French Revolutionary Style Salon podcast hosted by Heaven.
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This week Heaven discusses yet ANOTHER French film because she is apparently a bigger Francophile than she thought! In this episode, she covers the 1999 Claire Denis film, BEAU TRAVAIL Heaven delves into masculinity through the Female Gaze, as well as French colonialism in Africa, how colonialism is a trait of toxic masculinity, as well as how influential this film has become since it was released over twenty years ago.Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
Sorry this one is late! But this is a great episode, and I think it's worth the wait ;) In the final installment of THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE series on Agnes Varda, Carter and I discuss her 1985 film, VAGABOND. In this episode, we talk about Anarchism and freedom, and how the definition of freedom can vary depending on the person. We also delve into the topic of homelessness, and how Los Angeles and Orange County have a huge housing crisis that makes it difficult for anyone to stay housed, Disneyland's stranglehold on the city of Anaheim, and how its workers are still unhoused despite working at their parks, and this country's fascination with trying to make being homeless illegal vs. actually building homes for those in need.We give our final thoughts on Agnes Varda's filmography as we close out on another year of August is for Auteurs month.Carter Moon's Writings:https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/author/carter/Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "Bosses Hang: Horrible Bosses Review"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes: patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
In the penultimate episode of the Agnes Varda series, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, Carter and I discuss her 1977 film, ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. In this episode, we talk about abortion, Agnes' personal history with having an illegal abortion and being one of the 343 women who signed The Manifesto of the 343, which would pave the way for the legalization of abortion in France in 1975. We go over the history of France and abortion along with how the male gaze and female friendships are tackled in this film.Abortion Funds:https://www.yellowhammerfund.org/https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/Carter Moon's Writings:https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/author/carter/Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In the second installment of the Agnes Varda series, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, Carter and I discuss Agnes's 1968 documentary, THE BLACK PANTHERS. The documentary hones in on a Free Huey rally held in Oakland after Huey Newton was arrested for being accused of killing a cop. We dive into the history of the Black Panthers, how Agnes's point of view pulls the curtain back on the Black Panthers and disputes what the media has portrayed them to be, how other Hollywood films have covered the Black Panthers history, and how many Leftist organizations have been heavily inspired by the Black Panthers.Books Referenced in the episode:Black Against Empire by Waldo E. Martin Jr and Joshua BloomThe Enigma of Clarence Thomas by Corey RobinThe Color of the Third Degree by Silvan NiedermeierChaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the SixtiesCarter Moon's Writings:https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/author/carter/Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
For the first installment of the Agnes Varda series, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, me and Carter discuss the film, CLEO FROM 5 TO 7. We talk about the French New Wave movement and Auteur Theory, and how Agnes Varda was the godmother of the French New Wave despite rarely receiving credit for kickstarting a genre that would influence many prolific film directors years later. We also cover how often women are dismissed for having feelings other than happiness, the reality of dealing with death and failing health, the hyperfemininity presented in this film among a sea of male film directors, and why men hate Astrology and anything having to deal with another world.Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPodCarter's Writings in Merry Go Round Magazine:https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/author/carter/
SURPRISE! I have an episode and it's on the 1995 cult film, SHOWGIRLS. I talk with Tony Boswell from Minion Death Cult about the film and how great it is along with elements of labor, bosses, what is considered exploitative work, sex workers, and how the film's resurgence in popularity is due to Millennials' apprecitiation for satire.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPodMinion Death Cult Podcast: https://miniondeathcult.libsyn.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/wordisbond?lang=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordisbondtv/Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wordisbond
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A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "Mish Mash" For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes: patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
On the final episode of the HEY VANITY series, Heaven discusses the last year of Marilyn Monroe's life: Her relationships with John and Bobby Kennedy, the last film she ever did, SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE, a hospitalization stay from hell, her last day alive, and the legacy she left behind. Heaven delves into the scandal involving the iconic Jean Louis dress Marilyn wore when she sang "Happy Birthday" to JFK, and how Kim Kardashian destroyed the dress when she attempted to wear it at the 2022 Met Gala. Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In the penultimate episode of the HEY VANITY series, Heaven gets into Marilyn Monroe's second half of her career, as she pivots to being taken seriously as an actress and show off what she has learned from studying at the Actor's Studio under Lee Strasberg. Heaven also discusses Marilyn's marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and how these two marriages would intersect with her film career and how she navigated those waters. And lastly, we chip away at the beginning phases of Marilyn's demise as she gets deeper into pill addiction, and her mental health steadily goes into decline.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In the second part of the Marilyn Monroe series, HEY VANITY, Heaven goes into detail how Norma Jeane Baker turned into Marilyn Monroe. In this episode, Heaven discusses Marilyn's humble beginnings taking small roles in different films, her modeling career, her on-set demeanor and crippling insecurities that made it difficult for her to film, the people who guided and supported her on her way to the top, her business relationship with good friend Milton Greene and the start of Marilyn Monroe Productions, and how she learned to bargain for better wages and treatment from her bosses at 20th Century Fox, giving her control over her career.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
