Janet Frame

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q241215: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Owls Do Cry (1957); An Angel at My Table (1990).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Barry Jenkins: 1 line

  1. lineage (possible influence) · through An Angel at My Table (1990), which they wrote: An Angel at My Table ⇒ Barry Jenkins (the host's read). Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight.
    “I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (2) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (source material): Janet Frame → Owls Do Cry. Frame's debut novel; the sibling's burning-trash death is from the novel, while the autobiography has a drowning.
    “In owls do cry, the fictional book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:26:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (parallel (inscrutable artists)): Buster Keaton → Janet Frame. Dana says Keaton, like Frame in the film, remains mysterious even after years of research.
    “a little bit like the Janet Frame character that we're going to talk about in this episode, he also has this ineffable, mysterious quality”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:11:08 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Janet Frame: Frame was a local hero until the film; her authorized biography and its omitted details caused controversy after her death.
    “there was controversy after she died about uh, uh, liberties that the biographer had taken”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Janet Frame: Days or hours from a lobotomy, Frame was spared when she won a literary prize, and the film tosses it off as the halfway point.
    “It's completely bananas that she was like days or hours from a lobotomy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:36:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)