Episode 5: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

We discuss Jane Austen Wrecked My Life by Laura Piani, a film that premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). 

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We dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.

Topics covered include writers writing about writing, the cinematic equivalent of click bait, best book stores in NYC, and what happens when a rom com lacks com.

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

1:15 The fine Italian cashmere merchant Loro Piana

1:20 The Jacob Burns Film Center

2:29 The Angelika x Phoenecian Scheme Collab

6:10 The Jane Austen Cinematic Universe

7:40 The Lake Scene, if you need to watch it at this moment

9:45 Shakespeare and Company Shouting Out Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

13:00 The Ginger Man–it’s a real book!

15:50 As You Do A Gavotte

18:20 Prime Example of a Jonesian fall

20:00 Materialists: Kind of a Rom, not really a Com

22:43 “It’s not girl gets boy, girl gets book”–Greta Gerwig on Little Women

30:30 The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch

37:00 “If I have one wish, is that people go out from the film and they feel a bit happy and they want to read more poetry.”

40:00 The Dish and the Spoon: Greta Gerwig Raging in Pajamas

44:27 “Breadcrumbing”

49:15 Set with great wallpaper and matching lampshade and matching bedding and wallpaper

54:28 The 2018 adaptation of Bel Canto made $350,000 at the box office

55:16 Two of our favorite NYC book stores: Kitchen Arts and Letters and Unnameable Books

58:53 A history of Book Row, NYC’s historic haven for bibliophiles. The store Jackie references is Alabaster Bookshop.

1:00:04 Lin Manuel Miranda cites Angels in America as the reason he cast Andrew Garfield in Tick Tick Boom.

1:01:28 ‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut.

1:02:10 Come Swim, a short film directed by Kristen Stewart that was in fact financed by Refinery 29

1:06:30 Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

1:07:35 The Roses, written by Tony McNamara

Full List of Movies,TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this Episode:

• The Phoenician Scheme

• 28 Years Later

• Austenland

• The Jane Austen Book Club

• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

• Pride and Prejudice (2005)

• Little Women (2019)

• Little Women (1994)

• Little Women (1949)

• Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC Mini Series)

• Anatomy of a Fall

• You've Got Mail

• Bridget Jones's Diary

• Materialists

• Past Lives

• Showing Up

• Memoirs of a Geisha

• Bridgerton

• The Dish & the Spoon

• Opus

• The Da Vinci Code

• Bel Canto

• Possession (2002)

• Tick, Tick...Boom!

• Angels in America (2018 Broadway Production)

• The Chronology of Water

• Come Swim

• Timecrimes

• Requiem for a Dream

• NottingHill

• When Harry Met Sally

• My Best Friend’s Wedding

• A Room With a View

• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

• Caught Stealing

• Slumdog Millionaire

• The French Dispatch

• The Roses

• The Great

• The Favorite