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Best Adapted Podcast
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A podcast about film adaptations and the stories that inspired them, hosted by Frank Meyer and Caleb Drickey.
Episodes
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Where the Buffalo Roam with Omari Averette-Phillips
Bested Adapted Podcast stumbles back into your feed with the iconic and super-well-known and easily streamable Where the Buffalo Roam. Based on the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, the film stars Bill Murray as the gonzo journalist and follows his relationship with Chicano activist Oscar Acosta....
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Cloud Atlas with Josh Marcus
Tune in for the true-true on the Wachowski siblings’ effort to film the staggering Cloud Atlas (also Tom Tykwer but he’s a small fry). Adapted in 2012 from the David Mitchell novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a genre-bending, time-traveling epic that attempts to consider the totality of…
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The Green Knight with Ted Meyer
Much like the Green Knight coming back to claim your head, it’s that time of the year in your podcast feed. Concluding their King Arthur adaptations miniseries, BAP has brought in a ringer with special guest Ted Meyer. Episode includes discussion of chivalry and arthouse film in the 2020s and...
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword with Anna Menta
It's the Quest we can't Quit. In the early 2010s, Hollywood execs timidly pushed through the mists if Avalon in search of their own Holy Grail -- marketable IP. In the hopes of creating an interlocking universe of superheroic Knights, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow tapped sorcery skeptic...
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Excalibur with Alexandra Sitner
BAP, the most chivalrous film podcast on the airwaves, strides majestically back into your feed. This week we cover Excalibur, the 1981 fantasy Arthurian epic from John Boorman. With a booming Wagner score and an absolute rogue’s gallery of British performers, Excalibur turns Le Morte d'Arthur…
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The Fisher King with Donald Morrison
Best Adapted Podcast returns to Camelot by way of New York City. Continuing our King Arthur miniseries, BAP takes a look at The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam’s 1991 retelling of Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Gilliam reconfigured the romantic poem to the world of shock-jock radio hosts and the...
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Perceval le Gallois and Lancelot du Lac with A. S. Hamrah
Best Adapted Podcast begins its King Arthur miniseries with two films, Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois and Robert Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac. Both adaptations come from 1970s France, featuring two auteurs at the height of their powers. Rohmer’s Perceval faithfully highlights the lyricism and...
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Love and Friendship with Jamie Herman
The final entry in Best Adapted Podcast's Jane Austen miniseries. Whit Stillman, the poet laureate of the Upper East Side, emerged from semiretirement in 2016 to breathe new life into Jane Austen's little known novella Lady Susan. Stillman and Austen share comic sensibilities and bourgeois...
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Bride and Prejudice with Raghu Aggarwal
What is life without wife? Don't ask Frank or Caleb, they're miserable bachelors. Joined by Delhi native and Caleb's college bully Raghu Aggarwal, the boys discuss Indian weddings, Netflix's disruption of the Indian film industry's squeaky clean image, and of course, Gurinder Chadha's 2004...
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Clueless with Faith Tetlow
In 1995 the greatest podcast host of all time, Frank Meyer, was born. That same year, Amy Heckerling transported the story of Jane Austen’s Emma from rural England to Beverly Hills. Over the following 26 years, Clueless has become a cult hit that portrays timeless tropes of adolescence while...
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Sense and Sensibility with Rachel Stone
It's a Christmas Miracle! BAP returns to your feed to begin our Jane Austen miniseries. Rachel Stone (BOMB Magazine, Real Life Mag, The New Republic) comes back on the Pod to discuss Ang Lee's 1995 Sense and Sensibility, adapted from the Jane Austen novel of the same name. Written by, and…
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Halloween Bonus Ep: Carrie with Mads Clarke
Halloween Bonus! BAP interrupts its regularly scheduled programming to bring you a horror adaptation episode. Written in 1974, Carrie launched the literary horror career of Stephen King. The novel weaves together religious extremism, high school dances, and teenage girls into gruesome…
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Fantastic Mr. Fox with Jakob Anderson
Best Adapted Podcast connects with its inner child and checks out Fantastic Mr. Fox, the Roald Dahl book and its stop-motion animation adaptation from Wes Anderson. The 2009 film assembles a star-studded voice cast of Anderson standbys (Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson) and new...
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Burning with Mitch Peterson
Best Adapted Podcast heads down South. Korea, that is, by way of Mississippi. In Burning, Korean auteur Lee Chang Dong channels the despair and apocalyptic rage of William Faulkner and Haruki Murakami to explore masculine insecurity and economic inequality in contemporary Seoul. But how well does...
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Inherent Vice with Matthew Thomas
BAP concludes the Los Angeles Noir miniseries with Inherent Vice, the deeply funny and deeply paranoid 2014 film from Paul Thomas Anderson. Based on the Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice is equal parts a stoner comedy and detective story with a byzantine plot of conspiracy theories and...
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Devil in a Blue Dress with Paul Kirk-Davidoff
In In 1995, American audiences mostly ignored Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress. Based on the Walter Mosley novel of the same name, the film is a rare Noir written, directed, and starring Black filmmakers, but its box office failure dashed their hopes for a full franchise. Franklin's film has...
