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The Next Picture Show

#012: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 45 Years (Pt. 2)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Our discussion of "old marrieds" past and present reveals that Andrew Haigh's new 45 YEARS covers a lot of the same ground as Mike Nichols' WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF — it just does it a lot more quietly. We talk over how the two films relate and di

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0:00.0

Imagine a breakfast wrap.

0:03.1

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

0:07.6

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

0:13.2

Yep, there it is.

0:15.4

I think my work here is done.

0:18.5

Served until 11 a.m.

0:21.7

Very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present?

0:25.2

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

0:31.9

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

0:38.1

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:42.3

in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a new release.

0:44.6

I'm Scott Tobias here again with.

0:46.1

Tasha Robinson.

0:47.1

Keith Phipps.

0:47.9

Rachel Handler.

0:48.7

And producer Genevieve Kossi.

0:50.4

This week we're talking about Mike Nichols' celebrated screen adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia

0:54.4

Wolf and Andrew Hayes' new film 45 years, which deals with another long-term marriage and

0:59.4

turmoil. Since many of you probably haven't seen 45 years yet, we'll try to go lighter on the

1:04.6

spoilers than usual, but it's not always easy to talk around them, so proceed with mild caution,

1:09.7

I would say. The tone of 45 years is nothing like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

1:14.4

Kate and Jeff Mercer, played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Cortine, rarely raise their voices

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