This episode was originally released on January 6, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

Hollywood’s 1960s began with Billy Wilder winning three Oscars for The Apartment. But Wilder’s biggest success would also prove to... more

This episode was originally released on December 14, 2021. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

As a cameraman during World War II, George Stevens shot footage of the liberation of Dachau that showed the world... more

This episode was originally released on October 28, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

Long an antagonist to Hollywood’s norms (not to mention its actresses), Preminger began the 1960s by directing a massive blockbuster... more

This episode was originally released on July 4, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

Hitch’s most iconic decade – a decade of Technicolor grandeur and peril inflicted on famous blondes – came to an... more

This episode was originally released on April 11, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

Vincente Minnelli was the ultimate creature of the studio system, spending twenty years working for MGM and perfecting a distinct... more

This episode was originally released on December 1, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

In the 1960s, many American directors saw their fortunes turn after they notched massive hits. In the case of Howard... more

This episode was originally released on September 9, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

Born in the 19th century, his career forged in the silent era, John Ford helped to invent the genre of... more

This episode was originally released on June 3, 2020. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new... more

In the mid-1930s, Fritz Lang fled Hitler and left a successful film career in Germany behind to come to America.... more

The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, who won five Oscars in the 1930s for films that embodied the pre-World... more

This episode was originally released on March 1, 2016. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season,The... more

A preview of the new season of You Must Remember This, which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John... more

A new season of You Must Remember This is just over a month away, but to tide you over, have... more

If you're enjoying You Must Remember This, you may also like Talking Pictures, a movie memories podcast. On this episode... more

The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak -- a top box office... more

Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben... more

In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its... more

At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary... more

If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young... more

In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100... more

One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion... more

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... more

At the beginning of the 90s, lesbians were a punchline for a male-gaze-oriented media, an easy target for expressing the... more

In Glitter & Might, a new series exploring the intersection of show business and politics, bestselling author Shawn Levy unpacks... more

Joe Eszterhas’s tenure as the hottest screenwriter in town ended with two notorious 1995 flops: the NC-17 rated Showgirls (directed,... more

The 90s were obsessed with what magazine writer Tad Friend would describe as “do me feminism” – and the attendant... more

Sharon Stone and Joe Eszterhas’s post-Basic Instinct reunion film was one of the most troubled productions of the 90s. A... more

Are men okay? Several films from 1993 answered that question with a resounding no. One of the highest grossing movies... more

In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the... more

While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening... more

Culture in the 90s was obsessed with the sex lives of teenagers. This is a theme we will come back... more

In the early 90s, one of the biggest scripted shows on TV was Murphy Brown, starring 40-something Candice Bergen as... more

One of the biggest hits of 1992, Basic Instinct was sold as Michael Douglas’s return to Fatal Attraction territory, but... more

In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes... more

One of the most controversial movies of the 1990s, Thelma & Louise pushed every hot button of the new decade:... more

Hosted by Flea, founding member and bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, This Little Light is a podcast about... more

An enigmatic sex symbol dating back to the 70s, Theresa Russell made a play for Hollywood stardom in the late... more

The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s career, and turned Julia Roberts into... more

Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and feminism. Erotic 90s... more

American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, starring James Spader as an... more

The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean, all-American heartthrob, building on a sexual persona... more

The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a national conversation about whether or not... more

Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed the mark by... more