#230: The House That Shirley Built, Pt. 2 — Shirley

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Josephine Decker’s new SHIRLEY uses the home of a fictionalized Shirley Jackson to tell a different sort of haunted house tale, one that shares some thematic links with one of the best-known Jackson adaptations, 1963’s THE HAUNTING, if not necessarily strong narrative ones. This week we’re joined once again by Alison Willmore of Vulture to discuss SHIRLEY’s expressive style and dissolute ending, then dig into how it connects to THE HAUNTING in its depiction of madness, divided personas, and sexuality. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE HAUNTING, SHIRLEY, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: Alison: Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT Keith: Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW and A MIGHTY WIND Scott: Dan Sallitt’s FOURTEEN Outro music: Diana Ross, “It’s My House” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:11.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:19.7	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast,
0:23.1	a video of the week podcast, devoted to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:26.5	I'm Keith Phipps here again with Scott Tobias.
0:28.8	Hello, Scott.
0:29.6	Hey, Keith.
0:30.0	How are you?
0:30.7	Fine.
0:31.3	Genevieve and Tasha remain mysteriously absent, but we think they'll be back for...
0:36.5	Is that the right for the Shirley Jackson Biobic?
0:40.0	I guess so.
0:40.6	I'm still dealing with ghosts.
0:41.9	Oh, yeah, that's...
0:42.8	Maybe not.
0:44.0	Anyway, they'll be back.
0:45.5	We're pretty sure.
0:46.5	We're also joined once again by special guest Alison Wilmore from critic at Vulture.
0:50.3	How are you, Allison?
0:52.0	You know, I have a pasty quarantine blob, but I'm here.
0:55.8	All right. Well, great. We're happy to have you with us. So in our last episode, we discussed
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