Episode #2 – The Lost World (2001)
It is Christmas Day 2001 and you’re watching BBC1 “The biggest… the boldest… the most gripping adventure… an epic journey to a place where time stood still” We’re about to watch – The Lost World.
SHOW NOTES
HOW TO WATCH
The Lost World is not presently available to stream online, but in previous years has been available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
The DVD release of the production is now out of print, but can be picked up relatively cheaply on the second hand market in the UK. As the film's effects were completed in standard definition, and HD release of The Lost World is very unlikely.
FURTHER READING
The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1912)
This particular collection also features other Professor Challenger stories including the grimly prescient When the World Screamed for fraks sake. Also check out the beautiful illustrated abridged version from Ladybird books.
FURTHER VIEWING The Lost World (d. Harry O Hoyt, 1925)
The earliest full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle’s novel featuring stop motion from King Kong’s Willis O’ Brien. Exquisite.
Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)
The series that begat 2001's The Lost World. A mesmerising realisation of our pre-historic past.
The Lost World (d. Irwin Allen, 1960)
As much as we admire Allen’s TV work and later '70s cinematic disaster-porn, there’s little to really recommend this disappointing version save for the sight of lizards and Claude Rains having stuff stuck to their faces to help them get into character.
Warlords of Atlantis (d.Kevin Connor, 1978) Kevin Connor made several films in the late 1970s (including At the Earth’s Core and The Land that Time Forgot) all trying to capture the magic of Conan Doyle’s novel via Edgar Rice Burroughs. This one isn’t based on either author, but it still evokes the spirit of The Lost World. All good fun.
The podcast has great theme music. Interesting chat about The Lost World. Surprised you chose pterodactyl poop as a scoring system (though it’d be amusing if you kept that rating system for every film).