James Dalrymple

Exactly this

th pleasure's all mine!

It's a great episode!

243. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor — Backlisted Angel  (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episode - and, as you'll hear, the next episode of Locklisted too. Joining Andy and Una for a hotly disputed ...

Going to listen to this again now that I've actually read the novel: www.backlisted.fm/episodes/243...

Yes, she featured in some of their films as an actress and I think they returned the favour with creative contributions to her work as director

enjoyed this one very much

Fantastic!

Yes, Hôtel du Lac won the Booker, albeit somewhat controversially. You can tell she was channelling personal experiences and perspectives in her fiction

I'm only really familiar with her fiction, to be honest. This would be the fourth of hers I've read. Her characters are invariably pretty lonely souls

oh, nice!

Lowering expectations is the way forward. I will seek out negative reviews of everything I watch or read from now on!

Enjoy!

right, she was an art historian first and turned to writing novels pretty late

One of my three favourite films. 🥰

"...Macy had seen their earlier film, Blood Simple, and was instantly impressed by their script for Fargo. Speaking via Zoom from Los Angeles, he says: “Their dialogue is up there with Dave Mamet’s dialogue. It’s scintillating. It’s beautiful. It’s got metre and rhythm and poetry to it..."

Lewis Carroll couldn't have done better

#internationalwomensday

Penguin edition of Anita Brookner's 1997 novel Visitors

Up next on the pile
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Terrific book. Taylor really knows how to make that transition from acid wit to pathos. It seems like an impossible task to write a novel centred on someone so stubborn and solipsistic and yet elicit our sympathies anyway, but she does it

It's really weird

right!

I kept thinking I was missing something, but they were no-where to be found! As someone who used to work in publishing, I was especially outraged!

An intriguing collection of Kinuyo Tanaka films has just landed on Arte. Always grateful for these BFI overviews:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

madness!

Yes! But weirdly it hasn't appeared on the main page of their film streaming site yet. I had to Google to find it 🤷

Recommended?

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Brill!

Spoons carpet in Old Unicorn, Bramley, Leeds

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Shocking! Last year I read a Penguin paperback of the Good Soldier and there were numbered references throughout the text but no footnotes or endnotes. They'd just been forgotten.

Blimey they're a tough bunch