***CW: Sexual assualt, mental illness***On the premiere episode of the Marilyn Monroe series, HEY VANITY, Heaven discusses Marilyn's beginnings, when she was better known as Norma Jeane Baker. Norma Jeane's childhood was unstable due to an absent father and mentally ill mother. Because of the instability of never having a permanent home throughout her childhood, Norma Jeane would develop abandonment issues along with low self esteem, anxiety, and her longing for love, affection, and safety, that would carry on into adulthood.As Norma Jeane grew up, she developed into a great beauty, which would one day be discovered by a photographer in a factory. This would be the start onto the path of Norma Jeane Baker transforming into Mariyln Monroe.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "An American Horror Story: Chat Pile's 'God's Country'" For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes: patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "#THICKELINES: A 10 Year Retrospective on 'Blurred Lines'" For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes: patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
CW: Topics surrounding sexual assault and violenceHeaven returns with a retrospective review of the controversial 2002 Gaspar Noe film, IRREVERSIBLE. In this episode, Heaven talks about her history with the film, and re-watching it 15 years later with a different perspective. She also discusses the issues surrounding toxic masculinity, the Male Gaze, unlearning social constructs, and the film's heavy use of slurs and if whether or not that changes the impact of this film, or constitutes it as another piece of art that has not aged well.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In part two of the episode covering the CBS drama, THE GOOD WIFE, Heaven continues to unpack the anti-heroine character trajectory of Alicia Florrick by analyzing her relationships with other main characters in the show, with emphasis on her relationship with her old law school flame, Will Gardner.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "Let's Talk About Sex" For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes: patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
In the first part of a two-part episode, Heaven discusses the CBS drama, THE GOOD WIFE. For the first part of the episode, Heaven goes over the show's competition with the emergence of the preigious cable dramas coming onto the scene, how the series premiered early in the Obama administration, leaning into the liberal politics of the time, as well as be critical of the some of the administration's missteps, and how Kant's Categorical Imperative and Nietszche's view of nihilism play into two separate arcs in the character trajectory of the protagonist, Alicia Florrick, and how she becomes an anti-heroine over the course of the series.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In honor of Valentine's Day, Heaven bitches and moans about the 2003 Rom-Com, LOVE, ACTUALLY. She also discusses how poorly it's aged since it was released 20 years ago along with the rampant fatphobia, sexism, workplace harassment, and creepy moments this film has been celebrated for.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "RANTS AND RAVES: Dancer In the Dark"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
In this week's episode, Heaven takes a jounrey into the 45 year lomg career of Icenlandic singer, Bjork. In this episode, she details her achievements, her legacy, her influence, her creativity, her Anarchist values, her critiques on sexism in the music and film industry, and the Swan Dress. Heaven also discusses why the mass media continues to infantilize Bjork despite her long, influential, and fruitful career as a musician, an actress, and an Artist.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
It's 2023 and Heaven is back from hiatus to deliver a super-sized episode! This week's episode will discuss the popular film trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, specifically, what Manic Pixie Dream Girls say about men's thoughts on women, male filmmakers and the male protagonists who fall head over heels in love with these women. Heaven also goes through the list of the most popular Manic Pixie Dream Girls in film history and asks: Are they Manic Pixie Dreams Girls or are they just women with quirks and an odd personality?Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "RANTS AND RAVES: Jeanne Dielman"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "HOW DID THIS GET MADE: America's Sweethearts"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
For Heaven's Halloween episode, she goes over how witch craft is portrayed in film and television while addressing historical and mythological contexts of why we have a negative view of witch craft. She also delves into why plot lines involving witches are attractive to women, where in the real world we don't have power, while witches hold a lot of power and have the capability to instill fear.Support Me: https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "DEEP DIVE: Giallo"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
In the next segment of MY PROBLEMATIC FAVE, Heaven discusses one of her favorite films, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. She discusses why the film resonates with her along with the problematic elements attached to the film: Elio and Oliver's age gap and the sexual assault allegations against Armie Hammer since the film's release. Do these elements change the meaning and make it harder to enjoy the film?Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
