Episode 53. Three films by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Room with a View

How many screenwriters have won multiple Academy Awards? 15. It's
an exclusive group. Woody Allen won 3 #canceled. Here are the
other 14 that have won 2: Robert Bolt, Charles Brackett, Paddy
Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Christopher Hampton, Joseph L.
Mankiewicz, Alexander Payne (#kindacanceled), Mario Puzo, Michael
Wilson, Alvin Sargent, George Seaton, Quentin Tarantino, Billy
Wilder, and the only woman, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. So it's time to
give credit where credit is due, and celebrate 3 films of Ruth
Prawer Jhabala—who's also a Booker Prize-winning novelist in her
own right, starting with A Room with a View.

But before we venture back to Edwardian England, we have to talk
about what else we watched (and listened to) this week.

Dre reviewed our first audiobook, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and
the Last Years of Hollywood, which is a behind the scenes look at
Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood. And he was so excited,
he went ahead and watched Chinatown and its semi-maligned sequel,
The Two Jakes.

Goodman, also, went back to the classics—a straight shot of
4.5/5s! First, he didn't forget his old shipmates: Master &
Commander: The Far Side of the World. Then, he had to show up at
Race Wars with The Fast and the Furious (with a special shout out
to the Iconography podcast hosted by Ayo Edebiri and Olivia
Craighead, and their episode on Vin Diesel featuring Blank
Check's Griffin Newman). Last, he had to return to Tampa where
the legend of Mike Lane was born: Magic Mike.

Then Dre & Goodman take a bathe... in this sumptuous period
romantic drama (comedy?), featuring Helena Bonham Carter in her
feature film debut and a knockout cast, including Maggie Smith,
Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands,
Simon Callow, Rupert Graves, and more.

Next week, we take a trip to Howards End—which
was, coincidentally, also the original title of the final
Howard the Duck movie where he dies a tragic duck
death.
SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert