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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 true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

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

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here with...

Genevieve Kosky.

Scott Tobias.

And Tasha Robinson.

On last week's episode, we talked about adaptation, a Charlie Kaufman scripted Spike Jones

directed film starring Nicholas Cage as a fictionalized version of Charlie

Kaufman and a wholly fictionalized version of his brother Donald. It's an exploration of the themes

of its ostensible source material, Susan Orleans, The Orchid Thief, and a reflection on the

process of creation and Hollywood expectations. There's a lot of adaptation DNA in the unbearable weight

of massive talent, as we'll no doubt

cover in our discussion.

But its meta-energy is focused on the persona, on-screen and off, of star Nicholas Cage.

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