Cults on Film Episode 2: Conspiracy (The...

In episode 3 of our Cults on Film series, Mary and Sarah discover that David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) are essentially the same film, and discuss Freudian ideas of identification and lack. 

Sarah and Mary dive into the murky waters of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012) and Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) to explore brainwashing, Lacan’s four discourses and families in the fourth episode of our cults on film series. 

In the penultimate episode of our Cults on Film series. Mary and Sarah tackle two heavily alliterative titles; Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) and Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline. We discuss isolation, disassociation and the psychically dangerous profession o ... Show More

Jess is joined by reality TV producers and co-hosts of “Fixing Famous People” — Chris DeRosa and Dominick Pupa! Together, we analyze the seminal documentary MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE through the lens of our three generations and reality TV production. Topics: The follow-up film feat ... Show More

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 some thoughts on Richard Ge ... Show More

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was released that transposed the new climate of sexual fear into a murder mystery. The sleeper hit of 1985, Jagged Edge turned Glenn Close from ... Show More

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 launch a multi-media exploration of sexuality: the album Erotica and its companion book Sex, followed by her starring role in the much-malign ... Show More

Dans cet épisode spécial d'AMIES, enregistré en direct et en public au Paris Podcast Festival, sur la scène de la Gaité Lyrique, Anaïs et Marie ont décidé de s'attaquer à la plus grande œuvre érotico-romantique du premier trimestre de 2015, le seul film qui allie buttplugs et dro ... Show More

Filmmaker/ professor Michele Meek shares her thoughts about changing sexuality in teen films, how rom-coms often rely on a non-consent premise and about her wish that writers put their sex scenes on the page. 

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 ... Show More

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 1998 and 1999, Wild Things ... Show More

In 1968, the Production Code gave way to the ratings system, and the brief legitimacy of the X-rated movie. Today we’ll focus on two massive, X-rated hits released within a year of one another in 1972-1973: Deep Throat, the first hardcore porn movie to become a mainstream blockbu ... Show More

​Cette semaine dans AMIES, Anaïs et Marie assistent à une révolution dans le Danemark du XVIIIe siècle avec Royal Affair (2012) de Nikolaj Arcel. Caroline Mathilde de Grande-Bretagne (Alicia Vikander) est l'épouse du roi Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), qui souffre de problè ... Show More