66. Anne of Green Gables, Part 2

May 05, 2020 in episode

It's been a long time coming, but Adapt or Perish is finally going back to Avonlea to revisit L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables!

In this episode we discuss:

L.M. Montgomery's original 1908 novel.
Anne of Green Gables (RKO, 1934), directed by George Nicholls, Jr., written by Sam Mintz, and starring Anne Shirley (!), Tom Brown, Helen Westley, and O.P. Heggie.
Akage no An (Nippon Animation, 1979), written and directed by Isao Takahata, with contributions from Hayao Miyazaki.
Anne of Green Gables (CBC, 1985), written and directed by Kevin Sullivan, and starring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, and Jonathan Crombie.
L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (YTV, 2016), directed by John Kent Harrison, written by Susan Coyne, and starring Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford, and Martin Sheen.
Anne with an E (CBC/Netflix, 2017–2019), created by Moira Walley-Beckett, and starring Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, and Lucas Jade Zumann.

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65. The Thomas Crown Affair

April 21, 2020 in episode

In this totally cool, totally criminal, and somewhat sexy episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss The Thomas Crown Affair!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

The Thomas Crown Affair (United Artists, 1968), directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alan Trustman, and Starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.
The Thomas Crown Affair (MGM, 1999), directed by John McTiernan, written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, and Denis Leary.

Footnotes:

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April 07, 2020 in episode

In this very special episode of Adapt or Perish, we get REAL small and discuss the classic children’s book The Borrowers!

For this episode, we read and watched:

Mary Norton’s original 1952 novel.
The Borrowers (Hallmark, 1973), directed by Walter C. Miller, written by Jay Presson Allen, and starring Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, and Judith Anderson.
The Borrowers (BBC, 1992), directed by John Henderson, written by Richard Carpenter, and starring Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, and Siân Phillips.
The Borrowers (PolyGram, 1997), directed by Peter Hewitt, written by Gavin Scott and John Kamps, and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin, Mark Williams, and Hugh Laurie.
Arrietty/Arrietty the Borrower/The Secret World of Arrietty (Studio Ghibli, 2010), directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, written by Keiko Niwa and Hayao Miyazaki.
The Borrowers (BBC, 2011), directed by Tom Harper, written by Ben Vanstone, and starring Christopher Eccleston, Sharon Horgan, Aisling Loftus, Anne Hirsch, and Stephen Fry.