Pushcart Prize and the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Fiction. She has a B.A. from University of Southern California and a master's degree from Columbia University, where she was a Graduate Writing Fellow. Katherine lives in Los Angeles. Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, the Paris Review, Tin House, The Believer, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jeremy Paxman and Mary Beard argue heatedly and entertainingly about the books they love, with presenter Harriett Gilbert acting as referee. Jeremy's choice is Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain: a rollercoaster of a novel that's been called the Catch-22 of the Iraq War. The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis is classicist Mary Beard's recommendation. It's a depiction of French peasant life that's been described as even greater than the film of the same story. Travels with my Aunt, a genuinely funny novel by Graham Greene, is Harriett Gilbert's contribution.

The Betrayers (Little Brown and Company) Please welcome back to Skylight Books David Bezmozgis, the award-winning author of Free World and Natasha and Other Stories. His latest, The Betrayers is a compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is "self-assured, elegant, perceptive . . . and unflinchingly honest" (New York Times) These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There, shockingly, Kotler comes face-to-face with the former friend whose denunciation sent him to the Gulag almost forty years earlier. In a whirling twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own moral dilemma in the Israeli army, and the wife who once campaigned to secure his freedom and stood by him through so much. Stubborn, wry, and self-knowing, Baruch Kotler is one of the great creations of contemporary fiction. An aging man grasping for a final passion, he is drawn inexorably into a crucible that is both personal and biblical in scope. In prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating in its awareness of the human heart, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness. The Betrayers" is a high-wire act, a powerful tale of morality and sacrifice that will haunt readers long after they turn the final page.  Praise for The Betrayers“The Betrayers is a moral thriller in the tradition of Bernard Malamud, but the generosity, grace, and wisdom of the writing belong entirely to David Bezmozgis. The magic of fiction is that it makes the reader care deeply about imaginary strangers, and Bezmozgis is a magician.”—Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist for The Lazarus Project “This outstanding novel definitively establishes David Bezmozgis as one of the foremost writers of his generation.”—Ben Fountain, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “This unforgettable novel squanders no words in its brilliant, deft depictions of love, of memory, of compassion—and, ultimately, despite its title, of loyalty.”—Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award forBinocular Vision  David Bezmozgis moved from Latvia to Canada at the age of six. After studying English literature at McGill University and fine arts at the Southern California School of Cinema-Television, he created his first documentary in 1999, entitled L.A. Mohel, capturing the busy lives of three mohels (Jewish ritual circumcisers) in Los Angeles. His debut short story collection, Natasha and Other Stories, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Bezmozgis is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

California (Little Brown and Company) A former Skylight staffer comes home to read from her much anticipated debut novel! You might recognize this book is you're a regular viewer of The Colbert Report -- this is the novel Sherman Alexie and Stephen Colbert recommended on the June 3 show! (You can pre-order it from us, too. Just click the Add to Cart button below.) The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant.  Terrified of the unknown and unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses dangers of its own. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust.  A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. Praise for California “In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities.” —Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner “An expansive, full-bodied and masterful narrative of humans caught in the most extreme situations, with all of our virtues and failings on full display: courage, cowardice, trust, betrayal, honor and expedience. The final eighty pages of this book gripped me as much as any fictional denouement I've encountered in recent years....I firmly believe that Edan Lepucki is on the cusp of a long, strong career in American letters.”—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “Edan Lepucki is the very best kind of writer: simultaneously generous and precise. I have long been an admirer of her prose, but this book—this book, this massive, brilliant book—is a four-alarm fire, the ambitious and rich introduction that a writer of her caliber deserves. I can't wait for the world to know what I have known for so many years, that Edan Lepucki is the real thing, and that we will all be bowing at her feet before long.” —Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures “A stunning and brilliant novel, which is a wholly original take on the post-apocalypse genre, an end-of-the-world we've never seen before and yet is uncomfortably believable and recognizable. By turns funny and heartbreaking, scary and tender, beautifully written and compulsively page-turning, this is a book that will haunt me, and that I'll be thankful to return to in the years to come. It left me speechless. Read it, and prepare yourself.” —Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply “It's tempting to call this novel post-apocalyptic, but really, it's about an apocalypse in progress, an apocalypse that might already be happening, one that doesn't so much break life into before and after as unravel it bit by bit. Edan Lepucki tells her tale with preternatural clarity and total believability, in large part by focusing on the relationships—between husband and wife, brother and sister, parent and child—that are, it turns out, apocalypse-proof. Post-nothing. California is timeless.”—Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Edan Lepucki is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a staff writer for The Millions. Her short fiction has been published in McSweeney's and Narrative magazine, and she is the founder and director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. 

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Simon & Schuster) Join us tonight for a very special event as we, along with cast and crew, step inside The Room, the movie Patton Oswalt referred to as "modern-day Plan 9 From Outer Space." As part of tonight's event we'll be celebrating the release of the audiobook version of The Disaster Artist and will be screening a special behind-the-scenes, making-of documentary together with cast members Juliette Danielle (LISA),Kyle Vogt (PETER), and Robyn Paris (MICHELLE) and camera operator Joseph Setele. A can't miss event from a movie that redefines the term "cult classic." In 2003, an independent film called "The Room"--starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head," the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, it's an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Hailed by "The Huffington Post" as "possibly the most important piece of literature ever printed," "The Disaster Artist" is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship. Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar, recounts the film's bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie's many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself. But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, "The Disaster Artist is one of the most honest books about friendship I've read in years" ("Los Angeles Times)." Praise for The Disaster Artist "Finally, a hilarious, delusional, and weirdly inspirational explanation for the most deliciously awful movie ever made."--Rob Lowe, actor and author of Stories I Only Tell My Friends "A great portrayal of hopefuls coming to Los Angeles to pursue their ambitions, and an even greater examination of what it means to be a creative person with a dream and trying to make it come true….In so many ways. Tommy c'est moi."– James Franco, VICE.com "The Disaster Artist has to be one of the funniest, most deliciously twisted tales I have ever read. This extraordinary book is many things: a guide on how to succeed, sort of, in Hollywood; a life lesson in the virtues of deaf, dumb, and blind persistence; a very surreal variation on the archetypal American story of the immigrant dream. But at its heart lies the story of a deep and abiding friendship that survives against all odds, and the insanely bizarre film that stands as proof."--Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk "The Disaster Artist doesnt just answer the question: How do awful cult movies get made? It also reminds us how confusing, hilarious, and wonderful it is to be in your 20s, and why youre glad you dont have to do it twice. Its like a wonderfully weird mash-up of a contemporary Candide and Sunset Boulevard.--Joel Stein, author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity "One of the worst movies of all time has spawned one of the most entertaining books I've read in years. It's a happy ending worthy of Hollywood."--A. J. Jacobs, author of Drop Dead Healthy Greg Sestero is an actor, producer, and writer. He was born in Walnut Creek, California and raised between the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe. He is fluent in both French and English. At the age of 17, Greg began his career in entertainment by modeling in Milan for such designers as Valentino and Armani. Upon returning to California, Greg went onto pursue acting and appeared in several films and television shows before co-starring in the international cult phenomenon The Room. Greg's many passions include film, sports, nutrition, animals, and traveling Tom Bissell is the author of Chasing the Sea, Extra Lives, Magic Hours, God Lives in St. Petersburg and the  winner of the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim  Fellowship.  He writes frequently for Harper's and The New Yorker. Originally from Escanaba Michigan, he now resides in Los Angeles.  

Fourth of July Creek (Ecco) Smith Henderson, author of one of the most anticipated debut novels of the season, discusses his work with novelist Brian McGreevy (Hemlock Grove). In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. Praise for Fourth of July Creek: “This book left me awestruck; a stunning debut which reads like the work of a writer at the height of his power…Fourth of July Creek is a masterful achievement and Smith Henderson is certain to end up a household name.”—Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son “Fourth of July Creek knocked me flat. This gorgeous, full-bodied novel seems to contain all of America at what was, in retrospect, a pivotal moment in its history...Smith Henderson has delivered nothing less than a masterpiece of a novel."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “Fourth of July Creek cannot possibly be Smith Henderson's first book. Its scope is audacious, its range virtuosic, its gaze steady and true. A riveting story written in a seductive and relentlessly authentic rural American vernacular, this is the kind of novel I wish I'd written.”—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn “Fourth of July Creek is an astonishing read. The writing is energetic and precise. Henderson has a mastery of scale that allows this particular place and these particular people to illuminate who we are as Americans...I could not recommend this book more highly.”—Kevin Powers, bestselling author of The Yellow Birds “Tremendously satisfying—think Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone...or Jimmy McNulty...set...in...another kind of violent American wilderness...[a] mesmerizing accomplishment. I cannot think of a finer first novel; it's hard, in fact, to think of a finer second, third, or fourth one, either.”—Antonya NelsonSmith Henderson was born and raised in western Montana. His family were in the timber industry, ranching, and other trades, but he was the first to go to college, earning a Classics degree. He worked with traumatized children for a few years, and briefly as prison guard. He took writing jobs where he could find them, until he was admitted to the MFA program at the University of Texas. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of journals and been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. In 2011 he was the Philip Roth Resident and Bucknell University and won the Emerging Writer Award in Fiction from the PEN Foundation.  Brian McGreevy is the author of Hemlock Grove, which was adapted into a Netflix series of the same name. He is also a founding partner of the production company El Jefe, with multiple film and television projects in development. A former James Michener Fellow in fiction at the University of Texas, he currently lives in Los Angeles. 

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MARY COIN (Blue Rider Press) In her first novel since "The God of War, " critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention--a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work--little personal information is exchanged and neither has any way of knowing that their chance encounter has produced the most iconic image of the Great Depression. Three vibrant characters anchor the narrative of "Mary Coin" Mary, the migrant mother herself, who emerges as a woman with deep reserves of courage and nerve, with private passions and carefully-guarded secrets. Vera Dare, the photographer wrestling with creative ambition who makes the choice to leave her children in order to pursue her work. And Walker Dodge, a present-day professor of cultural history, who discovers a family mystery embedded in the picture. In luminous, exquisitely observed prose, Silver creates an extraordinary tale from a brief moment in history, and reminds us that though a great photograph can capture the essence of a moment, it only scratches the surface of a life. Mary Coin is quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years . . . In her portrayal of a time in American history when survival was often a day-to-day thing, Silver drills down to the absolute essentials: family, love, loss, the perpetual uncertainty of life. Again and again I found myself wondering: How does she know that? Silver's wisdom is rare, and her novel is the work of a master.--Ben Fountain, author of the 2012 National Book Award finalist "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Marisa Silver is the author of two novels, The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist) and No Direction Home, and two story collections, Alone With You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Silver lives in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin authored The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith and The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Are So Important in a Distracted Time. Photo by Bader Howar THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS ON APRIL 6, 2013 COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE: http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780399160707

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his satirical Iraq War novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Siri Hustvedt discusses her latest book, a collection of essays about her own life: Living, Thinking, Looking. Tom Tivnan, Features and Supplements Editor for The Bookseller, explains the world of internet book sales. And in conjunction with the British Library's Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands exhibition, we continue our series exploring how writers have been inspired by the landscape.

Pushcart and O. Henry Prize-winner Ben Fountain talks about heroes, war, and street language in his new novel.