HeyJaredFilm is Lit
The podcast in which a self-proclaimed film expert and an overly confident literary expert discuss film adaptations of books. It's lit.
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Ep. 155 - Queer (Burroughs, 1985/Guadagnino, 2024) (opens the original)
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**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS** This week on Film is Lit , we are heading to 1950s Mexico City to discuss William S. Burroughs' Queer and Luca Guadagnino's adaptation starring Daniel Craig. Is Queer a faithful adaptation? Does the book's surreal ending actually work? And perhaps most importantly... how awesome were those Nirvana needle drops, huh?! We talk about Daniel Craig's wildly vulnerable performance, the challenges of adapting one of Burroughs' most personal novels, Guadagnino's d
Ep. 154 - The Odyssey (Homer, ≈800 BCE/ Nolan, 2026) (opens the original)
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**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS** Somebody get these PODCASTERS out of here! We had to fight like hell to get IMAX tickets, which in and of itself was an odyssey (people died, we had to drive all the way to Santa Monica), but we finally saw The Odyssey - a new take on one of the most classic pieces of literature on Earth, directed by one of the best directors on Earth, Christopher Nolan. Gods, monsters, sirens, cyclopes, treacherous seas, Jon Bernthal needing to tell you somethin’… and Mat
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