#899: The Art of Adaptation with David Kajganich (Bones and All)

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Luca Guadagnino's BONES AND ALL is a coming-of-age story with an unusual twist: cannibalism. Starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, the film was adapted by writer David Kajganich from a 2015 novel by Camille DeAngelis. Kajganich had previously written adaptations for Guadagnino's "A Bigger Splash" (based on the 1969 Jacques Deray film "La Piscine") and his 2018 remake of Dario Argento's cult horror film "Suspiria." In his conversation with Adam, Kajganich talks about how his background as a novelist made him uniquely qualified for adaptation work; how to write (and how not to write) exposition; and the surprising subtext of "Bones and All" that the book's author asked him to preserve. And producer Sam Van Hallgren joins Adam for a conversation – recorded live at Iowa City FilmScene's Refocus Film Festival – about some of the best recent book-to-screen adaptations. 1:05 - Interview: David Kajganich ("Bones and All") 41:02 - Next Week / Notes 42:44 - Book-to-Screen Adaptations w/Sam Van Hallgren (Live) 1:41:55 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of a show you guys put not here today?
0:06.3	You're not interested in art?
0:07.6	No.
0:08.1	Well, look, we're going to do this thing.
0:09.4	We're going to have a conversation.
0:12.9	From Chicago, this is Film Spotting.
0:14.7	I'm Adam Kempinar.
0:16.2	I really think that one of the great gifts and opportunities
0:21.0	of this career of filmmaking is to expand out
0:26.4	through the lens of empathy, my view of everything.
0:29.7	And our view of everything on each is view of everything.
0:33.4	That screenwriter, David Kajanek, with an inspiring and optimistic perspective
0:37.4	on his chosen profession.
0:38.9	Kajanek is a regular collaborator with Luca Guadanino,
0:41.9	including the director's latest, the cannibalism coming of age tail bones and all,
0:46.1	which stars Timothy Shalame and Taylor Russell.
0:48.7	This week on the show, my interview with Kajanek
0:50.9	plus a conversation about some of the best book to film adaptations of the last few years.
0:55.9	That and more, ahead on Film Spotting.
1:04.7	Welcome to Film Spotting.
1:05.7	I'm Adam Kempinar.
1:07.0	Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone.
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