The Projectionist's Lending Library

Nathanael and Erik continue their brief foray into medieval verse with the late 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the 2021 film adaptation The Green Knight directed by David Lowery and starring Dev Patel and Ralph Ineson. This episode's music comes from the album In a Medieval Garden by the Stanley Buetens Lute Ensemble, available at the internet archive. Nathanael references this youtube video by Novum in their discussion of the film.

A new season begins!

Horror has come to Hrothgar’s Hall. Grendel the monster,hated by God, has laid waste his mead-hall, slaughtered his men.
Now comes the champion, claiming renown: Beowulf the Brave,bringing his band to battle the monster, slay the beast.
Today on The Projectionist's Lending Library, we discuss the epic poem Beowulf, the 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, and the movie The 13th Warrior.

Kline and Booth are joined by special guest Mark Brenden to discuss Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Mark gives insight into the novel and movie as examples of what he calls "The Bush Western"--a Western written during and responding to the early years of the War on Terror.

Music Used:
The Old Country Church
A Cowboy Serenade

It's a Christmas episode! Today we look at the short story "The Three Godfathers" and two adaptations--one very loose--of it: John Ford's 1948 3 Godfathers and Satoshi Kon's 2003 Tokyo Godfathers. Explore with us the mystery of grace and humanity in this desperate season of grace and humanity.

Resource: Julia Serano

Some seek enlightenment in self-abasement; others, in surrender to the senses; still others, in a contemplation of time and eternity.
The protagonist of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha does all three. Today, on The Projectionist’s Lending Library, we examine Hesse’s 1922 novel, a kind of parallel life of the Buddha, and the 1971 electric Western Zachariah—perhaps the wildest adaptation we have looked at so far. So saddle up, adjust your gunbelt, and let’s ride into the wildest frontier of all—the human soul.

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