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This week Channing Tatum brings Mike Mike to London for his last dance. We're looking at Sarah Polley's adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel Women Talking and host Leila Latif spoke to the film's star Claire Foy about the “work of female imagination”. Finally, for film club we returned to Sarah Polley's former life as a child actor in 1997's The Sweet Hereafter.Joining host Leila Latif are Lwlies Editorial Assistant Marina Ashioti and programmed extraordinaire Grace Barber-Plentie.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As a Valentine's Day treat, we sat down with the brilliant Grace Barber-Plentie to go into what and why is Twilight (2008).You asked for it (well, someone asked for it). The full episode is available now on our Patreon. ***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.ukFollow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe
This episode enters the world of stripping, with a focus on the film Hustlers. Anna’s first guest is Grace Barber-Plentie, a freelance film programmer and writer who recently curated a Barbican film event on Reframing the Fat Body. Grace draws our attention to a particular film in her programme that normalises fat pole dancers: Dangerous Curves. This segues into a celebration of Lizzo’s appearance in Hustlers and more generally the brilliant performances of the ensemble cast. Grace and Anna revere the female friendships presented on screen, particularly between the characters played by Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Such strong bonds and respect between female strippers comes to life, as Anna speaks to friends and strippers Chiqui Love and Stacey Clare. As members of the Berlin Strippers Collective and East London Strippers Collective respectively, Chiqui and Stacey talk intersectional feminism, the issues facing the strip club industry, and misrepresentations of sex work on screen. They speak up for sex workers’ rights and envision what Hustlers 2 should look like… Recommendations: Grace: P-Valley, Small Axe (series) Chiqui: Bombshell Stacey: Harlots (series), The Deuce (series) Other mentions: Dangerous Curves (short), 9 to 5, The Wrestler (2008), Showgirls, The Full Monty, Shameless (series) This episode is in partnership with Amazon Prime Video. Become a patron of Girls on Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno www.twitter.com/primevideouk Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzj5mCFL89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Executive producer: Hedda Archbold. Producer: Jane Long. Principal Partner: Peter Brewer. Assistant Producer and Social Media Manager: Heather Dempsey. Intern: Elliana Jay.
I regret to inform you that Grace Barber-Plentie is dead, murdered by the thief she hired to steal the coaxium shipment—her friend, Tobias Beckett. Since Sarah alone survived, she recruited Dani (@cardiganvixen) from the Rebel Order Podcast to put together a crew for a big shot gangster/talk Star Wars. In what Sarah planned to be an hour-long episode, she and Dani dive into Reylo (shipping Rey and Kylo Ren/Ben Solo), Bendemption (the redemption of Ben Solo) and how those two concepts will tie into and rectify what came before it. There’s plenty of love for The Last Jedi (aka the greatest Star Wars movie of all time), a lil bit of prequel talk, a lil bit of original trilogy talk, and plenty of giggling about Ben Solo’s hot bod. Since this episode was recorded very late in the evening, Sarah’s brain wasn’t working. She forgot to mention that she thinks Ben and Rey will help fulfil Leia’s desire to liberate planets living in oppression (read Leia, Princess of Alderaan and Bloodline, folks!), and from leaked photos, we can see refugees being rescued and presumably recruited to join the fight against the First Order—it will give all of these “nobodies” a voice. GET IN TOUCH yououghtaknowpod@gmail.com Twitter @gracesimone @SarahSahim @yououghtaknopod Instagram @gracesimone_ @SarahSahim (Which she doesn't use.) @yououghtaknowpod (Technically also Grace.)
Our guests are Sarah Sahim and Grace Barber-Plentie! In addition to being freelance writers, Sarah and Grace are the hosts of the recently launched You Oughta Know podcast. Andy talks with the ladies about what to expect from their show as well as: ABBA-centric films, Roy Orbison's ghost, Blue Bloods, the Star War(s), which non-British actors did the worst British accents and more. Also, Sarah defends her love of the music of Dean Martin and even goes so far as to create a playlist of five Dino deep cuts to prove her point. You can find Sarah's Dean Martin playlist, titled 'Dean Martin Is The Enemy', on Spotify here.
For episode two of Best Girl Grip I chatted to Grace Barber-Plentie - a fellow BFI-bod and millennial multi-hyphenate - about topical things like burnout, imposter syndrome, side hustles, how to market a film to teenage girls and the ever brilliant Moonlight.
In this episode I talk to Grace Barber-Plentie about all things film, from all-time faves to trailer crimes to trying to carve her own space in the film world as a young woman of colour with Reel Good Film Club. Grace tweets at @gracesimone and you can find Reel Good Film Club at @gottobereel.