{"id":17314,"date":"2025-03-05T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17314"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:37:04","slug":"flannery-wildcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17314","title":{"rendered":"Flannery & Wildcat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flannery<\/em> (2019, Coffman & Bosco)<\/strong><\/p>\n

PBS bio-doc about fellow Georgian O’Connor. A couple of crazy details in here. She was terrified of catching lupus, the disease that killed her beloved father, so when she did catch it, her doctors and family told her she had arthritis. And attending the Iowa Writers Workshop, Southern fiction and Faulkner were all the rage, yet the students there mocked her accent. Movie trips over itself trying to explicate her racism, otherwise a good introduction.<\/p>\n

“I know they’re stupid and all, but they have a lot to be proud of”
\n<\/p>\n

–
\nWildcat<\/em> (2023, Ethan Hawke)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some wild visuals, much weirder than it seems from outside. Not a mild prestige biopic drama, but something more prickly, a Flannery Naked Lunch<\/em>, spinning the stories into the biography. So this is my second movie in a week to combine artist biography with adaptation of their work, and Hawke easily beats Guadagnino<\/a>. I’m not saying it always works, but it’s refreshing.<\/p>\n

Some of the same quotes used in the doc. Flannery likes Cal, the suicidal environmentalist of First Reformed<\/a><\/em>, and holds out hope of living a normal life until rejection and disease send her into writing seclusion. The Licorice Pizza<\/a><\/em> kid looks too Elonesque in this, and I hate to say but Laura Linney is the weak point. It sure is fun to try on a new accent, and I know it’s stupid to ask this, but why not cast southerners in the role of southerners?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flannery (2019, Coffman & Bosco) PBS bio-doc about fellow Georgian O’Connor. A couple of crazy details in here. She was terrified of catching lupus, the disease that killed her beloved father, so when she did catch it, her doctors and family told her she had arthritis. And attending the Iowa Writers Workshop, Southern fiction and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1313,1922,3382,846,2972],"class_list":["post-17314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-double-feature","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-flannery-oconnor","tag-georgia","tag-peacock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}