87 - Hamlet
Bros Before Shows
We're finally here, at the end (or is it?) - tackling a biggie: HAMLET, THE PRINCE OF DENMARK.
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86 - Arsenic and Old Lace
Bros Before Shows
This week, the Tiemstra Bros discuss another overlooked Frank Capra film: Arsenic and Old Lace! Did we really enjoy this goofy dark comedy, or did we find its shenanigans too hard to swallow? That's the tease, just watch the episode!
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85 - A Dolls House
Bros Before Shows
Spoiler alert for Hereditary (2018). Yes, that does make sense in context. Buckle in fellas as we dive into some early proto-feminism in the form of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, specifically the *really* hard to find adaptation from 1973 with David Warner and Jane Fonda (with a brief mention of the... other 1973 adaptation which features Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom). Yeah, it's confusing. And feminist. Woo! Also Matt talks about the Mabou Mines production, but forgets the name of the company. Hosted by Matthew and Robert Tiemstra (@The_Timestar) Edited by Matthew Tiemstra...
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84 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bros Before Shows
Tennessee Williams strikes again! This time with a film version he hated! In this episode, The Tiemstra Bros. discuss how the film preserves so many surface level parts of the source material... while not quite understanding why Williams hated it so much.
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83 - The Music Man
Bros Before Shows
Meredith Wilson's 1957 classic won the hearts of America, but will its 1962 adaptation pull a fast one 57 years later? Join the Tiemstra Bros. as they delve into what might be a timeless classic, or might be a 2 and a half hour re-staging of the original piece with the barest hint of a change.
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82 - Henry V
Bros Before Shows
In 1989, Kenneth Branagh leaped onto the world's stage with this ambitious mid-budget Shakespeare epic! Join the Tiemstra Brothers as they revisit the film that introduced them to the hammy Irish Auteur!
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81 - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Bros Before Shows
"What are they gonna do? We're all crazy."
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80 - The Whos Tommy
Bros Before Shows
This time, the Tiemstra Bros. tackle an endlessly trip rock opera adaptation that is as strange as the original album was revolutionary! You may ask what legendary band will be the one we tackle this time?
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Episode 79 - The 39 Steps
Bros Before Shows
What is the 39 Steps? A wildly successful film from 1935 AND a wildly successful play from 2005! But how do they differ? Join the Tiemstra Brothers in this episode to find out!
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Special 7 - A Star is Born
Bros Before Shows
This Oscar season, we're taking a shallow dive into a film that has been made 4 TIMES (and that's only counting English Language Hollywood adaptations). We watched 3 of them back to back, so if we sound a little sleep deprived, this is why.
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This time, the Tiemstra Bros. finally roll up their sleeves and get into the muck with this titan of Broadway and its confusing adaptation by Joel Schumacher: The Phantom of the Highlands (I know, Gerard Butler is from the Lowlands, but Phantom of the Lowlands Sounds like a porno name). Is it an underrated classic, or a lumbering mess? Is giving a massively-ego'd man with questionable sense in quality full creative control ever a good idea?
Laboriously edited by Matthew Tiemstra (@ClockworkPlay)
Surgically produced by Robert Tiemstra (@The_Timestar)
Hosted by both of them.
Bibliography:
Lindsay Ellis' video essay on the Phantom of the Opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5I_5Vnh6A