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
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