On this week's episode, Heaven spends the first half of the episode talking about Wife Guys: how these men make their personalities all about their wives as a way to gain clout and favor with women, only to then abuse their power to then cheat on their spouses. Wife guys view their wives merely as property and not as human beings with their own individuality. Their spouses now make up their financial livelihood and public personas, as we have seen with the recent scandals involving Marroon 5's Adam Levine and The Try Guys' Ned Fulmer.In the second part of the episode, Heaven reviews Olivia Wilde's, DON'T WORRY DARLING--how the film fails to deliver its Feminist message as well as the drama surrounding this film. Is it a case of women struggling to get a job done due to sexism or is it all kayfabe to get people to buy tickets to a movie?Heaven also discusses how male and female directors are treated differently creating a double standard in Hollywood.Support Me: https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "DICK PICS: The Fast and the Furious'"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
This week Heaven finally goes into a topic that took two years in the making--Nu Metal! Specifically, how much more inclusive Nu Metal is than what meets the eye with it's meshing of different musical genres to the diversity of musicians from different backgrounds to its lyrical content and way of subverting toxic masculinity seen in a lot of metal genres. She also discusses Woodstock '99 and how Nu Metal started to go into decline due to how the genre was seen after Limp Bizkit was blamed for issues of Woodstock '99, the ubiquity of Nu Metal acts, and how Depeche Mode's VIOLATOR became a major inspiration for Metal and Nu Metal acts alike.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
Heaven makes her return from the WHO, ME? ENNUI? series to discuss the Apple+ Series SEVERANCE and how it relates to the phrase that's on the tip of everyone's tongue--"Quiet Quitting". Specifically, what "Quiet Quitting" is, its origins, how it relates to China's "Lying Flat" movement, the labor movement in the U.S. and looming strikes that are upon us.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "Catsup/Ketchup'"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
In the final episode of the Sofia Coppola series, WHO, ME? ENNUI?, Maren and I discuss the 2017 adaptation of THE BEGUILED. We discuss the White Feminist lens that erases Black History, specifically two Black Women originally in the book, along with the sexual politics among heterosexual women, how Sofia's upbringing keeps bringing her back to Ennui and insular worlds she has built for her characters in the films she makes and a Jennifer Coolidge fun fact, as a treat.Check out Maren's work and Twitter page:https://www.instagram.com/protectionspell.shortfilm/ https://twitter.com/hexicanprincess Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
For the penultimate episode of the WHO, ME? ENNUI? series, Maren and I discuss the 2006 feature, MARIE ANTOINETTE. We discuss the Female Gaze, how we have processed this film as Socialist Feminists, the kinship Sofia Coppola may feel towards Marie Antoinette, the use of contemporary touches and color to make this period piece sparkle along with Sofia's attitudes towards sex and women who like sex.Check out Maren's work and Twitter page:https://www.instagram.com/protectionspell.shortfilm/ https://twitter.com/hexicanprincess Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In the second installment of the WHO, ME? ENNUI? series, Maren and I take a closer look at Sofia Coppola's debut feature length film, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. We discuss heavily about The Male Gaze and how Sofia manages to show the point of view of the teenage boys' obsession with the Lisbon Girls while also inserting the Female Gaze to give the Lisbon Girls individuality and a voice not heard in the book by Jeffery Eugenides. We also talk about the haunting qualities of the film and the insular world Sofia delves into that seems to reflect a lot of her earlier life.Check out Maren's Instagram page for her short film, PROTECTION SPELL:https://www.instagram.com/protectionspell.shortfilm/Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
For the first part of the August is For Auteurs Month mini series on Sofia Coppola, WHO, ME? ENNUI? Me and my co-host, filmmaker Maren Moreno (@hexicanprincess) discuss the 2010 film, SOMEWHERE. We talk about Sofia Coppola's history, specifically her famous family history as a Coppola, along with her aimlessness and feelings of being lost in her younger years that resonates in much her filmography. Among the other things we discuss is the ennui her characters feel, the insular world of Hollywood, nepotism, White Feminism, and the striking workers who worked at the Chateau Marmont, which is the main backdrop for this film.Check out Maren's Instagram page for her short film, PROTECTION SPELL:https://www.instagram.com/protectionspell.shortfilm/Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "AITA Vol. 2'"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
I honestly don't know how to summarize this episode other than this would be my version of Cum Town.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
The teaser for the new Sofia Coppola mini series, WHO, ME? ENNUI?
Heaven dips her toes into quite possibly a new segment where she unpacks a problmatic fave of hers to see if her opinion has changed or not. For the first segment, Heaven discusses one of her favorite albums, Glassjaw's "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence". Heaven discusses why this album is so personal to her while addressing the violent and misogynistic lyrics, plus what the band thinks of the album 20 years after its initial release.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
Heaven is back from her brief break and ready to get back down to business! This week, Heaven goes in the world of the Try Guys--the four man group who grew from Buzzfeed fame into an entire franchise based on the premise they'll try anything once. In this episode, Heaven discusses their rise from Buzzfeed, their flamboyant display of positive masculinity, their large female following, how their politics lean further left than they would care to admit and how they seem understand inclusivity better than most Leftists, making them far more effective in making change in the world.Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
In the final episode of the Madonna Deep Dive Series, A Bedtime Story, Heaven goes over the legacy Madonna has left behind thus far not only in music, but also in pop culture and feminism. Support Me:https://linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod
A teaser from the bonus Patreon-only episode, "REVIEW: The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up'"For as little as $3/month, you can get access bonus episodes:patreon.com/FromMyLipsPod
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