Remember old-school nurses? The white-starched uniform, kind bedside manner and comforting, feminine presence? Cinema remembers. A movie was made that sought to turn that stereotype on its head.
Nurse Ratched is widely known as the most deliciously heinous member of the nursing profession. She's also - according to our guest Audrey Fox - a Trojan Horse, standing out as a powerful women in a world full of dangerous men.
Contrarah and Audrey discuss Louise Fletcher's magnificent performance, as well as life behind the scenes on the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Tell us we must be crazy to make a podcast in a looney bin like this: https://twitter.com/Beyond_Bechdel
Thanks as always to https://andrewevansmusic.com/about/ for our theme tune.
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72 - Dune and Foundation or So What Exactly is Hard Sci-Fi?
71 - Top Ten Movies about Humanity
70 - Thank Heaven For Little Girls (but Don't Thank These Movies)
69 - A Quiet Place 2 Explained
68 - Lillian & Julia Vs Mary & Muriel
67 - How Ella Greenwood Became an Award-winning Filmmaker by Shining a Light on Teen Mental Health.
66 - Were the most popular movies of 2020 actually bad?
65 - Paris, Open City with Jenna Suru and Latoya Austin
64 - Jen loves Producers, Becky loves Authors, I Love Dick
63 - Has Lesbian Cinema Finally Gone Mainstream?
62 - Wandavision. Why it's good, What has happened and ALL of the Theories.
61 - 5 Movies that Predicted 2021 Politics
60 - The New Oscar Rules & Movies We Love that Break Them with Kristin Janssen of SIWTS
59 - Mank
58 - Why 2020 was a great year for TV soundtracks
57 - David Fincher Part 2: Killers, Killjoys and Kissing
56 - David Fincher
55 - Loathe, Like, Love: Cush Jumbo and The London Film Festival
54 - Loathe, Like, Love: I Am The Law!
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