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L.A. Confidential Part 2 with Henry 'Hank' Hietala
CW: this episode discusses racism and violence Oral arguments are capped at 1 hour. Fascist and Pinko are acceptable slurs. All pronunciations of “noir” must be done in a French accent. Best Adapted Podcast steps into the ring for a no-holds-barred debate over the 1997 film L.A. Confidential.…
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L.A. Confidential Part 1 with Heney 'Hank' Hietala
CW: this episode discusses racism and violence Best Adapted Podcast is back at it again with another entry in the Los Angeles Noir miniseries. On this episode, Henry ‘Hank’ Hietala (Ruminate Magazine, the Stonecoast Review) returns to the pod to discuss LA Confidential and its 1997 adaptation by...
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The Long Goodbye with Zant Peralta
For the second entry in the LA Noir series, Best Adapted Podcast looks at The Long Goodbye from 1972. Made nearly 20 years after Chandler’s novel came out, the film transposed the Phillip Marlowe story to counter-culture Los Angeles. Directed by Robert Altman, the movie was a distinctly New...
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The Big Sleep with Will Drickey
BAP begins its LA Noir miniseries with a discussion of The Big Sleep, the 1947 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel. Directed by Howard Hawks and featuring the real-life romantic duo of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, the film is a formative entry in the noir genre. Joined again by Will...
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Los Angeles Noir
Caleb and Frank tease their next miniseries on the genre of Los Angeles noir. Follow Best Adapted Podcast on twitter @AdaptedBest
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Mads Clark
CW: this episode discusses extreme sexual violence BAP goes north in this episode to the frigid cold of Sweden and examines the 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larson’s international bestseller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Sony pictures eagerly purchased the rights to the book with hopes of creating…
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August: Osage County with Lana Richards
Winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007, August: Osage County was a smash hit in the Chicago and Broadway theater scenes. The play, an acidic depiction of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, was adapted to film in 2013. Tracy Letts’s script attracted movie stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts…
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Super Mario Bros. with Ryan Harris
In 1991 Nintendo granted husband-and-wife directors Rocky Morton and Annabelle Jankel the rights to their Super Mario Bros. franchise to create a family adventure film. Already a household name, Mario was poised to join the pantheon of cinema’s greatest heroes. But Super Mario Bros. suffered from…
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Closing the Book on John le Carré
Best Adapted Podcast closes the book on John le Carré. Ending their miniseries on a master of spy novels, Caleb and Frank discuss le Carré’s legacy and the various film adaptations of his work. What makes his books so compelling to filmmakers? What is the difference between a “good” or a “bad” le...
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A Most Wanted Man with Josh Marcus
Frank and Caleb conclude their John le Carré miniseries with A Most Wanted Man. The novel was a thriller about high-finance, immigration, and the encroaching surveillance state in Europe and the United States. The film featured a deep roster of German and American actors and one of the last…
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The Constant Gardener with Rachel Stone
John le Carré offered a stirring indictment of corporate imperialism and the pharmaceutical industry with his novel The Constant Gardener. In 2005, Fernando Merielles adapted the work into an Oscar-winning drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. But 15 years later, and no longer blinded by...
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The Tailor of Panama with Leo Martin
In 2001, with his tenure as James Bond dwindling, Pierce Brosnan signed on for an adaptation of The Tailor of Panama, directed by the New Hollywood veteran John Boorman. The novel was John Le Carré’s first major hit since the end of the Cold War and contained an eerily prophetic warning of…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Ted Meyer
Continuing their John le Carré miniseries, Caleb and Frank talk Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and its 2011 adaptation. Joined by Ted Meyer (Inverse), the boys discuss Swedish vampires, bad hair, and Mark Strong’s eyes. Considered John le Carré’s densest novel, how does this classic mole-hunt...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with Matt Thomas
Caleb and Frank begin their John le Carré miniseries with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Martin Ritt's 1965 adaptation dazzled critics and audiences in both England and the United States and began a Hollywood tradition of putting Le Carré's works on film. But can it match the grim tone and...
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John le Carré
Caleb and Frank announce their miniseries on the works of John le Carré.
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story with Will Drickey
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen has been called "the first post-modern novel" written before "there was even a modern to be post- about." Written in 1759, the nine-volume satirical memoir is also recognized as "thoroughly unadaptable." But in 2005, Michael...
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The Commitments with Henry Hietala
Caleb and Frank discuss The Commitments with special guest Henry Hietala (Ruminate Magazine, Stonecoast Review). The 1991 musical-comedy-drama spawned a 5x platinum record soundtrack and has become an Irish cult classic since its release. But how does it fair as an adaptation of Roddy Doyle's…
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Moneyball
The first episode of Best Adapted Podcast! Caleb and Frank talk Brad, baseball, and Bennett Miller's Moneyball. But how is it as an adaptation of the Michael Lewis book?
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A podcast about film adaptations and the stories that inspired them, hosted by Frank Meyer and Caleb Drickey.
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