Blood, Frankenstein, peaches, and poor Poor Things - Crude chatter

Crude

Elle, Misty, Effie and Frank are back and catching up on their recent lives from the past weeks. There are diggs that won't come down, blood from Empress Wu, peaches full of man jam and lots and lots and about Poor (Terrible?) Things.

*What we were reading*

[Book] Emily Nagoski. Come as You Are (2015)

[Book] Peter Brook. Ch. 7 "Frankenstein" in What is a Monster? (1993)

[Essay] Laura Mulvey. "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema". Screen. 16 (3): 6–18 (Autumn 1975).

[Film trope] Born Sexy Yesterday

[Film trope] Manic Pixie Dream Girl

[Exhibition Berlin] With Legs Wide Open

[Blood play movie] Four Chambered Heart

[Mary Shelley] Mary Shelly's Mother's Grave

*What we were watching*

[TV miniseries] Alias Grace

[Film trailer] The Holy Mountain

[Director] Yorgos Lanthimos: Dogtooth, The Lobster. The Favourite. Killing of a Sacred Deer. Poor Things.

[Film] Luca Guadagnino. Call me by your Name (2017)

[Film] Luc Besson. The Fifth Element (1997)

[Film] Franklin J. Schaffner. Planet of the Apes (1968)

[Film] Julia Ducournau. Titane (2021)