A HAUNTING IN VENICE is in theaters today, September 15th, and it’s Inspired by Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party novel. Today is also Agatha Christie’s birthday!
Reuniting the team of filmmakers behind 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and 2022’s Death on the Nile, the film is directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Oscar® nominee Michael Green (Logan) based upon Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party.
Bookmans is here today to talk about Agatha Christie, this new book to film adaptation of A HAUNTING IN VENICE, and to celebrate her birthday!
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Reuniting the team of filmmakers behind 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and 2022’s Death on the Nile, the film is directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Oscar® nominee Michael Green (Logan) based upon Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party.
Bookmans is here today to talk about Agatha Christie, this new book to film adaptation of A HAUNTING IN VENICE, and to celebrate her birthday!
https://bookmans.com/
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00:00 "I found something.
00:01 Every which way, I am the smartest person I ever met and I can't figure it out, so I
00:07 came to the second."
00:08 That was a preview of A Haunting in Venice, which is in theaters starting today.
00:14 And on top of that excitement, the author who inspired the movie, Agatha Christie, well,
00:20 it would have been her birthday today.
00:22 So we're talking with Nicole Lozalla about Agatha's legacy.
00:26 Welcome.
00:27 Thank you so much.
00:28 Well, obviously, you are a big fan.
00:31 I'm a big fan, yes.
00:32 And I know you've read many of her books, but for those who don't know, for the uninitiated,
00:38 tell us about Agatha Christie.
00:40 Well, Agatha Christie was born in 1890.
00:43 Hugely celebrated author, the most widely published author ever, except for Shakespeare
00:49 and the Bible, the only other most published book.
00:52 Wow.
00:53 So many out there.
00:54 She wrote 66 novels that were her detective novels, and then she's got 14 that weren't
01:00 so detective-y, that were more crimes of the heart, and she also has short stories.
01:05 She's amazing.
01:06 Why is she up there with Shakespeare and the Bible?
01:08 What is it about Agatha?
01:09 I mean, the woman worked.
01:11 She got stuff out there all the time.
01:14 People were such huge fans of her detective characters that she just kept cranking them
01:18 out and kept everybody thinking about it all the time.
01:20 Plus, her life was so interesting.
01:22 She was able to put a lot of that into her books.
01:24 Really?
01:25 Okay, so what should we know about the Agatha backstory?
01:28 Well, Agatha Christie did go out on archaeological digs.
01:32 This was with her second husband, and it was her train trips during archaeological digs
01:36 that inspired her murder on the Orient Express.
01:40 She went and did a great many things.
01:43 She went missing one time for 11 days, and people speculated that she was just working
01:49 out a plot, maybe acting it out in real life, like old-time live-action role-playing type stuff.
01:55 In addition to that, she even wrote herself into some of her books.
01:58 In fact, one of the characters that's in the movie that's coming out today.
02:01 Right, okay, so they're saying that the character played by Tina Fey is the one that most closely
02:06 resembles Agatha in her real life, and that character appeared in maybe six of her books?
02:10 I think it was 11.
02:11 11 of her books, thank you.
02:13 Yes, so yeah, she's Ariadne Oliver, and you know, the very intuitive and clever writer
02:19 who goes out on these adventures and sees the world.
02:22 Your bookstore carries a lot of her books.
02:24 We carry a lot of her books.
02:26 And you're open every day.
02:27 Every single day.
02:28 Why should people go into an actual bookstore?
02:32 Sell it. Sell it, baby.
02:34 Oh my goodness.
02:35 Okay, you go to the bookstore because, A, the things that you think you're looking for,
02:39 but then you see them because you didn't even know you were looking for them.
02:43 If you just even want to pick up a book and just, oh, the smell of the actual pages.
02:49 But I mean, we sell so much more than books.
02:50 We even have an Agatha Christie video game, but obviously we have movies, we have board games,
02:55 we have housewares, we have tarot, we have a Ouija board.
02:58 I see all that.
02:59 And it's exactly like what you're saying.
03:01 You walk in for one thing, and then you see six other things that you want,
03:05 and that's not going to happen when you're shopping online.
03:07 That's exactly right.
03:08 So, yes, we are a used bookstore.
03:10 We buy, sell, and trade.
03:11 We bring in all sorts of old, nostalgic stuff.
03:14 You'll find toys from your childhood, things that you'll look at and remember and think, oh my gosh.
03:18 I just picked a tarot.
03:20 Okay.
03:21 I don't know what it's going to be.
03:22 King of Swords.
03:24 Do you know what that means?
03:25 I wish I did.
03:27 That means I can cut through all the red tape and head out to your store.
03:32 Where are you located?
03:33 We're at 19th Avenue Northern on the northwest corner.
03:36 And you're open Saturdays, Sundays, weekends, every day?
03:39 Every single day, Sunday through Thursday, we are open from 9 to 8,
03:43 and on Friday and Saturday we are open until 9 p.m.
03:48 I love your t-shirt, Nicole, "The Book Was Better."
03:51 "The Book Was Better."
03:52 So why don't you find out?
03:53 See the movie in theaters this weekend, and then you can get back to Nicole if "The Book Was Better."
03:58 Thank you so much.
03:59 Thank you so much for being here.
04:00 Thank you.
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