I assumed it was gonna be a beautifully shot Skinemax film. Maybe I’m more receptive to them than some audiences would be… I think maybe the most shocking thing to me, and I talk about it in the second episode, has been the movie Bolero. I think a lot of these movies hold up really well, to be honest. Those were also the days, however, when women like Linda Lovelace were largely ignored even when they told hard, terrible truths about the industry, and feminist scholars were similarly dismissed when they raised alarm bells about the portrayals of women in films like Fatal Attraction. The new season, launching Tuesday, is all about erotic cinema of the ’80s and ’90s-the days when movies like American Gigolo and Indecent Proposal were box office hits, and sex scenes ( currently in their flop era) abounded. ![]() That awakening plays a key role in the latest season of You Must Remember This, Longworth’s essential, award-winning film history podcast. The film was an awakening, opening her eyes up to the magic of Gere in all his suave, silver-haired glory. “It was a bad moment in their marriage and a great night for me,” Longworth says in a phone interview. Her parents had gotten into an argument in an act of retribution, Longworth’s mother took her 10-year-old daughter to see the romantic blockbuster starring Julia Roberts as a sex worker who gets swept up by a high-powered businessman played by Richard Gere. Karina Longworth will never forget the first time she saw Pretty Woman.
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