On every episode of Wild Pretty Things, we explore one of our pop culture obsessions, or one of Bren’s!

This episode we’re spending a sunny day with the Valentine’s Day classic: Picnic at Hanging Rock, including full spoilers toward the end of the podcast.

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Monkey Off My Backlog

Picnic At Hanging Rock is the 1975 Australian adaptation of the Joan Lindsay novel about 3 girls and one of their teachers who go missing after a school trip.

dir Peter Weir (Dead Poet’s Society, Master & Commander, The Truman Show, The Mosquito Coast, The Last Wave)

Producer: Pat Lovell

DP: Russell Boyd (Crocodile Dundee, Master & Commander)

Costumes: Judy Dorsman 

makeup supervisor: Jose Luis Perez (Lord of the Rings)

and Liz Michie (Ever After!)

Cast

missing students:

Sara - Margaret Nelson

Miranda - Anne-Louise Lambert 

Irma - Karen Robson - Samara Weaving in the Prime mini

McCraw - Vivean Gray (The Last Wave)

Edith - Christine Schuler

Appleyard - Rachel Roberts (‘74 Murder on the Orient Express) - Natalie Dormer

Minnie (maid) - Jacki Weaver (Oscar noms for Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook)

Dianna de Poitiers - Helen Morse

Michael - Dominic Guard

Albert - John Jarratt (Wolf Creek)

Sharp Objects: we recommend something similar or relevant

The Next Picture Show - Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Dry

0:30:00 Analysis

P@HR as Weird Fiction

Story as dream & “real”

women as wild

Virgin Suicides influence?

Religion, Magic

Let’s Get Wild: Trivia & Random Thoughts

additional credits and bibliography:

Switchblade Sisters Podcast 

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/switchblade-sisters/episode-98-picnic-at-hanging-rock-with-the-office-and-maniac-writer-caroline-williams/ 

Deep Focus Lense review: https://youtu.be/Q-2Ttyh1FMc 

Acid Horizon podcast on Mark Fisher’s “The Weird & the Eerie” https://youtu.be/D__3ns55_k0 

Next Picture Show

https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2375047009?selected=FILM5611478037 

Just one video busting corset myths:

https://youtu.be/rExJskBZcW0 

Guests and links:

Tessa https://twitter.com/thebiparadox 

Jack https://boxd.it/3hET 

Tori https://direct.me/vpotenza 

Matt https://twitter.com/mattyhugh 

full list:

The Janes (HBO)

X (Showtime)

Prey (Hulu)

Dual (Hulu)

Scream (Paramount)

NOPE (Peacock)

The Woman King (VOD)

Worst Person in the World (Hulu)

Women Talking

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Showtime)

Aftersun (VOD)

Decision To Leave (Mubi)

Pearl (VOD)

Dinner In America (Hulu)

Tar (VOD)

Bones & All

Banshees Of Inisherin (HBO)

ranked: https://letterboxd.com/grrnoise/list/wild-pretty-things-favorite-films-of-2022/ 

honorable mentions: Neptune Frost, Return To Seoul, Wounded Fawn, Crimes of the Future, Wendell & Wild, Before I Change My Mind, Kimi, RRR, The Fallout, Fire Of Love

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Melissa: : @mellooyellow on Twitter; mellooyellowxx on Instagram;  https://letterboxd.com/mellooyellow/ 

Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast

We’re finally picking our favorite films of 2022, with the help of some friends.

We want to hear or read your picks!

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0:01:15 The Popular Picks

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2022 

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Jack’s fav)

• metacritic #1
• Showtime, discs

The Banshees Of Inisherin (Matt) 

• metacritic #2
• HBO

0:15:00 Tar (Matt’s fav)

• metacritic #3
• VOD, discs, Peacock 1/27 

0:29:30 Aftersun (Jack)

• metacritic #4
• VOD

NOPE (Tessa’s fav)

• metacritic #5
• Peacock, discs 

0:38:00 Decision To Leave (Tori’s fav)

• metacritic #8
• Mubi

Women Talking (Melissa)

• metacritic #15
• theaters

0:47:00 Bones & All (Matt)

• metacritic #19
• VOD

The Woman King (Melissa’s fav)

• metacritic #30
• VOD

0:55:00 Horror Picks

X

• Showtime, blu-ray

2022 100 Horror Films guide: https://youtu.be/QHAkCJo_0-I 

Pearl (Tori)

• VOD, blu-ray

Prey

• Hulu
• WPT podcast review: 

Scream (Tessa)

• Paramount, discs
• sequel coming this year
• WPT: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-asyd9-12f4418 

1:08:30 Sharp Objects: Our Favorites

Worst Person in the World (Melissa)

• Hulu

Dual (Jarret’s fav)

• Hulu

1:22:15 The Dark Horses

Breakfast In America (Tori)

• Hulu
• The Dinner in America song - https://youtu.be/WCDchde-ENk 

The Janes

• documentary
• HBO

1:34:00 Honorable Mentions

Upcoming Episodes

ranking the top 10!

