Episode 54. Three Films by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Howards End

The Ruth Truth Train is still chugging along with the movie she won her 2nd screenwriting Oscar for: Howards End. It's turn of the century E.M. Forster at its finest, but does it still hold up? Before you can hear our esteemed, expert takes, we have to talk about what we watched this week.

Goodman and Dre tag-team the excellent HBO Max limited series, starring Academy Award-winning actress, Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown (with no spoilers, if you can believe it!), then Goodman continues with a review of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small which follows the life of veterinarian James Herriot in rural England in the first half of the 20th century—and starring Howards End's own, Samuel West, as Siegfried Farnon.

He also got weir-d and watched Peter Weir's The Way Back (not that The Way Back) about Soviet Gulag prisoners escaping, and their journey across the desert and over the Himalayas into India.

Dre watched the 2012 indie-horror flick, Resolution by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, and has been binge-watching a bunch of Downton Abbey (welcome to the 2010s, Dre).

Then we hang out with the Wilcoxes, Schlegels and Basts for some good old-fashioned class romance and betrayal. We talk the cast, including the superb and Award-winning Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Ruth's brother Siegbert, plus quotes, trivia and some really good impressions.

Join us next week (or possibly the week after depending on when we can actually record—you've been warned) for the 3rd film in our series, The Remains of the Day based off of the book by Kazuo Ishiguro.

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert