99. Les Misérables, Part 2

It's time for part two of our three-part look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables! Today, we're looking at six more French- and English-language screen adaptations, released from 1978 to 2018.

Listen to part one on:

• The web
• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Spotify

In this episode we discuss:

• The 1978 American TV movie, directed by Glenn Jordan, written by John Gay, and starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
• The 1982 French movie, directed by Robert Hossein, written by Hossein and Alain Decaux, and starring Lino Ventura and Michel Bouquet
• The 1998 American movie, directed by Bille August, written by Rafael Yglesias, and starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes
• The 2000 French miniseries, directed by Josée Dayan, written by Didier Decoin, and starring Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Christian Clavier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Shōjo Cosette, the 2007 Japanese animated series, directed by Hiroaki Sakurai and written by Tomoko Motohashi
• The 2018 British miniseries, directed by Tom Shankland, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, and Olivia Colman

98. Les Misérables, Part 1

It's time for us to start our three-episode look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which concludes in our 100th episode! With today's episode 98, we're look at the book, and six major French- and English-language adaptations from 1934 to 1967.

In this episode we discuss:

• Victor Hugo's original 1862 novel
• The 1934 French three-part movie, directed by Raymond Bernard, written by Bernard and André Lang, and starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel
• The 1935 American movie, directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by W.P. Lipscomb, and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
• The 1937 American radio drama, directed by, written by, and starring Orson Welles
• The 1952 American movie, directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Richard Murphy, and starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, and Edmund Gwenn
• The 1958 French movie, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, written by Michel Audiard and René Barjavel, and starring Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier
• The 1967 British television series, directed by Alan Bridges, written by Giles Cooper and Harry Green, and starring Frank Finlay and Anthony Bate

Footnotes:

• Les Misérables and France's Many Revolutions from Khan Academy

97. The Stepford Wives

Episode 97 of Adapt or Perish just moved in, and gosh, isn’t Stepford simply beautiful? In this episode, we’re taking a look at The Stepford Wives! Who are brainwashed or robots, maybe? It's complicated.

In this episode we discuss:

• Ira Levin's original 1972 novel
• The 1975 movie adaptation, directed by Bryan Forbes, written by William Goldman, and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise
• The 2004 remake, directed by Frank Oz, written by Paul Rudnick, and starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, and Christopher Walken

Footnotes:

• Rosemary's Baby
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
• The Stepford Children (1987)
• The Stepford Husbands (1996)
• In & Out (1997)
• Frank Oz on The Stepford Wives
• Bette's Midler's insane deleted scene