EPISODE 12: DOGVILLE

On yet another episode of a new podcast given over to the dubious subject of controversial cinematic literary adaptations, co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen review the new film “Wuthering Heights” by Emerald Fennel and the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Topics discussed include camp; the gothic; the erotic; Catherine Earnshaw and Mr. Heathcliff; Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi; ribbons; The Kissing Booth; When Eight Bells Toll; Anthony Hopkins; amphibious spies; James Bond; Laurence Olivier; piracy; mysterious sources of wealth; earrings; sado-masochism; costumes; mansions; Charli XCX; dogs and their execution via hanging; public hangings of humans as a source of communal arousal; Jane Austen; the Lintons, Edgar and Isabella; the Grange; haunted houses; clanging radiators; Kate Bush, whoever she is; whether “Wuthering Heights” is superior to Hamnet; and much more.