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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Sammy and Dino Episode 6: The Rat Pack
Sammy and Dino Episode 5: A Serious Man
Sammy and Dino Episode 4: Mr. Wonderful
Sammy and Dino Episode 3: Nothing But a Dollar Sign
Sammy and Dino Episode 2: Martin and Lewis, Sammy and Mickey and Frank
Sammy and Dino Episode 1: The Hustle
Introducing Love is a Crime
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Interracial Panic and Confidential, Episode 8)
Presenting: No Place Like Home
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Sex and Shame in the 1950s, Episode 7)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Witch Hunt, Episode 6)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queer, Female Film Producer You’ve Never Heard Of, Episode 5)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (War! Episode 4)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Feud, Episode 3)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The First Lady, Episode 2)
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (Small Town Girl, Episode 1)
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How Did It End? (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 10)
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