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You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.

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You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.

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

    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-old pedophile’s obsession with his adolescent step-daughter – and no distributor wanted to release it. In a decade rife with the commodification and sexualization of young teens (see our previous episode on Drew Barrymore), what lines did Lyne’s Lolita cross?

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    • 1 hr 15 min
    90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18)

    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-old pedophile’s obsession with his adolescent step-daughter – and no distributor wanted to release it. In a decade rife with the commodification and sexualization of young teens (see our previous episode on Drew Barrymore), what lines did Lyne’s Lolita cross?

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

    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 controversial films, Lost Highway, which tackles similar themes as Boxing Helena, including male sexual fragility and the “Madonna-Whore” complex. Today we’ll talk about how Boxing Helena became bigger as a punchline than a movie, and we’ll trace David Lynch’s career as a provocateur to try to explain why his excavation of the dark, sexual core of Americana was celebrated when he made Blue Velvet, and pilloried a dozen years later when he made Lost Highway.

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    • 1 hr 22 min
    The Lynch Family: Boxing Helena & Lost Highway (Erotic 90’s, Part 17)

    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 controversial films, Lost Highway, which tackles similar themes as Boxing Helena, including male sexual fragility and the “Madonna-Whore” complex. Today we’ll talk about how Boxing Helena became bigger as a punchline than a movie, and we’ll trace David Lynch’s career as a provocateur to try to explain why his excavation of the dark, sexual core of Americana was celebrated when he made Blue Velvet, and pilloried a dozen years later when he made Lost Highway.

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

    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 controversial when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and when it was released in the US in 1997, how it played into the UK general election of 1997, how it functioned as an early warning against charismatic billionaires, and how it embodied a post-Prozac and pre-Viagara moment.

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    • 1 hr 27 min
    “Lesbian Chic”: Bound and Anne Heche in Wild Side (Erotic 90’s, Part 15)

    “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 of neo-noir crime films, but the culture at large still rejected lesbianism when not intended to arouse men. While The Matrix has widely been reappraised as a trans allegory after the transitions of its directors the Wachowski sisters, their previous feature Bound was transparently queer, but its reception was complicated by the media’s perception of its makers. Bound was released just a few months after the burial of an extremely similar film called Wild Side. Barely seen on its initial release amidst studio recutting and the suicide of its director, today Wild Side plays as a heartbreaking and troubling example of what could have been for its star Anne Heche, who would soon after become one-half of the most famous lesbian couple in Hollywood – and suffer the career consequences. 

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    • 1 hr 14 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
12.8K Ratings

12.8K Ratings

foxgyrl ,

Excellent

Finishing up the Polly Platt episodes. I have to believe Karina Longworth has unparalleled access thru her marriage to Rian Johnson. Great interviews. Excited to take a new look at quite a few 70’s and 80’s movies. Really sad that Polly Platt wasn’t celebrated while she was alive. So much talent.

Sad listener 123 ,

How to fix the problem

I have noticed that a lot of people have a problem with the narrators enunciation. I have found a good way to eliminate being aggravated. You can increase the playback speed to 1.25 and it is much better. Hope this helps.

Zombiemary ,

Too expensive

I love this series but now I can’t listen anymore unless I am a subscriber - but it is very expensive for the amount she posts - so sad to be missing out on this interesting show

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