Imagine a breakfast wrap.

You know the one, because there really is only one.

Sausage, egg, cheese, bacon and a potato rusty all wrapped together.

Yep, there it is.

I think my work here is done.

Served until 11 a.m.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a new release. I'm Scott Tobias here with Tosh Robinson, Keith Thubes, Rachel Handler. And behind the scenes, producer Genevieve Koski. We're all firm believers in the idea that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week we get together to talk over a

classic film and how it relates to a current release. Today, mawage is what brings us together.

Rachel, do you want to talk about this week's movie pairing? Sure. The beautiful new Andrew Hay movie 45 years with Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtney

is about a long-married couple dealing with stressful revelations from the distant past.

We thought it would be a good opportunity to look back at another film about the toxic dynamic between a long-married couple who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Well, there's a big difference between the quiet tension between Rampling Courtney in 45 years and the bombs Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton lob at each other and who's afraid of Virginia Woolf both have a lot of insight into the stresses of relationships that have lasted for decades. Both are about old wounds that are reopened over the course of a short, intense period. In 45 years, it's the week leading up to a 45th anniversary party, and in Virginia Woolf, it's one boozy night between 2 a.m. and a dawn that can come soon enough. Scott, how are we breaking it down? In the first half, we'll look at Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? How first-time director Mike Nichols brought Edward Albee's play to the screen, how Taylor and Burton brought the tension of their own famously fraught marriage to their performances,

and what the film says about the institution of marriage, our capacity for illusion,

and American society itself.

We'll also share some feedback on our last pairing, Star Wars New Hope, and Star Wars,

The Force Awakens.

Then, in the second half, dropping later in the week, we'll bring in 45 years and talk about

the fascinating

ways in which the two films intersect and diverge. Fasten your seatbelts, everyone. It's going to be a

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