The Importance of Being Earnest Under the (Increasingly Bearable) Weight of Subtitles.

NPR podcast on subtitle translation features interviews with my hero/Linda Hoaglund (Japanese-English film translator; 90+ films including Kurosawa and Miyazaki), Tim Sexton (screenwriter, Spanish-English translator for Almodovar) and Peter Becker (The Criterion Collection). How familiar are these words by Hoaglund: "I would be listening to the Japanese, reading the subtitles in English, and furiously revising them and editing them, so I would come out just completely exhausted and wishing that I could just crawl inside the screen and rewrite them..."