Episode 98: 1996 with Kristen Lopez
A podcast about the great movie years.
Film and television critic, author, and essayist Kristen Lopez joins us to discuss her book But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films, the TWO books she’s working on next, and the movies of 1996, from the teen-girl dream of Romeo + Juliet to the drive-in pleasures of From Dusk Till Dawn to the hilarity of The Birdcage.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Birdcage is streaming on MGM+ (does anyone actually have that?) and is available for digital rental or purchase. From Dusk Till Dawn is, look at that, also streaming on MGM+ , as well as PlutoTV and the Roku Channel, and is also available for digital rental or purchase.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is streaming on Disney+, obviously, and is available for digital rental or purchase. The People vs. Larry Flynt is available on the Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, and for digital rental or purchase. (You can also hear co-writer Larry Karaszewski’s episode of our show here.) And finally, Romeo + Juliet is available for digital rental or purchase.
Kristen’s website is here; her Substack is here; her podcast “Ticklish Business” is here; you can follow her on Blusky, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and you can buy But Have You Read the Book? here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
If you’d like to check out the YouTube page for Black Diplomats that Mike mentioned, it’s here. And if you’d like to pre-order Jason’s new book Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, you can pre-order it from Bookshop and Barnes & Noble.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1996, with guest Sergio Muñoz, you can check that out here. Last but not least, if you’d like to make a little donation to support us and the show, you can do that at Ko-fi!