At the Movies with Geoff Dyer
LARB Radio Hour
English - March 22, 2019 06:05 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture book books author authors fiction larb literature losangeles writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Geoff Dyer joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss his new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy about the 1968 Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood war movie, Where Eagles Dare. In talking about a film that has held his attention since childhood, Dyer expounds on the continuities and discontinuities between the movie-going child and the adult critic as a resource for good film writing. It's not the plots that fascinate Dyer so much as a writer as the moments caught on camera that grab our critical attention: the signature expressions, the technicolorization of reality, the cacophony of sounds that transport us from our seats into the somewhere else of the film.
Also, Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck is My Duck, returns to recommend a classic of Chinese Literature from the 18th Century: Cao Xueqin's five volume The Story of the Stone.