Podcast Episodes

Harriet

Season 2 Episode 5

“I’m gonna stand up, take my people with me, together we are going to a brand new home” – so sings Cyntia Erivo in the song “Stand Up,” the Academy A…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Emma vs Emma.

Season 2 Episode 4

Oh, Emma! Got into trouble again? 
Although she always meant good, Jane Austen’s Emma is known for stirring things up in her hometown while playing th…

4 years ago

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Marie Antoinette

Season 2 Episode 3

Acclaimed by many as avant garde cinema and derided by others for being too frivolous, Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,'' from 2006, offers indeed…

4 years ago

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Maurice

Season 2 Episode 2

In 1909, same-sex relationships were illegal in Great Britain and the consequences of being “caught” were heavy and, at times, catastrophic.

Imagine y…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Season 2 Episode 1

There is so much about this film that impacted us that we struggled to compact it all in one single conversation:

The subtlety of the main love story:…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Episode 7 - Bridgerton

Season 1 Episode 7

What happens when you create a period drama with a young, North American audience in mind? And when you add on one of the most successful Black, fema…

4 years, 6 months ago

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Episode 6-Belle

Season 1 Episode 6

How many times have you seen a dark-skinned woman wearing a high-society 18th-century dress in history books? How much do you know about the lives of…

4 years, 7 months ago

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Episode 5-Farewell, My Queen

Season 1 Episode 5

Did you ever wonder what it must have been like for Marie Antoinette when the riots of the French Revolution started to heat up the mood in the count…

4 years, 7 months ago

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Episode 4-Sense and Sensibility

Season 1 Episode 4

Take a Jane Austen classic, a Taiwanese director, a novice screenplay-writer and some of the best actors in England from the early 1990s and voilà! Y…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Season 1 Episode 3

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.” Pure Poetry that is! And so is the next film we review on this new episode: Cyrano de Bergerac…

4 years, 8 months ago

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