2: Volodya Takes America

Well, they didn't. This week, Jamie dives into the backstory to Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita, interviews one of the world's foremost Kubrick scholars, examines Vladimir Nabokov's involvement and how the first Lolita, Sue Lyon, was treated on set and in media.[Trigg ... Show More

Well, they didn't. This week, Jamie dives into the backstory to Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita, interviews one of the world's foremost Kubrick scholars, examines Vladimir Nabokov's involvement and how the first Lolita, Sue Lyon, was treated on set and in media.[Trigg ... Show More

Content warning: this episode contains discussion of child sex abuse and pedophilia.What can survivors of abuse take away from the experiences of Nabokov's Dolores Haze? It depends on who you talk to. This week, Jamie examines the popular psychologies of Freud and Kinsey that Dol ... Show More

<p>At just 17 years old, Alisson Wood began a dangerous entanglement with a creative writing teacher at her school, who gifted her a copy of Nabokov’s <em>Lolita</em>. To hear “Mr. North” tell it, <em>Lolita</em> is the ultimate love story—a narrative the young Alisson bought int ... Show More

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. In this episode, we’ll talk about Drew Barrymore, who became a massive star at age 7 in E.T., went to rehab at 13, became an emancipated mino ... Show More

Oscar winning star Cate Blanchett invites Mariella to her home in the South Downs to peruse her bookshelves. After being greeted at the door by Doug the Pug, the pair settle down to discuss Cate’s most loved books, discovering the role they’ve played throughout her life – whether ... Show More

Reviewing inane comments under Sunny's video "The Problem With Lesbian Romance" https://youtu.be/AkGbysZRB_w?si=Y9jqARsgJTQp6ZWJ & talking about how Renaissance's interpretation of the 2001 lesbian rom-com Kissing Jessica Stein is the one true understanding of the film. Get bonus ... Show More

On this episode Host Kathy Kenzora is looking back at how tabloid media had a feeding frenzy on the Long Island Lolita. In May 1992, a high school senior on Long Island, New York, went to the home of her much older ex-lover and shot his wife in the face. 17 year old Amy Fisher ha ... Show More

In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces invaded and threatened by sexy outsiders. Today we’ll talk about five of these films: Presumed Innocent (1990), The Hand that Rocks the Cradle ( ... Show More

Dans sa dernière création estampillée Disney, Ava DuVernay s’attaque à un des grands fantasmes du cinéma : le voyage à travers le temps et l’espace. Et on aurait pu y croire si le film, qui manque cruellement de subtilité, n’avait pas tourné au pep talk noyé sous une avalanche de ... Show More

Today’s guest is Mary Wild, Freudian Cinephile and host of the Projections series held at the Freud Museum, London, as well as co-host of Projections Podcast with Sarah Cleaver. https://www.projectionspodcast.com Mary Wild is presenting Sunday, September 12, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 ... Show More