Gabriella and Claudette travel back to 2002 and review Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Tracey Letts.
Gabriella and Claudette review Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a Cold-War, aquatic fairytale set in Baltimore, 1962, starring Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and Doug Jones.
Gabriella and Claudette reviews P.T. Anderson’s twisted, Hitchcock-inspired period (quasi?) romance, Phantom Thread, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville.
The last part of our Cultural Roundup series for 2017 (Part One: Film and Part Two: Books) is all about the contemporary serial medium: television and podcasts! In this episode, Gabriella and Claudette discuss (and debate) their favourite television and podcasts for 2017.
In our literary segment of a three-part Cultural Roundup Series for 2017, Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite books of the year.
Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite films of 2017.
Gabriella and Claudette review the much-celebrated Call Me By Your Name (2017), a film directed by Luca Guadagnino, with a screenplay by James Ivory, adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. The film stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. Length: 24mins, Recorded December 2017 iTunes Link/Download HERE Notes: Call Me By Your […]
“Be Our Guest” to this latest Erratic Dialogues podcast, in which Claudette and Gabriella review Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017), directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans and Emma Thompson. Length: 50mins, Recorded March 2017
Gabriella and Claudette discuss the books, film, theatre and podcasts that they loved (and a few that they loathed) in 2016. Length: 1hr 6mins, Recorded December 2016 iTunes Link/Download HERE Notes: Sport for Jove’s Summer Season, a double bill of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar/Antony & Cleopatra (playing to January 29, 2017) Eimar McBride on TLS, reading […]
In this episode, Gabriella and Claudette review Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante (2016), a non-fiction tesserae of letters and interviews between the mysterious Italian author and her publishers, journalists, and readers. Notes: Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante The Italian author, Elsa Morante Gabriella’s essay: Who gets to speak and why? Claudette’s essay: The Bogeywoman Length: […]
By Gabriella Edelstein and Claudette Palomares Contents The Podcast First Letter: ‘The chief joy of Stillman’s work is his shimmering dialogue’ by Claudette Palomares Second Letter: ‘I wonder, how would Austen have voted in the referendum?’ by Gabriella Edelstein Third Letter: ‘The best adaptations are the ones in which the director has distilled the distinct […]
Gabriella and Claudette examine the rich and varied filmography of the Coen Brothers.
Gabriella and Claudette discuss Todd Haynes’ film Carol (2015), starring Rooney Mara as a young shopgirl who falls in love with the eponymous character, Carol, a wealthy housewife played by Cate Blanchett. Oodles of Oscar umbrage found within.
Gabriella and Claudette discuss Byron, fractals, chaos theory and Hamilton the musical while reviewing the Sydney Theatre Company’s latest production of Tom Stoppard’s dazzling play, Arcadia. Read our essays at erraticadialogues.com! Length: 37 mins, Recorded March 2016
Snark takes a holiday when Gabriella and Claudette read "My Brilliant Friend" by the mysterious Elena Ferrante. Read our essays at www.erraticdialogues.com! Length: 47 mins, Recorded February 2016
Gabriella and Claudette explore "My Brilliant Friend", the first novel in the "Neapolitan Quartet" by the mysterious Elena Ferrante.
Gabriella and Claudette visit the Art Gallery of NSW for a special exhibition from the National Galleries of Scotland: "The Greats" and debate on what "Great" really means anyway.
Gabriella and Claudette review Sport For Jove's Love's Labour Lost and discuss what Shakespeare even is in the first place.
Gabriella and Claudette explore Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's luminous novel Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction (Now the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction) and the 2015 "Baileys of Baileys".
Gabriella and Claudette discuss the Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep feature, Suffragette. Come for the film review, stay for the sass.