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You Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth28 Jan 2025
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Born in the 19th century, his career forged in the silent era, John Ford helped to invent the genre of the Western and still holds the record...
52%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth24 Jan 2025
Listen to this episode Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This episode was originally released on June 3, 2020. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive.
49%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth21 Jan 2025
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the mid-1930s, Fritz Lang fled Hitler and left a successful film career in Germany behind to come to America.
53%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth14 Jan 2025
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, who won five Oscars in the 1930s for films that embodied the pre-World War II notion of American...
50%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth10 Dec 2024
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. A preview of the new season of You Must Remember This, which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Vincente...
You Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth2 Apr 2024
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak -- a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star...
49%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth24 Oct 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality and the use of digital effects to...
50%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth17 Oct 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick...
50%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth10 Oct 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young girls, as...
51%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth3 Oct 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100 million in the US...
50%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth26 Sept 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion project of Jennifer...
50%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth19 Sept 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. One of the only high-profile NC-17 releases post-Showgirls, David Cronenberg’s Crash was the kind of dark adult art film that the rating was...
51%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth12 Sept 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. At the beginning of the 90s, lesbians were a punchline for a male-gaze-oriented media, an easy target for expressing the anxiety that women...
51%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth27 Jun 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Joe Eszterhas’s tenure as the hottest screenwriter in town ended with two notorious 1995 flops: the NC-17 rated Showgirls (directed, like Basic...
You Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth20 Jun 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The 90s were obsessed with what magazine writer Tad Friend would describe as “do me feminism” – and the attendant fear that men could be victims...
You Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth13 Jun 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sharon Stone and Joe Eszterhas’s post-Basic Instinct reunion film was one of the most troubled productions of the 90s.
51%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth6 Jun 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Are men okay? Several films from 1993 answered that question with a resounding no.
52%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth30 May 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to...
52%plop scoreYou Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth23 May 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new...
You Must Remember Thisby Karina Longworth16 May 2023
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Culture in the 90s was obsessed with the sex lives of teenagers. This is a theme we will come back to several times throughout the season.
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