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2024-04-02

  The Hard Hollywood Life of Kim Novak — 10th anniversary restoration

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 of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -- and her painful struggles to assert herself from the mid-20th century throu...
  Karina Longworth author
2024-01-16

  Introducing: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max

Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben Mankiewicz talks with Meyers about casting Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, getting script advic...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-10-24

  Eyes Wide Shut, Part 2, and the Sexiest Man Alive in 1999 (Erotic 90s, Part 21)

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 evade an NC-17 rating. Where could Hollywood eroticism go from here? We’ll wrap up the Erotic 90s story with...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-10-17

  Eyes Wide Shut, Part 1 (Erotic 90’s, Part 20)

At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on an erotic drama that the media speculated would pull back the curtain on maybe the most fascinating famou...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-10-10

  90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things, Cruel Intentions and Britney Spears (Erotic 90’s, Part 19)

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 the 90s came to a close the culture was full of “acceptable” depictions of teens in heat. Two hit films from...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-10-03

  90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18)

In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100 million in the US alone. With carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, he made an adaptation of the Nabokov novel about a 40-year...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-09-26

  The Lynch Family: Boxing Helena & Lost Highway (Erotic 90’s, Part 17)

One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion project of Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. Four years after Boxing Helena, the elder Lynch released one of his most contr...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-09-19

  Crash and David Cronenberg (Erotic 90’s, Part 16)

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 supposedly created to support. We’ll talk about how Crash fits into Cronenberg’s filmography, why it was contro...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-09-12

  “Lesbian Chic”: Bound and Anne Heche in Wild Side (Erotic 90’s, Part 15)

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 might not need men after all. By the middle of the decade, women-loving-women had become the heroes of a number ...
  Karina Longworth author
2023-08-25

  Introducing: Glitter & Might

In Glitter & Might, a new series exploring the intersection of show business and politics, bestselling author Shawn Levy unpacks the story of Lew Wasserman, the shadowy legend who lorded over Hollywood for half a century. He was a feared deal-maker...
  Karina Longworth author