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) - HBO . . . a listener pick

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new and upcoming content: Parallel Mothers, The Graduate

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCeb-r1oOdLwhyRGl_QVWyA 

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Melissa: : @mellooyellow on Twitter; mellooyellowxx on Instagram;  https://letterboxd.com/mellooyellow/ 

Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast

Monkey Off My Backlog https://twitter.com/monkeybacklog?lang=en 

additional credits and bibliography

Fever Ray, Willow, Bishop Briggs, Brutus, Tove Lo, Alice Glass, Megan Thee Stallion, Miya Folick

This is a review of the recent Kieran Shipka vehicle, excerpted from our recent Patreon exclusive podcast 

This episode we’re  discussing one of the breakout features, and the latest performance of the actress who started it all: Amy Adams, as we dive down the well of Enchanted and Disenchanted, both streaming on Disney Plus. We’ll spoil both films. 

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Enchanted

2007

Susan Sarandon

Analysis & other thoughts

0:31:15 Sharp Objects: recommend something similar or relevant

0:36:00 Amy Adams

selected essentials

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Junebug (2005)

Sunshine Cleaning & Doubt (2008)

Julie & Julia (2009, Julie Powell died recently)

The Muppets (2011)

The Master (2012)

HER & American Hustle (2013)

Big Eyes (2014)

Arrival & Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Sharp Objects (2018)

VICE (2018)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

The Woman in the Window (2021)

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Night Bitch - in production

0:53:30 Both Films Crew and Cast

• Patrick Dempsey
• James Marsden
• Idina Menzel
• Rachel Covey
• songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

0:57:20 Disenchanted

• Griffin Newman recast as Pip
• Maya Rudolph as Malvina Monroe
• Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) as Rosaleen and Jayma Mays (Glee) as Ruby, Malvina's assistants

CORRECTION: The ballet Jarret was thinking of was Sleeping Beauty, not Cinderella. 

This episode we’re discussing two 2022  films starring Florence Pugh that make us question the nature of our manufactured reality, Don’t Worry Darling (streaming on HBO Max)  and The Wonder (streaming on Netflix). 

There is a spoiler section for Don't Worry Darling after the initial review.

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Melissa: : @mellooyellow on Twitter; mellooyellowxx on Instagram;  https://letterboxd.com/mellooyellow/ 

Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast

Monkey podcast: https://monkeyoffmybacklog.fireside.fm/ 

Topic 1: Don’t Worry Darling 

Heroes of Noise patreon podcast with Melissa about Don’t Worry Darling media https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-46-drama-71892703 

Scene It Cast https://sceneitcast.com/ 

0:17:00 SPOILERS BEGIN!

Olivia Wilde

Tracy Keehn Dashnaw 

• Stunt coordinator [Director’s Cut Podcast, Olivia Wilde] 

Florence Pugh 

Harry Styles 

Chris Pine

KiKi Layne 

Gemma Chan 

Kate Berland, Timothy Simmons

Dita Von Teese 

Booksmart criticism https://www.flowjournal.org/2020/08/booksmart-whitecomplexity/ 

0:48:00 Topic 2: The Wonder 

Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”

Enchanted & Disenchanted

Songs: 

House on a Hill - The Pretty Reckless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6RS5BN01c 

Björk 

Brutus  https://www.wearebrutus.be/ 

Laurel  https://shop.classiclaurel.com/ 

This is a segment from our latest Patreon-exclusive podcast about the Hellraiser franchise. To support Wild Pretty Things and get hours of exclusive content, go here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-is-74047481?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator

This episode we’ll "scream once, scream twice, now scream again” at the franchise that reinvented horror: the Scream series, specifically Scream 2 and the 2022 legacy sequel, or requel, if you prefer.

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new and upcoming content: All About My Mother, Hellraiser

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Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast

0:04:15 Scream Franchise review

0:08:55 Scream 2

0:22:00 light SPOILERS for Scream 2

0:28:45  The Scream Franchise revisited

0:39:00  Scream (2022) spoiler-free evaluations

0:44:50 Scream 5 analysis

additional credits and bibliography

Aughtsterion - Scream (2022) Part I and II - 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-42fnp-11835dd

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pd6e8-1184a43

Bechdel Cast - Scream - 

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-bechdel-cast-30089535/episode/scream-with-joan-ford-30089539